Spineyman
Senior Member
What are some examples of people doing the will of the Father? Better yet what are some examples of people not doing the will of the Father that would prevent them from entering the Kingdom?
I can see that these fake Christians were doing works thinking they could buy their way in. I know that it doesn't work that way.
Still though in verse 23 it says "depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness."
It's like even though it's "all" from God, we still have verses about people who practice lawlessness. Even though Christ died for the Law or our inability to keep it.
There will still be a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
"there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked."
"and all liars--they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur."
I do believe in salvation from grace but at the same time how do I reconcile a resurrection of the righteous and the evil?
Does our salvation make us righteous? Perhaps it's the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Why not verses concerning a resurrection of the saved and a resurrection of the un-saved?
Maybe a resurrection of the (imputed from Christ righteousness) but those verses don't say that.
You stopped that just a tad short. It goes on to say, I never knew you. There are also those who try to earn their way to heaven by keeping the law. That in itself is lawlessness. because it says that if you break even one, then you are guilty of breaking them all.
Christ didn't die for the law, He died to save us from the law. We can not keep the law, and He did keep every single little piece of it perfectly, therefore His righteousness is imputed to us through His shed blood on the cross as a sinless substitute for us! Just like the Passover, when the Father sees us He sees the finished work of His Son, for the payment of our sin/ rebellion.
Because there are none righteous, no not one, then we have no other way to be righteous than to have it given to us by the atoning blood.
You said a mouthful there for sure. The Great White Throne Judgement!