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  02-01 Spiritual Dementia 02-02 He’ll Leave 02-03 The Elect 02-04 The Elect: Responses 02-05 The Elect: Responses continued 02-06 The One Faith 02-07 “The Way Down Goes Up.” 02-08 Something Happened to Moses 02-09 Nothing of the Will of Man 02-10 “Make Your Work Perfect.” 02-11 The One Faith 02-12 Securing Your Financial Future 02-13 The Corinthians’ Problem 02-14 Speaking For Christ 02-15 The Object Is The Thing 02-16 “Know Thyself”? 02-17 Little People 02-18 A Letter From A Self-Appointed Apostle 02-19 A Letter From A Self-Appointed Apostle: Response 1 02-20 A Letter From A Self-Appointed Apostle: Response 2 02-21 A Letter From A Self-Appointed Apostle: Response 3 02-22 A Letter From A Self-Appointed Apostle: Response 4 02-23 A Letter From A Self-Appointed Apostle: Response 5 02-24 To His Own Master 02-25 A Mystery Letter 02-26 Surpassing Wisdom and Goodness 02-27 Small Things 02-28 Speaking According to the Law 02-29 Reading the Law

 

Thought for the Morning
2-21

A Letter From A Self-Appointed Apostle: Response 3

Hi John.

I think it is so wonderful how the stories you have written about God’s work in your father’s life have prepared us to see things clearly. As a result, a lot of things we run into now are just “repeats”. We can see and understand what we are facing because you’ve “worked the road” for us.

What brother I-- is saying is the same thing Brother Bunn once tried to persuade YOU to believe.... it’s just dressed in slightly different clothes. What I see I-- REALLY saying is that anyone who has the holy Ghost already has been “glorified”, or as many Christians would say it, “already saved”. It amounts to that. Brother I–’s doctrine can appeal to nobody except those who have the holy Ghost and yet still have enough pride to connect with a proud man who tells them they cannot fall. We know better than that, thanks to the good teaching we have had.

I can sense that Brother I-- has never had an experience of deep, dark failure that has brought him helplessly to his knees - one in which he finds that he is actually working against the very anointing and truth of God he thinks to stand for. I have, and I am so thankful God had me in your hands John, and around others who could help me. When our brother I-- finds out where he is, and when he repents, I want to be there to encourage him. He’s going to need it. And I hope he does so sooner and not later, so he can be of value to God’s children while he is young.

Thanks for the comments on that e-mail. I was encouraged by it, because of all that God has done for us.

Gary

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Dear Brother Gary,

Thanks. That was very perceptive. The young apostle’s doctrine is exactly what Brother Bunn was trying to teach me and what all are teaching who say that once a person is converted, he cannot fail to receive salvation in the end.

jdc