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.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

It's the just (the justified ones) who shall live by faith!


Men come to faith in Christ BECAUSE they HAVE BEEN FREELY JUSTIFIED by the grace of God; it's not IN ORDER to be justified! It's the just (the justified ones) who shall live by faith!

Along the way, some monumental and subtle errors took place. The crafty devil caused the careless and unthinking children to exchange pure gold the fathers left to them for a lump of gold-looking dung!...

Let me explain.

The Scriptures teach that God FREELY justifies an ungodly condemned spiritually dead man by His grace, by freely applying the righteousness of Christ  to him and forgiving him of all his sins. This gives divine warrant for the Spirit to regenerate this justified man; justification logically precede regeneration in the effectual call.

Thus FREELY justified and regenerated by grace, this man is able to believe when the gospel ministry is ministered to him. In believing, his faith justifies him, i.e. his faith demonstrates and manifests and vindicates that he is ALREADY justified and regenerated by God's FREE grace, his believing gives him the authority to claim that he is a child of God, since 'whoever believes HAS eternal life' - believing is a manifestation eternal life.

This is where the disaster took place.

The LEGAL justification by the righteousness of Christ at the cross and the Vital justification by God's FREE grace at effectual calling are not distinguished from the EXPERIENTIAL justification by the believer's faith in Christ.

WORSE STILL, the experiential justification by believer's faith is CONFUSED AS, and FUSED WITH the justification by God's free grace.

Thus they end up with the damnable heresy of legal justification by believer's faith, and by believer's faith only!

How the devil has deceived so many to embrace a lie as the truth!

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