{"id":471,"date":"2008-04-30T03:27:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T03:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/april-salvation-and-godliness\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T08:59:23","slug":"april-salvation-and-godliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/april-salvation-and-godliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation and Godliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people think they see contradictions in all parts of the Bible.\u00a0 Recently I attended a debate at a local school where a Christian apologist debated an agnostic over the validity of the resurrection of Christ.\u00a0 The agnostic (a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Wheaton College, and Princeton Theological Seminary) is a professor of religion at the University of North Carolina.\u00a0 From what I understood, he teaches graduate students to doubt that the Bible is an inspired, or at least inerrant, book.\u00a0 His arguments against the resurrection boiled down to insisting that the gospels had contradictions and therefore couldn\u2019t be trusted.\u00a0 His examples were generally that since the four gospels give four different views of the life of Christ, they can\u2019t possibly all be a correct view.\u00a0 Unfortunately, no sufficient response was given concerning a harmony of the gospels.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think there are also many believers who see apparent contradictions in the Bible and make little or no effort to solve them.\u00a0 Calvinism and Arminianism; the holiness and the love of God; and law and grace are just a few that too many people don\u2019t care to grapple with.\u00a0 The one that affects us as much or more than any is the apparent contradiction between justification and sanctification, the dilemma of complete forgiveness of sin as opposed to the struggle against, and mortification of, sin.\u00a0 Denominations have been formed from this apparent contradiction.\u00a0 Some place too much sanctification in their justification, thus becoming antinomian (Free Grace and Evangelical Free movements); some place too much justification in their sanctification, thus becoming legalistic (Pentecostal and Holiness movements).<\/p>\n

Can we handle two truths that seem to be conflicting but really aren\u2019t?\u00a0 Do we know that our sins are forgiven, removed as far as the east is from the west (Psa. 103:12), that He will remember our sins against us no more (Isa. 43:25), that where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (Rom. 5:20)?\u00a0 But do we also know that we will one day stand at the Bema Seat of Christ to receive or lose rewards for things done in our body, whether good or bad (2 Cor. 5:10), that we may be beguiled out of our reward by false worship (Col. 2:18), that we may be saved so as by fire (by the skin of our teeth!) for sexual sins done while a Christian (1 Cor. 3:15; 5:5)?\u00a0 The failure to understand and live with both the doctrine of justification as well as sanctification makes for a lopsided Christian.\u00a0 Either he will live in fear of losing his salvation, or he will live as an antinomian.\u00a0 Neither would be the Christian the Bible describes.<\/p>\n

The world will never understand these intramural discussions among believers.\u00a0 They can think only about scales of goodness and badness and spend their natural lives struggling back and forth to no avail.\u00a0 But believers are made for the meat of the Word.\u00a0 They have the mind of Christ and are obligated to study to show themselves approved in these things before God (2 Tim. 2:15).\u00a0 To hide God-given truth in the ground is to receive no reward at all.<\/p>\n

Our present desire to do away with doctrine, separation, and even holiness, is not healthy.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been one for discarding denominational names because I believe a) the lost person doesn\u2019t care, and b) this is an honest way of informing people before they come in of what you believe and how you operate.\u00a0 These names usually describe a church\u2019s polity or their conclusions about justification and sanctification.\u00a0 In a biblically illiterate world, we need all the help we can get in educating people to the great doctrines of the Scriptures.<\/p>\n

There are really four kinds of people found in the Bible if we count the lost and the saved.\u00a0 These four, but especially the last two, show what we believe about salvation and godliness.<\/p>\n

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1. The lost man with no regard for anything religious.<\/h2>\n

We come across this man often in the Bible.\u00a0 He is Cain or Korah, Sandballet or Tobiah, Simon the sorcerer or Bar-Jesus.\u00a0 This is the spirit of antichrist that has always been present in the world.\u00a0 They walk in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness (Eph. 4:17-19).\u00a0 They are to be pitied more than feared.\u00a0 They are like blind men walking into things they do not see.\u00a0 They are objects of God\u2019s love, but have shunned His grace at every turn.\u00a0 They become the enemies of the cross of Christ, Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things (Phil. 3:19).<\/p>\n

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2. The lost man who is religious.<\/h2>\n

The Bible is also full of these men and women.\u00a0 Sometimes they are religious hypocrites such as Jeroboam or Manasseh, the Pharisees and Sadducees, Judas and Alexander.\u00a0 Like Simon, they are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity (Acts 8:23) and not even Peter could pray in their place before God.<\/p>\n

Sometimes they are good people in the natural sense, with moral and religious inclinations who would be open to the gospel if they heard it.\u00a0 Jethro did not know the God of Moses but loved the Hebrew people to whom his daughter had attached herself.\u00a0 Rahab was quick to praise the Jewish spies in Jericho and to believe, as soon as she understood that salvation was of the Jews.\u00a0 The Ethiopian Eunuch was a religious man seeking answers to Biblical questions, but lost in his sin until an evangelist could preach to him.\u00a0 Cornelius prayed and fasted and sought God\u2019s face without true knowledge until the time when God had His apostle prepared to speak the gospel to Gentiles.\u00a0 Lydia went to prayer meeting regularly but was lost until the Lord opened her heart to the message of His missionary.\u00a0 The Bereans searched the Scriptures daily to see if what they were hearing squared with their Scriptures, but were lost until Paul came and preached the true gospel to them.\u00a0 Sergius Paulus was a prudent man who desired to hear the Word of God, and though Elymas sought to turn him away from the faith, he believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.<\/p>\n

