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.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

It's FREE, completely free! BUT T&C apply

How much does it cost, bro Sing?
"It's FREE, completely free! BUT T&C apply.
But please read the fine print!"
say BOTH the Calvinists and the Arminians.
 Sounds familiar? Deceptive commercial gimmicks all around us!

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March 22, 2011, at 12:22 AM ·
"Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth..."

FREELY... FREELY... FREELY... FREELY.
So, is it FREELY, or NOT FREELY?

Then, why do so very many adamantly insist that it is NOT FREELY, but by faith, i.e. the believing act of man?

Sing
Here is the whole paragraph, 1689.11.1.
Read it carefully, and get its plain sense.
Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth:
- NOT BY infusing righteousness into them,
- BUT BY pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous;
- NOT FOR anything wrought in them, or done by them,
- BUT FOR Christ's sake alone;
- NOT BY imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness;
- BUT BY imputing Christ's active obedience unto the whole law, and passive obedience in His death for their whole and sole righteousness,
- THEY RECEIVING AND RESTING on Him and His righteousness by faith, which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God." 1689.11.1

Charles
No room for a spin in that, Sing. freely justified!

Sing
How could anyone read the above and still believe that their justification is by faith, their act of believing is a puzzle.
Justification by God is NOT FOR anything wrought in them, or done by them.
If justification is by faith (their act of believing) then it is by something WROUGHT IN THEM... faith is a grace wrought in them by the Spirit of God.
If justification is by faith (their act of believing) then it is by something DONE BY THEM... believing is an act done by man.
Could anything be plainer!

Sing
"THEY RECEIVING AND RESTING on Him and His righteousness by faith, which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God"
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The act of God in justifying a condemned sinner, and
The act of the justified receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness by faith are TWO DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT ACTS!
You banking a billion $ into the bankrupt's account, and him believing the good news brought by your herald and going to the bank to draw on that money are two separate and distinct activities.
You didn't bank the money because he believed and went to the bank. But that is exactly the lie so many are preaching.

Sing
The act of God in justifying a condemned sinner, and
The act of the justified receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness by faith are TWO DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT ACTS!
God justifies the condemned and dead; believing evidences and vindicates the justified state of the believer by the FREE grace of God..
The former is the cause, the latter is the evidence.
The former is ALWAYS LOGICALLY and CHRONOLOGICALLY prior to the latter.
The spirit of delusion is upon them new school Baptists - RBs, the Fullerite Calvinists, etc... They are NO different from the Arminians in this great error.
They preach a FALSE gospel

Sing
"THEY RECEIVING AND RESTING on Him and His righteousness by faith, which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God"
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The pronoun 'they' refers to those ALREADY justified by God... and these receive and rest in Christ and His righteousness, THUS evidencing their justified state by the free grace of God.

The Old School Baptists unanimously declared:
"The reason why any are justified IS NOT because they have faith; but the reason why they have faith IS because they are justified."
Their TRUE children believe the same to this days.

Many BASTARDS (KJV's non-politically correct word for 'illegitimate') who claim to be children of the Old School Baptists believe the OPPOSITE, i.e they anathematize what the Old School Baptists declared. They will insist, "The reason why any are justified IS because they have faith; and the reason why they have faith IS NOT because they are justified."

Sing
Someone asked, what about the next paragraph?
Here it is:
"2. Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet it is not alone in the person justified, but ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love."

So what about it?
Receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness is the ALONE instrument of justification.
Does this mean, the alone instrument to appropriate or obtain or secure justification before God?
How is receiving and resting on Christ His righteousness the ALONE instrument of justification? What does that mean?
What does an instrument do? An instrument is a device to show/evidence the presence of justification by the free grace of God.

A voltmeter is a device to show the presence of voltage in a circuit; it DOES NOT produce or generates voltage into the circuit.

It says, faith is a grace found in a justified person!
DO YOU READ THAT?????
It is the justification by God's free grace that produces the saving grace of faith, ALONG with ALL OTHER SAVING GRACES, in a person.
Do you read that?????

Keith
How much does it cost bro Sing? :-)

Mark
Amen and Amen and Amen!!! FREELY, FREELY, FREELY!!! Wonderful presentation of Biblical Truth as held by our OLD School Baptist forefathers!
Very glad you are posting again Brother Sing, I missed your clear teaching!!

Robin
FREELY! I THINK FREELY! YAY FOR US!

Sing
How much does it cost bro Sing? :-)
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It's FREE, but read the fine print! say the Calvinists and the Arminians.

Sing
1689.11.3 - third paragraph on justification:
Christ, by His obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are justified; and did, by the sacrifice of Himself in the blood of His cross, undergoing in their stead the penalty due unto them, make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice in their behalf; yet inasmuch as He was given by the Father for them, and His obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead, and BOTH FREELY, not for anything in them, their justification is ONLY OF FREE GRACE, that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.
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Don't the RBs and other Fullerite new school baptists who claim to hold to the 1689 CoF see those words,
"BOTH FREELY, and not for anything in them, their justification is ONLY OF FREE GRACE..."
What causes them to miss those plain and simple words? Have they lost the very concept of FREE and FREE GRACE?

Then why the shibbolethic mantra, "justification by faith alone"? What has bewitched them? 


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