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, March 16, 2020

Exaggeration doesn't serve the cause of truth

No need to exaggerate!


March 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM ·

Found this in my mailbox, from a venerable 'uncle' in Zeeland:

From Auckland to Sydney to Kuala Lumpur to Dacca to Marseilles to Manchester to Stockholm to New York, thousands of bodies prostrate on floors and even roads on Fridays to worship Allah. Such is the power and unity of the people's of the Islamic faith.
As in the early church of Christ who congregates in each locality as one body, the Muslims meet where they live, rich or poor, prince or pauper, United as one Ummah, the united body of Islam!

Today, the Body of Christ are disunited, segregated by denominations, man-made doctrines, meeting in diverse cliques as clubs do.

Did not the Lord prays for unity of His followers? "I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one", John17:20. And again, "May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me". John 17:23.

The Body of Christ today is like the church of Laodicea, lukewarm, but worst, quenched of the Holy Spirit! Weak to stand in the face of the coming Islamic Caliphate!
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I replied:

Uncle Teoh, the arm-chair theologian,
The Christians around the world are as united as the Muslims in the sense that they also congregate each Sunday in churches, and under mango trees of all kinds! And they are also as divided as the Muslims are over doctrines and practices. There is no need to exaggerate what is not there! I don't need to state that dominant sect is slaughtering other sects, just like the RCC used to do. That's more like stating the fact!

Christ did pray for the unity of His church.
There is ONLY one thing that will bring His people together - unity in the truth of the gospel of Christ, and nothing else.

Truth draws the like-minded saints together, but truth DIVIDES too.
Ecumenical woolliness does draw woolly folks together.

Matthew 10
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Your little brother in Penang
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