Creation, Time, Covenants, and Israel

Rom 11:25  For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles has come in; 

Rom 11:26  and thus all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB." 

Rom 11:27  "AND THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS." 

Rom 11:28  From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; 

Rom 11:29  for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 

Jer 31:31  "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 

Jer 31:32  not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. 

Jer 31:33  "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 

Jer 31:34  "And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD , "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." 

Jer 31:35  Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day, And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: 

Jer 31:36  "If this fixed order departs From before Me," declares the LORD, "Then the offspring of Israel also shall cease From being a nation before Me forever." 

Jer 31:37  Thus says the LORD, "If the heavens above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done," declares the LORD. 

Jer 31:38  "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the city shall be rebuilt for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 

Jer 31:39  "And the measuring line shall go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah. 

Jer 31:40  "And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, or overthrown anymore forever." 

Jer 33:15  'In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth. 

Jer 33:16  'In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell in safety; and this is the name by which she shall be called: the LORD is our righteousness.' 

Jer 33:17  "For thus says the LORD, 'David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; 

Jer 33:18  and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to prepare sacrifices continually.'" 

Jer 33:19  And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 

Jer 33:20  "Thus says the LORD, 'If you can break My covenant for the day, and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time, 

Jer 33:21  then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers. 

Jer 33:22  'As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.'" 

Jer 33:23  And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 

Jer 33:24  "Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD chose, He has rejected them'? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight. 

Jer 33:25  "Thus says the LORD, 'If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established, 

Jer 33:26  then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.'" 

Gen 8:22  "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease." 

Heb 1:3  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; 

All the unilateral covenants God made with Israel (Abrahamic, Davidic, Noahdic, and the New Cov.) are bound together. This is why the doctrine of a literal 6 day creation is essential. 

Amillennial apostates today:

Accept Evolution

Deny a literal seven day Creation week

Deny biblical marriage as the only true marriage 

Deny sodomy has a heinous sin

Accept sodomy as genetic

Deny time as defined by God

Deny the everlasting covenants and promises of God to Israel

Accept so-called “science” over Scripture (therefore accepting “climate change” and fear)

Deny Israel’s salvation and sanctification

Deny Israel’s identity as God’s chosen people in His chosen city of Jerusalem

Deny a literal future country of Israel and city of Jerusalem

Deny Israel as an everlasting land and Jerusalem as an everlasting city

Deny the Messiah and His kingdom

Deny God’s everlasting covenant of peace with Israel

Deny the two houses of Israel uniting to one

Deny God vindicating His holy name

Deny God magnifying Himself to all nations

 

This is an attack on God, His Word, His faithfulness to His promises and to Israel. By denying Creation and accepting Evolution, they necessarily deny the covenants to Israel INCLUDING the New Covenant.

Besides this, increasingly the Amillennialists are becoming mystics. Therefore, I believe they will comply with the anti-Christ who desires to change the times and laws (Dan. 7:25) since they already redefine time as God set up in Genesis 1-2.

 

 

Spiritual Growth

 "Growth is silent and at the time imperceptible to our senses, though later it is evident. Growth is gradual and full development is not reached in a day, nor in a year. Time must be allowed before proof can be obtained. We should not attempt to gauge our growth by our feelings, but rather by looking into the glass of God’s Word and measuring ourselves by the standard which is there set before us. There may be real progress even where there is less inward comforts. Am I denying myself more now than I did formerly? Am I less enthralled by the attractions of this world than I used to be? Are the details of my daily life being more strictly regulated by the precepts of Holy Writ? Am I more resigned to the blessed will of God, assured that He knows what is best for me? Is my confidence in God growing, so that I am more and more leaving myself and my affairs in His hands? Those are some of the tests we should apply to ourselves if we would ascertain whether or no we be growing in grace."

