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, November 30, 2020

Grace and evangelism

The doctrine of grace kill the incentive
to preach and evangelize?


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November 30, 2018

The doctrine of grace kill the incentive to preach and evangelize?

Many - both the Calvinists and their cousins Arminians - rave and rant that the doctrine of grace kills the incentive to preach and evangelize. Those who hold to the doctrine of grace in its pristine purity are inevitably slandered as hyper! 

Whoever thinks the doctrine of grace in its pristine purity - for example, no human activity whatsoever is involved in the regeneration of any of God's elect - kills the incentive to evangelize and preach the gospel IS COMPLETELY confused and ignorant of the divinely ordained purpose of the gospel ministry!

Some very confused and deluded men, when they are told that no baby stuffs like diapers and clothes and milk are needed for the conception of life, think that those good things are not needed by the babies that are born!

They just don't get it that those things are NOT needed for the BEING of the baby, but most necessary for the WELL-BEING of the baby!

Food is for the well being of the life already born. Food is NOT an instrument for the conception of life. Isn't that elementary - every parent knows them by instinct!

The preaching of the gospel is for the CONVERSION of God's children - those already regenerated immediately by the Spirit of God without any human means; it has nothing to do with the REGENERATION of the spiritually dead.

A biblical distinction is the essence of sound theology!