“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superseded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saved, they have been taught irrelevant and superseded water doctrines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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