Adoption
Adoption
occurs when a family
take a child who has other parents, and treat it one of their own.
Now
God puts you into his family
as one of his own – just like an adopted child, THROUGH
CHRIST. The Jew has been temporarily put aside that we
might be adopted and have God the Father as our own.
But
when the fulness of the time was come, GOD SENT FORTH HIS
SON, made of a
woman, made under the law, To REDEEM
them that were under the law, that we
might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God
hath sent
forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son;
and if a son, then an heir of God THROUGH CHRIST. Gal 4:4-7
Adultery
This
is the violation of the bed
of the husband and wife. This is sexual intercourse between a husband
and a
woman who is not his wife or sexual intercourse between a wife and a
man who is
not her husband. Now all adultery is fornication but not all
fornication is
adultery.
Fornication
is any sexual
intercourse before becoming a husband or a wife. Adultery
is one of the works of the flesh (Gal 5:19).
Israel
was guilty of spiritual
adultery as she went after other gods.
And
I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
committed adultery I
had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce … Jer
3:8
Agnostic
This
is a man who is not sure whether there is a God or
not. His basic stance is “What is truth? And who can know it? Let us
keep an
open mind.” This contradicts Jesus Christ who said …
I am the
way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by
me. John 14:6
Amillenialism
Annhiliation
This
is the wrong belief that
when you are dead that’s the finish, that is, there is no
after life of any description. That means they believe there is no literal
hell and lake of fire for unrepentant
sinners who die. This wrong belief
says that there is no eternal place
of torment for the
unsaved after death.
This
contradicts the words of the
Lord Jesus Christ who said … Depart from
me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels: Matt
25:41
…
the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he
lift up his eyes, being in torments, … Lk
16:22-23
…
than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that
never shall be quenched: Mk 9:43
Furthermore,
…it
is
appointed unto men once to die, but after
this the judgment: Heb 9:27
Apostasy
This
means to fall away. Churches
get into apostasy by 1. Not believing the King James
Bible 2. Not following Paul as he follows
Christ 3. Resorting to the Greek and
Hebrew 4. Adding, subtracting,
omitting and substituting words, phrases and sentences from God’s pure,
inspired, inerrant and infallible words of the Authorized Bible. This
condition
particularly applies to the Christian church in the last hundred years
and more
since the publication of Westcott and Hort’s ‘bible’ of 1891. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin
be revealed, the son of perdition; 2Thess2:3. The very nature
of apostasy thrives and exists on deception.
Armageddon
This
is an actual place on earth,
also called Megiddo, to which Christ returns, not as
the Saviour, but fierce judge and ruler of the world and the
earth ( Rev 19), to rescue Israel and destroy all the world’s armies
including
the kings of the East (Rev 16:12). This happens at the end of the seven
year
tribulation. His eyes
were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was
clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is
called The Word of God. And the armies
which were in heaven followed
him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations:
and he shall rule them with a rod of
iron: and he treadeth the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. Rev
19:12-15
Atheism
An
atheist says there is no God. They believe in
evolution, no hell, no heaven, no sin, no Satan and so on. When they
die, their
terror is unimaginable as they end up in hell - a place they thought
never
existed and cast down there by God who never was. The word “God”
appears over
4444 times in the King James Bible. They can’t say they were never
warned. The
Bible says The
fool
hath said in his heart, There is no
God. They are
corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is
none that doeth good… Psalm 14:1
Baptism
To
be baptised is to be immersed in water. Baptism is an
act that symbolizes a washing away,
and signifies a death, a break or a
division - a leaving something & going onto something else.
1.
For example the Jews after leaving Egypt. Moreover,
brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through
the sea; And were all baptized unto
Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Cor10:1-2
2.
Christ was baptised but not relating to sin, but
showing that there was a new priesthood instead
of Aaron And
Jesus, when he was baptized, went up
straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto
him, and he
saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
And lo a
voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased. Matthew 3:16-17
3.
When
a person gets saved they are baptised (not with water) into the death
of Jesus.
For
by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body (not
with water),
whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all
made to drink into one Spirit. 1 Cor
12:13 For as many of you as
have
been baptized into Christ (not
with water) have
put on
Christ. Gal 3:27 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are
called in one
hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one
baptism (not
with water) Eph 4:4-5
Buried
with him in baptism (not
with water),
wherein
also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the
dead.
Col 2:12
Now,
although popularly believed in Baptist circles that water baptism and
the
Lord’s supper are ordinances for the church, water baptism and the
Lord’s supper are not an ordinances for the church.
You’ve
heard of the phrase “the city ordinances”. These are the rules and
regulations
given by the government of the day to maintain order and proper
behaviour.
This
is past tense. When you read First Corinthians, you
will see that Paul
gave them dozens of rules and regulations to bring order back into the
church.
Furthermore,
why would Paul say For Christ sent me not to
baptize (water),
but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest
the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 1Cor 1:17, if he was giving the church water
baptism as
an ordinance? He wouldn’t!
The
real danger of having water baptisms in a church, is that people assume
that
because they have been water baptised then they must be saved. This is
similar
to having a church membership badge – “I’m member now, I must be saved.”
The
Beast
This
is the anti-Christ in the book of Revelation. The
beast will be the political leader
of the one world government in the seven year tribulation.
There
is another beast (Rev 13:11) that will be the false prophet,
the Pope, who will be the one
world religious leader from Rome
(Rev 16:3; 19:20)
Believe
To
believe is to accept, trust and place your confidence
in something or someone and to take what they are saying as the truth.
It’s
so simple to get saved today and be with the Lord
for ever and ever in heaven.
The
jailer asks Sirs, what
must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
shalt be saved, and thy house. Acts
16:30-31
This
is
Paul’s waterless gospel. Note, Paul didn’t say “…and then get
water
baptised.”
Furthermore,
believing is not a work. But
to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that
justifieth the ungodly, his
faith is counted for righteousness. Rom
4:5
Also
we
are not saved by our works. For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the
gift of God: Not of works, lest any
man should boast. Eph 2:8-9
It’s
so easy yet so hard for most
unsaved people today. People will believe anything but the truth. Why?
They
love their sin, their own lives, their own ability to solve problems
etc. They
say “What??!! I’m a wretched sinner and need to be saved otherwise I’ll
burn in
hell? Come and be put to death in Christ! Give me a break! Not for me
sorry.”
The
next question is “Do we have
to have faith to get saved?” No. But if we believe the fact that Jesus
Christ
can save us, then his faith is put into
our account and by his faith we are
saved.
But
the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that
believe. Gal 3:22
Believeth
BelievETH
is to believe now, then
believe the next second, then
believe the next second after that,
and so on. The verb “believe” with the “-eth”
ending (believeth) means to believe
in the present and then continuously on
into the future. You
must have no breaks in believing if
you believeth!
Before
Jesus went to the cross, a
Jew had to believeth in the Lord
Jesus Christ.
The
reason for this distinction
is as follows:
Every
moment of every day, Jesus
was fulfilling another part of the law
and this was an ongoing process from
day to day till he had fulfilled the whole law culminating in “It is
finished!”
(Jn 19:30).
So the Jew had to keep on
believing that Jesus was continuously, and flawlessly, performing
the
fulfilling of the law ie the Jew had to believeth.
But
since the whole law has been fulfilled by Jesus, who
now sits at the
right hand of God the Father, a man has to believe
only once.
