Refusing to respond to God, according to God's way
Core Interrelations
CONSOLIDATION:
Jesus seeks to please God the Father, and judges according to His principles. Jesus' work
shows He came from the Father.
Believing in Jesus brings God and his word into you.
The blessings of heaven come from following the Teacher; He said to love the Lord and your neighbor. Have mercy on your neighbor and on people around you who are poor and in unfortunate circumstances. Having faith in God you can overcome your harmful desires through actions such as these. Believe in Jesus and live!
Refusing God's invitation keeps you from believing. Refusing to put effort into following
Jesus' teachings keeps people from believing in Him.
Woe to the hypocrite! (prideful one) You will be deceived by your unbelieving heart, as evidenced by what your life visibly produces.
If you refuse Jesus, the Teacher, God and his word will not come into you, and you will not overcome the harm from within. Your insensitivity (hard-heartedness) will cause God to disconnect from you and then you will be overcome by your harmful desires.
Refusal brings judgement into eternal fire because it shows a prideful will to not believe God's Word about Jesus, and not put yourself at His command to love your neighbor.
Don't make excuses in order to refuse God's invitation to you, or you will find yourself apart from God's goodness. Refusing keeps you from believing in Jesus.
Major Connections
+ Responding to God according to His way, and believing in Jesus and living.
+ Responding to God according to His way, and having the blessings of heaven.
+ Responding to God according to His way, and loving and having mercy on your neighbors and those in poor and unfortunate circumstances.
+ Responding to God according to His way, and overcoming your harmful desires.
- Refusing to respond to God according to His way, and insensitivity,
hard-heartedness, pridefulness, unbelief.
- Refusing to respond to God according to His way, and not putting effort into following Jesus' teachings, and not believing in Jesus.
- Refusing to respond to God according to His way, and not having God and his word inside you.
- Refusing to respond to God according to His way, and being overcome by your harmful desires.
- Refusing to respond to God according to His way, and a prideful will to not believe God's Word about Jesus, and not put yourself at His command to love your neighbor.
- Refusing to respond to God according to His way, and judgement into eternal fire.
- Refusing to respond to God's invitation, and making excuses.
Episode
Interrelations
Principle Passages
CORE: Refusing God's invitation keeps
you from believing. The blessings of heaven come from
following the Teacher; He said to love the Lord and your neighbor. Have mercy on people around you who are poor and in unfortunate
circumstances. Don't make excuses in order to refuse
God's invitation to you, or you will find yourself
apart from God's goodness. Woe to the hypocrite! (prideful one) Rather have mercy on your
neighbor. Having faith in God you can overcome your harmful desires through actions such
as these. Otherwise you will be deceived by your unbelieving heart, as evidenced by what
your life visibly produces. Refusal brings judgement into
eternal fire because it shows a
prideful will to not believe God's Word about Jesus, and not put yourself at His
command to love
your neighbor. If you
refuse the Teacher you will not overcome the harm from
within. Your insensitivity will cause God to disconnect from you and then you will be
overcome by your harmful desires. Jesus seeks to
please God the Father, and judges according to His
principles. Jesus' work shows He came from the
Father. Believing in Jesus brings God and his word into you, so don't refuse him and side with
others. Refusing to put effort into following his teachings keeps people from believing. Believe and live!
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