“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” — Romans 1:16
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The Bible reveals two ways which people are following to get into heaven. One way, the true way, is God’s way. God’s way into heaven is the way of peace and truth and righteousness. It is the only way approved of God. This way centers in the Lord 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). The Bible declares that there is another way. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14:12).
There are so many popular ways today filled with lost multitudes all over the land, such as the way of morality, the way of respectability, the way of religion, the way of churchianity, the way of baptism, the way of christening, the way of confirmation, the way of penance, the way of confession, the way of “doing the best I can”, the way of self, the way of education, the way of philosophy, the way of false isms and cults that crowd the street. Little wonder then when we speak to people about the way of salvation, that so many have asked, “How can I know which is the true way? There are so many different ideas and so many religions.”
But there is ONE difference between God’s way of salvation and man’s way, and that difference is found in a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. You will notice that man leaves Christ out of the center of his way. You will discover that the modern false cults and isms demote Christ to a mere man and add something to what He has already done for your salvation and mine. We become children of God through a supernatural birth. Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Jesus also said, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:7)
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A-Millennialism And The Curse of Covenant Theology – I
(The Present Day Prophetic Confusion)
“To the law and the testimony, if they speak not according to My word,
it is because there is not light in them.” Isaiah 8:20
Beloved, it is one thing to quote Scripture, and it is another thing to understand it and live it. One can not interpret the word of God any way he/she feels like it. So many of the sermons we hear these days, ( in the churches, Radio preaching etc.) when they are said and done there is hardly anything you put your teeth on. They did not rightly divide the word of truth. Very little honest, and sincere, the word of God you will find these days. All they do is jump from Genesis to Revelation with 150 illustrations, and when they are done, you did not really have anything you could put your teeth into. Unfortunately that is the diet upon which many Christians are fed.
One can not properly use the English language (for that matter any language) anyway he/she feels like it. There are rules and grammars, and I am afraid most of us don’t know a whole lot about that! I found that even College graduates know little to nothing about English language structure,- the Grammars . These days the college education doesn’t mean anything at all. Some of these colleges are expensive. Like Harvard, $15,000 for one year boarding. If these students are honest, they would tell us “what did you get there in Harvard?” “ honestly nothing but confusion.”
we can not come to the word of God and do anything we would. Snatching verses here and snatching verses there and lumping them together in such a fashion that it expresses our views, and prove our points, when these verses don’t belong together at all. Now, no misunderstanding here: We mean to emphasize one biblical principle – Every scripture of the Bible must agree with the whole Bible. It is time we take the word of God and its studies seriously. It is not easy! You may disagree but let me ask you, “when is the last time you studied for 3 to 4 hours at a stretch?” we just don’t do it. We are not disciplined enough.
Dispensational studies has be s ridiculed by men even by those who call themselves dispensationalists. They hardly ever mention the word, for fear of being ridiculed as old fashioned. Many of the New Evangelicals, and Baptists are teaching (falling) in to the heresy of of Covenant theology, which on the other side of it is Amillennialism; meaning no -Millennial, no one thousand reign of Christ upon the earth. This theology is growing by leaps and bounds, and we have lots of people who don’t know what these teachings are. Basically there are two ways (methods) of interpreting the Word of God among Bible believers; namely, 1.The Covenant Theology, to which Amillennialism is the big tent under which it operates, and 2.Dispensationlism. Now, there are modifications of these two, but as a whole, these are the two philosophies in operation.
Satan’s basic means of deception was that of injecting doubt as to what God has said, “ Yea, hath God said?” “ God does not mean what He says. God does not mean you will really die. “ Ye shall not surely die….,” (Genesis 3:4) Humanity has never recovered from that terrible bias and blight. There has been confusion and conflict, on the first coming of Christ, because of the refusal of the Jewish nation to accept the literal interpretation of God’s revealed word. For example, take Isaiah 53. “……… surely he has born our griefs and carried away our sorrows, and yet we esteem him stricken and afflicted of God. But he was wounded for our transgression, and he was bruised for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace was upon him……… All we like a sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all…..”
So when “He came unto His own, His own received him not.” John 1:12. Likewise there is the same confusion and conflict as to the second coming of Christ. Many friends, we have among the dear brethren are those who have swallowed the persuasive arguments of the recently invented thought known us A-millennialism. The teaching of A-millennialism, is that which is denying the millennial reign of Christ upon the earth; and is now so widespread in theological circles, we feel that Christians who believe and accept the literal Word of God should be forewarned about this erroneous teaching, for to be forwarned is to be forearmed! This school of thought contradicts the Word of God and makes out of it a fabric of untrustworthy decelarations.
So, it is no longer sufficient to declare the truths of the Pre-Millennial coming of Christ. Today one has to warn people concerning the ways and means where by the truth is being undermined. This is the result of so-called learning and scholarship. Since Genesis 3 when Satan became active in the mind of men, the world has become flooded with the deception and confusion in relation to the plan and purpose of God. There has ever been a fierce battle to maintain a clear view as to the Divine purpose both in relation to the first and second coming of Christ.
Covenant Theology:
This is a theology based on covenants. Adherents of this teaching tell us that there are two Covenants. They begin with the assumption that everything in the Scripture flow out of two covenants that God made with Adam. They say, “ God made a Covenant with Adam to keep the garden to till the ground, and eat every fruit in the garden except the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden.” And if he obeyed God, he (Adam) will have eternal life; and they call this the Covenant of Low (works). The Law being very simple, the work being very simple; keep the garden, and don’t eat that one fruit. And if Adam would have done that (The Scripture does not tell us how long He would have supposed to do that) he would have eternal life.
Adam disobeyed God and God instituted a Covenant of grace. So now, Adam would be saved by grace. It all sounds very nice for these folks. But they ae confused on that! There is only one problem on that, you can’t find that in the Word of God. People manufacture “the truth” all the time. They add to the Word of God and take away from it, and put their own interpretation upon it. And they say , “ Now, from that time (the time of the Covenant of grace) right down to the present time, and until the Lord returns, it will continue on the same; and when the Lord comes it is going to be all over!” That is the sum total of Covenant Theology. According to this theology, it is one continuous line.- That is God told no man anything different.
Friends, We don’t believe that Adam and Noah and all the Old Testament saints Knew Jesus Christ the Son of God. The Messiah who would come and die on the cross and rise again from the dead and go back to heaven. There is no record that Noah knew anything about that. We read in Hebrew 11 that “ Noah believed God,” What did he believe? “ he believed that there is going to be a flood and he prepared an Ark for the saving of his house…” Noah, understood that there is going to be flood and, those who will be in the Ark will only be saved; so he believed God and that he was saved! It does not say he believed in Jesus Christ.
Now, Adam was saved like any human race of any time on the basis of what Jesus Christ did . But he did not understand it! Beloved, this is not to confuse anyone. But if we don’t do it God’s way then we are confused already! The covenant theologians are confused about a lot of things. In Romans 3:28 we read, “Therefore we conclude that man is justified without the deeds of the Law. …. ” in Galatians 2:16 we read, “… knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith of Jesus Christ….and not by the works of the Law: for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified.” It could not be any more clearer; no flesh means no flesh! We do not need to explain that verse to you. Nobody was ever saved by the Law. People are always saved by Faith; which is taking God at His word. That is what Noah did; that is what Abraham did and so forth. We are saved by believing the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ , which the gospel, because that is the message for our day. Every person that is saved, is saved by grace through faith.
To be Continued…………………………………….
From The Peoples Gospel Hour Staff