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  05-01 Separating Yourself 05-02 Keeping the Law, Part 1 05-03 Keeping the Law, Part 2 05-04 Forsaking Christ 05-05 Going to Mount Sinai 05-06 Going to Mount Sinai, Response 1 05-07 Going to Mount Sinai, Response 2 05-08 Accursed 05-09 “I Make Myself the Transgressor” 05-10 “I Am Not Lying!” 05-11 Titus 05-12 Free From Law 05-13 The Spirit of Law 05-14 The Best State of Man 05-15 What Is God Always Doing? 05-16 Convincing The Jews 05-17 Convincing The Jews, Response 1 05-18 Convincing The Jews, Response 2 05-19 “Showing forth the Lord’s Death” 05-20 How Did The Spirit Come? 05-21 In A World Without God, Part 1 05-22 In A World Without God, Part 2 05-23 In A World Without God, Part 3 05-24 In A World Without God, Part 4 05-25 The Only True Thing 05-26 The Gospel Cannot Be Forced 05-27 Two Gospels 05-28 Doubt Leads to Damnation 05-29 What A Cult Is 05-30 Not Much of a Christian 05-31 God, Plus Zero

 

Thought for the Morning
5-30

Not Much of a Christian

Pastor John

I’m at work but I had to reply to this TFM.

WOW!!!!!!!

This statement is breathtaking! “The eventual result of Paul’s going to Mount Sinai was that the eternal gospel was revealed, the holy gospel that was to replace the gospel with which the disciples of Jesus began.”

I just love these non-christian truths. I mean, saying things like this is going to make you a hopeless heretic in the eyes of so many. Some will look for stones to pick up if they haven’t already. This statement along with the whole message of Galatians (and I haven’t heard what else you may have gleaned from the letter recently) destroys so many sacred cows. The truth puts the word of God so far above the bible and all cherished traditions. We can only stand in awe and say, “Yes, God.”

“Replace the gospel with which the disciples of Jesus began” .... I mean, whoooaaa, who did Paul think he was? Answer - nothing; he just heard from God, and because he was nothing in his own eyes, he did nothing but report what God said as earnestly as he could.

As I said once before did anyone ever tell you, you’re not much of a christian?

Well, somehow, back to work.

Damien

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Hi Damien:

I never was much of a Christian, even when I thought I was supposed to be. And I don’t believe that anybody else is either, if that person really wants what is right.

One wonderful thing about Paul’s gospel replacing Peter’s for the Jews is that it was done altogether in love. There was no strife on Paul’s part, no ill-will, just submission to the will of God. Jesus did it all while Paul just obeyed.

And Jesus is doing it all for us. We are non-Christians only because of God’s great mercy through Christ! Let us live in such a way that others are at least made to consider the possibility that it is God’s mercy that brought us to this place. Shame on us, if we, by doing evil, bring a reproach on the precious gift of being made non-Christian servants of Jesus. If we are sinful as non-Christians, we lay a great stumbling block before God’s children who are watching us and wondering. It is difficult enough for them to believe what God has done for us when we walk perfectly with Christ “outside the gate” of Christianity; but if we live sinfully before them, we are working with Satan against them, turning them away from the call of God for them to come out, too.

Pastor John