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family teaching #4: commitment
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Jn4..23 "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the
true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and truth; for the Father is seeking such to
worship Him.
24 "GOD Spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth."
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Mat22..36 "Teacher, which the great
commandment in the law?"
37 Jesus said to him, "'You
shall love the LORD your GOD
with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your
mind.
38 "This is first and great
commandment.
39 "And second like it: 'You
shall love your neighbor as
yourself.'
40 "On these two commandments
hang all the Law and the
Prophets."
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Jn8..51 Most assuredly, I say to
you, if anyone keeps My word
he shall never see death.
Rom2..13 For not the hearers of the
law just in the sight of GOD,
but the doers of the law will
be justified.
Gal3..24 Therefore the law was our
tutor into Christ, that we
might be justified by faith.
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GOD is Spirit, but the current church seeks Him thru carnal forms, liturgy, ritual,
so it is impossible for them to find and worship Him in spirit and truth, as the lost pagans.
GOD the Spirit begins to shine the light or truth of the gospel in our heart when we begin
to take Him seriously, seek to obey His basic law Ex20, and strive to love all mankind.
GOD the Spirit baptizes us, as He baptised Christ Lk12:50, in His fire Mat3:11 Mk10:39 Zech13:9,
which is Rom6, as we "obey from the heart" v17, "into right" or just v7, 16, then under grace.
GOD then expects us to serve in the spirit, no longer the letter, by obeying the Spirit only,
to retain the Spirit Rom8:4-9,13, as many sanctified fall away and lost forever Heb6; 10.
GOD, from the beginning, gives us free will, to basically choose from the heart, to do good or evil,
at least to the best of our natural ability, until He empowers us to comply to Rom8 level.
GOD the Spirit must change our evil hearts, as we strive to obey, thru faith (see free will),
as His grace, love, power works in + thru obedience, never in disobedience, so most lost.
GOD the Spirit never forsakes obedient faith, but clearly departs deliberate or willful sinners,
hence Rom8:9 2Cor13:5 Mat25:1-12 Rev3:5, so very few truly abide in Him and endure forever.
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Rom6..3 Or do you not know that as
many of us as were baptized
into Christ Jesus were
baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we were buried
with Him through baptism into
death, that just as Christ
was raised from the dead by
the glory of the Father, even
so we also should walk in
newness of life.
5 For if we have been
united together in the
likeness of His death,
certainly we also shall be of
(His) resurrection,
6 Knowing this, that our old
man was crucified, that the
body of sin might be done
away with, that we should no
longer be slaves of sin.
7 For he who has died has
been justified from sin.
16 Do you not know that to
whom you present yourselves
slaves to obey, you are that
one's slaves whom you obey,
whether of sin into death, or
of obedience into
righteousness?
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17 But GOD be thanked that
you were slaves of sin, yet
you obeyed from the heart
that form of doctrine to
which you were delivered.
18 And having been set free
from sin, you became slaves
of righteousness.
Rom7..5 For when we were in the
flesh, the sinful passions
which were aroused by the law
were at work in our members
to bear fruit to death.
6 But now we have been
delivered from the law,
having died to what we were
held by, so that we should
serve in the newness of the
Spirit and not the oldness of
the letter.
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