When we fail to have the right motivation we plunge ourselves into moral chaos. Religious ideals and religious goals can give us a sense of God's presence, but it does not protect you from other peoples bad choices, and the choices you make that push the light of God further and further from your life. To live in a just society there must be rules. They are not there to stifle your freedom, but to protect the well being of the just and innocent in our society. Our world has reached the point that is hard to define because with immense connectivity, we have lost mutual accountability. Accountability groups which exist in our churches are there to guarantee that we are not getting away with evil and still claiming to be redeemed.
We are first and foremost accountable to God but accountability is challenged by the reckless living and lawlessness of those who attend our churches and claim to be forgiven. In a just society the light of God penetrates all aspects of our lives. What makes a person a saint, isn't their humanity it is the light of God that this person lives in. It doesn't depend on how many souls you have saved, because we know that only God can create in a person's heart that desire to truly walk in the light, 1 John 1:7 NIV "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin."
Walking in the light is walking and living your life in the light of God, not under compulsion or fear of hell, but because the light of God lives in you. To purify your life you need the grace of God and the right motivation, and you must be saved. The concept that if I say a sinners prayer and attend church on Sunday, which are all good things saves me, is an erroneous concept. The life and the light of God when rejected creates more darkness in this world and in this life. To reject the justice of the poor is to create an evil society. When you demoralise yourself and your brothers and sisters that are part of the human race, you are creating a society that lacks justice and common sense, which will in turn create evil desires in your heart and the hearts that are influenced by your evil life.
The question isn't "What must I do to be saved?" for to simply believe in your heart that you are righteous creates in you all manner of evil. The path to justification must involve self denial of some sort, for to fully reject the Creator you must fully reject your humanity as an image bearing child of God. The reason why people no longer believe or fear hell is because they have rejected their humanity. To fully accept your human nature, you must nurture the humanity in others. To hate and to kill other human beings is to reject the humanity found in the Son of God Jesus Himself. To identify and have compassion with rejected humanity you must first truly believe in God, for to do so gives you the power to live in the light.
Humanity was created in the image of God, but to worship your base desires constantly creates habitual rejection of the gospel, which will lead you to hell. There is a difference between the realm of the dead where Christ went called hell, and the hell that is everlasting separation from the light of God. It is your character that God will judge on the last day, and by habitually choosing the wrong, you are tearing yourself away from the presence and the truth of God. This is Mike.
We are first and foremost accountable to God but accountability is challenged by the reckless living and lawlessness of those who attend our churches and claim to be forgiven. In a just society the light of God penetrates all aspects of our lives. What makes a person a saint, isn't their humanity it is the light of God that this person lives in. It doesn't depend on how many souls you have saved, because we know that only God can create in a person's heart that desire to truly walk in the light, 1 John 1:7 NIV "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin."
Walking in the light is walking and living your life in the light of God, not under compulsion or fear of hell, but because the light of God lives in you. To purify your life you need the grace of God and the right motivation, and you must be saved. The concept that if I say a sinners prayer and attend church on Sunday, which are all good things saves me, is an erroneous concept. The life and the light of God when rejected creates more darkness in this world and in this life. To reject the justice of the poor is to create an evil society. When you demoralise yourself and your brothers and sisters that are part of the human race, you are creating a society that lacks justice and common sense, which will in turn create evil desires in your heart and the hearts that are influenced by your evil life.
The question isn't "What must I do to be saved?" for to simply believe in your heart that you are righteous creates in you all manner of evil. The path to justification must involve self denial of some sort, for to fully reject the Creator you must fully reject your humanity as an image bearing child of God. The reason why people no longer believe or fear hell is because they have rejected their humanity. To fully accept your human nature, you must nurture the humanity in others. To hate and to kill other human beings is to reject the humanity found in the Son of God Jesus Himself. To identify and have compassion with rejected humanity you must first truly believe in God, for to do so gives you the power to live in the light.
Humanity was created in the image of God, but to worship your base desires constantly creates habitual rejection of the gospel, which will lead you to hell. There is a difference between the realm of the dead where Christ went called hell, and the hell that is everlasting separation from the light of God. It is your character that God will judge on the last day, and by habitually choosing the wrong, you are tearing yourself away from the presence and the truth of God. This is Mike.
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