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, July 2, 2015

Wholly UN-natural, and self-destructive too...



Wholly UN-natural, and self-destructive too...

Let me say this, and I will move on...

Same sex union is essentially a union of barrenness, and self-inflicted extermination.

It is the natural and survival instinct of any species to reproduce and propagate itself, but the same sex-union philosophy (if there is any 'philos' in such 'sophos' at all!) choose the direct opposite.

 Those same sex-union folks will soon betray their hypocrisy by demanding to right to take the offspring of the natural [sic] heterosexual union. If only the same sex-union advocates and practitioners stay true and consistent to their philosophy, they will soon become extinct, being self-exterminated! They must prey on the offspring of the natural union to keep their cause alive.

From the natural and logical point of view - just leave out the legal, and religious ones for now - the same sex-union is wholly unnatural, and self-destructive.

And what do you call a legal verdict of supreme justices that upholds and defends a completely unnatural, and self-destructive choice?

There is no need to state my religious opinion.

Be barren and extinct - the cursed way chosen by men the rebels

Sing F Lau's photo. 

Be fruitful and multiply 
- the blessed way ordained by God the Creator

Be barren and extinct 
- the cursed way chosen by men the rebels


Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
 

Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Pro 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Towards that glorious end divinely ordained, the infinitely wise God has given man an incredibly awesome receptacle for his life seed in his woman.  But what have the stupid and foolish, depraved and perverse men have chosen - their own SHIT HOLES!

Monday, June 22, 2015

Free agency of man

Sing F Lau's photo.



Free agency of man - renders him WITHOUT excuse.

Man's moral accountability to God stems from the fact that he, as a moral and rational creature made in the image of God, is a free agent.
 Man, by his very constitution, is a free agent; he acts freely without being coerced by any outside force or influence. Therefore he is justly held fully accountable and responsible for his every act. This truth of man lies at the foundation of God's moral government over man, His creature!

Free agency is not the same as free will. So don't raise a heckle if you have that scruple against the fact that the will of fallen man is in bondage to his fallen nature. Such a man still acts most freely without being influenced or coerced by any external force.
 Whether a man is dead in trespasses and sins, or regenerated, he is equally a free agent. The fall does not affect the free agency of man at all.

Monday, June 15, 2015

Regeneration, and Conversion - 1689.20.4

Sing F Lau's photo.
A picture taken in the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park,
Matraville, Sydney, NSW.


 Regeneration, and Conversion - 1689.20.4
"Although the gospel be the only outward means of revealing Christ and saving grace, and is, as such, abundantly sufficient thereunto; yet that men who are dead in trespasses may be born again, quickened or regenerated, there is moreover necessary an effectual insuperable work of the Holy Spirit upon the whole soul, for the producing in them a new spiritual life;(8) without which no other means will effect their conversion unto God.(9)
(8) Ps 110:3; 1Co 2:14; Eph 1:19-20.
(9) Jn 6:44; 2Co. 4:4,6.


These truths are distilled out of the Holy Scriptures by the ancient in their statement of faith:

1. The specific function of the gospel is revealing Christ and saving grace. It plays no role in the regeneration of a man; it only reveals the regeneration that has already taken place in the man.

2. Regeneration by the direct work of the Spirit of God is clearly distinguished from conversion through the outward means of the gospel ministry.

3. Regeneration is BOTH independent, and prior to the gospel as the outward means of revealing Christ and saving grace.

4. Regeneration - the insuperable work of the Holy Spirit - is absolutely necessary before conversion through the gospel is even made possible.

5. Regeneration - producing in the dead in trespasses new spiritual life - is the direct and insuperable work of the Holy Spirit; no instrumentality is involved.

6. Regeneration BESTOWS/APPLIES Christ and saving grace to a man dead in trespasses and sins; conversion REVEALS/MANIFES the Christ and grace that have been bestowed.

7. Regeneration produces spiritual life in men dead in trespasses and sins; Conversion reveals the spiritual life that has been produced by the prior divine work of regeneration.

You may draw out more from the above statement.
What is your statement of beliefs on the same subject?
You don't like theirs? Give us yours.

Too many, who clamour themselves to be children of those who made the above statement, have rejected the truth expressed and summarized therein.

Such are illegitimate (KJ translators use "bastards"), for example the newschool reformed baptists. They subscribe to the 1689 CoF, but repudiate the truths so plainly summarized in the single paragraph above.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

The Dead Rots, and Stinks.

"Get well soon"??? 
This dead beast needs life first before it can get well! 
The dead rot and stink.

Look at the picture.
If you pass by that scene, what will your reaction be?
Mine may be, "Oh, some heartless idiot is really mocking and insulting the dead beast!"

Then I will correct myself, saying, "No, someone astute is sending out a message to idiots to mock at their ridiculous idea, i.e. that the dead has the ability to perform some activities to obtain life."

I hope you get the message from the picture!

Yet many preachers don't!

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again [and remains in his native state of spiritual deadness], he cannot see the kingdom of God.... Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." John 3

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1Cor 2:14.

No sane man wishes a dead man to get well. We say "RIP" in a reverent tone.

However, some will rant to the dead, "Return in Person!" I'm sure you don't! Yet, many preachers rave and rant, with the express idea of getting their spiritually dead audience to hear, and respond to their earnest pleading in order to receive spiritual life!