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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

OBAMA SLASHES MILITARY HEALTHCARE YET BUILDS $750,000 SOCCER FIELD FOR GUANTANAMO TERRORISTS

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The filthy Muslim brown noser doing what he does best:
give aid and comfort to the enemy!

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OBAMA SLASHES MILITARY HEALTHCARE YET BUILDS $750,000 SOCCER FIELD FOR GUANTANAMO TERRORISTS

The Obama administration is set to jack up military health insurance premiums by 345% and slash $12.9 billion worth of active duty and retiree Tricare coverage. Yet the very same day, plans were revealed to build a state of the art $750,000 soccer field for the terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay.
Obama's plan is to cut $1.8 billion from Tricare, the military's health insurance and medical system, in the fiscal 2013 budget, and a whopping $12.9 billion by 2017. Administration officials told Congress that the goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees out of military health coverage and instead onto the rolls of the ObamaCare system, including all that goes with it – Death Panels, Independent Payment Advisory Boards, the works.
Meanwhile, Fox News discovered that the administration is currently in the process of building a state of the art $750,000 soccer field for the terrorists held at Guantanamo. The detainees will now have a choice of three recreation centers while they "suffer" through their detainment.
Since when does America put the comfort of terrorists above the needs of the men and women who put their lives on the line every single day to keep us free?
Thankfully, some Congressmen are standing strong for our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines. "We shouldn't ask our military to pay our bills when we aren't willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population," Rep. "Buck" McKeon, (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "We can't keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more."
Our military men and women raised their hand and swore an oath to protect us. In return we agreed to take care of them and their families while they fought, bled and suffered for US. Fax Congress now. Tell them NO CUTS TO MILITARY HEALTHCARE!

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TOUCH NOT GOD'S ANOINTED by David Cloud (FBIS)

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Ah! Does this not sound so very familiar to me!
Indeed, the likes of Matthew Furan, of Calvary Baptist Church in Niagara Falls, NY, claim to be "God's anointed," but are no more than the minions of Satan, always twisting Scripture to fit their EVIL motives!
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TOUCH NOT GOD'S ANOINTED
 MAY 30, 2012

(David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org)

One of the many tactics that some Independent Baptist preachers have used to remain above reproof and discipline is the misapplication of Scripture. 
One of these is Matthew 18:15-20. We have dealt with this several times in recent articles. The context has nothing to do with warning about a public preaching and teaching ministry. It has to do with personal offense. If Paul Chappell had committed some offense against me personally, that passage would come into play. But even then, it could not be pursued beyond a long-distance private discussion, because I am not a member of Chappell’s church and he lives on the other side of the world and I have no way to take someone with me to discuss things with him or to present the issue before his church (or my church, for that matter). 
Another Scripture that I have heard misapplied repeatedly over the past four decades is 1 Samuel 24:10, upon which is based the doctrine of “touch not God’s anointed.” David said, “Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD’S anointed.” 
The context has to do with killing an anointed king of Israel. Apparently some Independent Baptist preachers think they are kings. And they must also think that someone who reproves them is trying to kill them. 
Jack Hyles certainly acted like a king and put himself above reproof and discipline, and so does Jack Schaap and many others who are imitating this exceedingly unscriptural, ungodly type of pastoral model. 
But even an Israelite king was not above reproof. David didn’t kill King Saul, but the prophet Samuel did not draw back from reproving the sorry old king, and the prophet Nathan did not draw back from reproving King David, and we could give many other examples. 
A Baptist pastor is not an Israelite king, but even kings could be reproved by God’s preachers. And so can Baptist pastors.  
Titus 2:15   These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
2 Timothy 4:1-2   I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;  2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

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THOSE FUNDAMENTAL PHARISEES by David Cloud (FBIS)

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THOSE FUNDAMENTAL PHARISEES
 MAY 29, 2012

(first published AUGUST 2, 1996) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org)

 
Christians who have unbending biblical convictions and are “strict” in their approach to Christian living and separation from sin and error are often labeled “Pharisees.” 
 
Many of the Promise Keepers supporters who wrote in the 1990s to rebuke me for reproving their movement, called me a Pharisee. 
 
Consider a couple of examples:
 
“I wonder what makes Mr. Cloud so sure he’s right and everybody else is wrong? Look at the Pharisees, Mr. Cloud, and then look in the mirror!” 
 
