{"id":1235,"date":"2012-01-16T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/january-qthe-christian-walk-and-its-indefinite-natureq\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:05:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T07:05:44","slug":"january-qthe-christian-walk-and-its-indefinite-natureq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/january-qthe-christian-walk-and-its-indefinite-natureq\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian Walk and Its Indefinite Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would seem that a lot of controversy in the Christian life could be solved if God would have given us more specifics for Christian living in the New Testament.\u00a0 In many ways the Mosaic Law was easier and more convenient.\u00a0 Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego may have struggled with (though it seems doubtful) the willingness to die for their convictions, but they didn\u2019t have to struggle with what was right and wrong for a believer to do.\u00a0 The king\u2019s meat and drink were a plain violation of the Law, as was bowing down before a statue.\u00a0 We could be almost envious of the ease of knowing God\u2019s will in Old Testament Israel compared to today\u2019s age of grace.\u00a0 It seems strange, therefore, that Israel went on to develop a mountain of tradition to further explain almost every atom of an Israelite\u2019s existence.\u00a0 But unbelief in religion can never be satisfied with anything but rote legalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a fundamentalist pastor and teetotaler in most life-style choices, I hesitate to put it in these terms.\u00a0 I feel comfortably firm in my convictions even though I see so many others (even in my own circles) coming to different conclusions.\u00a0 One of the most common reasons given for a different life-style is that someone does not see a chapter and verse command to do or not do a particular thing.\u00a0 This is for the most part true.\u00a0 Christians must make more application from their faith than their law-abiding ancestors.\u00a0 Yet, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego knew an idol when they saw one but twenty-first century Christians can\u2019t\u00a0 seem to see one even if thousands of people are waving their arms and pledging their devotion to it.\u00a0 To them, if it\u2019s not specifically described in a New Testament verse (and in great detail), it can\u2019t be idolatry.\u00a0 What such Christians really want, I guess, is a formatted list of biblical answers that can be stored and downloaded to give instantaneous, even thoughtless, life-style decisions when necessary.\u00a0 Otherwise, they would like to be left alone, thank you very much!<\/span><\/p>\n

Legalism had it so easy!\u00a0 Israelites knew what to eat and not eat; what style of clothes to wear and not to wear; when to worship and when not to; what offering to bring and what not to bring; how far to walk on the Sabbath and exactly where they must stop.\u00a0 But Grace doesn\u2019t always spell it out like we would like.\u00a0 Oh sure, we can spot the unequivocal commandments about adultery, murder, stealing and lying, but those don’t really go very far in the average Christian life.\u00a0 What about what is permitted to drink and not to drink; or when dancing is suggestive; or when crude language goes too far; or when song lyrics are unchristian; or when I can miss church without penalty; or when a television has become an idol in the living room?\u00a0 Rather than convenient and specific rules, I am left with those pesky biblical principles and all that disagreement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading through 1 Thessalonians, for example, finds nebulous statements like \u201cnot pleasing men, but God\u201d (2:4), \u201cwalk worthy of God\u201d (2:12), \u201cstand fast in the Lord\u201d (3:8), \u201cthis is the will of God, even your sanctification\u201d (4:4), \u201cfor God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness\u201d (4:7).\u00a0 This is so typical of New Testament epistles.\u00a0 But I find that almost all Christians read the same verses and yet apply them differently (sometimes very differently) than I.\u00a0 Maybe I should also praise the Lord for how much unity there is in the faith among believers who have read these same statements!\u00a0 Yet I think there are good reasons why the New Testament doesn\u2019t read like the Old, and why it is grace rather than law.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New Testament does give us a divinely revealed pattern for living.\u00a0 Two thousand years of Christian testimony speak to that.\u00a0 Yet we find in our day a growing disparity over what is proper application from the New Testament to the Christian life and what is not.\u00a0 The following are some reasons I think we must make application of Christian doctrine to our lives in whatever time and place we happen to live.\u00a0 In other words, why doesn\u2019t our New Testament give us more specifics for Christian living?<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be \u201clegalistic\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

I must first include this caveat.\u00a0 I believe that the term \u201clegalism\u201d ought to be reserved for a system of belief where one earns or keeps salvation by works.\u00a0 If that is true, I don\u2019t know of any fundamentalist who is legalistic.\u00a0 However, that is not how the term is used today.\u00a0 Today it means anyone who has rules that are too harsh. But this was my point about the comparison of the Old Testament and the New.\u00a0 Living under the Mosaic economy was, in this sense, very legalistic, not only because its rules were often harsh, but because it took little thought.\u00a0 All one had to know is the list of rules.\u00a0 Keep it and you won\u2019t get stoned. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are many believers in the age of grace who won\u2019t take the time to extract principles for living from the New Testament.\u00a0 They are only looking for black and white statements.\u00a0 When they appeal to \u201cchapter and verse\u201d they think they are being deeply biblical but in actuality it\u2019s a cop out.\u00a0 If it is on their list, fine, but if it is not, no amount of reasoning from principles will convince them otherwise.\u00a0 So for all their accusing of others, this form of dealing with the New Testament is legalism by today\u2019s definition.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be without faith<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul wrote, \u201cFor we walk by faith, not by sight\u201d (2 Cor. 5:7).\u00a0 In the context of that chapter, faith is the ability to see truth (specifically about life after death) which the carnal eye cannot see.\u00a0 In fact, this faith causes us to labor to be acceptable to Him (vs. 9) because we must all stand at the Bema Seat one day and be rewarded for things done or not done in our body (vs. 10).\u00a0 To walk only by sight (things that pertain to this life) rather than by faith (things that pertain to the next life) is to glory in appearance but not in heart (vs. 12). <\/span><\/p>\n

