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, August 3, 2026

The Protestants' Priestcraft?



August 3,  2021

#protestants_priestcraft
https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/pfbid033PXQnLsFmVYg99D4EFi8beBsKoa4pFFbPCSWjKHxkeRpBNNgaFz8SiAzLNfDfjeBl

Many preachers love one, and loath the other! Naturally! But when their hearers also love the same injurious lie, great indeed is the delusion! They foolishly rest their eternal salvation (since regeneration involves one's eternal salvation) in the hands of preachers, and some of them are no more than hirelings!

John 3
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
- [i.e. no exception; every elect is regenerated the exact small way, IMMEDIATELY without means, not mediately with means. ]

Is it hard to understand this? Or is the truth too humbling for the high-minded preachers to swallow?

Supposing you were the dead Lazarus lying in the tomb, would you rather have Christ acting on you DIRECTLY, or would you rather have Him acting on you INDIRECTLY through the activities of His apostles, to bring you out of death?

The former keeps the apostles properly in their place, while the latter deceitfully elevates them to be mediators!

John 11
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, loose him, and let him go.

It was only AFTER Christ Himself had ALREADY raised Lazarus that He summoned His disciples to do something for living Lazarus, i.e. to set him free from the hindrances of the napkin and graveclothes on him! Preachers remove hindrances from men ALREADY MADE ALIVE by Christ!

While Lazarus was dead, Christ did not ask His disciples to do ANYTHING for him! Christ knew the HARSH realities... the disciples are completely impotent of doing any spiritual good with regard to the dead! He didn't depend on the disciples as the indispensable mediators to get Lazarus out of his deadness!

Christ divinely gives life to dead Lazarus;

the disciples free the living Lazarus from hindrances.

Get the point? That's not too hard to understand, is it?

Or is it an ADDICTION to a form of priestcraft!
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Dhong Ejnar Rue
I love that illustration.
I'm glad that through the patient teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit I have come to the biblical understanding of the doctrine of Eternal salvation, especially on the subject of Regeneration👉Not Calvinistic, nor Arminian.

Bill Taylor
A perfect example of their ungodly error!