BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION: “CAN I STUDY THE
BOOK OF
ROMANS IN A VACUUM BY ITSELF?”
ANSWER: “NO.”
The Apostle Paul’s Book to
the Romans
puts to death any historically true doctrines from previous
dispensations found
in the books of the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and
the books
of Acts and Hebrews, with Matthew and the last two, being three of the
most
difficult books in the New Testament to understand, not to mention the
whole
Bible.
Most Christians don’t dare
study
Romans as they think it is a difficult book to understand. This is
because they
hold near and dear to their hearts, superseded doctrine out of the
books of
Matthew, Acts and Hebrews.
The opposite is true. The
Book of
Romans is easy to understand but hard to accept because of ‘water
issues’. People
have a water problem.
Like the Book of The
Revelation, it is
easy to understand but hard to believe.
It becomes a watershed
where decisions
must be made about doctrine, that were once held in true ignorance, but
now
start to become willing ignorance.
To understand the full
import of the
Apostle Paul’s Book to the Romans, other doctrines from other
dispensations
must die.
As stated, one cannot study
Romans in
and of itself without it affecting the rest of the scriptures, and in
particular the New Testament.
Romans is what they call
the summary
of the waterless gospel, that is the bone-dry Paul’s gospel, the gospel
given
to Paul, a dispensation of the gospel given to Paul that contains
Paul’s
doctrine.
You see he had found that
water
baptism was interfering with the gospel.
People were experiencing
the going
under the water as being more exciting and dramatic than simply
believing.
Jacob to Arvi “Arvi, re you
a
Christian now?”
Arvi to Jacob “Oh yes
Jacob! I got
water baptised!”
For Paul the ‘experience’
of believing
had to take precedence over the physical sensation of water on the skin
Dear Reader, you ask a
Baptist if they
are saved and they will answer “Oh yes, I’ve been water baptised.”
This is why Paul’s gospel,
the only
one for today, is as they say “Bone dry, parched as a dead twig in the
desert
under the hot sun for twenty years and crispy as a packet of potato
chips.
Furthermore, there is not
one drop of
water in the Apostle Paul’s 14 books of the New Testament.
It’s no wonder that 99% of
Pastors
keep preaching from the ‘wet’ books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and
Acts.
When first saved, they have
been
taught irrelevant and superseded water doctrines upon which they have
made
their subsequent living.
These are Israel’s water
baptism unto
Moses, John the Baptist’s water baptism, Christ’s water baptism to his
disciples and Peter’s water baptism to the men of Israel.
Similar to a chicken that
first
hatches – it follows the first thing that moves and adopts that thing
as its
mother.
Chickens have followed
elephants as
their mother.
Look, I understand a Pastor
holding
the truth in unrighteousness if he has a family to feed. I mean few
Pastors will
walk away from his comfy church living declaring “I have now had my
eyes
opened. I will now go and earn an honest living as a labourer!”
I haven’t met one yet. But
the people
love to have it so too. It’s like a mutual death roll – people will not
endure
sound doctrine and the Pastor keeps turning the handle with what they
want to
hear. Everyone’s happy.
The modern day Pastor’s
mantra is “I
will study to show myself approved unto the people” and the people said
“Amen!”
It’s like Pilate washing
his hands of
the whole matter and submitting to the will of the people saying “Your
will be
done.”
I
used to think that Pastors were in control, until I realised that the
people that hire and fire the Pastor will be there long after their
present
Pastor has disappeared from their church building. It is the people who
will
not endure sound doctrine. The people have itching ears.
The true definition of
“itching” is to
be found in the scriptures where The LORD will smite thee
with the botch of Egypt,
and with the emerods, and with the scab, and WITH THE ITCH,
WHEREOF THOU
CANST NOT BE HEALED. (Deut 28:27)
Dreadful,
isn’t it? Terminal! Can’t be healed! You don’t slide up a
slippery slide! You don’t parachute up into a plane! It’s bungee
jumping
without the cord attached to the feet!
So folks this is the
Christian church
we have today. If you look at any church today, willing doctrinal
ignorance
will jump out at you like a sore thumb.
It’s the agreement of lies
that
operates both ways between the Pastor and the congregation. It’s the
wink-wink,
nudge-nudge “Let’s keep it between ourselves!”
**** ****
Harley
Hitchcock
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