{"id":2534,"date":"2017-10-31T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2018-09-30T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T07:34:20","slug":"la-ley-de-dios-te-santifica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/la-ley-de-dios-te-santifica\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace and Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">1 Finally, brothers, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us <strong>how it is convenient for you to conduct yourself and please God,<\/strong> so you will abound more and more.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus;<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">3 for the will of God is your sanctification; that you<strong> separate <\/strong>of fornication;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"postHover\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"#\"><!--more continuar \u00bb\u00bb --> <\/a><em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">4 let each of you know <strong>to have his own wife in holiness and honor;<br \/>\n<\/strong>5 not in passion of concupiscence, like the Gentiles who do not know God;<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">6 <strong>let no one offend or deceive<\/strong> in nothing to his brother; because the Lord is the avenger of all this, as we have already told you and testified to you.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">7 <strong>For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to sanctification.<br \/>\n<\/strong>8 Therefore, he who rejects this does not reject man, <strong>but to God, who also gave us his Holy Spirit.<br \/>\n<\/strong>9 But about brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you, because you yourselves have learned from God to love one another;<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">10 And you also do this to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we beg you, brothers, to abound in it more and more;<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">11 and that you seek to be quiet, and to go about your business, and to work with your hands in the manner that we have commanded you,<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">12 so that you may conduct yourselves honorably toward those outside, and have need of nothing. \u20141 THESSALONIANS 4:1-12<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"postHover\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>El Ap\u00f3stol Pablo nos llama a santificaci\u00f3n y a apartarnos de todo tipo de fornicaci\u00f3n\u2014esto es, violaci\u00f3n de la ley de Dios.El texto es clave, de como Pablo mismo enfatiza el guardar la ley, \"pues no cometer\u00e1s adulterio\" <em>(EXO. 20:14)<\/em> It is in the law; and adultery and fornication are the same thing, at different levels. Also, <strong>\"no codiciar\u00e1s la mujer de tu pr\u00f3jimo\"<\/strong> <em>(EXO. 20:17)<\/em> It is in the law. And before committing fornication with his neighbor&#039;s wife, <strong>First you have to covet it.<\/strong> In other words, these two commandments are practically the same, since one leads you to the other, and both are there to protect the most sacred thing that God created: MARRIAGE.<\/p>\n<p>And all this is enclosed within the framework of Sanctification; and <strong>\"sin Santidad nadie ver\u00e1 al se\u00f1or\"<\/strong> <em>(HEB. 12:14).<\/em> and we know <strong>\"que la ley a la verdad es santa&#8230;\"<\/strong> <em>(ROM. 7:12).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Simply put, if God&#039;s law is holy, and you keep it, God sanctifies you through his law, <strong>and thus\u2014and only thus, can we all have access to grace<\/strong> (<em>APOC. 22:12-21),<\/em> la cual es dada por el sacrificio de Cristo; precio pagado en la cruz, no por las obras del hombre \"<em>para que nadie se glor\u00ede,\"<\/em> but through the works of Christ\u2014that is, his holy Law<em> (REV. 22:12-14);<\/em> well <strong>\"el pecado es infracci\u00f3n de la ley\"<\/strong> <em>(1 JUAN 3:4)\".<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And what<em> <strong>the wages of sin is death<\/strong> (ROM 6:23),<\/em> Adam had to die for his transgression. <strong>But Adam is not a redeemer.<\/strong> As\u00ed que el\u00a0 amor de Dios se manifest\u00f3 al Cristo cargar con la pena de la transgresi\u00f3n de Ad\u00e1n\u2014esto es, pag\u00f3 el precio por su pecado. Pero como Cristo nunca pec\u00f3, \u00e9l puede dar vida, pues\u2014una vez m\u00e1s, \"el pecado es transgresi\u00f3n de la ley,\" <strong>and sin only produces death<\/strong><em> (Rom 6:23),<\/em><strong> No life!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christ gives life; Christ kept the law. And you, do you want to know how to obtain eternal life?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">7 But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments. <em>\u2014JESUS CHRIST (Matthew 19:7)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And he gives you power to keep the law because <em><strong>\"el que est\u00e1 en \u00e9l no peca\"<\/strong> (1 JOHN 3:6-9).<\/em> It&#039;s that simple, because it is written:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">14 Blessed are those who keep his commandments, <strong>to have the right to the tree of life<\/strong>, and let them enter through the gates into the city.\u00a0 <em>\u2014JESUS CHRIST (Revelation 22:14)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And those who decide to violate His Law, God will have no choice but to leave them out. <em>(REV. 22:15),<\/em> given that<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">8 <strong>\"El que hace pecado, es del diablo;\"<\/strong> <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #536d82;\">\u20141 JOHN 3:8<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And God\u2014my dear brothers, <strong>\"&#8230;no es un Dios de Confusi\u00f3n&#8230;\"<\/strong> <em>(1 COR. 14:33).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THIS IS GRACE!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<br \/>\nJoin CristoVerdad. Subscribe to our new channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/cristoverdad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vimeo<\/a>. Share this invitation, and be part of our group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/whatsapp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a>. When you subscribe, don&#039;t forget to leave us your name. Obscenities prohibited. Share and be part of the blessing.<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p><em>And you will know the truth...<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>\u2014ChristTruth<\/strong> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Por lo dem\u00e1s, hermanos, os rogamos y exhortamos en el Se\u00f1or Jes\u00fas, que de la manera que aprendisteis de nosotros c\u00f3mo os conviene conduciros y agradar a Dios, as\u00ed abund\u00e9is m\u00e1s y m\u00e1s. 2 Porque ya sab\u00e9is qu\u00e9 instrucciones os dimos por el Se\u00f1or Jes\u00fas; 3 pues la voluntad de Dios es vuestra santificaci\u00f3n; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":2539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-articulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cristoverdad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}