British
Israel Theory
Born
of water and of the Spirit
Jesus
is talking to Nicodemus
when he says …Except
a man be born of water and of
the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God. (Jn 3:5). The meaning of this verse is
perfectly
explained earlier when John says …
he that sent me to BAPTIZE WITH WATER,
In
those days
John
the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of
Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by
the
prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
his paths straight. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and
all the
region round about Jordan, And were BAPTIZED
(water)
OF HIM IN JORDAN,
confessing their sins. Matt 3:1-3,5-6
In
summary:
Jesus says to Nicodemus
“Look Nicodemus, for you the Jew, it’s a three step plan
to get
into the kingdom of God, or five actually if you are still
around after
the cross when Paul shows up.
Step
1
“You need John’s water
baptism.”
Step
2 (a)
“Then you’ll need to perfectly
obey the rules of the sermon on the mount, such that when you die
you’ll go
to Abraham’s bosom. OR
Step
2 (b) …
failing that, if you can’t
fulfil the requirements of the sermon on the mount, which of course you
won’t,
you can believeth on me as fulfilling the law perfectly for you.
That
will be your best bet Nicodemus because I’ll do it
perfectly for
you. You see, all the rich young man (Matt 19:16-27) had to answer
me was
‘Look Jesus I’ve failed but I believeth in you (Jn 11:25-26)
that you
are keeping the law perfectly on my behalf.’ And he would go straight
to
Abraham’s bosom at death. I was only showing him he was sinner and he
needeth
me! But he walked off sorrowful because he thought he was perfect! The
law had
pricked his balloon!”
Step
3 “Lastly,
wait down in
Abraham’s bosom till I come and get you and take all of you in
captivity
captive (Eph 4:8) into the kingdom of God.”
Step
4
“Now Nicodemus, if you
are still alive when Paul shows up with his gospel, you can be born of
the Holy
Ghost and go straight into heaven when you die.”
Born
again
At
the moment that you “Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 16:31) you are put into the death of
Christ …that so many of us as were baptized into
Jesus Christ were baptized into his
death Rom 6:3. After
this, you are then born again into
another life that begins in Christ Jesus. Your soul is saved (1Pet 1:9)
and
your spirit is born again.
That
which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye
must be born again. … so is every one that is born of
the Spirit. John
3:6-8
Chastisement
Chastisement
has the meaning of
being corrected, re-trained and re-directed and takes place
inside of a family. This is what Christians need most of the time.
Fathers
need to chastise their children from time to time and this occurs
inside of the
family. When you are born again, you are in God’s family and are
therefore
subject to the correction of God the
Father. The unsaved when they
die and go to hell will not be
chastised there but will be punished
and there is no thought of their being corrected and rehabilitated.
Israel
were God’s chosen people
and they needed chastisement. And if ye
will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk
contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury;
and I,
even I, will chastise you seven
times for your sins. Lev 26:27-28
Christian
And
it came to pass, that a whole year they
assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the
disciples
were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts 11:26.
God
needed to establish the centre for Christianity not at
Jerusalem, where
the Jewish saints were, but at Antioch. This was necessary for a clean
break
from any lingering Jewish religious traditions and doctrine. Read Acts
15:20,29; 21:25.
Christians
are those in Christ. Roman Catholics are not Christians. JW’s,
Mormons,
SDA’s are not Christians. Oh yes, they all love Jesus, but the question
is
“Which Jesus?”
Church
1.
Today, anyone who is saved is
in Christ and is a member of his body called the church.
Who
now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill
up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: Col
1:24
And
hath put all things under his feet, and gave him
to be the head over all things
to the church, Which is his body, the
fulness of him that filleth all in all. Eph 1:22-23
For
no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of
his bones. Eph 5:29-30
2.
In
the old testament the Jews was also called the church even though they
were not
in Christ. They were a ‘type’ of church and called ‘the congregation’.
Saying,
I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of
the church will I sing
praise unto thee. Heb 2:12. This
scripture is a quote
from Ps 22:22.
Today,
churches have clouded the
issue and equated ‘a membership of their church’ with being a member of
Christ’s body. Unfortunately, this will send some people to hell.
Circumcision
- physical & spiritual
Spiritual
circumcision is the unseen spiritual
operation performed by
God when he separates the soul from the sins of the flesh. This is automatic and occurs at the very
moment a man gets saved.
In
whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision
made without hands, in putting off the
body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision
of Christ: Col 2:11.
Like
a ring-barked tree that
actually dies, physical circumcision under the old testament, was
an actual
body operation which only symbolized the death of self; and it
involved
that part of the male body that rises up.
Now
the new testament parallel
is that the works and sins of the flesh also rise up like anger,
bitterness,
wrath and hatred and so on (Eph 3:1-12) and God ‘cuts’
these off
from the soul so that the soul is saved. God performs not a
physical
circumcision, but an unseen spiritual one, that separates
the soul from the actual body of flesh. Your
saved soul is called the inward man For which cause we faint not; but though our outward
man perish, yet the inward
man is renewed day by day. 2Cor 4:16.
And
so our saved soul, the
inward man, thirsts for God’s words For
I delight in the law of God after the inward
man: Rom 7:22, but the
outward man, that is the flesh, is still full of sin and sins.
Consecration
To
consecrate something is an old testament term meaning
to set aside for sacred purposes. It
is similar to sanctify. The Christian is
sanctified, or set aside, in Christ. He is our sanctification. But
of him
are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God
is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption: 1 Cor 1:30. The
apostle Paul never uses this term in his writings except in his
epistle to the Hebrews.
Confession
Confess
your
faults (not
your sins)
one to another … Jam 5:1.
Christians go straight to God the Father
through Jesus Christ to confess their sins not some Pastor or
priest.
They can’t forgive you. And every
priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices,
which can never take away sins: Heb
10:11
If
we
confess our sins, he (not
a
priest) is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins, and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
Conscience
Every
man in every tribe in every
nation has a conscience. Where did
it come from? It comes from laws. All men everywhere know that you
don’t steal
from others, you don’t take another man’s wife and so on. All societies
on
earth have these laws. Where did these come from? From Jesus. He created everyone. That
was the true Light, which lighteth every man that
cometh into the world. John 1:9. All men know right from wrong and all
are without excuse. All men know that they are sinners from their
conscience.
For
the invisible things of him from the creation
of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even his eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse: Rom
1:20
Of
course, some have destroyed
their consciences through excess sin and unbelief. Now the
Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy;
having
their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Forbidding to marry, and
commanding to abstain from meats,
which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which
believe
and know the truth. 1 Tim 4:1-3
Conviction
See
“Guilty”
Covetousness
This
is a desire for something with eagerness. Now,
covetousness is idolatry. Mortify
therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness,
inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness,
which is idolatry: Col 3:5
It
is
one of the old testament ten commandments Ex 20:17, and also one of the
commandments of Paul Rom 7:7; 13:9, that there be no covetousness.
If
any man think himself to be a prophet, or
spiritual, let him acknowledge that the
things that I write unto you are the
commandments of the Lord. 1 Cor
14:37
Dancing
This
is for nightclubs not churches. Dancing is a physical
activity and if women do it in
front of the church and the congregation, they distract from the Lord
Jesus
Christ. Indeed, they will cause
people to sin by their display.