The desire of my heart ought to be to live this life in the light of that Bema appearance that I will some day make before The Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 That desire drives me to err on the side of caution when it comes to questionable things.\u00a0 Indeed, \u201call things are not expedient\u201d (1 Cor. 6:12) precisely for this reason.\u00a0 In that context Paul was arguing for going the extra mile in avoiding anything that resembled idolatry.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be without the Holy Spirit<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Being filled with the Spirit is one of those things we talk about easily but live out in great difficulty.\u00a0 A believer (who therefore possesses the Holy Spirit) should know the difference between being filled and not being filled, between having victory in the Christian life and not, between displaying wisdom from above and that which is \u201cearthly, sensual, devilish\u201d (Jas. 3:15).\u00a0 This leading of the Holy Spirit is conditioned by a constant reading of the New Testament.\u00a0 He brings verses to our mind that describe something from two thousand years ago and applies it right to our situation.\u00a0 Jesus said, \u201cwhen he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth\u201d (Jn. 16:13).\u00a0 John would later write that the anointing of the Holy Spirit \u201cteacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie\u201d (1 Jn. 2:27).<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be academic<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

If the New Testament were merely a list of do\u2019s and don\u2019ts, it could be figured out and lived by a mathematical formula rather than by discernment.\u00a0 This is the problem with numerology and typology.\u00a0 All you need is a good calculator to be a good theologian.\u00a0 Remember <\/span>The Bible Code<\/span> by Michael Drosnin which printed out the whole Hebrew Bible like a giant Scrabble board and then, by computer, found a string of letters connected vertically or horizontally thus showing any modern subject in the Bible?\u00a0 The Koran is nothing but a list of sayings and commands (arranged from the longest to the shortest) with no other story line.\u00a0 It takes no faith to read it and do it, just rote memory. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If the New Testament were given in such an arrangement, just a list of commands, we would be no better than a cult.\u00a0 But Christianity takes the wisdom of years and the meekness of wisdom to live.\u00a0 Those that are \u201cunlearned and unstable\u201d wrestle the Scriptures \u201cto their own destruction\u201d (2 Pet. 3:16) rather than applying them to their own salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be without instructors<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

What is the process of discipleship and learning if not imparting principles from one who is learned to one who is unlearned?\u00a0 \u201cLet him that is [being] taught in the word communicate unto him that [is] teaching in all good things\u201d (Gal. 6:6).\u00a0 Paul wrote, \u201cI write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.\u00a0 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers\u201d (1 Cor. 4:14-15).\u00a0 Anyone can be \u201cshamed\u201d into learning by memorizing lists, but it takes a fatherly figure to \u201cwarn\u201d one of latent truth.\u00a0 The process of education, of teaching, is to build a mechanism for discovering truth that at one time was not so obvious.\u00a0 It takes line upon line and precept upon precept, here a little and there a little (Isa. 28:13).<\/span><\/p>\n

How many of us learned Biblical principles from a Sunday School teacher or a youth pastor or just a Christian friend who spent time with us inculcating things into our minds and answering questions about what appeared to be contradictions?\u00a0 Our Lord\u2019s commission is for us to be \u201cteaching them to observe\u201d the things that are not easily observed.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be without covenant<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

In fact, it would be without doctrinal statement at all!\u00a0 If we did not have to interpret and apply the Scriptures, if they were already spelled out in organized statements, no believers would have seen the need to formulate a confession of faith.\u00a0 Church covenants have been those things which contain applications for Christian living which the local body of Christ feels convicted it must live by.\u00a0 This is an honest way of letting newcomers know how that church has applied the Scriptures to questionable things.\u00a0 Perhaps the lack of church covenants in our day is a tell-tale sign of our unwillingness to make applications from Scripture about specific things. <\/span><\/p>\n

When young William Carey first went to Moulton to accept the pastorate of the small congregation of around twenty people, he was appalled at the slack attitude toward the church services and the non-use of the church covenant.\u00a0 Rather than ignoring it he proposed a more pointed covenant that asked the members for greater commitment, not less.\u00a0 This helped the church form the mind of the great missionary.<\/span><\/p>\n

And So . . . <\/span><\/h2>\n

No matter how much we want to \u201clive and let live\u201d as brothers and sisters in Christ, we cannot stop our own quest for Biblical truth in living.\u00a0 The Bible is meant to be read, thought about, meditated on, and applied to every situation of life.\u00a0 Of course it cannot contain a list of every possible sin of every age of man, but it does contain what we need to meet every circumstance of our lives.\u00a0 \u201cAccording as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue\u201d (2 Pet. 1:3).\u00a0 It can only do this if it is possible to apply this timeless Book to every human situation, not just giving us a list to memorize, but a story, a history, so factual and true that it is current at all times and in all ways. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom\u201d (Psa. 90:12).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lord, I esteem thy judgments right,<\/span><\/p>\n

And all thy statutes just;<\/span><\/p>\n

Thence I maintain a constant fight<\/span><\/p>\n

With every flat\u2019ring lust.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thy precepts often I survey;<\/span><\/p>\n

I keep thy law in sight,<\/span><\/p>\n

Through all the business of the day,<\/span><\/p>\n

To form my actions right.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

My heart in midnight silence cries,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow sweet thy comforts be!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

My thoughts in holy wonder rise,<\/span><\/p>\n

And bring their thanks to thee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

And when my spirit drinks her fill<\/span><\/p>\n

At some good word of thine,<\/span><\/p>\n

Not mighty men that share the spoil<\/span><\/p>\n

Have joys compar\u2019d to mine.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Isaac Watts, Psalm 119 part 6)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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