The original english bible translated from greek and hebrew by William Tyndale. Legalism vs License vs Liberty Stephen was the first martyr for this particular issue. Thereafter Philip and Peter continued teaching this 'new faith'. In Galatians, Paul traveled to Jerusalem in order to preach to the Jews who were suspicious of this new faith being taken to Gentiles. Paul's mission was to challenge the very heart of the church that was sending out anti missionaries who were saying it wasn't enough to just believe and that you had to be circumcised. This was a salvation issue and at the heart of it was whether salvation was by works or by faith or by a mixture of both. It's important to note that most of the religions of the world are salvation by works. How many of the commandments do you have to keep in order to be a Christian? What Paul is fighting for is Christian freedom. Legalism makes the whole thing a matter of rules rather than relationships. License makes the whole thing about the swamp of the flesh. Legalism places us into bondage of others. License places us into bondage of ourselves. Both place us under the wrath of God. Galatians chapters 1 and 2 talk about liberty. Chapters 3 and 4 talk about legalism. And chapters 5 and 6 talk about the license. Paul is actually fighting on two fronts to keep the truth. Rules and regulations do not bring revival. Beware of legalism. Sin will cost you your salvation, you are not free to sin, beware of license. The works of the flesh (such as promiscuity, occultism, drug use, quarreling, rivalry, jealousy, envy, prejudice, etc.) will cost you your salvation. "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap" -Paul Paul warned believers and he warned them again that if they continue in the works of the flesh, they will not inherit the kingdom of God. He warned that if we wallow in sin, we will not inherit the kingdom. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Liberty is the freedom not to sin. Isn't that a lovely freedom? You are free in Christ not to sin. "We have been given the Grace to say no" Paul in his letter to Titus. J a mes In Galatians chapter 2 and Ephesians chapter 2 - The phrase ' not by works ', is referring to the Jewish commandments contained in ordinances. Ordinances such as things like food laws and circumcision. The word Works I think the problem is the word works. I think people misuse it. My New Testament says that faith without works is dead, it can not save. I think it is better translated - faith without action is dead. Faith is an active thing that we do. Repentance is an active thing that we do...call them works if you like but to say that's salvation by works is a complete distortion. The classical text for salvation is "for by grace are we saved through faith" and grace is what God does and faith is what we do and both are essential. Now, we are not saved by our faith, we are not saved by what we do, we are saved through what we do. In other words we can not be saved without that. We can't be saved by grace without faith and faith is our part and grace is His part and when we believe grace saves. God is always responding to us and he wants us to take certain steps. For instance, God can not forgive a person unless they repent first. That's the teaching of scripture. We cannot forgive each other unless someone has repented. Jesus said if your brother sins against you 7 times in a day forgive your brother 7 times, if he repents. God expects us to admit we have sinned, to cease from sin, to turn away from it, to renounce it, to put right what we can if at all possible....all this is repentance and God forgives when we repent. Repenting and believing are what we do to make it possible for grace to save us. To call this salvation by works is a complete misunderstanding. Never are faith or repentance called works in the New Testament. They are actions and they are actions that we do...these actions don't deserve salvation and they do not bring salvation but they make it possible for God to show his grace towards us. So many people believe that grace operates first but that's not the case. The New Testament says grace is available for everybody but unless we repent and believe that grace is useless. Having faith in Christ and believing in Christ are actions. Let us take a look at what believing in Christ means, Believing in Christ Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Believing in Christ is an action, and it is an action that leads unto righteousness. Believing teaches repentance. " Verily, verily I say unto you whosoever believeth on me, the works that I do, the same shall he do, and greater works then these shall he do, because I go unto my father. " -Jesus Christ Hebrews 12:14 states "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord". Here we see more action, here we are called to be holy. Verse 15 shows us how sin leads man to fail in the grace of God. Verse 17 shows us that there is no salvation where there is no repentance: "For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." We have to be born again, we can want God to save us with all of our being but without repentance, without these faith testifying actions, there is no salvation. When we put on the armor of God by seeking His will and reading his word there is a change in us. God changes who he saves and if there has been no change on our part then there has been no salvation. Jude 1:4 shows us that people pervert the grace of God by denying (or disobeying) Christ and are ungodly people. " For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." Let us take a look at what the Grace of God teaches us, The Grace of God Titus 2:11 "For the grace of God, that bringeth salvation unto all men, hath appeared and teacheth us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly lusts , and that we should live honestly, righteously, and godly in this present world. The Grace of God teaches repentance. In 1 Peter 4 it