Post by hawkflint on Dec 17, 2016 12:06:02 GMT -8
"But Israel, following after a instruction of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the instruction of righteousness" (Romans 9:31).
"[Through Him] we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;" (Romans 1:5). If the obedience comes FROM faith, then there was no obedience BEFORE the faith (the context here is Gentiles, who didn't have the Word of God to obey at first).
The Word of God was taken to the Gentiles, and many believed that it was truth. That belief (faith) resulted in obedience; and that obedience led to righteous living..."For it isn’t the hearers of the
who are righteous before God, but the doers of the will be justified" (Romans 2:13, remember what I said before).
John says in 1 John 2:29,"If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him," and he says in 1 John 3:7-8,"...He who does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil..."
We trust God's absolute trustworthiness-that His Word is true. We believe His Word, and the evidence of that belief is the works of the.
The Hebrew word for faith is "emunah," while it does mean "trust" at times, it also means fidelity, steadfastness, and steadiness.
Living righteously ("faithfully" or "steadfastly") shows that we are righteous.
There are two ways to live: righteously or unrighteously; good or bad; Godly or ungodly. The reason that the person who does righteousness is righteous is because "...the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them..." (Hosea 14:9).
It is an observable thing, the obedience of faith. And another observable thing is the obedience to Sin's instruction.
"...He who does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil..." (1 John 3:7-8), and God's Law is righteous (Deuteronomy 4:8; Psalm 119:160; Psalm 119:172; Romans 7:12).
"[Through Him] we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;" (Romans 1:5). If the obedience comes FROM faith, then there was no obedience BEFORE the faith (the context here is Gentiles, who didn't have the Word of God to obey at first).
The Word of God was taken to the Gentiles, and many believed that it was truth. That belief (faith) resulted in obedience; and that obedience led to righteous living..."For it isn’t the hearers of the
who are righteous before God, but the doers of the will be justified" (Romans 2:13, remember what I said before).John says in 1 John 2:29,"If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him," and he says in 1 John 3:7-8,"...He who does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil..."
We trust God's absolute trustworthiness-that His Word is true. We believe His Word, and the evidence of that belief is the works of the
.The Hebrew word for faith is "emunah," while it does mean "trust" at times, it also means fidelity, steadfastness, and steadiness.
Living righteously ("faithfully" or "steadfastly") shows that we are righteous.
There are two ways to live: righteously or unrighteously; good or bad; Godly or ungodly. The reason that the person who does righteousness is righteous is because "...the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them..." (Hosea 14:9).
It is an observable thing, the obedience of faith. And another observable thing is the obedience to Sin's instruction.
"...He who does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil..." (1 John 3:7-8), and God's Law is righteous (Deuteronomy 4:8; Psalm 119:160; Psalm 119:172; Romans 7:12).
