You may be teaching Justification by the Law !

[savedbymercy]

This verse means: weightier matters of the law
weightier matters of judgement
weightier matters of mercy
weightier matters of faith
It cannot mean faith is a matter of the law, faith is stopped by the law, is in opposition to the law, Galatians, Romans, Hebrews tell us this.
Nowhere in the bible does it say this except if you strive to make it say such

Yeah, it is plain and simple fact according to Matt 23:23 states that Faith and Mercy are weightier matters of the Law that ought to be Done !

 

[PreachTony]

Yeah, it is plain and simple fact according to Matt 23:23 states that Faith and Mercy are weightier matters of the Law that ought to be Done !

So our response to you, explaining how the sentence is diagrammed and defined, means nothing. You're just going to ignore everyone else and hold to your view that is plainly contradictory to the scripture, huh? *sigh*

 

[Don]

My apologies to SBM. I apparently missed the clarification that SBM is male, rather than female.

 

[Don]

I'm going to subtitle this :

Gal 3:10

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Lets make no mistake about it, anyone claiming to be saved and or Justified before God based upon their faith, or their act of believing, you very well may be under the curse of the Law, simply because, faith whether you believe it or not, is a work of the Law Matt 23:23

23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Faith Jesus says to these religionists, is one of the more weightier matters of the Law THAT OUGHT YE HAVE DONE !

John Gill on this verse and the word Faith in this context writes:



The Purpose of the Law was to be a Schoolmaster to Faith in Christ, yeah even under the Mosaic Administration Gal 3:24

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

So, now if we believe that our act of Faith in Christ is the reason why God Justified us, we are claiming that God Justified me because I obeyed the Law, did that which I ought to have done !

And once our thinking is there, we fall into the ripe condition of our text Gal 3:10

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

That means if we are under the impression that by doing Faith, a work of the Law, is the basis why God saved or Justified me, we are then obligated to continue to be in obedience to the Law perfectly, if we are to saved from the penalty of our sins, and one false move to complete obedience to the Law, in act, thoughts, or speech disqualifies us from Eternal Life, and must be Eternally Cursed as these Matt 25:41

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

That word cursed here is the same word in Gal 3:10 ! So they are cursed for not keeping God's Law as they ought to have done ! And so are we if we continue in the thinking that , God Justifies me because of my act of Faith or Believing, which i ought to have done !

SBM quoted Gill in his justification for this post; here's Gill's commentary immediately preceeding what SBN used:

"Judgment" may mean the administration of justice in courts of judicature; the putting in execution good judgments, righteous laws and statutes; protecting and relieving the injured and oppressed, and doing that which is right and equitable between man and man: but, on the contrary, these men devoured widows' houses, and oppressed the poor and fatherless. "Mercy" includes all acts of compassion to the distressed, relieving the necessitous, distributing to their wants, and showing all kindness and beneficence to the poor and needy; which the scribes and Pharisees very little practised, being a set of cruel, hard hearted, and covetous persons.

In other words, Gill was pointing out that these pharisees were placing their hope of salvation in the external, rather than on the spiritual.

Gill's comments, just like scripture, take on a different meaning when placed in context. And just like scripture, it's dishonest to use only the parts you want to use to try to prove your point.

 

[Don]

My final word regarding SBM: he will not change his view, no matter how many different ways he's shown to be in error.

In SBM's view of theology, God created His elect in His image, and He loves them; and He created the lost in His image, and doesn't love them, and created them solely to send to the fires of Hell. In SBM's theology, the Bible was written to the elect, NOT to the lost (note that SBM views "the lost" as the elect who haven't realized they're elect). In SBM's theology, the elect are born righteous by Jesus' sacrifice. In SBM's theology, preaching the Word is only necessary to remind the elect that they are the elect and should be acting like it.

I believe that accurately sums up what SBM has posted. And with that, I bid adieu.

 

[savedbymercy]

You may be teaching Justification by the Law ! 5

Gal 3:11

11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Now to those who just insist that they are Justified before God because of their faith, they are saying in fact saying, like it or not, that they are Justified before God by the doing of the Law, by what ought to have been done; You see when it pertains to our own act of faith, it is a work of the Law that ought to have been done Matt 23:23

23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

But if Faith be not our own faith that Justified us before God, but rather the Faith/ Faithfulness of Jesus Christ, and that Justification is made known or revealed to our God given Faith, then we avoid Justification before God based upon our work of the Law Faith Gal 3:11 !

And the Just shall live by Faith, it means, the Just or Justified come to believe, that what Christ hath already done in the past for us, by His Death / Blood putting away our sins before God, and that Justifying us before Him, and solely on that basis, then we begin to Live by Faith, BUT that is forfeited if and when we believe that our own act of faith/belief is what Justified us before God, we fall from Grace Faith to Law work Faith, and do claim Justification by the Law, which is contrary to the Truth !

 

[Squire Robertsson]

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