But
isn’t dancing mentioned in the Bible? Yes, in the Old
Testament. You can’t find it mentioned in the writings of Paul for the
church.
Put
it simply, Eve was made from the flesh of Adam and
that’s why it’s the women who want to physically perform out the front.
Men
don’t want to.
People
say “Well, in our culture we’ve always danced.”
Yes, but that’s the problem – it’s a cultural thing not a Christian
thing.
Furthermore,
men watching can be moved to lust and indeed
fornicate in their mind. I guess you can’t blame the women, maybe some
of them
are just up there to get a husband.
All
this is not good enough for a church don’t you think?
When
Christians go to a church they don’t want to be
distracted or sin. Women will sin by passing judgment and men will sin
by
looking and comparing.
Day
of God
See
Post Millennialism
Dead
in trespasses and sins
See
Ungodly
Death
Penalty
For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God; Rom 3:23
For
the wages
of sin is death; but the
gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom 6:23
But
many say, “I’m not a bad sinner like some people I
know”, but these people are just ignorant of the fact that they don’t
need a
million sins to go to hell – just one will do. For
whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet
offend in one point, he is guilty
of all. Jam 2:10.
Yes,
perfect obedience is
necessary to get into heaven since the day you were born.
For
one sin, God demands death and an eternity in hell as
no sin or sinners can enter heaven.
You
have a choice - can get saved by the death and shed
blood of Christ or you will die and be
punished in hell and the lake of fire forever.
Who
has perfect obedience? Only Jesus Christ. You’ll need
his perfect obedience put into your account to enter heaven.
Deity
The
term deity stands for God. There is only one God of
three persons and each of these persons is God also.
Here
is God the Father speaking:
Tell
ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take
counsel together: who hath
declared this from ancient time? who
hath told it from that time? have
not I the LORD? and there is no God
else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
Is 45:21
Here
is God
the Son speaking:
Saying,
I am Alpha
and Omega, the first and the last: … Rev 1:11
And
when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And
he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the
first and
the last: I am he that liveth, and
was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Rev 1:17-18
Is
Jesus lying when he calls himself the
first
and the last:?
Of
course
not, he is the Father, he is God. Isaiah says also For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor,
The mighty God, The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
The
Holy Ghost is God
But
Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled
thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost,
and to keep back part of the
price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after
it was
sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing
in
thine heart? thou hast not lied unto
men, but unto God. Acts 5:3-4
Devils
The
Bible word is devils not
demons. The world calls them demons as if to make them not as harsh and
evil as
devils. D(evil)s are evil.
Dissemble
This
word means to pull away
from. This is the opposite meaning of assemble or gathering together.
See
Dissimulation.
Dissimulation
To
feign and to pretend. And
the other Jews dissembled likewise
with him (James); insomuch that
Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
Gal 2:13
Barnabas,
a dissembler, assembled
with the other dissemblers.
Doctrine
For
the Christian, we follow the apostle Paul and believe his doctrine and this is found in his thirteen
epistles from Romans to
Philemon. If it agrees with Paul it is doctrine for the Christian, if
not it is
still true, but meant for another time or dispensation.
But
thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life,
purpose, faith, longsuffering,
charity, 2 Tim 3:10 patience… Be ye
followers of me, even as I also am
of Christ. 1 Cor 11:1
Now
I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause
divisions and offences contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. Rom
16:17
As
I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when
I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they
teach no other doctrine, 1 Tim 1:3
Ecumenical
Movement
The getting together of the
denominations
1. All those that want to be like Jesus
or who want to follow Jesus but won’t have him as
their Saviour.
2. All those that will not have God’s
words found in the
Authorized Bible, The King James Bible.
3. All those who still have the ‘doing’
religion ie still working their
way to heaven.
4. All those who believe you can lose
your salvation.
5. All those who won’t have the doctrine
of Paul.
Today, it is getting so bad that as
long as a person can say they have some sort of faith in a higher
power, then
they can get into the ‘Ecumenical Club’.
Experience
Experience
is preferred and has now replaced the
written word of the King James Bible for many Christians. They
say “I believe this …” “I believe that tongues are for today …” “I
believe all
Christians can and should be healed…” “I feel this …” and so on. Even
when
Jesus when tempted in the desert by Satan he replied four times “It is written …” (Matt 4:4, 6, 7, 10).
No,
all experience is subject to
the written word of the King James Bible.
Faith
How
is a man saved? By his faith? No, never. It’s the faith of
Jesus Christ put to our
account.
For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves: it is the gift
of God: Not of works, lest any
man should boast. Eph 2:8-9
I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave himself for me. Gal
2:20
And
be found in him, not having mine own
righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness
which is of God by faith: Phil 3:9
All
we have to do is “Believe” and this is not a work,
and the faith of Christ is put to our account.
But
to him that
worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his
faith is
counted for righteousness. Rom 4:5
The
jailer said
…Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy
house. Acts 16:30-31
Fear
There
is plenty of fear around
today but it’s the wrong type eg fear of not having enough money,
education,
housing, superannuation, a job, disease, sickness and so on.
But
there is good fear –
Then
shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the
knowledge of God. Prov 2:5
The
fear of
the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge: but fools
despise wisdom and instruction. Prov
1:7
The
fear of
the LORD is the beginning of
wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his
commandments: his praise endureth for ever. Ps
111:10
As
someone once said with tongue
in cheek “Why pray when you can worry?”
And isn’t that what a lot of Christians do?
Be
careful for nothing;
but in
every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be
made known unto God. Phil 4:6
Fornication
All
sexual intercourse that
occurs outside of the legal registration
with a State or Territory, of becoming a husband or a wife. Many say
“Oh he’s
my husband/wife, we’re just not married yet.”
Oh
yes, they are married (this is
the physical act of sex) but they aren’t husband and wife. See how
people get
it back to front?
Gentile
Anyone
who is not a physical Jew.
Glorification,
glorified
This
is the eventual end of the
saved in heaven without a physical body
and to made completely like Jesus. They will have a glorified body.
And
if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him,
that we may be also glorified
together. Rom 8:17
Godhead
Gospel
The
word ‘gospel’ comes from
‘godspel’, ‘gods spelling’, ‘good spell’.
The
gospel is the declaration
that … that Christ died for our sins
according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose
again the
third day according to the scriptures: 1Cor15:3-4
However,
there are different
gospels in the scriptures eg the gospel of the kingdom of
heaven, the gospel of the kingdom of God, the everlasting
gospel to name just three. There are more.
Grace
Grace
is getting something you don’t deserve while mercy
is not getting what you do deserve.
Grace
1.
God gives us his
grace in Jesus Christ.
Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
is in Christ Jesus: Rom 3:24
2.
You can’t work or earn or buy
God’s grace
And
if by grace, then is it no more of
works:
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it
be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more
work. Rom 11:6
Mercy
As
the
Psalmist says He
hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded
us according to our iniquities. Ps
103:10. The
Lord gave them mercy.
Guilt
The
purpose of God’s laws is to
produce guilt in people so that they
can go to Jesus Christ to be saved by the faith of Christ.
Now
we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be
stopped, and all the world may become GUILTY before God.
Rom 3:19
Wherefore
the
law was our schoolmaster to bring us
unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that
faith is
come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Gal 3:24-25
Furthermore,
there are no good or bad sinners, as the following says For
whosoever shall keep the whole law,
and yet offend in one point, he
is guilty of all. Jam 2:10.
