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.

Monday, February 26, 2018

What was accounted to him who believed?

What was accounted to him?

“Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness.”

Sin, the transgression of God’s law, brought condemnation and death.
Righteousness, the obedience to God’s law, is prerequisite unto justification and life. Sin brought death; righteousness is prerequisite unto life. Justification is the justification of life, read Romans 5:18;"Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."

This requisite righteousness must either be by your own perfect obedience to the law of God or by the perfect obedience of Jesus Christ to the law of God in your stead.

A man's believing act plays absolutely no role in his justification before God.

“Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness.” What was accounted unto him for righteousness? His act of believing was accounted to him for righteousness. This is tragically mistaken by so many as the righteousness of Christ accounted to him for his justification before God.

The Protestants’ sola fidei centres on the believing act of man in his justification before God.

The Scriptures’ sola fidei is centred on the faith of Christ in man’s justification before God; it is Christ's faithfulness in rendering perfect obedience to the law of God in His work of redemption, thus securing the necessary righteousness for the justification of condemned men by God.

The devil has hijacked this Christ-centred truth and substituted it with a cheap man-centred lie.

The sola fideists stubbornly insist that Abraham was justified by God only in Gen 15; this necessarily implies that Abraham was still a man in his native unjustified state of condemnation in Gen 12-14. They just ignore or are oblivious to, this monumental problem.

In Gen 15, Abraham's faith was blessed unto him to experience the blessedness of his righteousness before God; his justification of life, by God's free grace, had already taken place way back when he was in the Ur of the Chaldean.

It is a monumental doctrinal disaster to confound the justification of life by the free grace of God and the experience of that justification through one's faith.

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Take a look at this article debunking a popular fable.
https://pruning-deformed-branches.blogspot.my/2008/01/massive-theological-blunder.html



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