“You’re the best example I think I’ve ever seen of the Pharisee who sits at the front of the synagogue giving thanks for not being a sinner like everyone else.”
 
To label a Bible-believing Christian who is passionate to honor Christ and to obey God’s Word a Pharisee is a slander, because the error of Phariseeism was not their zeal to obey the Scripture. They had no such zeal. They were zealous, rather, to create their own religious system and to exalt their own self-righteousness. 
 
Though the term “Pharisee” is thrown around a lot today, particularly by the contemporary crowd, it must be defined biblically. 
 
(1) Phariseeism is supplanting the Word of God with man-made tradition and thereby making the Word of God of none effect. “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Mat. 15:7-9).
 
(2) Phariseeism is rejecting Jesus Christ. “Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils” (Mat. 12:22-24).
 
(3) Phariseeism is perverting the Gospel of the free grace of Christ into a work’s salvation. “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves” (Mat. 23:15).
 
(4) Phariseeism is self-righteousness. “And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess” (Lk. 18:9-12).
 
(5) Phariseeism is the practice of religious hypocrisy. “In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy” (Lk. 12:1). 
 
The Pharisees were at the forefront of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and of the persecution of the early Christians.
 
It is a great error to label a Christ-loving, Bible-honoring, grace-gospel-preaching, self-debasing, peace-loving Christian a Pharisee. 
 
Jesus’ anger at the Pharisees was not because they loved God’s Word and took it too seriously! It was not because they were careful to honor the details of God’s Word. Never did Jesus reprove them for such a thing. 
 
Zeal for God’s Word is right. The following testimony expresses the very essence of true spirituality and godliness:
 
“Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way” (Psalms 119:128).
 
Was the Psalmist speaking here as a Pharisee? Of course not. It is spiritual to esteem all of God’s precepts concerning all things to be right and to hate everything that is contrary to God’s precepts. Note the emphasis on ALL precepts and ALL things and EVERY false way. This is the very strictest sort of Biblicist mindset, and it is held forth in the pages of God’s Word as the correct mindset and attitude of the man who loves God passionately.
 
Jesus reproved the Pharisees for turning the law of Moses into a way of salvation, which it was never intended to be, and for their hypocrisy and for their lack of love and grace and compassion. Consider the following reproof:
 
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone” (Matthew 23:23).
 
Jesus didn’t say, “You Pharisees make far too much of tithing and other such things in God’s law. You are much too zealous for God’s Word. Don’t you know that God never intended you to take everything so strictly. Why don’t you lighten up?” 
 
No, Jesus said they did well to take God’s Word strictly by honoring even the details of tithing. What He hated was that they had missed the heart and soul of the Law, which was judgment, mercy, and faith. The Law was not given as a means to obtain righteousness; rather, it revealed God’s extreme holiness and man’s fallenness and pointed to Christ as the believing sinner’s justification (Rom. 3:19-24; Gal. 3:10-13, 24-25). The Pharisees missed the heart of the Law which is to love God with all one’s heart and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. The fact that they were complicit in the death of the Son of God is clear evidence that they did not love God. 
 
Candidly, there are a lot of fundamental Baptist preachers that I have little respect for, but I don’t know of any full-blown fundamentalist Pharisees. We believe too much in grace and delight too much in God’s free righteousness. There is hypocrisy, though, and there is an element of true legalism within the IFB movement. I have warned about this often. (See, for example, my new free eBook THE TWO JACKS, which is available at the Way of Life web site, www.wayoflife.org.) 
 
While I can’t speak for everyone, I can speak for myself. And I don't preach works for salvation and I don't preach works for sanctification. Everything is by God's grace and His grace alone. That might not come across in any one particular sermon, but it is clear in my thinking and in the overall perspective of my ministry. As for hypocrisy, I don't always live up to what I preach. Far from it, but I confess my sins to God (and to man when the situation necessitates) and don't pretend to any self-righteousness. I know at every moment that the only righteousness I have that is acceptable to God is in Christ and in Christ alone. That is not Phariseeism. 
 
We see in Matthew 23:23 that Christ did not rebuke the Pharisees for paying attention to the less weighty things in the law. He rebuked them for focusing on the lesser matters to the neglect of the weightier ones. 
 
