"There is No New Thing Under the Sun"

In 33 AD the Savior of ALL who believe in Him, the man Jesus Christ was killed and crucified for envy, greed, and power. Those that ran the affairs of the Temple, the religious Pharisee and others were losing their grasp on the masses. Years after the death of Jesus Christ, Peter and the disciples are preaching in Acts...they are endued with power to manifest the Spirit to Israel through physical signs and wonders...they begin preaching solely to reconcile Israel back to God, (Acts 2-11) and through Paul and his revelations (Acts 9), they end Acts preaching of the gospel of the grace of God for all who will believe.

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A False Balance and a Wrong Focus

Do we even consider our actions? Do we examine our zeal for God? Do we have a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. We know that a false balance is an abomination. Preachers hit sodomy and the homosexual movement with both barrels, but we never consider other abominable sins.

We know we were sinners. Do we now hide the fact that we are still men of flesh. There is none righteous. It’s only his righteousness. All of it. You don’t get credit for any of it. It’s Christ in you the hope of Glory. We pick on one or two sins that God calls abominable, and ignore the rest?

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Charity, A More Excellent Way - Part 3

Ever follow that which is good, Paul said. You see this reoccurring theme show up in every Pauline epistle. You see many passages on simply being “good”, "decent", "full of charity". Nothing deep and nothing mystical. Nothing elusive to man. You see this same theme of thought and action in our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the essence of Him. It is how we are to shine. Good works, and loving others. Helping others. Humble and giving. Forgiving and patient with saints and sinners. Nothing profound. Being “decent, gentle, hospitable, giving, full of love, charity, encouraging, giving of your self, blameless, a living sacrifice, providing all things honest", and so on.

Romans 12:8 ~ Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

2 Corinthians 11:3 ~ But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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Charity, A More Excellent Way - Part 2

1 Timothy 1:3 ~ As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Why would Bible believing preachers and men not recognize a overwhelming theme in the New Testament? We are the ones obligated to give out pure truth. It's the end of the commandment. It is a New Testament command if I ever saw one. Jesus, Paul, John, and Peter all spoke of it. You can have the truth. You can be bold with the truth. You can preach hard with the truth. But you will be doing it in the flesh if you don't have charity in your heart. Many churches rain down law and letter as if they were actually under it still. We know the law is good, admonishing, and exemplary. However it was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. When we step outside of our dispensation to preach for profit, popularity, or pride, our conduct is more complicit with the Old Testament. This unbalanced spirit has always reminded me of Paul in Galatians 4 and 6 dealing with men and keeping others in some sort of spiritual bondage.

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Charity, A More Excellent Way - Part 1

Proverbs 8:6 - Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

Proverbs 17:7 - Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Proverbs 17:27 - He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

Proverbs 22:20 - Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge.

When one is speaking of a excellent thing, such as the gospel of the grace of God, we should always strive to get men to have understanding in the truth we are speaking. Our intentions should be to give out the knowledge we have on the matter while not boasting of this knowledge.

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An addendum to "Why?"

Much of what you will see posted here has been a culmination of many separate Bible studies that were researched and written prior to the development of this blog, some of which were done years ago, and some more recently.

The core question that I kept asking myself is, "Has our current church foundation been laid on other well-intended affairs that have been practiced for the last 150 years in physical church buildings?" Have we been led down wrong paths of men even with the right intentions?

The theme that will be primarily discussed here are the traditions and codes of conduct that are being practiced in our churches that do not represent the New Testament, Jesus Christ or His gospel of grace clearly. This conduct and certain traditional observations often go beyond the intended effect and in the end reproach Him, the gospel, and even His Book. A person can deceptively claim to represent a revered Book, while misrepresenting Jesus Christ and His New Testament.

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"Join or Die"

Among some, the proceeding topics covered here will be heavily scrutinized, criticized and shrugged off as just another apostate way of thinking, as the ramblings of yet another complacent, compromising, Christian who does this or that. Many things posted here will in all likelihood be categorized by some as another trait of “lukewarmness” or passive Christianity in the “Church”, when it is neither.

Evidence with faith is a wonderful combination. In a court of law, both sides must present as evidence what they believe to be a “burden of proof”, to prove their case. To the Christian, however, it is not as simple. We have people on both sides of a matter who consider themselves to be true believers in the word of God, who are both using the same A.V. 1611 King James Bible to try to prove opposite points. If only we had the “luxury” of being bound by a court of law to gather and reason to see what the truth actually is!

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