Although
having said that, sodomites commit exceeding sin.
But
the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before
the LORD exceedingly. Gen 13:13.
Yes,
they are truly bad sinners.
Heresy
Heretics
are those who won’t
believe a certain doctrine or creed. Today, the heretics are those
A
man that is an heretick after the first
and second admonition REJECT; Titus 3:10
Now
I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause
divisions and offences contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned; and AVOID
them. Rom 16:17
Now
we command
you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye WITHDRAW yourselves from every brother
that walketh disorderly, and not
after the tradition which he received of us. 2 Thess
3:6
And
if any
man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have NO COMPANY with him, that he may
be ashamed. 2 Thess 3:14
Holiness
This
term often is confused with
sanctification.
All
Christians are sanctified, that is SET
APART, when they are saved, but all
may not be holy. Holiness is the start of the journey of obeying the
Lord
through the commandments of Paul found from Romans to Philemon.
I
speak after the manner of men because of the
infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants
to
uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now
yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. Rom 6:19
Humility
Humility
is an absence of pride.
It is to lower oneself. An excellent quality to have for a Christian.
But
he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. James 4:6
Humble
yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall
lift you up. James 4:10
Let
nothing be done through strife or vainglory;
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem
other better than themselves. Phil 2:3
Hypocrisy
See
Dissimulation. A hypocrite
is one who plays a part or pretends. Like an actor on stage playing a
part. One
who feigns to be what he is not eg more pious or virtuous when he is
not really
so.
But
the wisdom
that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of
mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without
hypocrisy. James
3:17
Speaking
lies
in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 1 Timothy 4:2
Idolatry
See
Covetous.
Mortify
therefore your members which are upon the
earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Col 3:5.
Christians
have idols – sport, cars, interests, hobbies and the list goes on. A
good idol
to have is to be reading and studying the Bible. Study
to shew
thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly
dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim 2:15
Impartation
This
is
a word meaning ‘a pouring into’ or ‘placing into’. This is the opposite
to
‘imputation’.
It
seems laughable, but the Roman Catholic at the mass thinks he is eating
the actual
body of Jesus. The
Roman
Catholics’ Jesus is the wafer. The
Roman Catholic believes that a man must put into his stomach
the actual
body of Christ. This is called impartation. When he drinks the
wine/grape juice, he also thinks that it is the actual blood of
Jesus
Christ. After eating and drinking what he thinks is Jesus’ actual body
and
blood, he thinks he has become godly and only then can God at that
moment in
time state that he is justified. The Roman Catholic believes he has an
imparted
righteousness and this makes him holy.
Of
course this is totally wrong as God “….
justifieth
the ungodly…” Rom 4:5.
The
bread and the grape juice are
not the body and blood of Christ. The Lord’s supper is done in
remembrance
only.
Imputation
To
impute something means to
charge or ascribe something, either good or evil, to another.
Now
in the Bible we have sin or righteousness
that can be imputed.
And
therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Romans 4:22
Blessed
is
the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Rom 4:8
The
epistle of Philemon gives a practical illustration of
imputation.
Onesimus, a slave of Philemon, had stolen from him and run away to
Rome. He was
caught and put in prison where he meets Paul also a prisoner of Rome.
Paul
leads him to the Lord to get saved, and on his release, Onesimus goes
back to his
master Philemon who had also been led to the Lord by Paul. Paul gives
Onesimus
a letter saying If thou count me
therefore a partner, receive him as
myself. If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee
ought, put that on mine account; Phil 1:17-18.
Now
this is a perfect illustration of what the Lord Jesus Christ did at the
cross.
Jesus says to the Father “Put everyone’s sins on my account and I’ll
pay for
them.”
Imputation
is the act of God whereby he puts the sins of the sinner on the
bill/the
account/the invoice of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ ‘pays the bill’
and
settles the account with God with the sinner remaining uncharged.
Imputed
righteousness
This
is God’s righteousness put
into your account. Suppose you were given a gift of 100 trillion
dollars. You
would not collect it in a suitcase would you? You’d say “Please put
that into
my bank account.”
Now
God’s righteousness could be
likened to one hundred billion Amazon rivers. How much would you have
to drink
to be declared righteous before God. Why all of it! You couldn’t.
That’s why
God imputes (puts into your account) his righteousness – not
imparts/infuses it
into you like the Catholics falsely believe. That’s why they hate to
miss mass
– they think eating the wafer biscuit is enough to keep them righteous.
They
say “If I can just get Jesus, the wafer, into my stomach, God will
pronounce me
good!”
Infirmity
An
infirmity is something of the flesh. When soldiers
go to an infirmary, they are going there for flesh wounds and diseases.
Paul
says
Of
such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory,
but in mine infirmities.
2Cor12:5
And
he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for
thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly
therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that
the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2Cor12:9
Inspiration
of the Scriptures. Also
infallible, perfect, inerrant, pure
The
following is an excerpt from The Statement of Beliefs of
the King James
Bible Church, Australia.
We
believe The King James
Authorized Bible to be the pure, perfect, infallible, inerrant,
inspired
and preserved words of God, and consists of the
sixty-six books
as found preserved in the 1611 King James Authorized Bible. Holy
men of God
spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and their words were
written
down, and have been divinely preserved, throughout the ages,
until
reaching us in its present form. The King James Authorized Bible has preserved
the very words of God in the form he wanted in the universal
language of
these last days - English.
We
believe that God’s
word, The King James Bible, is the words of God, and
therefore we
totally reject all other English bible versions. We believe
that any
Greek Textus Receptus has been corrected in several hundred places by
the 1611
King James Authorized Bible. We believe
that the scriptures are not open to private interpretation.
Holy
Men spake: 2Pet
1:20-21; Luke 1:70
God’s
word: 2Sam 23:2; Ps
119:11,89,138:2; Is
8:20; Luke 4:4; John 17:17; 1Thess 2:13;
Heb 4:12
Words
of God: Deut 18:19;
Prov 4:20; Matt 24:35; Luke 4:4; Jn 6:63, 12:48
Pure
words: Prov 15:25,
30:5; Ps 12:6
Private
Interpretation: 2Pet
1:20-21
Inspiration:
2Tim 3:16-17
Preservation:
Ps
12:6-7, Matt 24:35; 1 Pet 1:23-25
Other
English bible
versions: 1Cor 2:13-14,14:33; 2Cor
2:17; Rom 10:17 (not by other versions’ words); Heb 4:12; Jn 12:48;
Matt 24:35;
1Thess 2:13; Rev 22:19;
Deut
4:2; Jer 26:2; Prov
30:6; 2Tim 4:3;
Note:
Ever heard the saying
“The sun never set on the English empire.”? God waited till one nation
ruled
the world, and then he used the English
language to produce his perfect
Bible.
Furthermore,
to the chagrin (mortification, disappointment,
humiliation, grief, sorrow, embarrassment, discomfort, wounded pride)
of all
gnostic Bible scholars, it’s wasn’t in the Greek or the Hebrew. (A
chagrin is a
roughened leather tool used for rasping wood.) The English
rasps/smooths/corrects and files down the Greek and Hebrew in about
1,000
places.
