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Q3. (1:5) According to 1 Peter 1:5, what is God's part in securing your salvation? What is your part? God is the One by His power who is the keeper of our salvation through faith in His Son Jesus Christ! In the last days He will reveal what this really means. I don

Q2. (1:2) Why do forgiveness (sprinkling) and obedience come together as a package? Why is it deceptive to think you can have one without the other? Extra credit: If true faith requires obedience, how can we say that we are saved by grace rather than works? (Ephesians 2:8-10) We are forgiven by the work that Jesus did not by anything we have done or ever will do! When we finally realize He is touching our heart and that He called us into service to Him then and only then can we live a life pleasing to God. Then and only then because Christ is now living in us by His Holy Spirit. If we now have His Spirit we are going to want to obey Him and this can only be done when we are walking in the Spirit. Because our bodies have not been glorified we still have the old nature and there is a battle going on all the time! We have our old nature and the devil who is going about to see whom he may devour. Yes forgiveness and obedience do go together His forgiveness and our obedience I know I am not perfect but this is something we should strive for! We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Because the Spirit lives in us when the Father looks down on us He only sees His Son Jesus and His holiness. Praise God for what He has done ( past tense )

I would call him/her a worldly Christian or walking in the flesh! Yes I have caught myself in this situation before, but praise God they are becoming further apart! We need to pray and ask Gods forgiveness and ask Him to pick us up dust us off and put us back on the strait and narrow path. We need to do our best to stay in the Spirit and not return to the old nature! Someone once told me we need to get out of bed each morning and shoot the old nature by praying for His strength to get us through each second of each new day. God said if we ask Him He will give us the His strength. I know this is true because God cannot lie!! God Bless Chet