“Full Assurance of Faith” (Hebrews 10:22)

FULL ASSURANCE nothing quite says LORD I DON'T TRUST YOU then FULL ASSURANCE.
The mistake, You said it yourself, Full assurance of FAITH vs GOD.

Courage isn't always the guy not touched by fear, one that dares do what is right despite its presence.

I would challenge the "FULLY ASSURED" stands no chance vs the "FULLY TESTED"
All Love, No Faith.


Salvation First Christian the most selfish chicken.

The modern day Pharisee. Today's Pharisees.

He is given the command of GOD, and then he weighs it.......Gee is this going to EARN me 5$ or SALVATION?

Oh this command God has given won't give me salvation?.......GUESS ILL PASS.

Egostistical selfish Christians who only care about saving themselves.
I'm saved your not neener-neener Christianity.

They swear to GOD its "Faith Alone" only to WHINE about if you don't DO.....DO.....DO THINGS Their way you are going to HELL.

While they have a perfect license to sin.

Common sense is absent.

They take the word DIRECTLY BACKWARDS.


1 Corinthians 13
2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.


Faith will not remain forever. Its training wheels for the selfish.

You can have perfect faith move mountains, no love it is trash.

 

Your first problem, Utilyan, is that you know neither the Gospel nor the power of God That makes you the most miserable person on this board.

'If only in this life we have hope in Christ, we are all men the most pitiable' (1 Corinthians 15:19).

Your second problem is your Pride. It comes out in your inverted spiritual one-upmanship. You are more holy because you don't want eternal life. If you knew anything about the Gospel, you would know that Christians don't love God in order to be saved- we love Him because we are saved.

'In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation of our sins' (1 John 4:10). 'We love Him because He first loved us' (1 John 4:19). Stop boasting about your super-special love for God and start boasting about His love for you. 'But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ' (Galatians 6:14). 'As it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord"' (1 Corinthians 1:31; cf. Jeremiah 9:23-24).

Your third problem is your unbelief. You do not believe the Holy Spirit, when He says to you:

'Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus.......Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith' (Hebrews 10:19-22). 'Let us......' in Greek is not a suggestion, it is a command, and if you don't do it you are adding disobedience to your unbelief.

Your fourth problem is that you don't love Christ enough. If you really loved Him your deepest desire would be to know Him throughout all eternity. Like Abraham, you would be desiring 'a better, that is, a heavenly country' (Hebrews 11:16). You would give yourself no rest until you could say, 'My Beloved is mine, and I am His' (Song of Songs 2:16), and you would be able to say, 'When I found the One I love, I held Him and would not let Him go' (Song of Songs 3:4). But you are actually not all that bothered. When He says, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you' (Hebrews 13:5), you are not troubled whether He does or not. And you think that is super-spiritual? Sheesh!

 

I didn't mention you, but it convicted you.

John 14
15“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Doesn't say put a price tag on whether his command gives you something or not like some whore.

 

It's like teaching an elephant to climb a tree.

1 John 4:10 again! 'In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.' If anyone loves God, it is because God has already loved him and Jesus Christ has already paid the admission fee for heaven. Therefore the Christian's love for God gets him no reward because he already has it.

Have you got that? Do you understand it? I thought not.

 

NetChaplain,

In terms of reliance, you shouldn't rely on anything concrete or even sensation or reasoned out "proof". Like having to walk to a mirror to confirm and acknowledge you exist.

You might have good parents. You might know them. You don't check a certificate, or like a oil dip stick check for oil in regards to their love for you and your love for them. You don't need "assurance" with them. And it would be borderline insult to request assurance from them.

Oh God is visiting.....let me put my football helmet on.....ok ready!

Faith and trust are not different. Anything that would make you vulnerable to God should be accepted.

The very idea of seeking leverage of safety AGAINST God, That's what I see "ASSURANCE" being and I believe that is flawed.

God himself is the "Assurance", Its not anything you can grab or do, its not your faith either.

Faith is like crutch or training wheels, one day before God you will throw it away.


We can't have this attitude of let me read scripture so I can protect myself from God.
It should be God with you and reading the bible.

Faith assured that's nothing You need to be able to trust and smile to God in what to everyone else would appear the most very doomed circumstance.

 

Breathing, Making your blood flow in the right places, Heart beat. You can't do none of those things without God.

Jesus commands Love God and Love Neighbor. His desire and want is established.

On what grounds should I mistrust GOD in the capability of carrying out his command?

My personal capacity? I can't even exist without God, I can't even make a fist without God, I can't do one single THING without God.

Sure hand me the wheel. If nothing can drive but God.....I am NOTHING, so I can do it.

 

If I have to take a glance at my "confirmation" this an act of mistrust, see?

It requires a motivation of fear or lack of trust for me to have to CHECK.

 

If you know your looking at this computer screen, not much faith involved at all.

We don't tap it with our hand every 5 minutes to CONFIRM its there.

I'm sure we all would agree on putting reliance on God alone. Like the computer screen the only "problem" I got is with folks relying on tapping on the screen. That "assurance" is a mistrust of God. God himself is our better "tapping" or confirmation. Not something outside of God.

 

I think you understand.

And that's a good example the apostles. Particularly Thomas. When he reaches to touch the holes ect. Sure Jesus provides him "ASSURANCE". But did he really need it?

29Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”

And that's my whole point, should we act as Thomas collecting all "assurances"? do we really need assurance?