Interpretation
Knowing
this first, that no prophecy of the
scripture is of any private interpretation. 2 Peter 1:20
Interpretation
Ever
heard someone say “Oh,
that’s just your interpretation” when it comes to understanding the
Bible.
People say “Well I believe this and I think that.” It doesn’t matter
what
people think or believe. It’s what the scriptures actually say. Many
are too
quick to put their own interpretation on things without finding out
what is written.
Knowing
this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation. For
the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of
God spake
as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost. 2 Peter 1:20-21
The
Bible is not hard to
understand. We look at what it says, is
actually written, rather than what we think it means. Many people
come to
the Bible with preconceived ideas as to what it means. Of course, you
have to
have the King James Bible first of all. All the other versions are not
Bibles –
NIV, NKJV, Good News, NASV and the list goes on. There are over 300
other
versions that have been published. Of course, if you were Satan there
would be
only one Bible you would want to change, and that would be the King
James.
Jesus
Christ
Jesus
Christ is God. Jesus Christ
was God manifest in the flesh.
And
without controversy great is the mystery of
godliness: God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles,
believed
on in the world, received up into glory. 1 Timothy 3:16
In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. John
1:1
And
the Word
was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the
glory as
of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:14
For
there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost:
and these three are one. 1 John 5:7
For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name
shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
Jew
The
terms Jew, Israelite and
Hebrew are all interchangeable. Paul calls himself all three.
Are
they Hebrews?
so am I. Are they Israelites?
so am I …2 Cor 11:22
I
am
verily a man which am a Jew …Acts 22:3-4
Judgment
Judgment
is delivered by a judge. God will deliver his
judgment according to his laws and then dispense justice. One sin means
you are
off to hell. That’s God’s judgment. That’s his justice.
…Shall
not the Judge of all the earth do right? Gen 18:25.
For
example, a judge gives his judgment of “Your guilty.”
He
then
says “You are sentenced to two years in prison.” This is the justice.
Justification,
justified
God
declares
that a man is just and righteous when he is
not made righteous.
The
practical example is a guilty lawbreaker before a
judge and someone else pays his fine. He now becomes just before the
law. He is
justified.
But
here’s the amazing thing for a Christian, the judge
himself pays the fine. God the judge goes to the cross himself. But
to him
that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Rom
4:5
As
Bible teachers point out “I have been justified, and
it’s ‘just – as – if – I’d’ never sinned.”
Justice
Judgment
and Justice go hand in
hand.
A
judge gives his judgment and justice are
the actions that follow.
For
example, the judge says “You
Mr X are guilty.” This is the judgement.
The
judge then says “You must pay
$1000 dollars.” This is justice.
Now,
God’s justice is impartial, correct and right.
… Shall not the Judge
of all the earth do
right? Gen 18:25
And
David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment
and justice unto all his people. 2
Sam 8:15
The
law
The
law and the ten commandments were never given to save
the Jew but to make
their sin appear exceeding sinful. Was
then
that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it
might
appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin
by the commandment might become
exceeding sinful. Romans 7:13
Now
we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be
stopped, and
all the world may become guilty
before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified
in his sight: for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. Romans 3:19-20
Story:
The parable of the boy in the well illustrates how laws can never save
As
I walked in the country, I heard stifled but startling
cries, “Help! Help!”
Now
the strange thing was that as I peered around I could
see no one, no, not even a house or a tree where such cries might come
from,
and the cries had a muffled sound, as if the one crying were covered up.
So
I looked around again, and there I spied a well, over
which was a winch.
So
I thought that perhaps someone had fallen into the
well. And so it was, for when I got to its edge, the cries were clear
and plain
and rang round the walls of the well.
In
answer to my question “Who is it?” I learned that it
was a boy who was strenuously crying for help. “How did you come to
fall into
the well?” I asked. “I ran without looking where I was going, and had
my head
turned round as I ran, and so fell in!”
Then
I began to muse, and thought how foolish boys are,
and how much they need some rules to guide them lest they fall into
wells as
they run.
So
I drew out my pocket-book and proceeded to write down
ten wise rules, which, if a boy would keep, he shall never fall into
wells.
Now
as I re-read my rules, I saw that each was good and
just and true. So I was about to drop them down the well to the boy,
saying,
“Here are ten rules, which, if you keep _____!” but the boy cried out
in
anguish ______ “Alas, kind sir, it is not rules I need but a saviour,
and right
speedily, or I shall certainly perish in this cold water.”
So
I stretched out my hand, and with much pain and care
was able to rescue him, and none too soon, because for a time he lay as
one
dead, but shortly revived, and having thanked me warmly again and
again, made
his way home, often looking back to wave me more thanks.
So
I went on my way musing, and considered why my
rules, which were wise and good and just
and true,
but were not able to save the boy in the well. The boy needed a saviour
–
someone to save him.
The
law – three uses
There
are three uses of the law
1.
For the civil order in society – to direct and
train people to be decent and orderly. To restrain evil in society
2.
As a schoolmaster to show people they are
sinners and need Christ
Wherefore
the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto
Christ, that we
might be justified by faith. Gal 3:24
3.
To serve as
the rule of life for Christians.
Where are the laws for Christians? Read Paul – Romans to Philemon.
There are
hundreds of them. If any man think
himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the
commandments of the Lord. 1 Cor
14:37.
The
law - being under it
Most
Christians only read the
second part of the following verse.
For
sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under
the law, but under
grace.
Rom
6:14 They
think
they are free from the law. Nothing could be further from the truth.
As
a
Christian God has laws that he wants Christians to obey. They
are now under the commandments of Paul. If any man think
himself to be a prophet, or
spiritual, let him acknowledge that the
things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 1 Cor 14:37.
Christians
are redeemed from the curse of the law. The curse of the law demands
perfection
without which no-one can enter heaven. But Christ
hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is
written,
Cursed is every one that
hangeth on a tree: Gal 3:13
Legalism
Legalism
in its original meaning
has you getting to heaven by your works.
The Bible says the opposite For by grace
are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it
is the gift of God: Not
of works, lest any man should boast. Eph 2:8-9.
For
those who think you can lose your salvation, they promote a legalism
of
works to maintain your salvation. Unbeknown to
them, they are
actually saying “Well, if you do what I tell you to do, you’ll get to
heaven.”
They don’t realize that others see them as just self-righteous
dominators.
Love
You
can love this or that person
but you may not know how to and what
to do that will please them. As
Christians, we all agree that we are to love God, but how
should we love God? What will please him? You see, love is
the motive or the reason but it doesn’t give you the practical steps –
it
doesn’t tell you what to do.
Clearly,
the Lord says If ye love me, keep my
commandments. John
14:15
Jesus
answered and said unto him, If a man love me,
he will keep my words: and my Father
will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. John 14:23
Question:
“What are the commandments for the Christian?”
Answer:
We follow Paul as he follows Christ. Be
ye
followers of me,
even as I also am of Christ. 1
Cor 11:1.
Paul
says If any man think himself to be a prophet, or
spiritual, let him
acknowledge that the things that I write
unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 1 Cor
14:37
Mark
of the beast
And
that no man might buy or sell, save he that had
the mark, or the name of the beast,
or the number
of his name Rev 13:17.
The
mark of the beast cannot be offered a before the
rapture of Christians off the earth.
