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Obedience To Your Religion
	MarkV: I like your interpretation of Colossian 2:14 a lot. However it still remains true that because Jesus has paid the punshment for my sin, I will love and honor Him by doing His will not my will to show Him my apreciaton for His gift wich is eternal life.

Obedience To Your Religion
	Gary, You write that man incorrectly seperates the law into a moral and ceremonial part. False! I gave you the references from the WORD which is inspired. But you are welcome to your opinion!

Obedience To Your Religion

Word of God: constrast between moral law and ceremonial ordinances ML called the 'royal law' James 2,8 CL called "the law...contained in the ordinances" Eph 2,15 ML spoken by God Deut 13 CL spoken by Moses Lev 1:1-3 ML written by God on stone tablets EX. 24:31:18 CL written by Moses in a book 2 Chron.35:12 ML placed in the ark Ex.40:20/1 King 8:9 CL placed in the side of the ark Deut. 31:24-26 ML stands for ever PS 111:7 & 8 CL nailed to the cross Col 2:14 ML not destroyd by Christ Mat 517 CL abolished by Christ Eph 215 ML Gives knowlege of sin Rom. 3:20/7:7 CL instituted in conseequnce of sin Lev 3:7

Obedience To Your Religion

Mima: I would like to suggest that Col 2:14 shows how Christ's death affected the CEREMONIAL LAW. It is the CEREMONIAL LAW that was nailed to the cross, not SIN itself. Why was the CEREMONIAL law done away with? Because it had certain weaknesses and a certain unprofitability.It made nothing perfect.Man needed a bettter hope to to draw nigh to God. Heb. 7:18 & 19 But the MORAL LAW is perfect (Ps: 19,7) and stands fast for ever and ever (Ps:111:7 & 8)

Obedience To Your Religion

Gary: May I repectfully suggest you find out the difference between ORDINANCES and COMMANDMENTS. They are not the same! One more thought: As Christans we may be free from the bondage of the law, but that freedom does not mean liberty to do what the law forbids. See Rom. 6:1,15 & 3:31 Freedom from law does not man that we have a licence to sin. Just the opposite! For the first time in our lives we who have become Christians are truly able to keep he law since we have been reborn by the Holy Spirit. Now we no longr face the law as dour legalists but as persons being in love and with David we can say "O how I love thy law" Ps 119:97

Obedience To Your Religion

Vain worship: When a person learns a point of truth in the Bible and refuses to obey it, he/she is guilty of fightng the Holy Spirit whose job it is to guide us into all truth. This refusal hardens the conscience and eventually leads to the unpardonable sin. Acts:5:32 only those who obey are eligible to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We are told many will be lost, even many who have worked miracles in Christ's name because: they did not LOVE HIM enough to keep all His commadments they considered it legalisme to believe that not obeying His commandments could keep them out of heaven. The final conflict between TRUTH an ERROR will revolve around the basic issue of LOYALTY or DISLOYALTY, OBEDIENCE or DISOBEDIENCE. Coose well!

Obedience To Your Religion
	"If you love me keep my commandments." The grand author of all truth, Jesus , makes it exceedingly clear, that the original requirement of God is unchanged. The condition of OBEDIENCE which would have kept man in Eden has become the condiion for his restauration to Eden. Christ has established the standard of measurement: nothing less than a FAITH which worketh by LOVE will be accepted.

Tricks To Cause Sin
	Sorry Cluny. I wanted to have you think about how the devil does his bidding not spoonfeed you.

Tricks To Cause Sin

Earl: I was asking bout 2 SPECIAL tricks that Satan use to get Christians to sin. KarenD: I don't think I can agree with you that the devil does not use tricks to make us sin. Was it not a trick/lie when he told Eve that she would not die if she ate of the tree but that her eyes would be opened and she would be wise like Goo? Maybe, LIE is more what I had in mind NOT TRICKS. Sorry! Trisha: Goood answer. Pierre: Very good answer.

