Delay In Judgment
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
The
Scriptures leave no doubt that the Lord Jesus Christ will come to this
earth again, “in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not
God” and who “receive not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved” (II Thes. 1:8; 2:10). Nor will He forget His promise to give the
twelve apostles thrones in His kingdom (Matt. 19:28). There can be no
successors to Peter and the eleven, for they themselves are to reign
with Christ in glory. What is happening now is a parenthesis in God’s
prophesied program. Delaying Christ’s return to judge and reign. God
chose another apostle, separate from the twelve, to bring a message of
grace to this Christ-rejecting world. How great is His mercy and love!
And
how are men saved today? How are their sins remitted? Must they come to
some recognized authority and be “baptized for the remission of sins”?
Some, still following Peter rather than Paul, say, “Yes.” But let us see
what St. Paul, by divine inspiration, has to say about this.
“FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED, THROUGH FAITH, AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD: NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST” (Eph. 2:8,9).“NOT BY WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH WE HAVE DONE, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY HE SAVED US, BY THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST” (Tit. 3:5).
This
stands in striking contrast to Peter’s “Repent and be baptized… for the
remission of sins” (Acts 2:38). It stands in contrast, also, to the
words of the so-called “Great Commission”: “He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved” (Mark 16:16). Does not this indicate that a
change in dispensation took place with the raising up of Paul, that
other apostle?
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