says "Forasmuch as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he which suffereth in the flesh ceaseth from sin, that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God. ^^Ceasing to sin is not salvation by works and is the only way to be saved^^ Elijah, Isaiah, Joel, Jonah, Jeremiah, Micha, Amos, Malachai, the Disciples, and Jesus all preached repentance. We are either saved or unsaved, clean or unclean, righteous or unrighteous, holy or unholy, a child of God or a child of the devil. Whether we have faith or not is magnified by who we are and what we do. Having faith in Jesus isn't a thought or a proclamation, it's action....these are required "works" to put us into the position to be saved. These are not works of the law these are faith testifying works, or actions. Faith IS action. It is imperative for the Christian to be able to define the word works and use it properly. The entire OT and NT requires us to do things for God with our actions. Our belief is shown in our actions as well as with our faith. We will also be judged on our actions. All of the whole of all the scriptures teaches us this. We can not take singular statements of Paul or any other author to take a detour from the narrow path. Being born again is an entire transformation of our character, behavior, and actions and is the only way to be saved. Faith and action are always hand in hand. Proverbs 19:27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. Let us look at Matthew 7:21 for example. Jesus said "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." Would doing the will of the father be considered salvation by works of the law? I don't believe it does. We see here that faith without works is dead. Here are individuals who have faith as they call Jesus the Lord but it isn't enough. That faith, if true, carries faith testifying action and with Matthew 7 that faith testifying action is doing the will of the father. If we head to verse 23 Jesus says "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." These are people who have faith but no faith testifying action...but going even further... it also shows that people who have faith with bad behavior - their faith is in vain and even though they called on the name of the Lord they did so in vain and will be unsaved. Matthew 7:21-23 shows us that individuals who have faith with good and bad behavior are told to depart from the Lord. People of real faith do not continue on living in sin. If we say we have faith and our actions are accompanied by sin then we don't really have any faith. Jesus stated that if we love him we keep his commandments, would we consider that salvation by works? Would repentance and being born again, living a holy life, obedient to Christ be salvation by works of the law? They are not but these actions are required in order to place ourselves under God’s grace. Again, God freely offers his grace to everyone who responds to the Gospel and receives it. Jesus said in John 10 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life". Would Jesus give eternal life to people who call on his name but choose not to follow? No. Hebrews 5:9 shows us that Jesus is the author of salvation to everyone who obeys him. In Luke 6:23 Jesus said, "And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." These are actions. Our actions are what testify of our faith...faith without action testifies of a lack of faith and faith with bad actions testify of a lack of faith. These actions are NOT works of the law. Just acknowledging that Jesus is the Son of God is not enough. Believing and having faith are actions that we do. The Transformation of Covenants What most fail to see-thus study endlessly the scriptures seeking ways to adapt the Hebrew ways to their gentile lives-is that the New Covenant or Testament that was sealed by the Blood of the Lamb, is a covenant that no longer is written on stone but on the hearts of men. God the Father, promised this would take place in Jeremiah 31:33 and Paul spoke of its fulfillment in Hebrews 8:10. What most fail to see is that we are not called to observe the Torah or any other book; we are called to BECOME living stones ourselves, living epistles on which God’s laws are written and are to be known and studied by all men (2 Corinthians 3). What most fail to see is that no matter how blessed and filled with words of life the Bible is, it continues to be the record not the witness: the Spirit is the Witness and He has been given as a witness within upon regenerative faith. When Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven being in us, He was speaking of an internal rule and that rule has a Ruler. The Witness is the Ruler. John speaks of there being 3 Who bear witness, and they bear witness in Heaven and on earth, they bear witness within the vessels that have been born again just as Jesus revealed the mystery of regeneration to Nicodemus. “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” (John 5:4-11) These things are not easy to understand and Peter knew it and said so in 2 Peter 3:16. He also warned these things being misinterpreted by the unlearnt unto their own destruction. And who is unlearnt but the one who doesn’t have the unction of the Holy Spirit, the Witness within? “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.” (1 John 2:20) “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.” (1 John 2:27) Paul says spiritual things are discerned spiritually not gnostically, not ritually, or any other way. John writes these things so that no one seduces the elect. Peter warns of misinterpretations. God is the Same, yesterday, today and forever but the Covenant has changed. There is no longer need for a schoolmaster; don’t let people seduce or deceive you into remaining under such. This covenant no longer relies on the circumcision of the flesh but on the circumcision of the heart, which can only be performed by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ in us. James; Faith or Works? - David Pawson

