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Why callest ME Good...none Good but God??
Gina:
--- Quote from: indianabob on July 09, 2012, 06:27:32 PM ---Hi Gina,
Liked the story and the lesson it provides, but isn't it so that Abraham and Sarah did deceive Abimelech into believing that he had the right to claim her as a bride or concubine according to the King's culture?
Because, if I understand the lesson, otherwise Abimilech would have had to kill Abraham first to make Sarah a widow and available to be claimed by Abimilech.
Great lesson, thanks for sharing, Bob
--- End quote ---
Hi Bob. I submit to you that he was already deceived in his heart -- he did not have the love of God residing there seeing how he would have killed Abraham for Sarah without hesitation, without a doubt. (You really think he wanted to marry her? That remains to be seen. ;) ) He was totally lying to God -- now Abi's knees were knockin just like had Abraham's knees knockin in the hours preceding: "But they told me they were brother and sister - blah, blah, blah" Well, der! Look who they were up against! (If I were Abraham, I would've been scared out of my mind.)
Regardless it was all of God and I'm sure there are plenty of nuggets of truths and lessons in that story alone and you got me thinking. I like that.
And you're welcome, Bob. :)
lilitalienboi16:
Kat nailed it imo on the first page here;
Christ was telling him, There is none good except God. Aka, if you are calling me good, you're calling me God. As in, you do know what you're saying, right?
Like Kat said, He was having the man think about it for His own sake, not because He (Christ) was not good or was not God.
I don't know.. that's how I see it. :X
mavis92379:
Oh no ! Not Longhorn parroting "Jesus IS sin" again...........
Gina:
ha, Seriously!
Stop that Longhorn. Besides, what could you possibly know Longhorn--your head exploded like a zillion times already. Is there anything left of it? ;D :P
Marky Mark:
Mat 19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
Mat 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
because
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
1Jn 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
When we keep His commandments[precepts] we show Him that we love Him and in doing so we then begin our journey of overcoming the world and the process of entering into the good Life,with our Father.
I think the 'none good' that Jesus was expressing to the one asking was the forth coming benefit and virtue of gaining Life with the Father after ones Spiritual conversion unto life eternal. Even Jesus Himself was not perfected until He arose from the dead Luk 13:32. As long as we are in these earthly bodies of flesh,we,by nature,can not be of any good,unto the one that is Good Joh 6:63. The Father is seeking righteousness of Spirit,not a perceived human righteousness of the flesh. [Job comes to mind.]
Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing...
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Eph 2:8 For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:
Peace...Mark
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