Comments on: “Go in Peace”… http://www.jodymay.tv/2010/01/go-in-peace/ Discovering who you are in Christ to be all you can be. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jody http://www.jodymay.tv/2010/01/go-in-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Jody Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:54:06 +0000 http://www.jodymay.tv/?p=280#comment-181 You are so right Josh. Her peace wasn't based on her living 'sinless'. It was a granting from Jesus 'grace'. thanks for the comment You are so right Josh.

Her peace wasn’t based on her living ‘sinless’. It was a granting from Jesus ‘grace’.

thanks for the comment

]]> By: Josh http://www.jodymay.tv/2010/01/go-in-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Josh Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:20:06 +0000 http://www.jodymay.tv/?p=280#comment-180 I agree with you that the woman in Luke 7 had peace because her sins were forgiven and God had given her eternal life. But she received this forgiveness not because she turned from her sin, but because of her faith. The passage never says that she turned from her sin, it says she had faith and her faith had saved her. Repentance doesn't mean to turn from sin, it means to have a change of mind, and thank goodness, because no one has ever turned from sin. We all sin. But believers are saved in spite of their sin by the grace of God. Our salvation is 100% by grace through faith in the blood of Christ, and 0% by our own efforts to stop sinning or to turn over a new leaf. If our salvation was dependent, even to the smallest degree, on how we live our lives, then no one could have peace. How would she have peace if her salvation was dependent on her own efforts at turning from her sin? If she prostituted herself again, would she lose her salvation? What if she committed only "small sins," and if so, which ones are the "big" ones? What if she got out of church? Got drunk? Coveted? Lusted? Told a lie? How would she know, when she sinned again in the future, if she had made enough effort to turn from her sinning? That doesn't sound like peace at all. Born again believers have peace, though, because we are saved as a gift through the blood of Christ. While God commands us to live holy lives and to forsake sin, our salvation has nothing to do with our efforts at living a holy life or forsaking sin. We are either saved by faith alone in the finished work of Christ, or we're saved by faith in Christ AND faith in our own efforts. I agree with you that the woman in Luke 7 had peace because her sins were forgiven and God had given her eternal life. But she received this forgiveness not because she turned from her sin, but because of her faith. The passage never says that she turned from her sin, it says she had faith and her faith had saved her.

Repentance doesn’t mean to turn from sin, it means to have a change of mind, and thank goodness, because no one has ever turned from sin. We all sin. But believers are saved in spite of their sin by the grace of God. Our salvation is 100% by grace through faith in the blood of Christ, and 0% by our own efforts to stop sinning or to turn over a new leaf.

If our salvation was dependent, even to the smallest degree, on how we live our lives, then no one could have peace. How would she have peace if her salvation was dependent on her own efforts at turning from her sin? If she prostituted herself again, would she lose her salvation? What if she committed only “small sins,” and if so, which ones are the “big” ones? What if she got out of church? Got drunk? Coveted? Lusted? Told a lie? How would she know, when she sinned again in the future, if she had made enough effort to turn from her sinning? That doesn’t sound like peace at all.

Born again believers have peace, though, because we are saved as a gift through the blood of Christ. While God commands us to live holy lives and to forsake sin, our salvation has nothing to do with our efforts at living a holy life or forsaking sin. We are either saved by faith alone in the finished work of Christ, or we’re saved by faith in Christ AND faith in our own efforts.

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