Why? Those that receive the mark will
suffer the fire of eternal torment (Rev 14:11, 19:20). This cannot
apply to Christians who have
eternal security.
Marriage
This
is a misunderstood term. It
is assumed that marriage is the same as being a husband and wife. This
is not
the case.
When
a man hath taken a wife, and married
her… Deut 24:1
First,
you have a wife which is a legal requirement of society and then you
marry,
have physical relations, with her.
Taking
a wife is a legal ceremony and is to be registered with the Department
of
Births, Deaths and Marriages. Marriage is the physical joining together
of a
man and his wife.
Mercy
Mercy
is not getting what you deserve, while grace is
getting something you don’t deserve.
As
the Psalmist says God showed Israel mercy He
hath not dealt with us after our sins;
nor rewarded us according to our
iniquities. Psalm 103:10.
Messiah
He
first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith
unto him, We have found the Messias,
which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
John 1:41.
There
are many who believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah but they won’t
have him
as their Saviour. These were the people that Paul wrote to in his
epistle to
the Hebrews. Today we call them Messianics.
Millennium
This
is the 1000 years following the battle of Armageddon
which comes at the
end of the 7 year tribulation.
Music
Speaking
to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Eph 5:19
Let
the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual
songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col
3:16
All
you need for a church service is a piano. Use
trumpets and violins if available. And if none of these are available,
just sing
unto the Lord.
Furthermore,
they sing of their love for God but not the opposite
of God’s love for us
the sinner and Christ’s blood being shed for us. The number of times
you will
hear Charles Wesley’s famous hymn “And can it be that I should gain an
interest
in the Saviours blood” sung in churches today can be counted on one
hand.
New
Age Movement
The
new age movement is simply
the old age movement with different wig on and a bit of lipstick. There
is
nothing new under the sun. The new Age is just the old age. Basically
the New
Age hates Jesus Christ and his shed blood. New Agers hate being called
sinners
that must be saved. Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among
men, whereby we must be saved. Acts
4:12
Obedience
Entry
into heaven has always been by obedience.
Old
testament saints could have
atonement with God with animal blood but never entry into heaven. Why?
They had
imperfect works. That is of course until Christ came to take captivity
captive
(Eph 4:8).
For
the saved, getting back into
‘God’s good books’ is by the at-one-ment
of the shed blood of Christ.
Secondly, Christ’s works are substituted as the Christian’s works.
Yes
the way into heaven is by
obedience – not ours but the obedience of Christ put to our account.
This is
called vicarious obedience – by the
obedience of another.
Ordinances
Water
baptism
and the Lord’s supper
are not an ordinances for the church.
You’ve
heard of the phrase “the city ordinances”. These are the rules and
regulations
given by a city council to maintain order and proper behaviour.
Now
the
Corinthian church was way out of order. Baptists would have us believe
that
regular observance of water baptisms and taking of the Lord’s supper,
would
correct them. No, when Paul mentions ordinances he says …and
keep the
ordinances, as I delivered them
to you. 1 Cor 11:2 This
is past tense.
When
you read First Corinthians,
you will see that Paul gave them dozens of rules and regulations to
bring order
back into the church.
Put
it this way, why would Paul
say For Christ sent me not to baptize (water), but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom
of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 1 Cor 1:17, if he was giving the
church water baptism as
an ordinance? He wouldn’t!
The
great danger of having water baptisms in a church, is that people
assume that
because they have been water baptised then they must be saved.
Peace
People
want peace on earth but do they want peace with
God?
Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men. Luke 2:14
People
misunderstand this verse by thinking that at last
the earth will have peace. A sort of horizontal
peace between men. Nothing could be further from the truth. Think
not
that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a
sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter
against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a
man's foes shall be they of his
own household. Matt 10:34-36
Furthermore,
the earth is rapidly getting darker and more
violent by the day. There will be no peace until the Prince of peace
comes
back. (Is 9:6).
Post
Millenialism
This
is the time after the 1000 year reign of Christ on
earth. This will be called the day of
God.
Prayer
Just
keep taking everything to
the Lord in prayer every day and every moment of the day. A good thing to do. How do we do this?
Rejoicing
in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in
prayer; Rom 12:12
Be
careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God. Phil 4:6
Continue
in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Col 4:2
Confess
your
faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much. Jam 5:16
But
we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to
the ministry of the word. Acts
6:4
Peter
therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was
made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. Acts
12:5
Always
in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
Phil 1:4
Propitiation
(pro
= before piti = ‘pity’ ion = the act
of)
A
gift that must be accepted to
appease wrath.
The
act of sending a gift to a
wrathful ruler before you arrive in his presence, to gain his pity and therefore avoid his wrath. Moreover,
it is a gift that must be accepted. The
shed blood of Christ appeases, placates
and completely satisfies God and he accepts it. This is the blood of
Christ
shed for sins.
Punishment
See
Chastisement. Punishment is
for those outside the family while chastisement is for those in the
family. Those
who are saved are not punished by
God but are chastised by him.
For
he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth
and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For
this
cause many are weak and sickly
among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should
not be
judged. 1 Cor 11:29-31
Those
who are not saved will be
punished in hell.
Quicken
Quicken
means to make alive.
And
you hath
he quickened, who were dead
in trespasses and sins; Eph 2:1
And
you, being dead
in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having
forgiven you all trespasses; Col 2:13
The
steps are: 1. Dead in sins 2. Forgiven of sins 3. Put into the death of
Christ
4. Then quickened into a new life – born again.
Ransom
A
ransom is a demand + price - a demand with a
price attached.
The
demanded price when paid procures
the release of a captive or prisoner.
A
ransom is a release from
captivity by complying with another’s
demand at a price.
In
our case, God demanded that a
certain price be paid for sinners. His demand was his own blood. God
demands
that he will go to the cross himself and pay the price with his own
blood. No
other price can or will do. God demands “I shall hang on the cross
myself and
my blood will fulfil the requirements of my laws perfectly. Only I can
do this!
This is the ransom!”
The
rapture, being caught up, happens at the end of the
church age.
For
this we say unto you by the word of the Lord,
that we which are alive and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are
asleep. For
the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first:
Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we
ever be
with the Lord. 1 Thess 4:15-17
Reckoned
This
is an accountancy term, and
one which means the utmost accuracy,
precision and detail.
If
you have ten dollars in your
pocket, you can reckon that to be the case. You have hard and factual evidence that cannot be
disputed.
he
had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which
owed him ten thousand
talents. Matthew 18:23-24
Likewise
reckon
ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God
through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Rom 6:11
For
I reckon
that the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us. Rom 8:18
Reconciliation
What
is the Christian’s ministry?
It is one of reconciliation. A
bringing together. In the first place you and God were at war and were
brought
together in peace by the shed blood of Christ. This was a
reconciliation. Now
you have the job of doing the same for others.
And
all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to
himself by Jesus Christ,
and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the
world unto
himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed
unto us the word of reconciliation. 2 Cor
5:18-19
Redemption
To
be redeemed is to be bought
back with a price. This is the act of buying back someone or something.
A payment has been made so that the
sinner can escape the wrath of God.
Redemption
is not remission. Whom God hath set forth
to be
a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God; Rom
3:25. Redemption is for all past,
present and future sins.
Regeneration
There
are two applications.
1.
This is what happens at the
point of being saved. When washed of our sins we are regenerated.
