Christ Expelled from Christianity

Originally posted by RJHinds
[b]“The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?

(Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV)

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the de ...[text shortened]... JV)

The actions are believing with the heart and confessing with the mouth.

The Instructor

Mat 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

A good heart = good works
An evil heart = evil works

Originally posted by Rajk999
Mat 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

A good heart = good works
An evil heart = evil works

For there is not a just man on earth who does good
And does not sin.

(Ecclesiastes 7:20 NKJV)

As it is written:

“There is none righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”

(Romans 3:10-12 NKJV)

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God

(Romans 3:23 NKJV)

So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.

(Mark 10:18 NKJV)

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

(Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV)


The Instructor