Saved by grace through faith (Eph 2:8). And their is no true faith unless works accompany it.
"And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." (Rom.11:6)
Jesus is our highway of holiness. We enter through Him and in Him. He is our high priest. I just don't think folks really understand this...
Between my second and third year of Bible College I spent the summer helping out in a Home Missions work in St. Johnsbury, Vt. I had a lot of free time so I spent the summer with a concordance and my Bible and no other reference books that could influence my interpretation of Scripture.
That summer God showed me something I had not fully understood up to that point. He showed me that He chose Israel to be His people and declared them holy. Then because they were His holy nation (because they had been separated unto Him by covenant) He gave them instruction that would govern this holy relationship with Him and maintain their distinction as the people of God.
He showed me that I was holy because He had called me, like Israel, into a covenant relationship with Him through faith in Jesus Christ. I saw that I was holy because of the righteousness I had been given in Christ. I could do nothing to become holy. I could only embrace the holiness I had received in Christ and begin walking according to the instruction of the Word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit which I had been given for that very purpose.
It's wonderful when a person understands this truth!
"And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." (Rom.11:6)
"And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." (Rom.11:6)
Is baptism in water and baptism in the Spirit a work of God or a work of man?
What about repentance? Is that a work of man?
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
Between my second and third year of Bible College I spent the summer helping out in a Home Missions work in St. Johnsbury, Vt. I had a lot of free time so I spent the summer with a concordance and my Bible and no other reference books that could influence my interpretation of Scripture.
That summer God showed me something I had not fully understood up to that point. He showed me that He chose Israel to be His people and declared them holy. Then because they were His holy nation (because they had been separated unto Him by covenant) He gave them instruction that would govern this holy relationship with Him and maintain their distinction as the people of God.
He showed me that I was holy because He had called me, like Israel, into a covenant relationship with Him through faith in Jesus Christ. I saw that I was holy because of the righteousness I had been given in Christ. I could do nothing to become holy. I could only embrace the holiness I had received in Christ and begin walking according to the instruction of the Word under the guidance of the Holy Spirit which I had been given for that very purpose.
It's wonderful when a person understands this truth!
1 Corinthians 10:1-5 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; A type of water baptism
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. A type of Spirit baptism
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
We have a couple of other things in common with the Isrealites in the wilderness besides holiness.. .....The process of leaving Egypt (sin) and the baptism in the cloud and sea as well as the Spiritual baptism by drinking a type of living water.
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
1 Corinthians 10:1-5 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; A type of water baptism
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. A type of Spirit baptism
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
We have a couple of other things in common with the Isrealites in the wilderness besides holiness.. .....The process of leaving Egypt (sin) and the baptism in the cloud and sea as well as the Spiritual baptism by drinking a type of living water.
My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
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