Posted on 06/15/2018 4:41:29 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
Watch for a BIG church split between those who want to continue mixing grace and law, preaching the ministry of death and the Ten Commandments versus ministry of the Spirit, the preaching of the gospel of the grace of Christ without the law.
It’s already happening.
In the next few decades, watch God’s Grace Revolution, Jude’s prophetic “earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints”, to capture the church and encircle the globe and a massive worldwide incoming of souls before Christ comes for his saints.
In a similar vein, there can be circumstances that justify a divorce. However, divorce is not the Lord's will.
I didn’t say that church splits are the Lord’s will. Everybody in Christ already knows that the LORD has made us all one. Do you really think we need to be told that church splits and divorce are wrong?
One could argue that the big church split occurred when the Protestant Reformation proclaimed the five solas:
- Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone")
- Sola fide ("by faith alone")
- Sola gratia ("by grace alone")
- Solus Christus or Solo Christo ("Christ alone" or "through Christ alone")
- Soli Deo gloria ("glory to God alone")
What was the Protestant Reformation all about? Justification by faith not justification by the law.
The Grace Revolution reveals that the Gospel of the Grace of Christ teaches that we are saved and kept BY GRACE through faith, not the law.
In 1970 the pastor of Sierra Madre Congregational Church (near Pasadena CA) decided he had become an atheist. The congregation left in droves, went across the street and formed a new church, Bethany, which thrives to this day.
Meanwhile, the small remnant hired the youth pastor from Pasadena's Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Richard Anderson, who on his first Sunday preached to sixteen people including his wife and three sons. He retired recently after forty years of leading over 1,000 people to the Lord just by himself.
Moreover, his longtime Evangelism Minister, Dr. Hugh Ross, eventually founded Reasons to Believe (Reasons.org), which conservatively is responsible worldwide for leading at least one million to saving faith in Jesus.
Amazing, Thanks for the testimony!
Jim 0216, I do believe that the tares are being bundled separately from the wheat. Like you, I am hoping and would love it if there were some sort of a great last days revival like Joel 2 for formerly Christian nations like the USA, Britain, Canada, Germany, etc. I would never try to correct you, however Joel 2 in context seems to be an Israeli/Jewish revival as mentioned in Revelation 7. It is arguable whether there will be a world-wide last days revival for the gentile nations who have rejected God (Psalms 9:17). Even scarier are verses like Zechariah 6:8.
**However, to say that church splits are His will would be a lie.**
True, all are invited through Christ to the Church he founded on the apostles. The ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, and APOSTOLIC CHURCH!
Otherwise, aren’t people putting themselves and their judgments ABOVE those of Jesus Christ?
I do know I what I am saying. Without Jesus, we wouldn’t have his Mother and St. Joseph.
Have you re-read the chronology in Matthew 1 lately?
I believe that you have forgotten that the Church came before the Bible.
Good bye. Have a blessed day.
Not true. From Genesis all the way to the Epistles, the Books of the Bible preceded the Roman Church and the first Roman Pontiff.
Now, hear the New Covenant which makes the first old, decayed, and disappear (Hebrews 8:13).
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.Romans 6:14.
Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the lawRomans 7:4-6.
But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire...For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.Romans 7:8, 11.
Nothing wrong with the law, everything wrong with you and me.
Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.Romans 7:12-14.
the strength of sin is the law.1 Cor. 15:56.
So why did God give the law?
[T]he law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.Gal. 3:24.
We are not invited to a church through Christ.
We are invited to be reconciled with God through Christ.
We come to CHRIST, not to a church.
What nonsense.
Jesus needed to be born and whoever it happened to be were His earthly parents and that was it. If it had been someone different, we'd have never known the difference.
Have you re-read the chronology in Matthew 1 lately?
What of it? What is it supposed to prove?
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