One
of the chief reasons why so many sincere religious people are left in doubt and
uncertainty as to salvation is because the organized Church has rebelled
against a distinct and important revelation from God to us who live in this
present age. This revelation is found in the inspired words of Paul, in Rom. 11:13:
“For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch
as I am the apostle of the Gentiles. I magnify mine office.”
Many
minimize that which the Word of God magnifies here. They insist upon following
Peter rather than Paul, failing to see that Peter’s authority concerned the
now-rejected kingdom of Christ on earth over Israel and the nations. Our Lord
had said to His twelve apostles:
“Verily I say unto you, that ye which
have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the
throne of His glory, YE ALSO SHALL SIT UPON TWELVE THRONES, JUDGING THE TWELVE
TRIBES OF ISRAEL” (Matt.19:28).
Surely
there are no twelve tribes in the Church today, nor was any provision, specific
or implied, made by our Lord for “apostolic succession.” This dogma is built
upon the unscriptural assumption that the Church today is the kingdom which
Christ established when on earth, and that our ministry today is but a
perpetuation of that which the twelve began.
The
fact is that the ministry of the twelve was halted by the rejection of the King
and His kingdom and that the apostles themselves finally agreed to turn their
proposed Gentile ministry over to Paul, that other apostle, to whom had been
committed “the gospel of the grace of God” (Read carefully, Gal. 2:2-9 and Acts20:24).
If
only the confused religious masses could see that when Israel joined the
Gentiles in rebellion against God, when the world’s sin had risen to its height
and all was ready for judgment, God revealed “the exceeding riches of His
grace” by saving Saul, the chief of sinners, and sending him forth as both the
herald and the living example of His grace! Thus he writes:
“Moreover the law entered, that the
offence might abound, BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND: “THAT
AS SIN HATH REIGNED UNTO DEATH, EVEN SO MIGHT GRACE REIGN, through
righteousness, unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom.
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How God Saves
Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read
Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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Posted By Cecil and Connie Spivey
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