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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (11164)3/8/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 39621
 
John 3:16
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life."

I Tim. 2:3-5
3 "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus,
6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony born at the proper time.

Matt. 16:26-27
26 "For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul?
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
27 For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and
will THEN RECOMPENSE EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS."

Hebrews 1:1-4
1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in
many ways,
2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir to all things,
through whom also He made the world.
3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and
upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins,
He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4 having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent
name than they.

Romans 8:1-2
1 "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and
of death."

Hebrews 2:3
how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? ....

Philippians 2:5-11
5 Have this attitude in yourselves that was in Christ Jesus,
6 who, although He existed in the form of God, he did not regard equality with
God a thing to be grasped,
7 but He emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made
in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming
obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name
which is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in
heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth,
11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.

Jesus was in heaven with God before He came to be a man on earth. He came here to
do God the Father's will as His Son and by doing this reconcile mankind to God, all
those who believe in Jesus as their Savior.

Acts 4:10-12
10 let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of
Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead- by
this name this man stands here before you in good health.
11 He (Jesus) is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS,
but WHICH BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone.
12 And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that
has been given among men, by which we must be saved.

The Deity of Jesus Christ

John 1:1-5;
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came into being by Him; and apart from Him nothing came into being that
has come into being.
4 In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness did not comprehend it.

11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of
God, even to those who believe in His name,
13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God.

14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory
as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth was realized through Jesus
Christ.
18 No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom
of the Father, He has explained Him.

From these scriptures we see Jesus revealed as God Himself who came to us in the
form of a man. God the Father in heaven, God the Son who came to us and now sits at
the right hand of the Father waiting the time to return again, and the Holy Spirit from
God that dwells in all those who believe and have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and
Savior. Jesus is the only name appointed by which men must be saved.

In John 10:30 Jesus said this.

"I and the Father are one."



To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (11164)3/8/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 39621
 
Truth Has Two Wings

Truth like a bird cannot fly on one wing. Yet we are forever trying to take off with one
wing flapping furiously and the other tucked neatly out of sight.
I believe it was Dr. G. Campbell Morgan who said that the whole truth does not lie in
"It is written," but in "It is written" and "again it is written." The second text must be
placed over against the first to balance it and give it symmetry, just as the right wing
must
work along with the left to balance the bird and enable it to fly.
Many of the doctrinal divisions among the churches are the result of a blind and
stubborn insistence that truth has but one wing. Each side holds tenaciously to one text,
refusing grimly to acknowledge the validity of the other. This error is an evil among
churches, but it is a real tragedy when it gets into the hearts of individual Christians and
begins to affect their devotional lives.
Lack of balance in the Christian life is often the direct consequence of over-emphasis
on certain favorite text, with a corresponding under-emphasis on other related ones.
For it is not denial only that makes a truth void; failure to emphasize it will in the long
run will be equally damaging. And this puts us in the odd position of holding a truth
theoretically while we make it of no effect by neglecting it in practice. Unused truth
becomes as useless as an unused muscle.

Sometimes our dogmatic insistence upon "It is written" and our refusal to hear "Again it
is written" makes heretics of us, our heresy being the non-creedal variety which does
not rouse the opposition of the theologians. One example of this is the teaching that
crops up now and again having to do with confession of sin.It goes like this: Christ died
for our sins, not only for all we have committed but for all we may yet commit for the
remainder of our lives. When we accept Christ we receive the benefit of everything He
did for us in His dying and rising again. In Christ all our current sins are forgiven
beforehand. It is therefore unnecessary for us to confess our sins. In Christ they are
already forgiven.
Now this is completely wrong, and it is all the more wrong because it is half right. It is
true that Christ died for all our sins, but it is not true that because Christ died for all our
sins we need not confess that we have sinned when we have. This conclusion does not
follow from that premise.
It is written that Christ died for our sins, and again it is written that "if we confess our
sins,He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins" (1John 1:9). These two texts are
written of the same company of persons, namely Christians. We dare not compel the
first text the first text to invalidate the second. Both are true and one completes the
other. The meaning of the two is that since Christ died for our sins if we confess our
sins they will be forgiven. To teach otherwise is to attempt to fly on one wing.

Another example: I have met some people that think it is wrong to pray for the same
thing twice, the reason being that if we truly believe when we pray we have the answer
the first time; any second prayer betrays the unbelief of the first; ergo, let there be no
second prayer.
There are three things wrong with this teaching. One is that it ignores a large body of
Scripture; the second is that it rarely works in practice, even for the saintliest soul; and
the third is that, if persisted in, it robs the praying man of two of his mightiest weapons
in his warfare with the flesh and the devil, viz., intercession and petition.
For let it be said without qualification that the effective intercessor is never a
one-prayer man, neither does the successful petitioner win his mighty victories in his
first attempt. Had David subscribed to the one-prayer creed he would have reduced
his psalms to about one-third their present length. Elijah would not have prayed seven
times for rain (and incidentally, there would have been no rain, either), our Lord would
not have prayed the third time " saying the same words," nor would Paul have
"besought the Lord thrice" for the removal of his thorn. In fact, if this teaching were
true, much wonderful Biblical narrative would have to be rewritten, for the Bible has
much to say about continued and persistent prayer.

One thing hidden in such teachings as have been mentioned above is unconscious
spiritual pride. The Christian who refuses to confess sin on the ground that it is already
forgiven is setting himself above prophet and psalmist and all the saints who have left
anything on record about themselves from Paul to the present time. These did not hide
their sins behind a syllogism, but eagerly and fully confessed them. Perhaps that is why
they were such great souls and those who claim to have found a better way are so
small.
And has but to note the smug smile of superiority on the face of the one-prayer
Christian to sense that there is a lot of pride behind the smile. While other Christians
wrestle with God in an agony of intercession they sit back in humble pride waiting it
out. They do not pray because they have already prayed. The devil has no fear of such
Christians. He has already won over them, and his technique has been false logic.
Lets use both wings. We'll get further that way.

A.W. Tozer
from That Incredible Christian