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True Salvation Galatians 5:2 · Life For Toledo

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  In Galatians 5 .2, Paul writes, Behold, I, Paul,
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  say unto you, that if you receive circumcision,
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  Christ will profit you nothing. Will these be
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  people who are already professing Christians,
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  and then they're going out of their way to be
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  circumcised, which is kind of a painful process,
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  by the way, to be circumcised in order to prove
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  that they are saved, or even prove to themselves
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  they are saved? That's what was going on in Galatians
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  and Paul today. And Paul says, if you will do
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  that, if you will engage in certain activities
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  to prove to yourself that you are saved, or to
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  be safe and be sure, that you're saved or to
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  prove to others that you're saved, then no, no.
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  Then your salvation is of no value. Your salvation
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  has not actually happened in Jesus Christ. The
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  only way to be saved is through Jesus, not through
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  certain activities. You can't prove it to yourself
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  by certain activities or prove it to anyone else
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  by certain activities. On the other hand, there
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  are marks of what it means to be God's people
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  and being involved in a Bible preaching, Bible
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  teaching, Christian church, however you can,
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  locally to you. That is a mark of being a Christian.
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  Now, you can't do it to be a Christian. You can't
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  gain your salvation that way. way, and you can't
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  prove to yourself that you're saved that way,
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  and no one can tell you that you have to do that
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  in order to be saved. But if you are saved, then
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  you are God's people, and you must be the body
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  of Christ, and you must be in a local church
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  that is preaching and teaching and saving the
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  best they can the lost and dying world. You will
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  give, you will love, you will be kind, you will
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  exhibit the fruits of the Spirit, and you will
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  grow, not be perfect, but grow daily into the
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  image of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. You
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  can't take on certain activities to prove that
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  you're saved, or even to make you saved, but
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  you can live for Jesus.