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You base your salvation on your works, your flesh doing something !

 

A work !



A work is any deed we do, whether it be physical or mental. In other words, a lust in the mind is just as much a deed of the flesh or work of the flesh as physical fornication, its a mental deed ! Gal 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

This word works, is the same word used in Eph 2:9 where it reads Eph 2:9

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

This is important because things we do with our mind are considered works. Lasciviousness is lust, which we do with the mind or heart , and its a work !

So likewise, faith and or believing is done with the mind and or heart and so its also a work !

So those of you who claim to be saved from your sins because you believed in your heart,Rom 10:9-10 then you are claiming salvation by your works; and since many believe that regeneration comes after faith or believing, then you are claiming salvation by the work of the flesh , your human faith from the flesh of you !

 

Believing is a work, a deed , an act that man performs with his mind

The word for work that the Holy Spirit inspired the writers of scripture to use is the greek word ergon which means:

) business, employment, that which any one is occupied

a) that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking

2) any product whatever, any thing accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind

The mind is defined as:

the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities.



3) an act, deed, thing done: the idea of working is emphasised in opp. to that which is less than work

Now, I have been able to show scripturally that believing is a work !

Nothing can change that !

Now , everyone claiming to get saved BECAUSE they believed, then they are claiming Salvation by their works ! The Bible condemns that !

 

Coming to Christ is synomonous to believing on Him Jn 6:35

35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Now coming, as is believing is an activity, a performance of man, they both are present tense verbs, denoting someone doing something !

The word cometh is the greek word erchomai


to come

a) of persons

1) to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving and of those returning

The mode of motion !

The performance or doing is liken to coming from one place to another.

So its an work, so again if anyone claims they are saved from the penalty of their sins BECAUSE they come to Christ, then they are claiming Salvation from sins penalty for themselves by their activity, their doing, their work, their deed !

Again a work is described by the biblical word for work ergon :

business, employment, that which any one is occupied

a) that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking

2) any product whatever, any thing accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind

3) an act, deed, thing done or doing: the idea of working is emphasised in opp. to that which is less than work

 

Again a work is described by the biblical word for work ergon :

business, employment, that which any one is occupied

a) that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking

2) any product whatever, any thing accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind

3) an act, deed, thing done or doing: the idea of working is emphasised in opp. to that which is less than work

 

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Thats Strong's dictionary ! And I am going by that.

Secondly, The Bible I read , My God had translated into the English,m so English dictionary can also be consulted.

So again, the word ergon means:

business, employment, that which any one is occupied

a) that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking

2) any product whatever, any thing accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind

3) an act, deed, thing done or doing: the idea of working is emphasised in opp. to that which is less than work

Believing is an product of the mind, its an act, its a deed, its a doing.

If you or anyone else base their Justification before God because of something they did, had to do, then you forfeit Justification by Grace and Salvation by Grace through Faith !

 

Faith in or believing on Christ is an act of man, something man does, so its by definition a work ! In scripture faith in Christ or believing in him is described as fleeing to Him for refuge Heb 6:18

18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Notice Prov 18:10

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

It speaks of the Name of the Lord ! As in Joel 2:32

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Now notice the word run, very similar to the word flee, now is one saved because they runneth ? If so then that contradicts Rom 9:16

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

One is not saved by Mercy because they runneth or exert effort. Fleeing to the city of refuge denotes danger. Sometimes God's elect right before they rest in the Name of Christ, are by God's providence brought to an awful sensibility and alarm fr their Eternal Well Being,such as the Philippian Jailor, resulting from that frightening providence, he experienced by the Sovereignty of God, so much so that he cried out, what must I do to be saved, but this made him fit to trust in the Name of the Lord, through the Word Paul spake unto him Acts 16:32

32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

Now was it the fleeing or running to Christ that got him saved from the penalty of his sins ? Was it his believing ? If so, then he was saved by his works, his running, which is contrary to scripture Rom 9:16

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Notice also,not of him that willeth,or his volition. What is volition ? The word means:

a choice or decision made by the will.

That verse also condemns 99.9% of all false religions who claim to receive mercy for salvation by a choice or decision made by their freewill ! Thats a work !

 

Works of Righteousness !



Titus 3:5

5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

A work is a thing done ! The word for works is ergon and means:

business, employment, that which any one is occupied

a) that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking

2) any product whatever, any thing accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind

3) an act, deed, thing done: the idea of working is emphasised in opp. to that which is less than work

Righteousness here means:

integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking feeling, and acting

Things that we do which are right or correct, correctness of thinking.

The word done means:

to act rightly, do well

1) to carry out, to execute

b) to do a thing unto one

1) to do to one

That word is used with works in many places as here:

Matt 7:22

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

John 7:21

21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

Believing in Christ is one of many works of Righteousness a man does, so if one says they are Justified before God because of their act of believing

The word believing, pisteuo means :

to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in

Thinking right or correct is a Righteousness according to the definition above for Righteousness from Tit 3:5

So those of you that insist you get saved or Justified before God based on your believing, you reject the fundamental teaching of Titus 3:5, and espouse a false teaching of Salvation by your works ! You see, being saved is not by works or acts of Righteousness which we have done !

 

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Tell me something I have not already known ! Faith or believing is something man does, a work, a ergon !

 

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The Jailor did well, acted rightly, he did a work of righteousness with his mind or heart. Do you deny that ?