~ Arthur Pink, "Spiritual Growth"

The Mark of An Unhumbled Man

 

So True

 "How often unsaved people, after sudden conviction have resolved to break from their evil doings, and serve the Lord, but only after a short season to return to their course of sin, like a washed sow to her wallowing in the mire (2 Peter 2:22), Where there has been no miracle of mercy wrought within the heart, no change of disposition, and where there is no dependence upon divine grace for needed strength, resolutions, however sincere and earnest, seldom produce any lasting effect. Unmortified lusts quickly break through the most solemn vows; where the fear of God does not possess the heart, fresh temptations soon arouse the dormant corruptions, and this gives Satan good opportunity to regain complete mastery over his victim...... Nothing short of the regenerating work of the Spirit can make any man a new creature in Christ Jesus.”

~ Arthur Pink 1886-1952

Encouragement For The Children of God

 

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Comfort For the Believer: God's Absolute and Total Sovereignty

"God’s supremacy over the works of His hands is vividly depicted in Scripture. Inanimate matter, irrational creatures, all perform their Maker’s bidding.

At His pleasure, the Red Sea divided and its waters stood up as walls (Ex. 14); the earth opened her mouth, and guilty rebels went down alive into the pit (Num. 14).

When He so ordered, the sun stood still (Joshua 10:13); and on another occasion went backward ten degrees on the dial of Ahaz (Isaiah 38:8).

To exemplify His supremacy, He made ravens carry food to Elijah (1 Kings 17); iron to float on the waters (2 Kings 6:5); lions to be tame when Daniel was cast into their den (Daniel 6:16-23); fire to burn not when three Hebrews were flung into its flames (Daniel 3:23). Thus, "Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places" (Ps. 135:6).

Here then is a sure resting-place for the heart. Our lives are neither the product of blind fate nor the result of capricious chance. Every detail of them was ordained from all eternity and is now ordered by the living, reigning God. Not a hair of our heads can be touched without His permission. "A man’s heart deviseth his way, but the LORD directeth his steps" (Prov. 16:9).

What assurance, what strength, what comfort this should give the real Christian! "My times are in thy hand" (Ps. 31:15)."

~ Arthur Pink, "The Supremacy of God"

The Distinction Between Knowing About the Lord and Knowing Him

 "There is a very real distinction between knowing about the Lord and in knowing the Lord Himself. As one can see the one consists merely of information concerning Him and the other is a personal and a saving acquaintance with Him. In the Scriptures we are told that at first “many of the Samaritans...believed” in Christ because of the testimony borne to Him by the woman at the well; but later, when they came into His presence and listened to His teaching, they declared, “Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world” (John 4:39, 42)."

~Arthur Pink, Exposition of John's First Epistle "

The Faithful Are Always In The Minority

 "Faithful people have always been in a marked minority. "Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing! The faithful have vanished from the earth!" (Psalm 12:1), cried David. Note how those two characteristics are conjoined, for piety and faithfulness are inseparable. Compare "good and faithful servant" (Matt. 25:23). So, too, Solomon exclaimed, "A faithful man—who can find?" (Proverbs 20:6). Why is this? Because it is the part of fallen human nature to take the line of least resistance and choose the path easiest to the flesh."

~ Arthur Pink, “Studies in the Scriptures- June 1939”

I am reminded of these passages:

Mat 7:13  "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. 14  "For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it. 

Rom 11:2  God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?  Rom 11:3  "Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED THY PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN THINE ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE."  Rom 11:4  But what is the divine response to him? "I HAVE KEPT for Myself SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL."  Rom 11:5  In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice. 

2Ti 3:12  And indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 

Tim Keller Congratulates Atheist Hired By Harvard To Be The New Chaplain

 Tim Keller, ex-pastor and dying of cancer, diggs his heels in rebellion against God, while trying to represent Him. He congratulates atheist for his new position as Harvard chaplain. You can't make this stuff up. Well, you could, but then you'd be The Babylon Bee. Or more like Not The Bee. 

This is the fruit of a heretic who has been nothing more than an empty, man-centered, world-loving, shell of a man who built his "church" around the godless to lure them to his "church" where they'd feel comfortable. 

