john 3x3
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. ASV
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Commentary
This verse contains... ~no~ exceptions.
Idiot!! Read it again boob. Jesus says.... EXCEPT....
What I meant is there are no exceptions to the New Birth. It's either, be born from above or the Lake of Fire.
The Greek word 'anothen', Strong's # 509 means 'from above'.
Unless one is born from above he's lost. He can't even see much less enter into the KOG.
And conversely; If a person cannot see the KOG he ain't born from above,.. no matter how loud he says "Jesus".
There are many in our day who read the Bible, go to church, say
"Jesus" and even preach and teach, who are Unregenerate. This is why
God put Mat 7:21-23 in the Bible. You show them the Kingdom of God by
showing them the truth and they are blind as bats. One identifying mark
of such people is that they defend False doctrine and "error". You tell
them of the glory of the Atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ and they
say things like... "yes that's true but you don't have to believe all
the finer points of the Extent of the Atonement... who Christ died
for!" Or worse... "Yes it's true that Christ only died for the elect
but shh-h-h-h-h.... dont' tell no one when you Evangelize because this
is an "in house" doctrine. The "extent of the Atonement has no place in
the Gospel"! This is a "family matter" meant for Christians only and
not for evangelism. [A 'pastor' actually said this & if you want
the url write me & you can hear it for yourself.] Well then
the question is... if we're not supposed to tell unsaved people the
glorious truth that Messiah completely Atoned for every sin of every
person in whose place He stood thereby sealing and guaranteeing the
salvation of ALL the Elect of God... what in the name of Boodah do we
tell them? Well I'm here to tell you folks that... if you don't tell
unsaved people that the Lord Jesus died for His sheep, the Elect of
God, His Ekklesia [not "church". There is no "church" anywhere in the
entire Bible] and them only, then there are only 2 other
alternatives. You will hafta tell them He either died for no one at all
in particular, in which case no one at all will be saved, or... he died
for everyone in the entire human race, which is Arminianism, which is a
false gospel!
Moreover all the Arminians are going around telling
everybody that Christ has died for them because he died for everybody..
thereby preaching their false doctrine of the extent of the Atonement
but those of us who believe the truth are not supposed to preach the
true doctrine of the Extent? How marvelous. Let the Arminians have
their day with their false gospel that Christ died for everybody in the
entire human race including all those who were already in Hell before
the cross, the anti-christ and man of sin in 2Thes as well as all who
are totally unsavable because they have committed the unpardonable sin
against the Holy Spirit... Armininans can preach their blasphemous
"extent of the Atonement" while true Christians must keep their mouths
shut?
What stuff!
Escape hatch; You tell them that Christ died for sinners. 1Tim 1:15
Proverb; Nebulosity is the mother of stagnation.
This is like throwing gasoline on a fire folks. Why? Because; your
average man on the street who you will most likely be presenting
Christianity to, has never read one word on the discipline of Logic and
is like a rowboat without oars in the middle of the ocean when it comes
to correct thinking. Therefore he will reason, incorrectly so, in the
following manner; "Hummnnn... Christ died for sinners; O'm a sinner,
therefore Christ died for me." Voila says the false evangelist. Because
the false evangelist's false gospel says... as long as you believe "He
died for Me" you're in. You're saved. Don't be concerned about the
"extent" of the Atonement because that's not "part of the gospel". Just
believe He died for You! Yet such thinking is indicative of
contradictory mental insanity because you see folks... "Christ died for
-ME-" ~~IS~~ the "extent" of the Atonement. Because you see, when
you say "Christ died for...." and put something -after- the "for" you
are preaching the Extent of the Atonement. This matter of the so-called
"extent" of the Atonement is a doctrine that is hated with a passion by
men who give lip-service to the so-called Dok-trines of Grace but
refuse to preach these glorious doctrines, because they want to speak
peace to Arminians who believe their false jesus died for the reprobate.
Now I ask you... why should we expect anybody to believe something that
may or may not be true? What if you were talking to a reprobate who
Christ never died for and you tell him ... Just "believe he died for
-you-" and you're saved.? There is such a Biblical thing as a
temporary, unregenerate believer who Christ never died for. Mat 7:21-23
/ Luk 8:13. Further You will not find that saying anywhere in the
entire Bible including Acts which is the Zenith of NT preaching of the
Gospel. No one in the Bible ever preached "Christ died for sinners" or
"Just believe he died for -you-". According to the Scriptures the
central focus of the preaching of the Gospel was the resurrection of
Messiah from the dead followed by a command to repent. That's what the
book of Ax is all about. Yet even that book is not void of the
Atonement. Was not the Ethopian Eunuch reading from Isaiah 53, the most
glorious passage in the OT showing Messiah Atoning for the sins of His
people, His sheep, and them only? Do you think Philip preached to
him... "Christ died for sinners" and left it at that? Or worse, do you
think Philip told the Eunuch to "Just believe he died for -you-"?! Not
a chance.
Worse yet the average man on the street will further reason,
incorrectly;... Hummnn...Christ died for sinners; All men are sinners,
therefore... Voila; Christ died for everybody." In fact this is
exactly what you are telling people... that Christ died for everybody,
by -not- telling them he died for the elect and them only. And/or by
saying "Christ died for sinners" with no explanation. Count on it; if
you leave an unregenerate man to reason out what you failed to explain
he will reason a false God-dishonoring notion of salvation every time;
guaranteed. So by your silence you are in effect preaching the Arminian
false gospel of Universal Atonement! This is Satanically Subtle and
will damn men in the end if they embrace it as truth when it is in fact
a lie. If you tell an audience that "Christ died for sinners" with no
explanation of what that means, and there are reprobates in that
audience, you leave them thinking Christ died for them, which is false.
You just preached a lie!
More... what is the "evangelist" doing when he omits such an important,
major and Glorious element of the Atonement as who precisely it is for
whom Christ died? He's holding back folks! He's in effect, suppressing,
or as Paul says, he's holding the truth in unrighteousness! Rom_1:18
and such people, says Paul, are under the wrath of God. Swallow that
one for a few!
The Gospel, ladies & gentlemen, is......
You shall call His name Jesus for... it is He who shall save...
sinners!!!??? No sir! That's a False Gospel. It is not according to the
Scriptures. According to the Scriptures the Gospe;l is... it is
He who shall save... HIS PEOPLE, from their sins.
John
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