CONTENTS
Chapter 1:
The Holy Spirit and the Gospel
Chapter 2: The
Holy Spirit and Jehovah’s Witnesses
Chapter 3: The Holy Spirit and Biblical Evidence
Chapter 4: The Holy Spirit and Cayce’s View of Him
Chapter 5: The Holy Spirit and the Christadelphians
Chapter 6: The Holy Spirit and the Mormons
Chapter 7: The Holy Spirit and the Church Universal and
Triumphant
Chapter 8: The Holy Spirit and A Course in Miracles
Chapter 9: The Holy Spirit and Eckankar
Chapter 10: The Holy Spirit and the Children of God
Chapter 11: The Holy Spirit and Freemasonry
Chapter
12: The Holy Spirit and the Mind Science
Groups
Chapter 13: The Holy Spirit and the Reorganized Mormons
Chapter 14: The Holy Spirit and Rosicrusianism
Chapter 15: The Holy Spirit and Unification Church
Chapter 16: The Holy Spirit and the United Pentecostal Church
Chapter 17: The Holy Spirit and the Urantia Foundation
Chapter 18: The Holy Spirit and The Way International
Chapter 19: The Holy Spirit and the false Virgin Mary
Cult
Chapter 20: The Holy Spirit of Christmas Time
Chapter 1:
The Holy Spirit and the Gospel
We have seen the divine person of the Holy Spirit. We have seen that He is indeed a person who
is the Lord God Almighty. We have seen
the true mystery of the Blessed Trinity.
We have seen the difference between essence and person. We have seen the work of the Spirit in
creation. We have seen that the Spirit
brings about regeneration that produces faith and repentance. We have seen that the true believer is
protected by the Spirit of God. We have
seen the baptism of the Spirit of God.
We have seen the fruit of the Spirit.
And finally, we have seen that the Spirit of God is Another
Comforter.
Now let’s consider the groups that deny the personality
and divinity of the Holy Spirit. We must
understand that the Holy Spirit is a divine person. Divine Scripture is clear about His personality
and deity. We shall see that the way of
the world is to deny the Holy Spirit. We
must be equipped and defend the Holy Spirit.
We must arm ourselves with reliable information that shows their denial
of the Spirit of God, and use divine Scripture to refute heretics who reject
and distort the truth. The darkness of
the world is thick but we must shine as lights through a lost and dark world to
exalt Him and His righteousness in truth.
We are pilgrims and foreigners in a barren land. So, then, be equipped and know the truth set
forth in divine Scripture.
The reason
for this presentation is because we deeply love the people of these groups who
deny the personality and deity of the Spirit of holiness and truth. We deeply and seriously care about where they
will spend eternity. We mean this
presentation in the spirit of gentleness and respect. It is our deepest desire for you to heed this
special message for you. We are
confident that if the God of the Bible is at work in your heart, you will heed
this message of Christ Himself. This
must be done in the fear of God.
Chapter 2: The Holy Spirit and Jehovah’s Witnesses
First,
let’s understand what the Watchtower and Bible Tract Society teaches about the
Holy Spirit. I wanted to focus on this
in a little more detail then the other groups.
I seem to encounter the Witnesses of the Watchtower more then other
groups. We know the Watchtower teaches
that it is not persecution to reveal falsehoods about false religion
(Watchtower, Execution of Divine Judgment
upon False Religion, November 15, 1963).
It teaches that it alone is the
organization from God that truly interprets the Christian Bible. It cannot be properly comprehended but only
through the Watchtower organization (all of these references and summaries
below of what each group believes are used from H. Wayne House in Cults, Sects & Religious Movements:
Watchtower, October 1, 1967, p. 587, Watchtower,
May 1, 1957, p. 274, Watchtower, December
12, 1981, p. 27 & Watchtower, December
1, 1990, p. 19). The New World
Translation (hereafter the NWT) is
believed to be the best translation by the Watchtower (New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, 1950, p.6
& What Has Religion Done for Mankind,
1951, p. 351).
Russellites
(known as Jehovah’s Witnesses)
believe that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal force and an active force (Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, p.
380 & Holy Spirit, 1976,
p.11). Is this what the divine
Scriptures teach? Is it compatible with
authentic Christianity? The doctrine of
the Russellites rejects, deny and disbelieve the personality and deity of the
Holy Spirit. If the personality and
deity of the Holy Spirit is rejected then the very nature of God is at stake. The soul of a sinner who rejects the Holy
Spirit is in eternal harm. Trinitarians
do not believe in three separate gods that make up God (Tritheism), nor do we
deny the distinctions within the Godhead (Modalism) (Let God Be True, 1946 [1952 rev.], p. 100, 102). It is not honest to portray both as if it is
Trinitarianism. It is a purposeful error
to sway the reader. Neither of these
theologies represents what Trinitarians believe. Russellites teach that the
Trinity is an Egyptian and Babylonian mystery (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, pp. 40-41 & Let God Be True, 1946 [1952 rev.] p.
101), and originated from Satan himself (Let
God Be True, 1946 [1952 rev.], p. 101).
In Watchtower thought the Trinity is believed to be an untrue doctrine (Reconciliation, 1928, p. 101, Should You Believe in the Trinity? 1989,
p. 31, Let God Be True, 1946 [1952
rev.], p. 111, & You Can Live Forever
in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 39).