The Bible-believing “fundamentalists” that I know do not neglect the weightier matters of the New Testament faith. They aim, rather, to follow Paul’s example and to give heed to “the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27). They preach the virgin birth, blood atonement, resurrection, and ascension of Christ and justification by grace and the Trinity and the personality of the Holy Spirit and the other “weightier” matters of the faith, but they also preach church discipline (1 Cor. 5) and the restrictions upon the woman’s ministry (1 Tim. 2:12; 1 Cor. 14:34) and due order among men and women, which even touches on their hair styles (1 Cor. 11:1-16) and other things that are less weighty. 
 
When a Christian today preaches against pop music and Hollywood’s filth and calls for modest dress, he is called a Pharisee, but the Bible demands a very strict separation from the world, and this is not Phariseeism; it is New Testament Christianity. Following are just some of the commandments on this issue, and they are indeed commandments and not suggestions. 
 
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Romans 12:2).
 
“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God” (2 Corinthians 7:1).
 
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” (Galatians 6:14).
 
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11).
 
“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” (Titus 2:11-12).
 
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27).
 
“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God” (James 4:4).
 
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul” (1 Peter 2:11).
 
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever” (1 John 2:15-17).
 
“And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness” (1 John 5:19).
 
Separation from the world by a born again, blood-washed, saved-by-grace-alone believer is not Phariseeism. It is obedience to God and conformity to His character and will.
 
The Pharisees were at the forefront of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and of the persecution of the early Christians.
 
It is a great slander to label a Christ-loving, Bible-honoring, grace-gospel-preaching, self-debasing, peace-loving Christian a Pharisee. 
 
The modern Pharisee would be more akin to the Roman Catholic priest with his sacramental gospel and his traditions exalted to the place of Scripture and his long history of persecuting the saints. The ecumenical crowd doesn’t call Catholic priests Pharisees, though. They don’t seem to be concerned about all of the souls who have been led astray by these contemporary Pharisees. 
 
The only men they seem to be concerned about are those dreadful old “fundamentalists” with their strong Bible convictions and their refusal to smile at error. Oh, those dreadful fundamentalist Pharisees!


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Friday, May 25, 2012

Vatican Now Trying to Steal the KJV by David Daniels (Chick Publications)

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Vatican Now Trying to Steal the KJV
Issue Date: May/June 2012 

“If it had not been for the Catholics of the 1500s there would be no King James Bible.”

If it were possible, 60 million corpses would be “turning over in their graves” in response to the arrogance of this lie. Cary Summers, organizer of a recent Bible exhibit in the Vatican is quoted by the Catholic News Agency during a CNA tour of the display. Summers goes on to explain: “Many of the original bibles that formed the basis of the King James Bible came from Catholic priests. Very few changes were made. The ancient writings that the King James writers actually mimicked and copied were by Catholic priests.”

What appalling hypocrisy that popery would believe that the world has forgotten their bloody inquisition that slaughtered millions of Bible believers who stood on the KJV as God’s word for the common man.

The Bible exhibit, called Verbum Domini (Word of the Lord) is an unprecedented collection of some 40,000 artifacts. It is another ploy by the pope to coax members of other “faiths” into his ecumenical trap. Rare Jewish, Protestant and Orthodox artifacts are included to “manifest a ‘shared love of God’s word’ that exists among those religions.”

Central to the display was the Green Collection, “…the world’s newest and largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts,” named for the Steve Green family, owners of the arts and crafts retailer, Hobby Lobby.

In order to shed more light on the boldness of this lie, BATTLE CRY interviewed David W. Daniels, author of the book, Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?

BC: What have you found in your research as the connection of Roman Catholicism to the KJV?
Daniels: The Vatican has it backwards. Rome would not have a Bible to pervert, if it were not for the preserved words of God that we have in the King James Bible.

BC: So, how did this come about?
Daniels: There are two streams of bibles: the preserved stream that flows right through history with God’s faithful people passing it down word for word, from generation to generation, from hiding place to hiding place, until the printing press enabled them to spread it openly for the whole world to enjoy. This stream ends at a fountain of life, the KJV.

BC: Was the pope part of this process?
Daniels: Absolutely! The popes fought it every inch of the way. And from the beginning, the Devil used his scholars, (who, by the way, couldn’t agree on anything) to create a second stream of manuscripts, full of contradictions and perversions. The “Whore of Babylon” (See Rev. 17 and 18) hated the preserved Bible. But they couldn’t kill all the believers or simply substitute their own bible, because God kept His promise to preserve His words. As Jesus said: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”

BC: So, they switched tactics?
Daniels: Yes. Since burning Bibles (and people at the stake), failed to stop God’s preserved words in the KJV, Rome claimed to “fix” it with “scholarly” and “easier to read” bibles, switching the text to the perverted manuscripts.

