EPISODE · Jul 31, 2022 · 1H 51M
JESUS CAN’T, CAN HE, GIVE AWAY HIS RIGHTEOUSNES LEST HE HAVE NO RIGHTEOUSNESS, OR CAN HE?
from MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN BY BRINGING BACK THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF EARLY AMERICA: GEORGE WHITEFIELD · host Wayne Sencenbaugh
OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL FRIENDS ARE ABOUT 1/2 INCH DEEP AND A THOUSAND MILES WIDE WHEN IT COMES TO DOCTRINE, BUT THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE WITH MUCH CLARITY DIVES DEEP INTO UNDERSTANDING YET IS COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE. TRUTH IS ALWAYS FIRST BASED UPON SIMPLE SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS AND THEN DEDUCTIVELY REASONED FROM THOSE SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS. FOR EXAMPLE, IS IT NOT A SELF EVIDENT TRUTH, THAT IF HEAVEN IS HOLY, THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO BE HOLY IN ORDER TO GO TO HEAVEN: PRETTY SIMPLE IS IT NOT. ANOTHER SELF EVIDENT TRUTH THAT IS UNDENIABLE, IS THAT WE ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD WITH THE INERADICABLE EVIL PROCLIVITY OF LYING IN OUR HEART. THEREFORE SINCE WE ARE LIARS BY NATURE, WE ARE NOT HOLY, AND THEREFORE INADMISSIBLE TO HEAVEN. FORGIVENESS DOES NOT MAKE US UNHOLY AND THUS FORGIVENESS CANNOT GET US INTO HEAVEN ALONE. SO HOW DO WE BECOME HOLY? CAN JESUS GIVE AWAY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT DESTROYING HIS GODHEAD ETC. WE WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THIS IN THIS MESSAGE ALONG WITH MUCH MORE. THE FOLLOWING QUOTE IS FROM BOOK TWO OF PILGRIM’S PROGRESS IN WHICH CHRISTINA, PILGRIM’S WIFE IS INTRODUCED. “ Now I saw in my dream, that they went on, and GREAT-HEART went before them; so they went and came to the place where CHRISTIAN'S burden fell off his back and tumbled into a sepulchre. Here, then, they made a pause; and here also they blessed God. "Now," said CHRISTIANA, "it comes to my mind what was said to us at the gate; to wit, that we should have pardon by word and deed: by word, that is, by the promise; by deed, to wit, in the way it was obtained. What the promise is, of that I know something; but what is it to have pardon by deed, or in the way that it was obtained? Mr. GREAT-HEART, I suppose you know? wherefore, if you please, let us hear your discourse thereof." Great-heart. Pardon by the deed done is pardon obtained by some one for another that hath need thereof; not by the person pardoned, but in the way, saith another, in which I have obtained it. So, then, to speak to the question more largely, the pardon that you and MERCY and these boys have attained was obtained by another: to wit, by him that let you in at the gate. And he hath obtained it in this double way: he has performed righteousness to cover you; Chris. But if he parts with his righteousness to us, what will he have for himself? Great-heart. He has more righteousness than you have need of, or than he needs himself. Chris. Pray make that appear. Great-heart. With all my heart; but first I must premise that he of whom we are now about to speak is one that has not his fellow. He has two natures in one person--plain to be distinguished, impossible to be divided. Unto each of these natures a righteousness belongs; and each righteousness is essential to that nature. So that one may as easily cause the nature to be extinct, as to separate its justice or righteousness from it. Of these righteousnesses, therefore, we are not made partakers so as that they, or any of them, should be put upon us that we might be made just, and live thereby. SO WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO OUR ORIGINAL QUESTION, HOW CAN JESUS GIVE AWAY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND REMAIN JESUS, OR IS THERE SOME KIND OF SEPARATE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT HE CAN GIVE AWAY: LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE TO FIND OUT ALONG WITH MUCH MORE.
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OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL FRIENDS ARE ABOUT 1/2 INCH DEEP AND A THOUSAND MILES WIDE WHEN IT COMES TO DOCTRINE, BUT THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE WITH MUCH CLARITY DIVES DEEP INTO UNDERSTANDING YET IS COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE. TRUTH IS ALWAYS FIRST BASED UPON SIMPLE SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS AND THEN DEDUCTIVELY REASONED FROM THOSE SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS. FOR EXAMPLE, IS IT NOT A SELF EVIDENT TRUTH, THAT IF HEAVEN IS HOLY, THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO BE HOLY IN ORDER TO GO TO HEAVEN: PRETTY SIMPLE IS IT NOT. ANOTHER SELF EVIDENT TRUTH THAT IS UNDENIABLE, IS THAT WE ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD WITH THE INERADICABLE EVIL PROCLIVITY OF LYING IN OUR HEART. THEREFORE SINCE WE ARE LIARS BY NATURE, WE ARE NOT HOLY, AND THEREFORE INADMISSIBLE TO HEAVEN. FORGIVENESS DOES NOT MAKE US UNHOLY AND THUS FORGIVENESS CANNOT GET US INTO HEAVEN ALONE. SO HOW DO WE BECOME HOLY? CAN JESUS GIVE AWAY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT DESTROYING HIS GODHEAD ETC. WE WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THIS IN THIS MESSAGE ALONG WITH MUCH MORE. THE FOLLOWING QUOTE IS FROM BOOK TWO OF PILGRIM’S PROGRESS IN WHICH CHRISTINA, PILGRIM’S WIFE IS INTRODUCED. “ Now I saw in my dream, that they went on, and GREAT-HEART went before them; so they went and came to the place where CHRISTIAN'S burden fell off his back and tumbled into a sepulchre. Here, then, they made a pause; and here also they blessed God. "Now," said CHRISTIANA, "it comes to my mind what was said to us at the gate; to wit, that we should have pardon by word and deed: by word, that is, by the promise; by deed, to wit, in the way it was obtained. What the promise is, of that I know something; but what is it to have pardon by deed, or in the way that it was obtained? Mr. GREAT-HEART, I suppose you know? wherefore, if you please, let us hear your discourse thereof." Great-heart. Pardon by the deed done is pardon obtained by some one for another that hath need thereof; not by the person pardoned, but in the way, saith another, in which I have obtained it. So, then, to speak to the question more largely, the pardon that you and MERCY and these boys have attained was obtained by another: to wit, by him that let you in at the gate. And he hath obtained it in this double way: he has performed righteousness to cover you; Chris. But if he parts with his righteousness to us, what will he have for himself? Great-heart. He has more righteousness than you have need of, or than he needs himself. Chris. Pray make that appear. Great-heart. With all my heart; but first I must premise that he of whom we are now about to speak is one that has not his fellow. He has two natures in one person--plain to be distinguished, impossible to be divided. Unto each of these natures a righteousness belongs; and each righteousness is essential to that nature. So that one may as easily cause the nature to be extinct, as to separate its justice or righteousness from it. Of these righteousnesses, therefore, we are not made partakers so as that they, or any of them, should be put upon us that we might be made just, and live thereby. SO WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO OUR ORIGINAL QUESTION, HOW CAN JESUS GIVE AWAY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND REMAIN JESUS, OR IS THERE SOME KIND OF SEPARATE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT HE CAN GIVE AWAY: LISTEN TO THE MESSAGE TO FIND OUT ALONG WITH MUCH MORE.
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