Things New and Old: Straightening this crooked road is a lot easier...

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.

Friday, December 20, 2013

Straightening this crooked road is a lot easier...

Straightening this crooked road is a lot easier than
straightening the mind of neo-calvinists

Straightening this crooked road is a lot easier than straightening the minds of neo-calvinists

A neo-calvinist accused ignorantly:
"Let me get this straight - you deny that man is responsible to have faith as their duty before they are converted"
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Let me help you to get something straight:
God does not think and act like some misguided and foolish preachers. The Triune God is perfectly consistent and righteous in all His acts.

- God the Father purposed salvation for His elect ALONE before the foundation of the world.
- Christ the Son accomplished that salvation on the cross for the SAME elect.
- God the Spirit applies that same salvation to each individual elect personally at God's appointed and approved time when the elect are still in their native state of sin and death.

No, God DOES NOT OFFER SALVATION to the elect dead in trespasses and salvation. Calvinist preachers as well as their Arminian cousins do such foolish things - offering salvation to their hearers. God UNILATERALLY and SOVEREIGNLY bestows the salvation He has purposed, and which His Son Jesus has accomplished, to each elect personally at His appointed and accepted time, and saved them to the uttermost, fits them for eternal glory.

[This effectual calling that brings an elect out of his native state of sin and death to that of grace and salvation REQUIRES justification, regeneration, and adoption, and the gift of the Spirit of adoption to indwell in him.]

That salvation which God has freely bestowed to an elect, thus enabling him to perform spiritual activities, is experienced through faith in Jesus Christ.

The gospel ministry is appointed to call out God's children, those that ARE SAVED, to believe what has already happened by God FREE grace!

So, let me help you to straighten out your mind: God requires His children, those elect ALREADY SAVED, to BELIEVE the truth of their salvation in Jesus Christ freely bestowed upon them by His free grace.

God does not require those whom He has not saved in Jesus Christ to believe in Jesus Christ. That would make God to require men to believe a lie, thus making God a liar!!!

THIS I AFFIRM...

Only those whom God has saved are called and are responsible to believe Christ... because Christ is their Saviour! They are held responsible to believe the truth... that which is already true!!!

God requires and holds no one to believe that which is not true of them... God's requires and holds no one whom Christ did not redeem to believe Him as their Saviour!