“THE ELEPHANT IN
THE ROOM …”
Part 3 of 4
THE
INCONVENIENT TRUTH of the
book of Matthew
The
purposes of the Sermon on the Mount are as follows:
1.
Christ
deliberately gives them impossible laws with external and
internal heart
standards required. As the laws at Mt Sinai were not given to save
Israel, but
to condemn them, the same applies here with Christ’s sermon on
the
Mount.
2.
By
not being able to keep these laws, the Jews were to recognise
that
Christ was not only the Messiah, but God their Saviour.
3.
To
demonstrate that Christ was God in the flesh.
4.
For
the Jews to crucify him and fulfil Old Testament prophecy
Why
present
day religious people end up in hell
The
three chapters of Matthew chapters 5,6 and 7, contain all the foundational
beliefs of
many religious people who
have died and rocketed straight into the fires of hell.
It is the misunderstanding
of these three chapters, that probably has been responsible, for
more
people going to hell than any other scriptures.
These
are your unsaved volunteers, ‘charity’ workers, ‘good’ and
‘kind’ and ‘helpful’
people that inhabit the suburbs eg pro-abortion, save the whales, fight
pollution, save the planet, ‘climate warmers’ and so on.
They
also include people who attend a church thinking they will go
to heaven
because of how good they are in going to church, taking the Lord’s
supper, and
trusting the pastor and what he says. These include the Catholics who
believe
the Last Rites will get them there. They call themselves Christians,
but they
are not. They fight for causes for the betterment of humanity, hoping
their
‘ever-so-small’ contribution may make a difference in leaving the
planet a
better place.
Matthew
chapters 5-7 is wrongly understood by the self-righteousness and pious
do-gooders (Catholics, SDA’s, Mormons, the cults, people who think they
are
Christians) who think that “the kingdom of heaven” is the same as “the
kingdom
of God”. They are not. All the unsaved showing off their
voluntary
humility and being vainly puffed up in their fleshy mind (Colossians
2:18) just
adore and love these three chapters in Matthew, which they quote at
every
opportunity – Greenies included. Those who believe you can lose your
salvation
take Matthew 5-7 for their doctrine.
The
sermon on the mount is misunderstood
as the rules for getting INTO heaven.
There
is a kingdom IN heaven but it is NOT
the kingdom OF heaven. There’s not one Christian in the book of
Matthew.
Millions go into the fires of hell
because they got their ‘Christian’ doctrine from Matthew. They wrongly
believe
that works were needed for
entry into heaven and that you can lose your
salvation.
Question:
What are the rules for getting into the kingdom of God?
Answer:
PERFECT WORKS! No sins from birth! Sinlessness!
Correct!
But you’ll need Christ’s perfect works on your behalf PLUS his shed
blood for
your sins.
“Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ” as Paul said to the jailer, is your only
requirement.
Christ has fulfilled the law perfectly on our behalf and paid the
penalty to
God the Father for our sins with his shed blood for our redemption.
But
didn’t Christ preach the kingdom of God?
Correct,
but for the Jew this came after Abraham’s bosom, whereby
getting into heaven
would only come after the cross. Entry into the kingdom of God in
heaven was
via the kingdom of heaven first!
Where
are the Christians’ rules of behaviour having been saved?
These
are the commandments of Paul (1 Cor 14:37; 1 Cor 7:19) also
known as
Paul’s doctrine, and are set out in the thirteen books of Romans to
Philemon. He
writes Hebrews, but it’s not addressed to Christians.
Do
Christians follow Christ?
Absolutely!
BUT we are not Jews! Paul shows us how to do this as
Christians. We are to be followers
of Paul the Christian as he follows Christ (1Co 1:1 ).
Why
do people get all upset that we follow Paul instead of Christ.
They
shouldn’t. Christians today cannot directly
follow Christ, as we’d have to become Jews. Why? Christ was a Jew
fulfilling
the law, who didn’t eat pork, went to the synagogue on Saturday and
endorsed
animal sacrifice. Paul’s gospel (2Tim 2:8; 1Cor 9:17) REPLACES THE
JEWISH
DISPENSATION OF GOING TO ABRAHAM’S BOSOM! As Christians we are in
Christ and
become more like Christ in exercising love, peace, joy, longsuffering,
goodness, gentleness, faith, meekness and temperance, by the work of
the
indwelling Holy Ghost (Gal 5:22).
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Harley Hitchcock
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