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Blindness - Minds hid from understanding 2 Corinthians 4 4 If our gospel be yet hid, it is hid among them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest should shine unto them the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the image of God, for we preach not our selves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and preach ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. Isaiah 44 18 Yet men neither consider nor understand, because their eyes are stopped, that they can not see: and their hearts, that they can not perceive. They ponder not in their minds, for they have neither knowledge nor understanding. Mark 4 12 To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: But unto them that are without, shall all things be done in similitudes: that when they see, they shall see, and not discern: and when they hear they shall hear, and not understand: lest at any time they should turn, and their sins should be forgiven them. Matthew 13 13 Therefore speak I to them in similitudes. For though they see, they see not: and hearing they hear not: nether understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esay, which prophecy saith: with your ears ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and with your eyes ye shall see, and shall not perceive. For this people’s heart is waxed gross. And their ears were dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their hearts, and should turn, that I might heal them. Isaiah 6 9 Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand, ye shall plainly see, and not perceive. Harden the heart of this people, stop their ears, and shut their eyes, that they see not with their eyes, hear no twith their ears, and understand not with their heart, and convert and be healed. Luke 8 10 unto you is it given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God: but to other in similitudes, that when they see, they should not see, and when they hear they should not understand. The similitude is this. The seed is the word of God. Those that are beside the way, are they that hear, and afterward cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the stones, are they which when they hear the word receive it with joy. And these have no roots, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation go away. That which fell among thorns, are they which hear, and go forth, and are choked with cares and riches, and voluptuous living, and bring forth no fruit. That in the good ground, are they which with a good and pure heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. John 12 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted and I should heal them. Acts 28 26 with your ears shall ye hear, and shall not understand: and with your eyes shall ye see and shall not perceive. For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears wex thick of hearing, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted, and I should heal them Isaiah 30 8 Therefore I told you also that your pride should have an end. Wherefore go hence and write them this in their tables, and note it in a book: that it may remain by their posterity, and be still kept. For it is an obstinate people, unfaithful children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD. Isaiah 29 13 But ye shall be at your wits end, ye shall be abashed: ye shall stagger, and reel to and fro. Ye shall be drunken, but not of wine. Ye shall fall, but not thorow drunkenness: For the LORD shall give you an hard sleeping spirit, and hold down your eyes: namely your Prophets and heads which should see, them shall he cover. And all visions shall be unto you, as the words that stand in a sealed letter, when one offereth it to a man that is learned, and sayeth: read us this letter. Then he answereth: I can not read it, for it is shut. But if it be given to one that is not learned, or say unto him: read this letter: Then sayeth he I can not read. Therefore thus sayeth the Lord: For so much as this people draweth nye me with their mouth, and praiseth me highly with their lips, where as their heart nevertheless is far from me, and the fear which they owe unto me, that turn they to men’s laws and doctrines, therefore will I also shew unto this people a marvelous, terrible, and great thing (Namely this:) I will destroy the wisdom of their wise, and the understanding of their learned men shall perish. Romans 11 8 The remnant are blinded, according as it is written: God hath given them the spirit of unquietness: eyes that they shouldnot see, and ears that they should not hear, even unto this day. 2 Thessalonians 2 11 And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe lies: that all they might be damned which believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Daniel 12 10 But the ungodly shall live wickedly, and those wicked (as many as they be) shall have no understanding. Jeremy 4 22 Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom. Romans 1 21 So that they are without excuse, inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded. When they counted themselves wise, they became fools Romans 11 8 The remnant are blinded, according as it is written: God hath given them the spirit of unquietness: eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, even unto this day. Ephesians 4 17 This I say herefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk, in vanities of their mind, blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, thorow the ignorancy that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts: which being past repentance have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all manner of uncleanness even with greediness. 1 John 2 11 He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness: and cannot tell whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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