Joh 15:19  "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 

Sodomy Pride Oppression

 

ES Williams Examines the SBC, Marxist Critical Race Theory, and Al Mohler

"The Stain of Mohler 3" by ES Williams on thenewcalvinist Youtube Channel

These foolish depraved religious pharisees don't believe all Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, equipping, etc the true Christian (1Tim 3:16). Therefore they DENY the absolute Truth and fact of a literal 7 day creation week and instead, in their unbelief and rebellion against God, hold to evolution as a "tool" to interpret Scripture. That's precisely why they also are ok with feminism, sodomy, racism, marxism, communism, psychology, etc. When you deny the Beginning as literal and you favor the world's philosophy of the Beginning, you WILL end up accepting what follows (and it's ALL rebellion and suppressing the Truth with their unrighteousness). Their "tools" are of the flesh, not the Spirit (2 Cor. 10), are demonic in origin (James 3), and have consequences---wrong interpretation leads to wrong application and division. This IS a worldview, contrary to what Woods said. Their worldview is worldly, fleshly, and rebellious. The true Christian does as Scripture does--interpret Scripture with Scripture. Sound doctrine, Scripture states, leads to sound living. 2Co 10:3  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,  2Co 10:4  for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.  2Co 10:5  We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,  2Co 10:6  and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

Scripture rebukes these religious God-haters (who are just like the pharisees)--they follow the world and it's god and sow seeds of division, rebellion, unbelief in Scripture, and unholy living: 1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God,  1Co 2:13  which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.  1Co 2:14  But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.  1Co 2:15  But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man.  1Co 2:16  For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE SHOULD INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.  Mat 15:7  "You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,  Mat 15:8  'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 9 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"  Jas 3:13  Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom.  Jas 3:14  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.  Jas 3:15  This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.  Jas 3:16  For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.  Jas 3:17  But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

Self-Centeredness "Mental Illness" Chart (includes Schizophrenia)

 

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John Stott Promoted Homosexuality Christianity, Contrary to Clear Scripture

John Stott, a false teacher of the Anglican church and an annihilationist, omitted two other passages that teach against homosexuality:

Mat 11:24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."

1Ti 1:10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Moreover, Scripture speaks even about it's desire being UNNATURAL:

Jud 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

In Matt. 5 Jesus says that the lusts in the heart are tantamount to doing the sin with the body before God. Moreover in Romans 1 sodomy is listed as "LUSTS of their HEARTS" that God finally turned those who refused to acknowledge Him, over to; that He gave them up to "a debase MIND". Scripture also lists sodomy as "unnatural", "dishonorable passions", and "consumed with passion for one another". Such is the description of those who refuse to acknowledge God as Creator. For those in Christ, they DO acknowledge Him as Creator and moreover, love and obey Him, therefore they don't suffer such hardness of hearts. They have a NEW heart at regeneration.

I wrote years ago:

So if God is so clear on homosexuality (- In the patriarchs (Genesis 19:1-28), the Law of Moses (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13), the Prophets (Ezekiel 16:46-50) and in the New Testament (Matt.11:24; Romans 1:18-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Jude 7-8), there is no way to accept it on any level, but that's what the liberals are doing as they secretly sneak in among us and then redefine things by trying to cloud the issue regarding sodomy. They try to use "science" and psychology, and even try to equalize the unnatural passion and lust of sodomy as if its like any other sin. That way they can play the victim and say it's merely a struggle like, say, drinking (eternal victimhood is a play right out of psychology's playbook---you never have victory over the sin or its desire but rather always struggle, thus always "recovering" but never recovered).

The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were sexual in nature and therefore earned God's special judgement. If He destroyed not only those two cities, but the surrounding ones because of such heinous sexual immorality, then how in the WORLD can "Christians" think He's any less angry and less holy now with sodomy? Both the Old and New Testaments show God's absolute consistency regarding sexual immorality. Or do these "Christians" fancy themselves more tolerant and "loving" than the HOLY HOLY HOLY God of Israel Himself?