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3. The saved man who is carnal.<\/h2>\n

It is possible for a Christian to be carnal.\u00a0 Paul could not speak to the Corinthians in the way he desired because of their carnality (1 Cor. 3:1-3).\u00a0 It kept them from even being able to receive the milk of the Word that they might grow.\u00a0 The writer of Hebrews scolded his readers for their lack of desire to go on to heavier doctrine when they should have been teachers themselves.\u00a0 In more pointed language John scolds the readers of his first epistle with severe consequences for living in carnality: inability to have fellowship with God, lack of assurance of salvation, lack of love for the brethren, and a lack of discernment regarding false teachers who were already among them.<\/p>\n

Carnality may come from a lack of understanding about one\u2019s position in Christ.\u00a0 Not knowing whether one is saved or not will not bring victory in the Christian life.\u00a0 The helmet of salvation is needed to keep the Christian soldier from ducking at every shot fired by the enemy.\u00a0 Working to keep oneself saved is a discouraging occupation.<\/p>\n

Carnality may come from a lack of time spent in God\u2019s Word and prayer.\u00a0 The filling of the Spirit is dependent on the Word of Christ dwelling in us richly in all wisdom (Col. 3:16).\u00a0 Fellowship with the Father and with the Son is maintained by prayer because the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and His ears are opened to their prayers (1 Pet. 3:12).<\/p>\n

Carnality results from trying to navigate this life with the self in control instead of God.\u00a0 Sanctification is a work of God in our heart also.\u00a0 Our flesh does not have the power in itself, even regenerated, to overcome the world.\u00a0 As we yield to the Spirit of God, and as He teaches us through the Word of God, we grow strong in the Lord and the power of His might.<\/p>\n

Carnality also results from thinking that all human effort to combat the flesh is unspiritual, that striving against sin is somehow a lower role in life than should be desired.\u00a0 But it is not.\u00a0 We are to be holy as He is holy, to put on armor that is made for battle, to pull down strongholds of opposition, to press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n

A carnal believer is still secure in Christ.\u00a0 Sin cannot destroy the work of justification done in the heart.\u00a0 But the sinning believer appears the same as the lost man, since salvation cannot be seen except by good works.\u00a0 Without those Christian graces, you would not know that he is a believer except by his verbal testimony.\u00a0 The Bema Seat of Christ alone will reveal the sin and carnality with which many believers have lived.<\/p>\n

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4. The saved man who is spiritual.<\/h2>\n

The Christian is a spiritual man as opposed to a natural man (1 Cor. 2:14-16).\u00a0 Before he was saved he was by nature a child of wrath but now has been saved and changed by the Spirit of God (Eph. 2:3-5).\u00a0 By \u201cspiritual\u201d we mean spiritually mature or strong rather than weak (Rom. 15:1), spiritually mature rather than a babe in Christ (1 Cor. 3:1).<\/p>\n

The Bible presents the spiritually mature Christian as the normal Christian.\u00a0 He may be a new child in Christ but knows full well his salvation, or a young man in Christ who is strong and fighting the battles of faith, or a father among believers who has walked with God from the beginning (1 John 2:12-14).\u00a0 This is the brother whom we are to love and with whom we ought to desire fellowship (1 John 3:14-16).\u00a0 It matters not whether the world of lost people love this man, since they did not love his Lord either (John 15:18).\u00a0 He is the example to which every young believer and every carnal believer should strive.<\/p>\n

The spiritual Christian knows that he is never above sin (1 John 1:10) and has a great respect for the old nature that still resides in him.\u00a0 But this man has fought enough battles with the flesh to know where his strengths and weaknesses lie and he has walked enough years with his Lord to know where the victory comes from.\u00a0 He has lost desire for earthly fame or reward but more and more looks not at things which can be seen but things which cannot (2 Cor. 4:18).\u00a0 His wisdom is not from below but from above which begins with purity, then peacefulness, then gentleness.\u00a0 Others find he is easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and hypocrisy (Jas. 3:17).<\/p>\n

There is no lost person who can imitate this man for long, no more than a sparrow can imitate an eagle or a mouse a lion.\u00a0 His life has a certain attractiveness about it that causes even the vilest of sinners to secretly desire its beauty.\u00a0 It has a certain humbleness and meekness to it to encourage the strongest believer to hold fast to his Lord.\u00a0 The spiritual man or woman is the real treasure in any culture.<\/p>\n

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

I am not and never have been for laying down our weapons of doctrinal warfare.\u00a0 I am for fighting a good fight and not a bitter fight, of speaking the truth in love.\u00a0 We know that a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.\u00a0 And none of us like hypocrites.\u00a0 For identification, fellowship, and participation in ministry, we may at times seek for common denominators, but we don\u2019t even know what those are unless we are constantly striving for truth in every jot and tittle, nor would we be safe in such an environment unless we were grounded and settled and not moved about by every wind of doctrine.<\/p>\n

Our road begins at its broadest intersection of the great doctrines of justification and sanctification.\u00a0 If we cannot navigate this cross-road, we will probably not be headed out in the right direction.\u00a0 Once we settle this, we will enjoy our journey through the highways and byways of God\u2019s Word and our walk in the Spirit.\u00a0 If we get a little lost, we will always be able to return to this place and start again.<\/p>\n

These things are not mere curiosity for the Christian.\u00a0 They are his life and passion.\u00a0 We must go and teach all nations . . . Baptizing them . . . Teaching them to observe all things,\u00a0 And we can know that He is with us, even unto the end of the world (Matt. 28:19-20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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