09/18/21 Found this NOTE I made in FB in 2013

09/18/21 Found this NOTE I made in FB in 2013
(coming back to finish formatting this post)

A short presentation of New Testament passages indicating that God calls, equips and requires believers to keep His commandments.

ELECTED, EQUIPPED AND EXPECTED TO OBEY GOD'S COMMANDS
Here are some verses that address the fact that God elects, equips and expects Christians to obey His commands. These passages use various words, like, Keep, Keepeth, Obey, Obeyed, Obedience, Obedient and Observe. I have also included a few verses that make reference to the consequences befalling those who choose NOT to obey God's word.

This indicates judgment for accountability rather than double, unilateral, unconditional election. Double, Unilateral, UncondItional Election is the errant notion that God unilaterally chooses to save some and chooses to not save others; and He chooses them, without any human participation, since this false doctrine denies that God enables humans to respond freely to His call. Therefore there are no conditions required of men, such as faith, repentance, confession or obedience.

DISCLAIMER FOR SINNING RELIGIONISTS
Before I give a list of New Testament passages indicating God's willingness and ability to enable believers to keep His commands I will make a few statements, in response to some false accusations that will be raised by proponents of sinning religion.

Those of us who believe God's grace can and does enable us to keep His commandments in this present evil world also believe:

We have all sinned.

Our sins have separated us from God.

Unregenerate sinners are incapable of obeying God's moral commands.

Believers are saved from sin by grace through faith in the atoning work of Christ and His physical resurrection.

Those who are saved by faith are enabled to keep His commandments, as long as they live by faith in Christ.

When a person is not living his life by faith, he is not saved.

STAND ALONE PASSAGES
I realize that occasionally a passage of Scripture needs to be explained, because it seems to stand in stark contrast to other portions of Scripture. However, these verses are self explanatory, since there are no verses in the Bible, which say a believer cannot be obedient to God's commands.

KEEP - KEEPETH
Matthew 19:17-22 (this passage indicates the young man's ability to keep the moral law).
(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.
(18) He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
(19) Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(20) The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
(21) Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
(22) But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

Luke 11:28
(28) But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

John 8:51
(51) Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

John 14:15
(15) If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:20-23
(20) At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
(21) He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
(22) Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
(23) Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 15:10-14
(10) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
(11) These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
(12) This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
(13) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
(14) Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

1 Timothy 6:14
(14) That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

1 John 2:3-6
(3) And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
(4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
(5) But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
(6) He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

1 John 3:22-24
(22) And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
(23) And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
(24) And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

1 John 5:2-5
(2) By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
(3) For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
(4) For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
(5) Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 5:18
(18) We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

OBEY - OBEYED - OBEDIENCE - OBEDIENT
Acts 5:31-32
(31) Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
(32) And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

Acts 6:7
(7) And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Romans 1:5
(5) By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Romans 6:15-18
(15) What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
(16) Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
(17) But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
(18) Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Romans 15:18
(18) For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

Romans 16:19
(19) For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

Romans 16:25-26
(25) Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
(26) But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:

2 Corinthians 10:3-5
(3) For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(4) (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
(5) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Hebrews 5:9
(9) And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

1 Peter 1:2
(2) Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1 Peter 1:13-17
(13) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
(14) As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
(15) But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
(16) Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
(17) And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

OBSERVE
Matthew 28:20
(20) Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

THOSE WHO DO NOT OBEY GOD ARE NOT HIS CHILDREN AND THEY INCUR HIS JUDGMENT
John 14:24
(24) He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

Acts 7:39
(39) To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

Romans 2:6-10
(6) Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
(7) To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
  8)But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
(9) Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
(10) But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

Galatians 3:1
(1) O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Galatians 5:7
(7) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
(7) And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8) In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
(9) Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
(10) When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

2 Thessalonians 3:13-15
(13) But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
(14) And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
(15) Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

1 Peter 4:15-18
(15) But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
(16) Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
(17) For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
(18) And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Launch Out and Hold Fast,Pastor David L. Gould