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Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture
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Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture
Culture, politics, and religion for those who love words.
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My Friend: I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a church member, but are you saved? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die?
God says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.”
In the Bible God gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. His plan is simple! You can be saved today. How?
First, my friend, you must realize you are a sinner. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. “For the wages [payment] of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). This includes eternal separation from God in Hell.
“ . . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
But God loved you so much He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus, to bear your sin and die in your place. “ . . . He hath made Him [Jesus, Who knew no sin] to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Jesus had to shed His blood and die. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). “ . . . without shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]” (Hebrews 9:22).
“ . . . God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Although we cannot understand how, God said my sins and your sins were laid upon Jesus and He died in our place. He became our substitute. It is true. God cannot lie.
My friend, “God . . . commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). This repentance is a change of mind that agrees with God that one is a sinner, and also agrees with what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas: “ . . . ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ And they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved . . . .’ ”
Simply believe on Him as the one who bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and whom God resurrected. His resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when Jesus is received as Savior.
“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name” (John 1:12).
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved.
Surely, you realize you are a sinner. Right now, wherever you are, repenting, lift your heart to God in prayer.
In Luke 18:13, the sinner prayed: “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Just pray: “Oh God, I know I am a sinner. I believe Jesus was my substitute when He died on the Cross. I believe His shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection were for me. I now receive Him as my Savior. I thank You for the forgiveness of my sins, the gift of salvation and everlasting life, because of Your merciful grace. Amen.”
Just take God at His word and claim His salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works can save you. Remember, God does the saving. All of it!
God’s simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your place, you will spend eternity in Hell. If you believe on Him as your crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins and His gift of eternal salvation by faith.
You say, “Surely, it cannot be that simple.” Yes, that simple! It is scriptural. It is God’s plan. My friend, believe on Jesus and receive Him as Savior today.
If His plan is not perfectly clear, read this tract over and over, without laying it down, until you understand it. Your soul is worth more than all the world.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).
Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please! Let God save you this very moment.
God’s power will save you, keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Do not trust your feelings. They change. Stand on God’s promises. They never change. After you are saved, there are three things to practice daily for spiritual growth:
Pray — you talk to God.
Read your Bible — God talks to you.
Witness — you talk for God.
You should be baptized in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ as a public testimony of your salvation, and then unite with a Bible-believing church without delay. “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord . . . .” (2 Timothy 1:8)
“Whosoever therefore shall confess [testify of] Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32).
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He disabled comments on his article, but unfortunately for him, I’ll comment here. I think it’s hilarious that Daniel DeCarlo and other so-called trad-“catholics” have misplaced priorities. In a world where people treat infanticide as a virtue but creation as a vice, reward criminals but punish the law abiding, and deny that God created everything but accept that OK symbols create the holocaust, DeCarlo’s main priority is to destroy the right entirely for harshly rebuking those ridiculous stances?
About “grifting”, so what if they sell products? That’s a stupid complaint as leftists and Christians alike frequently sell products too. Why is it a virtue to be dependent on working for a large corporation entity and a vice to be independent by being self-sustaining? How on EARTH would you find “grifting” worse than those exploiting illegal immigrants for votes and cheap labor?
Barbarism? Did you even READ the bible at all? Violence and pain are inevitable because of original sin. War, strife, and slavery are themes displayed in every story of the OT. Even God’s appointed prophets like Moses, King David, and Eli committed violence to protect and expand their faith. Humanity isn’t intended to make earth utopian as it’s flawed from the start, they’re intended to lead others into God’s kingdom as he perfected it. If it weren’t for Christians “barbarically” converting native pagans, then there would have never been millions worldwide practicing the faith today. At the expense of a few hundred lost within a month, millions per year have been brought to God’s kingdom. It’s important to take control/initiative to fight against objective evil. God wills it.
Contrary to popular belief, there’s no such thing as an equally competing ideology as most ideologies are contradictory to each others. You must fight to keep the dominant ideology of Christianity as it preserves the civilization that promotes altruism, law, and order.
The only anti-Christians (“Judas”-like, to be precise) are those instruct their friends to seek forgiveness from vindictive pro-infanticide,pro-child drag queen, and pro-sodomy leftists who take pride in making people poor for their views. I’m an non-white immigrant, but those WNs and right wingers are more Christian than you for having perseverance, strength, and forgiveness despite being betrayed, beaten, and demoralized. They’re the ones who will go to heaven while all of you will be in the same area of reprobate Buzzfeed editors who endorse child drag queens.
Hi Mere Orthodoxy,
I am writing because I thoroughly enjoy the work you are doing and I feel that what I am doing resonates well with that! I have just completed a book with IVP academic called “Seeing by the Light: Illumination in Augustine and Barth’s readings of John.” My take is that The Gospel of John points us to a way of knowing God that is not just about information, but about participation in the Son’s knowledge of the Father (John 14). This means knowledge is not just about data transfer, but about intimacy with God, identification with Jesus, life empowered by the Spirit and embodiment of ethical action and justice in the world. I would love to join some of your work, whether that is in podcast form or otherwise. Let me know wha you think. Thanks!
Hi,
Our decision-makers in the church staff/ leadership has read “MultiChurch: Exploring the Future of Multisite” by Brad House and Gregg Allison. If you are unfamiliar, they are essentially promoting a highly decentralized and self-governing congregation that is a part of a larger body comprising one church (like Sojourn Kentucky’s model). They show on a continuum why this model is distinct from (say) a traditional campus multisite model, insist on local leadership, freedom to contextualize the gospel according to their congregation, budget decisions being made by the local-expression, congregation-specific preachers, etc.
We also just read “One Assembly” by Johnathan Leeman who is *adamantly* making a case from an ontological definition of the church that even having two service/ gathering times means – definitionally – that you have two churches, not one that meets at two times.
We have read Leeman’s review of their book as well as JD Greer’s explanation of why they view multi site as biblically-faithful (seemingly in response to Leeman’s critique).
In the midst of this, I find myself with a lack of clarity and would welcome/ highly encourage an episode dealing with this topic. If that broad request needs to be narrowed, I’d suggest addressing just the position outlined in “One Assembly” by Leeman.
Thanks!
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