Obedience To Your Religion

Gary: What Paul is saying is that because Jeus has paid the price of "ugly"sin for us and he gives us eternal life intead of death,we who are filled with the Holy Spirit, no longer want to sin, because we love him. THE LAW IS STILL ALIVE, for there can be no sin withou a law to breaak, BUT WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER ITS CONDEMNATION because we choose to obey it and love him for his gift of salvation! (That was a lot harder to say than to think)

Obedience To Your Religion

To Gary: Yes, I believe that the law that we are to obey, out of love for our salvation, is the 10 commandment law. Follow me: 1. definition of sin = John 3:4 "Whosoever committeth sin, transgresses also THE LAW...of THE LAW" Now we need to quantify /identify the word "law" in the text. What LAW is beng referred to? Paul answers in Rom 7:7 quoting directly from the 10 commandments and HE DECLARES UNEQUIVOCALLY that sin is the transrgession of THE LAW.

Obedience To Your Religion

We must now emphasize the LOVE ELEMENT which must be part of all acceptable obedience, for forcing the forms of obedience without a personal love experience with Christ is just as fatal as omtting all obdeience.Now it seems that because Jesus thoroughly condemned the program of salvation by works, many have assumed wrongly that he considered obedience unimportant. Actually, what Christ is looking for is a bautiful balance in Christ's doctrine of FAITH and WORKS: He taught us that TO OBEY IN ORDER TO BE SAVED is LEGALISM, but that TO OBEY HIM OUT OF LOVE, BECAUSE HE HAS SAVED US, is the test of a true religious experienc.

Obedience To Your Religion

If we are not doing the will of God, all religious activity is quite useless. The Scriptures exalt OBEDIENCE. Whatever time, talent or money we spend cannot meet with God's approval, if we do not keep his commandments. It does not matte if we have prophesized or cast out devils in Jesus' name. He will not know us! The way to really come to know him is by keeping his commandments. (1 John 3:6 and 1 John 2:4) To know him, means to obey him! Biblically it is impossinle to be a true child of God while refusing to obey his commndements. Willfull disobedience cuts off the relationship, drives away the Holy Spirit and effectvely removes us from his GRACE!

Do You Need A Marriage License

My own feeling is that if you trully commit to one another before God there is no need for any kind of documentation. God knows your true heart, HE does not need paper evidence to proove anything. My actual marriage took place between myself, my husband and God alone in an open woodland clearing. The registry office was simply a formality required by the laws of state today. Open your hearts to each other and to God, swear your love to each other before him alone. Why are we so desperate for other peoples acceptance and acknowledgement. God knows wether you are married in your hearts or not, the rest is just paperwork !

Why Do Christians Judge Divorced

Those Christians that judge you are simply not true Christians. Its not our place to judge anyone else. Thats why I find churchs so off putting, full of little cliques that congregate and think that just because they attend church once a week they are 'good christians' whilst the rest of the week they gossip and live their lives being totally unsupportive of others. Dont close your heart to these people just recognise them for what they are. Sometimes the 'truest' Christians are found outside of church !

Which Religion Is Right

Faith is something YOU feel and is personal to you alone. We can all have faith but it will always be different for every person just as every person is different from another. Have faith in one true God, let Him into your heart and guide you in your life. That is all you need. The rest is words, interpreted in the times in which they were written and misquoted several times over. There is one truth, hold true to that and that is faith.

Obeying The Law Of God
	The basic laws define Christianity. You cannot be Christian without love and forgiveness. Just remember God is love, all else stems from that.

Remarrying After A Divorce
	What can I say, have just come on here to ask the exact same question ! My heart and every fibre of my being tells me its right but 'words' tell me I'm wrong. . . Please someone answer us both as soon as possible. . .

My Husband Is Narcissistic

After 38 years, I 'finally' know what's wrong. I obeyed to a T, was the perfect wife, diminishing to a shell of a being - wrecked nerves, sad, lonely, adhereing to legalism and control, jumping on command, felt like an "it", abandoned. Totally obedient for 30 years, when I started getting a voice, things worsened, we're hanging by a thread. It doesn't get better after the kids leave home. Remedy: Read books to build your self-esteem, joining a bible study group helped me the most, as praise and worship music, good Christian friends, have self-interests, write down 3 things you're thankful for everyday -even sunshine and dwell on the present moment. I would like contact people on a weekly basis if there's a support system like that.