Westcott and Hort aided the plot by pasting together a Greek New Testament from the polluted stream of manuscripts. Now Christians are bombarded with so many fake bibles that nobody knows what to believe. Solid faith in God’s Bible has been replaced by Satan’s doubt-making “Yea, hath God said?” So popes can take credit for most bibles on the market—but not the KJV.

For complete details of these two streams, see Did the Catholic Church give us the Bible? available from Chick Publications.


Related post:
The Real Bible Version Issue EXPOSED!! by Bryan Denlinger
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The Judgment Seat of Christ by Harold Sightler

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This is a BEAUTIFUL sermon, so very concise as to who will be where when it is we are judged!

I encourage all to please hear it!

There is therefore now no condemnation 
to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:1 (King James Bible)

The Judgment Seat of Christ 

by Harold Sightler



Published on May 25, 2012 by
 
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
2 Corinthians 5:6-11


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Thursday, May 24, 2012

"SHORT-TERM MISSIONS!" UPDATED!!

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This is, just about, the sorest spot for me! 
I feel nothing but outrage when hearing of such "mission work!"
I commented on this video, but doubt these be up for long, so I transfer them here.

"A local body of believers is alive and thriving!" is heard said in the video! THAT IS TRUE!
Just how much more it would be thriving, if the money wasted by these who sought no more than a thrill, were given to them who would employ it in a much more productive way for the glory of God!

The video editorial says these "selfless" team of 30 WORKERS were living and working there amongst the needy!  Ha Ha Ha!  Isn't that funny!  Notice the environment from which some give their testimony, IN A COMFORTABLE HOTEL ROOM, WITH ELECTRICITY AND RUNNING WATER!!
 

THE SHEER HYPOCRISY! Thirty workers! Can anyone add up the tab? Can one not also see how some of these who make for no more than "curiosity" might have been gotten out of their dire conditions if given a chance to live decently and help spread the word of God? 

Amazing to see the "itch" someone had to travel! This pastor's church's channel, boasts of the following list of trips already taken:


Zambia 2005, London 2005, Finland 2005,  
Colombia 2006, France 2006, Argentina 2006.

Can't you just see how thrilled the "poor" in London, France and Finland were to see American "missionaries?"  Indeed!  A godsend so desperately in need are these for "short-term missionaries," or, if you wish, "church refreshers," as we hear in another video (France)!  Such conceit! Right here in the USA, there are dying churches, but we have to go abroad to "refresh" theirs!

It seems they are running behind with the uploads of these yearly trips of, at least, three countries per year! How disgusting! Just what does this church teach? Certainly not to be responsible stewards!! 

This is a shameless travesty!

Psalm 111:9 (King James Bible)

India (2006)

 

Published on May 24, 2012 by
 
A short-term missions team of volunteers travels to the red light districts of Mumbai and Pune to share the Gospel and the love of Christ with the sex workers and their children, as well as eunuchs, living and working there.

  • Unreal! The gall to call a "short-term mission," TWO WEEKS, TO BE PRECISE, a mission at all! By the time one gets there and gets acclimated, it is time to leave!
    Ah! But you leave patting each others' backs and say, just as Jane did "Well done!"
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    • I KNOW PASTORS IN INDIA AND NEPAL, who do mission work and are in it for the long haul, braving the terrain and the brutal weather [traveling to] villages far from home, giving out tracts, in less-than-comfortable or safe conditions, to spread the word of God, in training ministers to do the same, who could well use a minimal percentage of the thousands of dollars you waste on what IS NO MORE THAN A VACATION FOR YOU! JUST ANOTHER THRILLING EXPERIENCE!!
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    • This is no more than theft of God's money, when it is you must finance such vacations through donations, which is what is INVARIABLY done!
      I see on your channel that you have done a good job of traveling the world over and calling it MISSION WORK!
      DISGUSTING!! SHAME ON YOU!
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And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Colossians 3:23






Just got through posting this on my channel!
Hopefully, it might awaken some into doing the right thing!