If liberals can't get sodomy into the churches by full frontal attack, they'll do it by a more subtle means--incrementalism, psychology, the great sin-equalizer, and victimization.

The "Gospel" Coalition: compilation of article links

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A few of the well known men who are foundational to The Gospel Coalition are:

Tim Keller (Evolution, Marxism, Liberation Theology, Mysticism, Feminism, gay agenda), Al Mohler (Liberation Theology, gay agenda, Ecumenicism) and  and John Piper (Hedonism, Mysticism, Evolution, Feminism, Sensual spirituality, Romanism, gay agenda). It is now pretty much full-on pro-sodomy, pro-social "justice", etc. But if you look into it's foundation, which is Tim Keller (and D.A. Carson), you'll see why. At the bottom of this list are several articles on Keller himself about his Marxism. 

How it began with these men:

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2017/10/friendship-alliances-is-what-built-t4g.html

 Here are some of the significant problems with TGC:

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2019/03/tgc-pushing-same-sex-christian-apostasy.html

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2019/03/mark-dever-ligon-duncan-tgc-endorse.html

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-gospel-coalition-is-reprobate.html

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2018/03/john-macarthur-hosting-gospel-coalition.html

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2018/08/thabiti-anyabwile-ron-burns-that-was.html

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2018/12/roman-catholicism-is-infiltrating.html

https://warhornmedia.com/2018/01/12/gospel-coalition-jesus-not-like-doctor/

 

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-gospel-coalition-pushes-sodomy.html

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2017/04/marxism-is-infiltrating-evangelicalism.html 

 

https://surphside.blogspot.com/2014/06/certain-heresies-are-ok-for-tgc-and.html

Tim Keller: 

https://surphside.blogspot.com/search?q=Keller

 A solid website that deals with Keller as well as several others is The New Calvinist website. Here are some of their articles (you can find their videos on Youtube under the same name):

http://www.newcalvinist.com/kellers-political-motivation/

http://www.newcalvinist.com/tim-kellers-false-gospel/

http://www.newcalvinist.com/kellers-affinity-with-rome/

http://www.newcalvinist.com/kellers-books/

 
For news items, these two have info, although proceed with caution:

https://protestia.com/?s=The+Gospel+Coalition

https://reformationcharlotte.org/?s=the+gospel+coalition

 

 

 

 

John MacArthur's Hypocrisy Continues

 Apparently, according to Protestia, John MacArthur labeled (rightly), Ravi Zacharais and Carl Lentz as "phonies". But there's a problem. MacArthur's being a hypocrite. 

He says, "I will fight error but not my friends" and that he "doesn't want to be an island" (see my article here). MacArthur's fried Ligon Duncon couldn't address concerns about Revoice and it's push for accepting homosexuality as Christians. He gave no Scripture, no biblical sound wisdom, but just referred to a couple of men's books.  Yet MacArthur sat there and said they were all on the same page on social justice and doctrine? Mohler's no better (I address that in the link above). 

The hypocrisy of MacArthur is that he shared the platform with Zacharias and other unprincipled men in 2018. In 2019 he was scheduled to share the platform again with unbiblical men at the 2019 Getty Sing! conference

In 2019 at the Shepherd's Conference he shared the pulpit with more unprincipled men like Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, Albert Mohler, Sinclair Ferguson.

Ligon Duncan and Mark Dever along with TGC have endorsed homosexual Anglican priest Sam Allberry.

The serious errors and affiliations of Mark Dever are here.

Ravi Zacharias was well known for his anti-biblical view of homosexuality well over 10 years ago and he went downhill from there. It's not until after he died that MacArthur now speaks out against him? He shared the platform with this man two years ago and by doing so, gave the fake man credibility. I suggest MacArthur address and sever ties with the ones that are living and stop being a hypocrite. God hates hypocrisy and teachers are held to a stricter judgment according to James 3:1.