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I try to blow up the doctrine that says “the battle for obedience is optional, because only faith is necessary for salvation. ” It’s very complicated, the way the words are used here. Here’s my answer: the battle for obedience is absolutely necessary for salvation, because it is the fight for faith. The battle for obedience is absolutely necessary to get to heaven, because it is the battle against unbelief. It is the fight for faith.
- There are no two battles.
- One to save him from a single act of faith and the other to reap rewards for the works; there’s only one battle.
- It is the one who throws you.
- The one who takes you there.
- And it is the struggle of faith.
- Not the works.
- Faith is what cuts the root of greed.
- Bewildering shame.
- Anxiety.
- Lust.
- Envy and another six before the end of this year.
- There’s a war.
- And it’s the war of faith.
Let us go to verse 5 and try to show you why I believe this text teaches that the root cause of lust is disbelief. Verse 5 says, “[Take a woman, or control your body], not with the desire for lust (convoitar), as Gentiles who do not know God?. Now, do you see what this implies at the root of lust?Not knowing God is the root cause of lust.
Now, what does that mean? Pensons-y. De kind of knowledge do you talk about?Do you remember what the demons knew in Jesus’ ministry?You remember that in Mark 1:24, Jesus enters a synagogue. There’s a man here with a bad mind. Jesus is ready to expel this evil spirit, and from the mouth of this man possessed by a demon come the words: “I know who you are: the Holy One of God!?You don’t even know how much demons know how precise and broad their knowledge of God is about many things and yet they boil with desire.
So that’s not the kind of knowledge that’s being said here. You can fill your head with theological knowledge and go straight to hell. I used to go to professional theological meetings. Louis? And St. Louis has very disgusting and terrible streets of sexual exploitation What have these men who teach theology done in the universities of the country?Is there no connection between mere intellectual knowledge?knowledge?and the power of mercy.
So what does verse 5 mean when it says, “When you enter into lust, you act like Gentiles who do not know God?It’s a different kind of knowledge. This is the knowledge described in 2 Corinthians 4. 6, which says: “For God, who said, From darkness the light shall shine, he himself shone in our hearts, for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God, before Christ. “It is the knowledge of God’s greatness, his splendor, his glory, his beauty, his power, his wisdom, his righteousness, his goodness, and his truth. He’s an acquaintance who humiliates you, catches up with you and stops you.
It is the knowledge of God that is very different from mere intellectual knowledge. It’s the knowledge you don’t have when you say ‘ho, ho’ during hallelujah’s choir. This is the knowledge you don’t have when you complain on the edge of the Grand Canyon at sunset: “See, you don’t see, and you hear, you don’t hear?(Mt 13. 13). This is the knowledge you have when you look like Lydia, to whom the Lord has just opened his heart to pay attention to the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ in the gospel (Acts 16:14). It is knowledge that wins, sustains, humiliates, attracts, enlightens, enchants It is the knowledge of faith, the certainty of the expected things, the conviction of the facts that are not seen (Heb 11:1).
It is knowledge that frees from lust, knowledge that is faith. It is such a real and precious knowledge, so satisfying to your soul that when an attitude, emotion, thought or dependence threatens to diminish your ability to have and enjoy that knowledge, Fight as if your own life is threatened, because in fact it is.
Remember 1 Peter 2. 11?” Beloved, I beg you, “abstain from carnal passions, which make war on the soul?Your life is in danger depending on how you fight your enemy called lust.