James Webber

6 yrs

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1 Corinthians 15:3-4

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4) and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Paul makes it very clear that the first most important thing God made clear to him was the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

1) 1.8 billion Islam's do not believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

2) 1.15 billion Hindus do not believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

3) 521 million Buddha's do not believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

4) 14.5 million Jews do not believe in the death burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

5) Many other religions do not believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

5) 1.2 billion Secular Nonreligious Atheist do not believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

6) China and India together account for 36.28% of total world populationand most do not believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

7) 2.4 billion Christians do believe in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

Paul speaks of the so called Christians:

Galatians 1:8-9

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! 9) As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!

Now just what is that gospel that is accursed?

The book of Galatians makes it clear.

One that places his trust in Jesus plus his own personal merit for salvation is not born again.

Personal merit plus Jesus is the Gospel that is accursed.

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9) not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

That one fact diminishes the 2,4 billion so called Christian significantly.

In summary:

Matthew 9:37

Then He said to His disciples, " The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

How we spend our time and what our message is, has extreme eternal ramifications.

Singing amazing grace is just fine ...

James 1:22

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

6 yrs

Galatians 5:4-5
You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be
justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

Christians may fall from grace, but it is not accomplished by sinning.

They will have fallen from grace when they, having been delivered from the Law with its merit system, and then turn back to the merit system. (That is falling from Grace -- falling back into the Law).

"No person who has gained the understanding of what it means to be perfected in Christ, beyond the need of any human works to complete that perfection, should ever turn back to the Law or personal merit for salvation. People who trust Christ as Savior are perfected in Him whether they realize it or not. It is those that do not realize it, who may be influenced by legalists to turn back to the merit system from which they have been delivered, that fall into this deception."
(Systematic Theology Chafer, vol 3 pg. 31

There are only two systems: law and grace. When a person
falls from grace, there is only one place to fall - that is back
into the Law. ( Personal Works Salvation)

Unsaved people may learn of the grace of God; but when
they turn from that knowledge and go back into the
legalistic merit system, they become severed from Christ
with no way to be indwelled with the Holy Spirit and have
their sins forgiven (Be Saved). Hebrews 10:26

Galatians 2:21
I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness comes
through the Law, then Christ died needlessly .

The sin of rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ and His forgiveness
for sins is the sin, that if continued in, cannot be forgiven.
This is simply because there is no other means to be forgiven.

Hebrews 10:26
For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of
the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

As to those that have been "Born Again" indwelt with the Holy Spirit:

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

6 yrs

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John 1:18
No man has seen God at any time;

John 1:1-5
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2) He was in the beginning with God. 3) All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4) In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5) The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:14
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth

Jesus is God.

John 1:18
No man has seen God at any time;

That is that no man has seen God in the fullness and radiance
of the Father with the Son and Holy Spirit all together at the
same time.

1 Timothy 6:16
who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable
Light. (Refers To God)

Obviously God has to limit Himself to relate to His finite
creation.

None of us could be exposed to the fullness of all three Persons
of the Godhead at the same time and still live.

Within the nature of the One God, there are three Persons:
the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. And they are the One
Almighty Eternal God.

By the Nature of the Godhead, where One goes, They all
go. You cannot have One without the Other.

Yet they limit Themselves for our benefit.

You must understand that they exist in a different dimension than we do, even though they are always present in ours.

They have chosen to take different roles, positions and responsibilities in relationship to creation and redemption.

None of which makes One better than the Other.