Things New and Old: The just shall live by faith; NOT by faith a condemned man is justified by God!!

Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

The just shall live by faith; NOT by faith a condemned man is justified by God!!

The just shall live by faith... the biblical fact,

and the sola fideists' fable!

Ro 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Ga 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

It is the just who shall live by faith, i.e. it is those whom God has justified that shall live by faith. Justification by God is the cause and live by faith is the effect.

But the sola fideists - those who teach and believe that a man is justified before God by his faith alone - insist the very opposite, that the unjustified who live by faith is justified by God.

That's putting the cart before the horse, perverting the truth 'the just shall live by faith' into a fable 'the unjustified who believe is justified.'
June 19 at 11:32pm

The just shall live by faith.

But many read these words to mean:

By faith the condemned man is justified by God!!

The just (justified by God) WERE in their native state of condemnation and death. How did they become justified and live? Can't possibly by their act... of believing... for faith is IMPOSSIBLE when a man is STILL in his unjustified state, his native state of condemnation and death.

But first, how did a man get into that native state of condemnation and death? Here is the plain answer:

Read carefully please:

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned... 17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation [of death]; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Here is stated in the plainest and simplest form THE GROUND and THE MANNER a man in his native state of condemnation of death is transferred into that gracious state of justification of life.

The sole ground is the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF ONE... the legal basis of the justification of life is the righteousness of One, Jesus Christ (not your faith!!!). This is LEGAL imputation of Christ's righteousness at the cross... just as the legal imputation of Adam's sin at the fall.

The sole manner is the free grace of God... God freely applies the righteousness to an individual elect personally at the effectual calling unto grace and salvation. This is VITAL application of Christ's righteousness to an elect personally... just as the vital application of condemnation is applied to a man at conception.

Only when the righteousness of Christ has been APPLIED to an elect personally, i.e. when God HAS JUSTIFIED him, that he is capable of believing. His act of believing EVIDENCES his justified state by the free grace of God based wholly and solely upon the righteousness of Christ.

But the Calvinists and their first cousins Arminians INSIST that they are justified by God WHEN they believe in Christ... their justification by God is conditioned upon their faith!

Let God be true but every man a liar!!!