Featured Who Decides?

Say God commands the lost to love God with all their heart, mind and spirit. Who decides whether a lost person meets that command? The person who is keenly aware of his or her shortcomings or God? What if the person did his or her best, gave it their all? Can God determine with perfect justice the command was fulfilled? Yes of course He can.

How about the command to love others. Who decides whether a lost or saved person meets that command? The person who is keenly aware of his or her shortcomings or God? What if the person did his or her best, gave it their all? Can God determine with perfect justice the command was fulfilled? Yes, of course He can.

It is more difficult for a rich person to enter heaven, than for someone who has little in the way of earthly treasure. Why is it more difficult. Because wealth provides a false sense of security, and to stop relying upon our worldly treasure, forsaking what we had grown to cherish, is more difficult, than to turn to and rely only upon God when we are aware of our fearful insecure status before God.

How about being perfect? Does anyone think they are perfect? Hopefully this is not news, but every single born anew believer is perfect. How are we to "be perfect?" By receiving the reconciliation provided by Christ's perfect sacrifice!

Bottom line, God commands and we do our best to comply. He decides whether we met His command. And His decision is perfect, just and of course merciful and gracious.

Praise Be to God!

 

Once again you post without stating your point. Who decides whether the person met the requirement? God does.

 

Yet another post without stating the purpose.

There are none righteous. Does that mean God cannot decide who meets His commands? Who knows unless you state your understanding.

 

I explained how every born anew person is perfect. I did not say we were perfect if we did our best.

 

Since it is God who decides whether to credit our flawed efforts as being righteous

Who decides whether to justify a person? God does!

 

If you believe it is God who either writes the name of His chosen ones in the Lamb's book of life, and does not write the names of those not chosen, then I assume you are affirming that God decides who meets His commands.

It is obvious error to think you are saved because you professed belief in Christ or spouted Lord, Lord.
God decides who He will save, by His grace alone, through crediting our faith, or not, alone.

 

Did the rich young ruler (Matthew 19:16- 26) actually do "all the right things?" Nope He was unwilling to put Christ above his worldly treasure. But in the person's mind, he had done all the right things. Thus it is God who decides, not the person seeking acceptance, the one who wills or does things. See Romans 9:16. It is impossible for a person to merit salvation, but with God, all salvations are possible. He decides. If a person misses just a little, God can reject his or her effort, but on the other hand, if a person misses a whole lot, like me, God can credit my faith as righteousness. God decides on whom He will have mercy!

 

People can think they are saved, yet the Lord will say I never knew you. The issue is not whether a saved person has been sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit, the issue is a person can believe that he or she has been indwelt, even a lost person.
Professing believers are to examine ourselves at communion to see if we are "of the faith." That is where we obtain our "blessed assurance, Jesus is mine."

 

Nope, some trust in their "faith" but to no avail. See Matthew 13.

 

God decides to whom He will give the gift of eternal life. Just because someone receives the gospel with joy, does not mean their faith in the gospel will result in salvation.

God decides!