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RainhadoCanto11 posted:
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Colossians 3:23
I cannot help but think such admonishment to mean doing it as well as it can be done. Yet, I see so many, who presumably do "soul-winning," who be it putting up videos or texts, to just do it sloppily, putting it up to be the ultimate goal! Such videos and text are not viewed, and do no more than frustrate the viewer!
What is, then, the return gotten here for Christ?
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RainhadoCanto11 posted:
It is not! If a video, it HAS TO BE one that can be heard without necessitating one have their ear glued to the speaker! It [is] horribly uncomfortable to be in one such position for the duration of the hour or so of a sermon, etc., for some; for others it to be just downright [physically] painful!
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RainhadoCanto11 posted:
In texts, that there be the required "breathing" through paragraphs! I am dumbfounded that there be some who expect people can read what looks to be all in one unending paragraph! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to dissect such writings!
All of which would achieve the utmost result if only the "producer" put some zeal into it, as per Colossians 3:23
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

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Notice to this blog's followers

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Not always do I get to inspect, soon enough, who is following this blog, but, if and when I do, I find the company they keep with other blogs, or their own, to raise my eyebrows, he or she will be blocked, most unceremoniously!
Be not deceived:
evil communications corrupt good manners.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:22

I DO, MOST EMPHATICALLY!


IN ESSENTIALS UNITY [NOT!!] by David Cloud, FBIS

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IN ESSENTIALS UNITY [NOT!!!!]
 MAY 24, 2012

(first published March 18, 2010)(David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org)

The modern evangelical philosophy is often stated by the dictum, “In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.” 
 
Though commonly attributed to Augustine, it was apparently first stated by the 17th-century Lutheran Rupertus Meldenius (a.k.a. Peter Meiderlin). 
 
It became the rallying cry of the Moravians, who had a wonderful missionary zeal but retained such Romanist heresies as infant baptism and an ordained priesthood and who promoted unity above the absolute truth of God’s Word. 
 
The “essentials unity” principle was adopted by the fundamentalist movement of the first half of the 20th century. Fundamentalism focused on a unity built around “the fundamentals of the faith” while downplaying “minor issues.” The pragmatic objective was to create the largest possible united front against theological modernism. 
 
This has been a hallmark of the Southern Baptist Convention, as well. In describing why he is glad to be a Southern Baptist, Pastor Ben Simpson says, “I'm captivated by the commitment to unity in the essentials and mission of Christ while allowing diversity in the nonessentials and methodology” (“Two Divergent Views from Young Pastors,” Baptist Press, April 14, 2011). 
 
SBC leaders David Dockery, Timothy George, and Thom Rainer express the prevailing philosophy in the following words: 
 
“Though I may disagree with some on secondary and tertiary issues, I will not let those points of disagreement tear down bridges of relationships with brothers and sisters in Christ. ... We need a new spirit of mutual respect and humility to serve together with those with whom we have differences of conviction and opinion. It is possible to hold hands with brothers and sisters who disagree on secondary and tertiary matters of theology...” (Building Bridges, 2007, pp. 11, 34).
 
This dictum has been an integral philosophy of New Evangelicalism. They might stand for ten or twenty or thirty “cardinals,” but they refuse to make an issue of the WHOLE counsel of God. Particularly when it comes to one’s associations, they believe that there are “non-essentials” that should not get in the way of unity.
 
Many Independent Baptists are now buying into this heresy. 
 
The Independent Baptist Friends International conference in 2010, hosted by Clarence Sexton of Crown College, was based on this premise, that such things as the Bible text issue, dress, music, Calvinism, modes and candidates of baptism, and separation from the SBC are “non-essentials” that should not hinder fellowship and associating together for the sake of evangelism and world missions. 
 
In his book Thinking Outside the Box, Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) leader Charles Keen said: 
 
“I’m a slow learner, but I finally realized that not all truth is of equal value. Some truths I differ from others and divide over even die for (as least I should). With others, I might be uncomfortable with how they are handled by my brethren, but I can still fellowship with them either personally or in some cases, ecclesiastically. We need to develop some ‘ecumenicalism within the parameters of fundamentalism.’ ... Let’s decide who the enemies of the cross are and divide from them. Then let’s decide who the friends of grace are and tolerate them. We don’t have to unite but we do need unity” (p. 81).
 
Clayton Reed of Southlake Baptist Church, Southlake, Texas, and head Global Church Planters, in his paper on “Ecclesiastical Separation,” says we should not separate over non-fundamentals. He quotes John Rice in saying that we should work with those who disagree on baptism, tongues, prophecy, election, association with SBC. Reed concludes, “We ought to join every willing, warm-hearted Christian in advancing our Lord’s kingdom while it is day.”
 
