October 6, 2019
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#Private_Interpretation vs #Scriptural_Interpretation
2 Peter 1:20 KJV
Knowing this first,
that no prophecy of the scripture
is of any private interpretation.
Understanding the above Scripture will help you to rightly divide the word of truth as well as saves you from many popular errors.
Let me give you a classic example.
Justification by faith alone, the popular sola fide,
is a private interpretation of one German monk named Martin Luther.
Why? He contradicted James, so the idea is most certainly wrong.
James 2:24
"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified,
and not by faith only."
BOTH works and faith justify a man, not by faith
only; BOTH the works of righteousness and the faith of a man certify,
demonstrate, declare, evidence, testify, and vindicate that he HAS BEEN freely
justified by God. They both justify evidentially, and experientially; they
declare the justified state of the man. ONLY a man whom God has freely
justified is able to believe and do righteous works.
Luther's mother church (RCC) teaches that both works
and faith as the necessary instrumental means for a man to be justified before
God. Luther hacked off one of those two gangrenous limbs and held fast to the
other gangrenous limb. Neither works nor the faith of a man is instrumental, in
any sense whatever, in his justification.
Why? Let's hear Apostle Paul.
Luther contradicted Apostle Paul too:
Romans 3:24 KJV — Being justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
A condemned man (i.e. an unjustified man) is
justified freely by God's grace; so, Luther's interpretation is private,
contradicted Apostle Paul's teaching, and not conforming to the Scriptures.
A man is justified by God FREELY by His grace, that
is, not by anything in the man, or anything a man does, not even his faith. An
unjustified man, still in his native state of condemnation and death, CAN'T
possibly believe in order to be justified by God.
Sola Fidei is just a fable.
And here:
Romans 5:9 KJV — Much more then, being now justified
by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
The life and death of Jesus Christ is the basis and
ground of God's sovereign gracious work of justifying condemned sinners; God
justifies condemned sinners freely, that is, by His grace, without the
condemned doing anything to be justified because they are incapable of any!
Having been justified freely by God's grace, and
regenerated (God's act of applying righteousness to a sinner personally gives
ground and warrant for the Holy Spirit to execute His work of quickening the
dead), a regenerated elect is capable of faith and good works.
Faith and good works justify a man in the same way;
they demonstrate and vindicate his justified state by the free grace of God,
based solely upon the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Heartbeats and
breath demonstrate and vindicate that the dead man has been made alive;
heartbeats and breath are not means to bring a dead man to life.
Breath demonstrates/justifies that a dead man has
been quickened; his breathing is not the instrument for him to be quickened
from the dead. The dead are incapable of utilizing any instrument or means in
order to be quickened. It is that elementary.
Do you see now that the popular sola fide is a lie
that repudiates the gospel; it repudiates grace; it perverts an evidence of
justification into an instrumental cause of justification; it turns an effect
of justification into the means to obtain justification.
2 Corinthians 11:14 KJV — And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
