Be Ye Perfect
Be ye perfect! Be ye therefore
perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:48) It is impossible to be perfect, still Jesus says be ye perfect!? But
if it is impossible, why does Jesus command us to do it? God never gives any
commandments except he prepares a way for men to
accomplish the things which he has commanded them! I am convinced that it
would be impossible to attain perfection in this life. Then I said that we can
do whatsoever God commands us to do. This certainly looks like a contradiction,
but it doesn’t have to be. What makes it possible is the atonement of Jesus.
Where we fail (and we will fail from time to time), Jesus will heal the
imperfection if we turn to him with a broken heart and a contrite spirit: 28 (Christ) Whom
we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may
present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: (Colossians 1: 28) We cannot count on the
healing powers of Jesus if we commit serious sins over and over again. In order to be saved
we must believe in that Jesus will have compassion on us in our sorrow over our
sin. But if we keep repeating the serious sin over and over again, we can't
even convince ourselves that we are
truly penitent, and without faith it is impossible to be saved. There are those who
have succeeded to be perfect before us. Not by their own power, but by relying on the
saving powers of Jesus. 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:9)
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