Sunday, April 1, 2007

GOD DOES NOT GIVE ONLY COMMANDMENT; HE GIVES OBEDIENCE

God commanded us to repent but we read in my message at http://sermoncentral.com/sermon.asp?SermonID=88687, "...it is God who grants repentance (Acts. 5:31; 2 Tim. 2:25)."

There are those who pointed out that we need to endure to be saved, but "We fail to realize it is God who gives the endurance (Rom. 15:5)."

"We also struggle to be blameless, but we read in 1 Thess. 5:23-24, 'May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and HE WILL DO IT' (NIV, also Jude 24).

"Yes, we are directed by God to believe in His Son, to pray always, to know Him more, to forgive, etc. But He gives His Spirit to enable us to do them."

For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Phil. 2:13).

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