Let us Praise and Thank God that His Son does NOT come into the world to be our example for us to imitate until we are gradually and finally Saved. No, no!
He Sent His Son to this earth to Die for us sinners, to Accomplish Salvation for us.
God does NOT require anything from us, since He Has Done All.
JOHN 14.13-14
and whatever you may ask in My Name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; if you ask anything in My Name I will do [it].
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ROMANS 7.18
for I have known that there does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and I do not find to work that which is right,
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2 CORINTHIANS 11.3
and I fear, lest, as the serpent deceived Eve in his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;
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HEBREWS 7.25
from where also He is able to save to the very end, those coming through Him to God—ever living to make intercession for them.
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HEBREWS 12.7
if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
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MATTHEW 20.28
even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give His life [as] a ransom for many.”
Ye are the Branches, and you cannot Bear Heavenly Fruit unless you are in Close Connection with Jesus Christ.
In Him they are Already Crucified and Dead – all unknowing, at Conversion they Became Partakers of His Death.
But what they need now is to Give a Full and Intelligent Consent to what they Received ere they understood it, by an act of their own choice To Will To Die With Christ.
When I Go In The Name of Another, I Deny myself; I take not only His Name but I also take Who He Is Instead of myself and who I am.
