According to Jehovah's Witnesses, who will be saved?

by Vanderhoven7 35 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  And the Self-righteous will stand before Jesus on that day saying.

  Did we not travel land and sea to make one disciple? Did we not tithe, did we not warn the sinners to repent? Did we not start many Bible Studies? We did many wonderful works. OK we did not establish any orphanages and such because we had a more important task of making Jehovah’s name known among the nations.

  Jesus will reply, "Don't you know what makes my Father's name known?" You counted on your works to save yourselves...as if I owed you salvation for your efforts. If you had loved me, you would have built orphanages, you would have rescued widows and the homeless..... These are the things that my sheep do becsause they love me and follow me...not to save themselves but because I live in them and express my love through them.

  My sheep know that it is only by grace that they are saved, forgiven and promised eternal life. Salvation is not by works of righteousness that they have done, but by my mercy alone through the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost which I have shed upon them abundantly.

  Take your filthy rag works and depart from me you self righteous ones into the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his demons."
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  Thus, my last post shows from God's Word who actually gets saved.
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  Jesus will reply, "Don't you know what makes my Father's name known?" You counted on your works to save yourselves...as if I owed you salvation for your efforts. If you had loved me, you would have built orphanages, you would have rescued widows and the homeless..... These are the things that my sheep do because they love me and follow me...not to save themselves

  Now Bro. Vanderhoven7 don't you realize that the Slave has been placed over all of God's belongings and is now his "Mouthpiece"? As such, the Slave has clarified Jesus words and parables like the Good Samaritan:

  Watchtower 1954 December 15 p.759 :
  "By giving the Kingdom message instead of giving mere money or material things they reach those who are really "poor in spirit," "conscious of their spiritual need," rather than just the self-seeking poor of this world who do not care to belong to Jehovah. Thus the unappreciative worldly poor who prefer to belong to Satan the "god of this system of things" are screened out."

  They also have given wise instruction on our duty concerning the appropriate timing of bowel movements:

  
  Golden Age 1936 Jan 15 p.227

  What would we do without the Slave to explain things in a way that we can understand?

  Likewise, when Jesus told us to accept the new covenant for the forgiveness of sins, we would have probably gone ahead and did that if it wasn't for the WT. readjusting our thinking.

  This brother maintained a fine attitude while the elders worked tirelessly to readjust his thinking on the subject of reading the bible for himself.