Ephesians 2:8–9 has become a stumbling block for many people because it makes them believe that it is only faith that saves you, or that once you are saved, you are always saved, because you have "faith" salvation is indeed God's gift that we receive through faith, but it can be lost!!! + just saying "i believe" and that's it won't save anyone. it's the faith that comes from hearing that saves, and the same obedience of faith that help us keep our salvation🌹 https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/salvation-is-the-gift-of-god

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if we have wholeheartedly repented, been born again, and decided to do God’s will at all times (and are actively doing it), we must pray to be anointed with the Holy Spirit for two reasons: 1. to give us revelation of the Word of God. this is the only way through which we can discover the Truth 2. to give us the power to live according to the Truth that we discover. it is beyond our power to keep God’s commandments and live by His Truth, but He’s giving us a Helper, which is the Holy Spirit

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"by grace you have been saved through faith" (Eph 2:8) through faith we receive the imputed righteousness, which is Christ’s righteousness. we are dressed in a garment that is Christ, so that we stand before God exactly as Christ does if we die immediately after we have repented, we are saved BUT God wants to give us His righteousness (His love), which is being imparted to us during our whole life and if we don’t walk towards it at all times in our lives, we will lose our salvation!!

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if God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31) a beautiful promise that comes with the following condition: to love God (verse 28) and we love Him by keeping His commandments (John 14:15), which are kept by being obedient to faith: i believe the Word of God → i submit my will to it → i die to my self-will and always do God’s will → my inner life is being transformed by the Holy Spirit and i am becoming more like Christ = proof that i am obeying God thus God will always be for me

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Jesus was "made like His brethren in all things" (Hebrews 2:17), which means that He had a sinful flesh (anger, pride, etc.) and self-will just like us but then, how did He die on the cross without sinning once? (Hebrews 4:15) He was "obedient to the point of death" (Philippians 2:8). Jesus died to Himself at all times to do only God’s will (John 6:38) if He had done His own will just once, He would’ve sinned. so the only way to live without sin and become perfect is to always do God’s will!

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the only difference between Jesus and us is that He didn't have an old man which is inherited through our earthly father this old man has no hesitation in sinning; in fact, he even intends to sin e.g.: my old man would intentionally watch pornography without any reservation BUT He had a sinful flesh (anger, pride, etc.) and self-will just like us He was not perfect, but He ended His life on earth being perfect, which is a huge encouragement for us, for if He had done it, we can do it too

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"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9) most consider that this verse applies to all, but it only applies to those who "walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light" (1 John 1:7) and the Light is Jesus' life (John 1:4). so it’s only those who are walking the same way as Jesus did in His life, which is doing God’s will at all times (John 6:38), that get their sins forgiven there is no other way🌹

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those who “benefit” from Jesus' sacrifice are ONLY those who follow Him just saying you believe won’t get you saved or make you accepted by Christ to follow Him, you must do what He did His whole life, which is God’s will (John 6:38) and the first 3 steps towards doing it are (wholeheartedly): repentance (turning our backs on all known sin), water baptism (the promise we make to God that we will stay away from all sin) and deciding to ALWAYS do God’s will (how we keep the promise)🌹

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homosexuality is a sin for which Sodom was destroyed (Gen. 19:4-5) and nowhere in the Bible it's written that God accepts homosexuality. and the Bible is the Word of God!!! BUT even though homosexuality is a huge sin, God won't persecute you!! He wants to save you from it!! He can save you from it!!! if you repent, are born again, and decide to do God’s will at all times (exactly as Jesus did His whole life - John 6:38) you will be saved from this sin!!🌹

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Jesus came "in the likeness of sinful flesh" (Romans 8:3) = He had a self-will, just like us BUT He came to do the will of God only (John 6:38). so He had to die to Himself at all times to do God’s will = the cross Jesus carried His whole life and because of this, even though “He has been tempted in all things exactly as we are, He didn’t sin!” (Hebrews 4:15) if we always die to our self-will and do only God’s will, we cease from sin, just as He did!! (1 Peter 4:1) there's no other way!!!🌹

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just because thousands of people gather together, sing songs, and pray doesn’t mean God is worshipped God wants us “to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice” as “your spiritual service of worship” (Romans 12:1). this means that in absolutely everything we do (with our minds, tongues, ambitions, desires, etc.), we are to do only God’s will our only passion in life, with our everything, becomes God's will without doing this first, the songs and the prayers are mean nothing!!!🌹

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everyone wants to be evangelists, pastors, teachers, or have any other ministry to serve God. it’s great that people want that but what’s wrong is that they are acting on their desire instead of following God’s will and the path He has prepared for them. God may not want them to be any of that and that’s what they must obey if you are being someone who you are not called to be, you must stop it now, repent, get born again and do God’s will only so that His plan for your life can be manifested🌹

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there’s only one way to be saved and it’s not just “having faith” “the mysteries of the gospel have now been made known to all the nations by God TO LEAD them to "obedience of faith"” (Romans 16:25-26) what does “obedience of faith” mean? i believe the Word of God & i submit my will to It, even when it is against my desires. i die to my self-will and ALWAYS choose God’s will because i am convinced God’s path is the best this way my inner life is being transformed by the Holy Spirit & i am becoming more Christlike, which is the proof that my faith is real and thus i am saved🌹

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if you are a catholic you do not love Jesus at all. Jesus said that those who love Him keep His commandments (John 14:15) and the only way to keep them is to obey God, to always do His will instead of yours. and one of the things that Jesus didn’t command is praying to icons, having feast days for saints, yearly parish contributions, worshipping the pope, and other human-made traditions catholics are far from loving Jesus. the same is true for everyone else who's not doing ONLY God's will🌹

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LEADING TO “obedience of faith” appears as the reason why God has made the mysteries of the Gospel known to all the nations (Romans 16:25–26) but what does it mean for us today, after Jesus paved a path where “He entered as a forerunner for us” (Hebrews 6:20), so that we can become perfect as He is, something that Abraham, Noah, and those who walked with God before Jesus came to earth could not have achieved?🌹 https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/obedience-of-faith

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