| Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| Grace VS Law |
Why do people make such a big deal out of the debate between Grace and Law? Certainly it is no good to be on either extreme. But I feel there isn't any difference. The God who set down the Ten Commandments is the same God who died on the Cross for us. Why do people talk about the difference between the Old Testament and the New? It is one and the same: the Word of God. In every book, every sentence, He is there; showing different sides of Himself. And He is so much. He is loving, tender, merciful. But He is also wild, dangerous, jealous.
God is to be feared as well as loved. But I think it's a combination that is hard to grasp. How can you love someone you fear? How can you fear someone you love?
Today I listened to a message by John Piper, I Will Be Gracious to Whom I Will Be Gracious. I listened, and was touched; God is gracious to me because He has chosen to. Not by merit of my own goodness or anything I can do. I don't deserve His grace; I was overwhelmed by it such that I had to choose it. I was and still am, a stiff-necked person at times. He has all the reason in the world to be angry with me and strike me dead; but He doesn't. Instead, He came down to me and died for me. Imagine, God, without whom nothing would exist, coming down to my level and dying for me!
"Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you," declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff." - Isaiah 41: 14-15
When I first came across this verse, I was a little taken aback at "O worm Jacob", a most unusual way to refer to anybody, eh? But then I realised it was most apt, even for myself. I am not modest or humble when I say this; I am humbled by God's grace. See, if I am strong and brave, it is only because He makes me so; if I have faith, it is not of my own strength but a gift from Him; if I am righteous, it is not because of anything I have done, but because He has wiped my slate clean.
Both the children were looking up into the Lion's face as he spoke these
words. And all at once (they never knew exactly how it happened) the face seemed
to be a sea of tossing gold in which they were floating, and such a sweetness
and power rolled about them and over them that they felt they had never
really been happy or good, or even alive and awake, before. - from The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Yes, I know that feeling too. =) It's hard to put into words. But really...my life before He claimed me for Himself...it's as if I wasn't really there. |
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Have you ever questioned Paul? He taught to break the law when the bible says Gods commandments are forever (psalm 111)
I seriously believe Paul was a false apostle as:
1. He wasn’t ordained an apostle by Christ (Mat 10)
2. He didn’t qualify to be an apostle (Acts 1:16-26)
3. Paul’s doctrine is proven false:
After Christ died and rose he appeared to his apostles. The gospels record him as appearing to the “eleven” (remember, Judas had died), but Paul’s doctrine is in clear error as he tells us that Christ appeared to the “twelve”:
Paul said twelve:
1 Corinthians 15:4-6
4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve
Mark said eleven:
Mark 16:14: Afterward he (Christ) appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat
Matthew said eleven:
Matt 28:16-18:
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Luke’s mentions the “eleven”:
2And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 3And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 4And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 5And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 6He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. 8And they remembered his words, 9And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
Acts mentions eleven:
Acts 1:26:
26And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Paul is a liar, and a proven false witness. Christ, in Revelation 2:2 commends the church of Epheus for figuring out false aposles. He said, “…thou hast tried them which say they are apsostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. Remember, Paul preached at Epheus.
Fact 4:
The apostles did not believe Paul was a disciple:
Acts 9:26
26And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
After Barnabas told the apostles that Paul had “seen the Lord” and that he preached boldy in the name of Jesus, the Apostles didn’t tell him to join them, but they sent him home to Tarsus. Remember, Jesus told us (Mat 13:57) that a prophet is not without honour except in his own country and in his own house . The apostles sent Paul to a place that no one would believe him.
Paul's caught in a lie about his conversion:
There are 2 different stories. In one version he said that Christ told him to go to Damascus and that it would be there that Christ would reveal more to him. In the other version, Christ did the opposite. Compare Acts 22 with Acts 26
Jesus tells apostles to "heal", Paul blinded a man:
Acts 13:11, Paul said:
"11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
Jesus, confirms twelve apostles, not 13:
Revelation 21:14:
14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Jesus told the church of Ephesus they knew who the false apostles were:
To the Church of Ephesus, Revelation 2:2:
2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Paul told Ephesus he was an apostle:
Ephesians 1:1
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus
Paul admits his doctrine had troubles being accepted in Ephesus:
Acts 19:8,9:
8And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. 9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
I have much, much more on my website going into faith works and law too. If you want to see more, just go to my site: www.returntorighteousness.blogspot.com
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Have you ever questioned Paul? He taught to break the law when the bible says Gods commandments are forever (psalm 111)
I seriously believe Paul was a false apostle as:
1. He wasn’t ordained an apostle by Christ (Mat 10)
2. He didn’t qualify to be an apostle (Acts 1:16-26)
3. Paul’s doctrine is proven false:
After Christ died and rose he appeared to his apostles. The gospels record him as appearing to the “eleven” (remember, Judas had died), but Paul’s doctrine is in clear error as he tells us that Christ appeared to the “twelve”:
Paul said twelve:
1 Corinthians 15:4-6
4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve
Mark said eleven:
Mark 16:14: Afterward he (Christ) appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat
Matthew said eleven:
Matt 28:16-18:
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Luke’s mentions the “eleven”:
2And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 3And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 4And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 5And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 6He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. 8And they remembered his words, 9And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
Acts mentions eleven:
Acts 1:26:
26And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Paul is a liar, and a proven false witness. Christ, in Revelation 2:2 commends the church of Epheus for figuring out false aposles. He said, “…thou hast tried them which say they are apsostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. Remember, Paul preached at Epheus.
Fact 4:
The apostles did not believe Paul was a disciple:
Acts 9:26
26And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
After Barnabas told the apostles that Paul had “seen the Lord” and that he preached boldy in the name of Jesus, the Apostles didn’t tell him to join them, but they sent him home to Tarsus. Remember, Jesus told us (Mat 13:57) that a prophet is not without honour except in his own country and in his own house . The apostles sent Paul to a place that no one would believe him.
Paul's caught in a lie about his conversion:
There are 2 different stories. In one version he said that Christ told him to go to Damascus and that it would be there that Christ would reveal more to him. In the other version, Christ did the opposite. Compare Acts 22 with Acts 26
Jesus tells apostles to "heal", Paul blinded a man:
Acts 13:11, Paul said:
"11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
Jesus, confirms twelve apostles, not 13:
Revelation 21:14:
14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Jesus told the church of Ephesus they knew who the false apostles were:
To the Church of Ephesus, Revelation 2:2:
2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Paul told Ephesus he was an apostle:
Ephesians 1:1
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus
Paul admits his doctrine had troubles being accepted in Ephesus:
Acts 19:8,9:
8And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. 9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
I have much, much more on my website going into faith works and law too. If you want to see more, just go to my site: www.returntorighteousness.blogspot.com