Not
by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his mercy he saved us, by the
washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Titus 3:5
…Unto
him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own
blood Rev 1:5
And
Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,
That ye which have followed me, in the
regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,
ye
also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel. Matthew 19:28
Reincarnation
Not
in the Bible. This is the
false belief that a soul passes from one body to another at death. And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment: Heb 9:27
Remission.
The
remission of sins was for
past sins only.
See
Redemption
Repentance
Repentance
is not a turning from sins but a changing of the mind.
The unsaved man
thinks that if there is a heaven, he will get there by his good works
or being
a good person. But this thinking will
take him to hell. He has to change his mind … he has
to repent of this
thinking!
The
steps are
1.
He must have a godly
sorrow about his sin and not a worldly sadness and sorrow.
2.
He changes his mind (repents) that only Jesus can saved
him
3.
He gets saved.
For
godly sorrow (step
1)
worketh repentance (step 2) to
salvation (step 3) not to be repented of: but the
sorrow of
the world worketh death. 2 Corinthians
7:9-10
In
meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure
will
give them repentance
(step 2) to the acknowledging of the truth (step
3 that only Christ can
save); 2 Tim 2:25
Now
I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed
(step
1) to repentance (step 2):
for ye were made sorry after a godly
manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
Restitution
The
act
of restoring something to someone or something to its original
condition. God
will do this to the earth.
And
if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution
unto the owner thereof. Ex 22:12
Whom
the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of
all things, which God hath spoken
by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. Acts 3:21
Righteousness
Righteousness
is that quality of
being right.
Who
is right? God
is right in all his ways
He
is
the Rock,
his work is perfect: for all
his ways are judgment: a God of
truth and without iniquity, just and right
is he. Deut 32:4
Is
man
right?
No,
man is not right in any way
shape or form
But
we are all as an unclean thing, and all
our righteousnesses are
as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
like the
wind, have taken us away. Is 64:6
Rome
and Christianity
Complete
opposites. Rome’s Jesus is the wafer they must eat
to be internally pure so that God can pronounce them pure and
righteous. That’s
why Catholics hate to miss mass. It causes great fear - what if they
should die
before they get there?
Christians
have the Lord’s supper
only in remembrance. And when he had
given thanks, he brake it, and
said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance
of me. After the same manner also he
took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new
testament
in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
1 Cor 11:24-25
Salvation
The
law can never save you. Story:
The parable of the boy in the well
As
I walked in the country, I heard stifled but startling
cries, “Help! Help!”
Now
the strange thing was that as I peered around I could
see no one, no, not even a house or a tree where such cries might come
from,
and the cries had a muffled sound, as if the one crying were covered up.
So
I looked around again, and there I spied a well, over
which was a winch.
So
I thought that perhaps someone had fallen into the
well. And so it was, for when I got to its edge, the cries were clear
and plain
and rang round the walls of the well.
Then
I began to muse, and thought how foolish boys are,
and how much they need some rules to guide them lest they fall into
wells as
they run.
So
I drew out my pocket-book and proceeded to write down
ten wise rules, which, if a boy would keep, he shall never fall into
wells.
Now
as I re-read my rules, I saw that each was good and
just and true. So I was about to drop them down the well to the boy,
saying,
“Here are ten rules, which, if you keep _____!” but the boy cried out
in
anguish ______ “Alas, kind sir, it is not rules I need but a saviour,
and right
speedily, or I shall certainly perish in this cold water.”
So
I stretched out my hand, and with much pain and care
was able to rescue him, and none too soon, because for a time he lay as
one
dead, but shortly revived, and having thanked me warmly again and
again, made
his way home, often looking back to wave me more thanks.
So
I went on my way musing, and considered why my
rules, which were wise and good and just
and true,
but were not able to help the boy in the well. The boy needed a saviour
–
someone to save him. The
laws can never save you.
Sanctification
To
sanctify is to set apart.
Ex
13:2, Ex30:29, Ex 40:13, Lev
11:44, Lev 20:8, 1 Chron 23:13, Neh 12:47, Rom 15:16
This
is the act of God whereby he
sets apart the saved sinner into the death of Christ.
Those
who are Christ are
sanctified and have eternal security. For
by one offering he hath perfected for
ever them that are sanctified. Heb
10:14. This means that once
saved, you can never lose your salvation.
This
gets confused with holiness. Holiness is what you do
once
you are set apart/sanctified.
Saved
Saved
from what? Saved from hell which is the
wrath of God. Hell is God’s wrath
for those that reject Jesus Christ as their Saviour.
For
God hath not
appointed us to wrath, but to obtain
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 1
Thess 5:9
He
that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the
wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:36
Second
coming
The
second coming occurs at the end
of the seven year tribulation. This
will be by the physical Son of man –
Jesus Christ in the flesh.
Sin
Anything
that disagrees with what
God wants. Reading Paul’s writings of Romans to Philemon will more than
expose
the many sins a Christian, although saved, will commit. Paul writes the
commandments of God as he says If any man
think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that
the
things that I write unto you are the
commandments of the Lord. 1 Cor
14:37 .
Oh
yes,
the Christian is
under the
law, that is, the 3rd use of the law. It’s called the law of
liberty
and the law of love. Under the old testament, God gave his laws to
condemn and
to show … that sin by the commandment
might become exceeding sinful. Rom 7:13. This was called the curse of the law (Gal 3:10) from which
Christ has
redeemed us (Gal 3:13).
The
1st use of the law
is to maintain law and order in society.
The
2nd use of the law
is as a schoolmaster to take us to Christ
(Gal 3:24-25)
The
3rd use of the law
tells us how to love God. Now that
you are a Christian, not loving God
that way he wants, is a sin. Start reading Paul dear Christian.
Sodomite
Sodomites
are men who have sex
with other men. They were killed under the Old Testament laws. God
destroyed
the city of Sodom with fire and brimstone.
But
the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before
the LORD exceedingly. Gen 13:13
Yes,
sins are sins but this is an exceeding sin.
Then
the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; Gen
19:24
The
Son of man
On
earth, Jesus was the Son of
man. This was physical flesh and bone.
At
Armageddon Jesus will again
appear as the Son of man. And then shall
appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the
tribes of
the earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory. Matt 24:30
The
Son of God
As
God is a Spirit (Jn 4:24) the
Son of God has no flesh or physical body. At the rapture, Jesus comes
back as
the Son of God.
Soul
sleep
Paul
says For
I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart,
and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Nevertheless
to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Phil 1:23-24
We
are confident, I say, and willing
rather
to be absent from the body, and to be present
with the Lord. 2 Cor 5:8
And
as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Heb
9:27
Tempting
Christ
This
means to speak against God
“Where are you God in this situation?”
And
the people
spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us
up out
of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there
is no bread, neither is there
any water; and our soul loatheth this light
bread. And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the
people,
and they bit the people; … Numbers
21:5-6
Neither
let us tempt Christ,
as some of
them also tempted, and were destroyed of
serpents. 1 Cor 10:9
Temptation
The
Bible meaning of the word
‘temptation’ is not necessarily one of a moral seduction as in the
modern
usage, but of making trial or test of a man to 1. Prove a
certain quality or 2. Show
a sin.
a.
Jesus when tempted by the
devil (Lk 4:13) proved he was a man who did no sin
b.