Kevin Bauder, president of Central Baptist Seminary in Minnesota, praises “conservative evangelicals” in his blog and promotes the “non-essential” philosophy: 
 
“Conservative evangelicalism encompasses a diverse spectrum of Christian leaders. John Piper, Mark Dever, John MacArthur, D. A. Carson, Al Mohler, R. C. Sproul ... These individuals and organizations exhibit a remarkable range of differences, but they can be classed together because of their vigorous commitment to and defense of the gospel” (In the Nick of Time, Bauder’s blog, March 2010).
 
In a mailing to its alumni announcing its February 2011 National Leadership Conference, Calvary Baptist Seminary of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, stated: 
 
“We should grant each other the freedom to hold differing viewpoints and to refrain from caustic letter-writing campaigns to or about those with whom one might differ. ... in our zeal to earnestly contend for the faith, fundamentalism became more concerned about MINOR ISSUES and less concerned about what the Bible clearly presents as THE MAJORS” (Aug. 25, 2010). 
 
The “minor issues” are alleged to be such things as which Greek text or English translation to use, dress standards, musical styles, election, and baptism. We are told that such things should not determine fellowship. The seminary used this philosophy to explain why they invited Ed Welsh, a Presbyterian, as a speaker to their annual National Leadership Conference in 2009 and New Evangelical Southern Baptist Mark Dever in 2010. (Dever’s church, Capitol Hill Baptist in Washington, D.C., is a member of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention, which is partnered with the very liberal American Baptist Church, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and Baptist World Alliance.) 
 
There is no support in the Bible for the “in non-essentials liberty” doctrine. It is a man-made heresy created to further a pragmatic objective.  
 
Consider the Old Testament law. Its requirement was summarized in Deuteronomy 27:26, which Paul cited as follows -- “Cursed is every one that continueth not in ALL things which are written in the book of the law to do them” (Galatians 3:10). To foist a “non-essential” philosophy on the law of Moses would destroy its effectiveness to convict of sin and to be the schoolmaster to lead to Christ (Rom. 3:19; Gal. 3:24). 
 
There is no “non-essential” philosophy in the New Testament, either. 
 
The Lord Jesus Christ commanded His disciples to teach their converts “to observe ALL things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Mat. 28:20).
 
The apostle Paul reminded the elders at Ephesus that the reason he was free from the blood of all men was that he had preached the WHOLE counsel of God (Acts 20:27). 
 
The more plainly and fervently you preach the whole counsel of God, the less likely it will be that you will join hands in ministry with those who hold different doctrine.
 
Paul instructed Timothy to keep the truth “without SPOT, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Tim. 6:14). A spot is a small, seemingly insignificant thing. That particular epistle contains commandments about such things as the woman’s role in ministry, which is widely considered a “non-essential” today. Paul taught Timothy to have an entirely different approach toward such teachings. 
 
In 1 Corinthians 11:2 Paul said to the church at Corinth, “Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in ALL things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.” This passage deals with hair length and the Lord’s Supper, which are widely considered to be “non-essentials,” yet Paul praised the church for remembering him in ALL things.
 
We know that not all doctrine has the same significance and weight, but none of it is “non-essential” in any sense.  
 
I challenge anyone to show me where the Scripture encourages the believer to treat some doctrine as “non-essential” or to “stand for the cardinal truths and downplay the peripherals.” 
 
Some try to use Romans 14 to support this philosophy, but Romans 14 does not say that some Bible doctrine is non-essential. It says that we are to allow one another liberty in matters in which the Bible is silent! The examples that Paul gives to illustrate his teaching are diet and keeping of holy days. Those are things that the New Testament faith is silent about. There is no doctrine of diet in the New Testament, so it is strictly a matter of Christian liberty. 
 
This reminds us that the only true “non-essential” is a personal opinion not based solidly upon Scripture. 
 
Jude instructed every believer to “earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). As Jude did not delineate what part of the faith is to be defended, the obvious meaning is that we should defend whatever aspect of the faith is under attack at a particular time. 
 
Since the Bible doesn’t identify a “non-essential” doctrine, who is to say what this might be? 
 
The fact is that once an individual adopts the “non-essentials” philosophy, his list of “non-essentials” tends to grow as time passes and as his associations broaden. It is a slippery slope.


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