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.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

HOLY and UNBLAMEABLE and UNREPROVAEABLE

Photo: HOLY and UNBLAMEABLE and UNREPROVAEABLE in God's own sight Colossians 1 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight... By nature, we were ALIENATED and ENEMIES in our mind by wicked works. By the free and sovereign grace of God in His only begotten Son, God has reconciled us, to present us HOLY and UNBLAMEABLE and UNREPROVAEABLE in His own sight. 

HOLY and
UNBLAMEABLE and
UNREPROVAEABLE
in God's own sight

Colossians 1
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight...

By nature,
we were ALIENATED and ENEMIES in our mind by wicked works.

By grace,
God has reconciled us, to present us HOLY and UNBLAMEABLE and UNREPROVAEABLE in His own sight.

That is what the grace of God in Jesus Christ accomplished WITHOUT the least activities of man.
Since so many are so woolly about grace, let me explain a little... what I mean when I say grace...
- God ALONE purposed that salvation for all elect before time.
- Christ ALONE accomplished that salvation for all elect at the cross.
- The Holy Spirit ALONE applies that salvation to each elect personally.
- These divine activities ALONE make a man perfectly fit for eternal glory.
- Nothing more is needed for a man's eternal salvation. 'It is finished!' He is HOLY and UNBLAMEABLE and UNREPROVAEABLE in God's own sight.

'Grace ALONE' means 'grace PLUS nothing,' not 'grace PLUS something.' But the latter is really what many people actually believe!

Timely salvation (deliverance that pertains to the present life on earth) is conditioned upon the activities of God's children.
- These divine activities enable a child of God to perform activities that will secure him deliverance in the life here and now.

There is the eternal salvation that was already purposed and accomplished and applied to those dead in trespasses and sins.

And there is ALSO the timely salvation that God's children must work out for themselves with fear and trembling, in obedience to their Father's will for them.

Distinguish the two, and don't confuse them.
Is your eternal salvation by grace ALONE plus nothing?

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