Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Pet.1:8 whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory-- 1:9 receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

If you believe you earn salvation, which means, by being associated with a certain religious group, and/or you perform some good work for the group you earned salvation the meaning of these verses for you will be incorrect!

John 10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

The result of faith, is not a work of law, it is a result of putting faith in Christ Jesus own merit, which merit is imputed too us whom have no merit before God as a sinners. You, see, salvation is not a work of law, in fact, there is not a good work you can do too earn salvation, or its is not salvation at all! Because we are meritless than we must accept salvation as a gift of our faith. God/YHWH has sent us a savior, to save us out of death, that is, our having no merit, in and of ourselves, too buy our way out of death.

John 10:28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Works of laws declares one righteous by their own good works on earth done in God's name, earning a person merit - saving themselves into eternal life. The problems with this illegal concept is one has to have more good merit than bad too even the books with God. Whereas, the legal way of unmerited kindness according too the law of love, and not the laws of flesh. Is God has evened the books for us by giving us his Son Christ Jesus precious life, hence, his merit that gain Christ eternal life with the Father, for keeping God's laws perfectly without sin.

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Thus, the result of our faith is we have salvation now, by God's love, it is not future, but why? Because love is present, now, its not waiting on a legal time table by our earning something, God's love is given us freely without our merit. If we walk in faith in this truth of God's love, we are in Christ Jesus, which means we have received his eternal life, giving us eternal life by our faith. If the head of the body has eternal life, than the foot on the same body has the life of the body as will.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

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