While the Jew in his forty
years of wandering in the desert, showed nothing but sin.
Harden
not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation
in the wilderness: Ps 95:8
c.
Now some people when they hear the word of God They on the rock are they, which, when
they hear, receive the word with joy; and
these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time
of temptation fall away. Luke 8:13.
d.
What was Paul’s temptation? It
was an actual infirmity in his flesh.
He had an eye disease that made him look unattractive.
And
my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected;
but received me as an angel of God, even
as Christ Jesus. Galatians 4:14 (KJV)
e.
God says this about
temptations, that he will make a way of escape.
There
hath no temptation taken you but such as is
common to man: but God is
faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able;
but
will with the temptation also make a way
to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Cor 10:13.
The
ten commandments
See
Love
Tithing
Tithing
is the modern day Pastor’s use of walking by
sight (and using guilt) to extract a certain amount of money out of the
congregation, as there are wages, rent and bills to pay. Along with
having
membership of the church and making sure worshippers don’t miss a
Sunday’s
attendance without good reason, tithing is a nice little earner. “But
without
tithing our church wouldn’t exist?” they cry – not knowing that
statement
simply reveals a certain fearfulness on their behalf. Yes, their church
very
well may not exist.
Tithing
is never mentioned by the apostle Paul, but
cheerful giving is. The Christian is freed from the old testament law
of
tithing.
But
people ask the question “Isn’t Abraham our father in
the faith and didn’t he tithe?” The answer is
“Yes of course (Gal 3:9), but Abram
tithed to Melchisedec (Gen 14:20) before
he became a man of faith.” You see, Abram heard the promise (Gen
12:1-3) but he
didn’t believe it. He only became a man
of faith (Gen 15:6) AFTER tithing to
Melchisedec.
Now
having Moses and the tithing of the law removed, cheerful
giving now becomes the real test for the
Christian. All that
Christians have belongs to Christ and he may require 20%, 30%, 50% and
upwards.
Adhering to tithing can hinder those who have been financially and
abundantly
blessed from giving more. The church
can shake off the limitation of Moses and his tithing commandment as he
is no
longer, and never was, needed to prop up and enforce wrong doctrine,
and
deadness, upon a church.
Transgressions
These
are known
sins as the result of breaking known laws. Because
the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there
is no transgression. Rom 4:15
So
Saul died for his transgression which he
committed against the LORD, even
against the word of the LORD, which he
kept not, and also for asking counsel
of one that had a familiar
spirit, to enquire of it; 1
Chron 10:13
Trespasses
These
are unknown
sins. And
Jacob
was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is
my trespass? what is my sin,
that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? Gen 31:36
Ungodly
Ignoring
these two terms, the
Calvinist invents the phrase Total Depravity
(of which neither word can be found in the Bible) to describe and
unsaved
man. This means that man is in such total bondage to sin and evil that
he
cannot respond obediently to God’s commands. In other words, man has no free will to “Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and be saved” (Acts 16:31)
What
scripture verses do they use
to back this up?
…
There is none
righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth,
there is none
that seeketh after God. Rom
3:10-11.
In
their rush to prove their ungodly doctrine, they fail to grasp the vast
difference in meaning between the words ‘seeketh’ and ‘seek’ and
‘understandeth’ and ‘understand’.
So
the ungodly
man might occasionally SEEK and UNDERSTAND
after God
but he is not doing it all the time (as in seeketh and
understandeth). And that’s understandable. He might inquire into
this
religion or that. Probably go to a Sunday night Baptist service. The
next night
he might be in some night club somewhere. Then he might study
Christianity for
a while. Then go off into a Buddhist retreat. Then go off out into the
world
again. The he might get blind drunk for a year or two and hit the drugs
and so
on. He feels unfulfilled and dissatisfied. But he is looking and
searching for
a god and/or indeed God the Father.
You
see, the King James translators used the right word as directed by God.
To
be unsaved, ungodly and dead
in trespass and sins means you
still have a free will. The unsaved can
or has the ability to seek God.
Foundational
to Calvinism is the Total Depravity. Now the real sin
of
Calvinism starts to be revealed. The Calvinist wrongly believes that
the start
of salvation begins with the Holy Spirit making a man want to believe, against his will, by an act of infusing
grace into an unsaved man. This can nowhere be found in the scriptures.
Now
here’s the blasphemy, the horrendous sin against the Lord Jesus Christ
and his
shed blood.
The
Calvinist believes because
man cannot of his own free will seek God, he must be chosen
and selected by
God to be saved. Now for this to happen, an act of regenerating and
renewal of
grace by Gods’ Holy Spirit must infuse
a totally depraved man against his will,
in order for him to believe. “Oh yes”, they cry, “but a man is still
justified
by Christ’s blood (Rom 5:9). Salvation is only of the Lord!”. But wait
a
minute, God justifieth the ungodly (Rom
5:5) not the regenerated man.
You
see how Satan slips in the
back door by reminding us that is the Spirit that gets the ball
rolling. “Thank
you Holy Spirit! We praise you Holy Spirit! If it wasn’t for you the
shed blood
of Jesus wouldn’t be effective!”
Now
if you can’t see the error in
this, that is why it is called the mystery of iniquity. Regeneration
before salvation is pure Roman Catholic theology.
For
the Catholic attending mass,
he must first eat Jesus and drink his blood, to be regenerated inside,
and then
only at that point in time, can God pronounce him justified. So the mass is regeneration before salvation.
Calvinism
is a lie directly out
of Rome. It comes straight from the writings of Augustine the ‘great’
father of
Rome. And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. 2
Cor 11:14
So
Calvinism rewrites the salvation process according to
Rome. Of course, most Calvinists are unaware they are Roman Catholic in
this
regard, that is, regeneration before salvation.
Ungodly
(continued)
faith
is counted for righteousness. Rom 4:5
Rome
wrongly believes that at the mass, God justifies the godly. The Catholic eats Jesus (they wrongly believe
that the wafer is the actual physical body of Jesus), he
becomes
internally godly, and only then, will God justify and pronounce
that
Catholic as a good person and saved. Of course this presents a dreadful
problem. As the effect of the wafer lasts only about 30 minutes or so,
what
will happen if they die before they can get their Jesus of the next
mass, into
their stomachs again? Catholics live in excruciating fear and dread for
all
their lives, never knowing whether they will end up in heaven, hell or
indeed
purgatory.
Calvinism
is just another twist on this satanic doctrine. They believe if a man
is
totally depraved, he must be made brought to a point where he can
believe. So the
Calvinist wrongly says that the Holy Spirit has to make the mind of the
totally
depraved man able to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour. This is also a
regeneration before salvation
Calvinist
= imparted (infused) grace + imputed grace. Calvin straddles both!
Paul
= imputed grace
Worship
The
mistaken belief is that this
only occurs in church services. No, Christians’ daily lives should be a
24
hours practical example of worshipping God.
How
do we worship God? Under the
old testament, there were rules and regulations on how to do this. Now
we read
Paul and see different commands on how to worship God. We find out what
pleases
him, not as Jews as that era has gone, but as Christians. We follow
Paul the
apostle as he follows Christ. Be ye
followers of me, even as I also am
of Christ. 1 Cor 11:1. Read
what God likes in Paul’s writings of
Romans to Philemon and see how a Christian should worship God with his
or her
life throughout the day.
By
Harley Hitchcock
