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“Not a Salvation Issue?”. “Tithing is a practice of obedience.” – Dave Ramsey, Dave’s Advice on Tithing and Giving “ It’s not a salvation issue . You’re not gaining God’s favor, and you’re not gaining your salvation with the tithe.” – Dave Ramsey, Can’t Meet the Four Walls but Tithing.
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“Tithing is a practice of obedience.” – Dave Ramsey, Dave’s Advice on Tithing and Giving “It’s not a salvation issue. You’re not gaining God’s favor, and you’re not gaining your salvation with the tithe.” – Dave Ramsey, Can’t Meet the Four Walls but Tithing
Not a Salvation Issue? “…the term “salvation issues” is a “thought cliché”. According to Jacques Barzun, a famous historian, a thought cliché is “a phrase that catches on, becomes widely used, and while fostering the impression of embodying substantive insight, becomes a substitute for clear thinking”. “’It’s not a salvation issue’” is a phrase that has caught on because it makes some people feel good in their error but such a statement isn’t the result of clear thinking.” “…“blur our vision, dull our minds, render us incapable of discussing and analyzing complex matters” – Michael Miano, Salvation Issues (Part 1)
Not all things are salvation issues! Observing Holidays: Romans 14:5, 12 (NKJV) 5 One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind….So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
Not all things are salvation issues! The Foods We Eat: 1 Corinthians 8:8 (NKJV) 8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.
Not all things are salvation issues! Observing the Sabbath: Colossians 2:16 (NKJV) 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
Not all things are salvation issues! Circumcision: 1 Corinthians 7:19 (NKJV) 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
Not all things are salvation issues! Circumcision: 1 Corinthians 7:19 (NKJV) 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
Some things clearly aresalvation issues! Believing Christ’s Words: John 12:48 (NKJV) 48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
Some things clearly aresalvation issues! Obedience to God: Matthew 7:21 (NKJV) 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Some things clearly aresalvation issues! Altering God’s Word: Revelation 22:18–19 (NKJV) 18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
An Important Bible Principle to Remember Altering God’s Word: 1 Corinthians 2:11, 16 (NKJV) 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God…'who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
All of Gods Commands Can Become Salvation Issues 2 Timothy 3:16 (NKJV) 16 All Scriptureis given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine…
All of Gods Commands Can Become Salvation Issues Romans 16:17 (NKJV) 17 Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.
All of Gods Commands Can Become Salvation Issues 2 John 9–10 (NKJV) 9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him;
All of Gods Commands Can Become Salvation Issues 1 John 3:4 (NKJV) 4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.