New Role Models
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For those, who haven't seen the following on Facebook, I present it here. It's about role models with false doctrines, who stand for family values and morality, but who cannot lead people to a living Christ who is the only one, who can produce those values in lives.
Some new role models for conservative "Christianity" are a Mormon candidate for president, a Seventh Day Adventist doctor, who spoke up to Obama at a prayer breakfast, and an author and pastor, and an extremely popular family on TV, who believe in baptismal regeneration (Church of Christ). Deception and total apostasy are coming in hard and fast. I can only hope that the people who are dearest to me will take notice. I don't hold a lot of hope that anything outside of genuine revival will change the general trend. Have you seen the movie "Time Changer" which warns of those who preach morality, but cannot present a divine and living Christ, without whom morality and family values can never produce better morality and family values? They simply lead to a lifeless, religious substitute that, in the end, leaves people more ungodly than ever.
Some new role models for conservative "Christianity" are a Mormon candidate for president, a Seventh Day Adventist doctor, who spoke up to Obama at a prayer breakfast, and an author and pastor, and an extremely popular family on TV, who believe in baptismal regeneration (Church of Christ). Deception and total apostasy are coming in hard and fast. I can only hope that the people who are dearest to me will take notice. I don't hold a lot of hope that anything outside of genuine revival will change the general trend. Have you seen the movie "Time Changer" which warns of those who preach morality, but cannot present a divine and living Christ, without whom morality and family values can never produce better morality and family values? They simply lead to a lifeless, religious substitute that, in the end, leaves people more ungodly than ever.
A Hunger for the Word in North Dakota
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| A yard meeting in Finley, North Dakota |
You have to understand that we are talking about a village with about 600 inhabitants and that this entire area of North Dakota is sparcely populated. However, the people did respond and about 60 people attended.
More importantly, the way they reacted to the presentation was so positive. A widow of a former pastor of a church in Finley told me that the preaching reminded her of her late husband. One lady returned to her house very excited, determined to do the same thing for her vicinity... on their small buffalo and horse ranch. Her husband began to call neighbors and relatives. He invited them to an open air meeting, in which singers and a preacher, whom he'd never met, were going to take part (he was not in the Monday meeting). He confessed that he'd never felt so out-of-control before, as he did in this situation. It happened that the Holy Spirit was in control. Last Saturday, again the people came. Something very special is happening! There are people who are hungry to hear the truth boldly proclaimed!
You Must Be Born Again! Part V
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VI. The last Adam – (In this portion, I want to let the commentators speak to show that the New Creation takes place in and through Christ. As Adam was the first creation, Christ is the last, the progenitor of a higher position and quality of life for the human race. He lifted man above the place given to Adam in the beginning. God never goes backward, but continues His perfect purpose until He brings it to its fullness or maturity.)
Barnes… The second
Adam, or the “second man,” (1Co_15:47). That Christ is here intended is
apparent, and has been usually admitted by commentators. Christ here seems to
be called Adam because he stands in contradistinction from the first Adam; or
because, as we derive our animal and dying nature from the one, so we derive
our immortal and undying bodies from the other. From the one we derive an
animal or vital existence; from the other we derive our immortal existence, and
resurrection from the grave. The one stands at the head of all those who have
an existence represented by the words, “a living soul;” the other of all those
who shall have a spiritual body in heaven. He is called “the last Adam;”
meaning that there shall be no other after him who shall affect the destiny of
man in the same way, or who shall stand at the head of the race in a manner
similar to what had been done by him and the first father of the human family.
They sustain special relations to the race; and in this respect they were “the
first” and “the last” in the special economy. The name “Adam” is not elsewhere
given to the Messiah, though a comparison is several times instituted between
him and Adam. (See the Supplementary Note on 1Co_15:22; also Rom_5:12,
note.)
You Must Be Born Again! Part IV
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In the last section we studied about the new creation and
then about being partakers of the divine nature. We continue now by considering
how the individual is a partaker and then how the church as a body demonstrates
the divine nature.
Once again, we look to some men of God to help us get a
better understanding of the new birth. I have added my thoughts concerning it. You
may copy this article unto your computer and add your own. Please study
carefully this extremely important subject and let it motivate you to call upon
God for a fresh demonstration of His power in granting new birth to people in
our generation. They must be born again!
A. On a personal level. Gal.2:20 (KJV)… “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live
by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Paul is talking here again of the new birth, the resurrected
life in Christ. First, however, he speaks of a crucifixion, which he
experienced and he is referring to his old self. Christ not only took sin to
the cross, but also the old man, the fallen nature of Adam. “Our old self was crucified with Him, in
order that our body of sin might be done away with” (Ro.6:6).
This gives further proof that a person, who is
born-again, does not continue to walk in sin. And now, according to God’s
desire, the characteristics of His Son shine through, because actually He lives
within. I hold to the King James translation here, that the faith is not in,
but of the Son of God. We will look
at this more thoroughly later. You Must Be Born Again! Part III
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We continue to study the new birth. There are very few other Bible studies that are as important as this one is. In this part, I have quoted much from what others have written. We have to be ready to learn from others, because there is so much more that we need to know about this subject. I have written my part and I invite you to add yours in a notebook or on your own computer. The new birth is what marks true Christianity and distinguishes it from that which is only religious. We must see the hand of God working and the life of God demonstrated in that which is true. I hope that you will profit from and enjoy this study...
IV. A new creation. A New Man through the New Birth. Eph 4:24… “Put on the new man, which in the likeness of God
has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.” He is a new man… Scofield “and is a new man as having become a partaker of the
divine nature and life, (2Pe_1:4) and, in no sense, the old man made over, or improved.
After
receiving the forgiveness of sins, a man receives a new nature, which is
compatible with God’s. In that state, he is brought into reconciliation with
God and a new, friendly relationship begins. Paul describes this
transformation, which occurs in any and every one, in every place at any time,
regardless of his race or nationality; this is what will happen: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creature (some versions put, a new creation… a better translation); the old things passed away; behold, new
things have come” (2 Co.5:17). If this
transformation does not happen, that person has not been born again and there
is to be no assumption that he is a Christian and that his sins are forgiven.
He must be born again! No human being
can help him into this birth. It is a miracle, which only God can do.
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