In reality, Trinitarians believe that the Trinity is properly explained
this way: God is one in essence (Deuteronomy 6:4), and three in person (Matthew
28:16-20). Such an explanation is
consistently logical, consistently Scriptural and spiritually real.
The
Watchtower rejects doctrines that are essential to the gospel. If a person rejects these doctrines it is not
without spiritual harm. These doctrines
are essentials for our spiritual health and well-being. But we are not saved by doctrine. Yet it is necessary to let us know how a
person is saved, but it is Christ alone that saves. The question is which doctrines are essential
to the gospel of Jesus Christ? And
another question is do you believe the true gospel of Jesus Christ? If you do not believe the true gospel you are
accursed (Galatians 1: 6-10). Let’s
consider what are essential to the true gospel of Jesus Christ. First let’s understand that it is the
Scriptures alone that are God-Breathed.
Submit to the divine Scriptures alone and not to a human organization. Let’s be honest. We know for sure that God has spoken in His
Word. Christ does not inspire falsehood.
The Watchtower directly admits their prophecy blunders in the past
(Awake! October 8, 1968, p.
23). Therefore the Watchtower is not
from God because God does not inspire falsehood. If you want to hold that it alone correctly
interprets Scripture as it says, you will have to concede the point of it being
from God. We know that God cannot lie
(Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18). Therefore we must submit to the divine Surety
of the Word of God revealed in the sacred pages of the Old and New Testament
alone.
Chapter 3: The Holy Spirit and Biblical Evidence
The Spirit
of God approved the ministry of Jesus when the Spirit descended upon Him but
Jesus was always the Christ since His matchless birth (Matthew 3:13-17).
The question is, how can an impersonal force approve someone to a divine
task? How can an impersonal force be
holy? How is it that the Spirit of God
in Scripture speaks (Acts 28:25), indwells His people (Romans 8:11), convicts the world of sin (John
16:8-11), and even prevents His people from doing what they desired in Bithynia (Acts
16:7)? Any serious reading of Scripture
shows that the Spirit of God is a divine person. He is called God (Acts 5:3-4) and His title
is the Eternal Spirit (Hebrews 9:14). You can ask, tell me, how is an impersonal force
called the Lord God (Isaiah 61:1)? He is
the One who changes the heart of stone with the divine Word of God (John
3). He is the One who works in the life
of a believer in sanctification. He is
the One who illuminates the mind of His people.
We do not own allegiance to an impersonal force but to the true living
God Who is the Holy Spirit. It is
biblically proper to call the Holy Ghost the one true God. He is the Third Person of the Trinity. He is the One that is called God by Luke
(Acts 5:1-4). To deny Jesus and the Holy
Spirit as equally divine, puts oneself in spiritual harm, and ultimately if
someone persists in unbelief about the true gospel (for there is only one true
gospel), it will end in eternal torment.
Hell is a
real, eternal place (Matthew 25:41). Disbelieve what you have learned, and
submit to the Triune God of Scripture (Matthew 28:16-20). The Spirit of God is everywhere (Psalm
139). He knows what someone believes
about Him. If you truly repent, it is
evidence of the work of the Spirit in granting you to be born from above. Believe the Triune God; believe the divine
Christ; believe the Spirit of Truth, and believe God’s way of salvation for
you. His salvation is not through works
of obedience but it is wholly the work of Another! His name is Jesus Christ. He totally took the place of His people. He is the all-sufficient Savior. It is His work alone that avails in the place
of His people. Do not believe that your
ways of obedience will avail to save you.
Rather believe His work is wholly sufficient. It is by the imputed righteousness of Christ
alone by faith alone. Will you repent
and believe the gospel of the Bible alone?
The gospel of the Watchtower will not save anyone. The Jesus of the Watchtower will not avail
before God in someone’s place. He is not
a sufficient or a divine substitute. But
the Bible teaches that Jesus is divinely superior to angels. The Bible teaches that, the Spirit is a
divine person. Ask: how shall you stand before God without the
work of the God-man for you and
without the application of Christ’s work of the Spirit of God to you?
Repent of believing these false doctrines, and live in new obedience to
Christ. Get involved in the true things
of God. Enter a biblical church that
preaches the true gospel (the five solas, and doctrines of grace) of biblical
Christianity, and practice what Incarnate Deity commands. What if there really is consciousness after
death known as the intermediate state; for doesn’t the Scripture say to be
absent from the body is to be at home with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8)? Where someone will spend eternity is at
stake. Tell them to repent and believe
in the gospel of the Spirit of God.
Now let us
understand what these groups say about the Holy Spirit. Most of this information is based on H. Wayne
House’s book Cults, Sects & Religious
Movements. The references cited are
found in the bibliographical section.
Chapter 4: The Holy Spirit and Cayce’s View of Him
The next group I wish to tell the
reader of; is Association for Research and Enlightenment. We see that Cayce’s view of God demands a
different explanation then a Triune God.
He taught that the Trinity is accurate in symbolizing man’s body, soul
and mind (Edgar Cayce on Religion and
Psychic Experience, p. 241). We see
in the Bible that God is revealed in three distinct persons. The Third Person of the Trinity is what we
are speaking about here. God is one in
essence, and three in person. We have
seen this in presenting the truth to Witnesses of the Watchtower. Let us tell the world that the Trinity is
does not symbolize man’s nature. We
maintain the reality of three distinct persons because God’s divine Word speaks
of this. The question is what is the
basis for your belief? If it is man’s
insight, it falls eternally short of the divine Scripture! Ask: what greater basis would you want
besides God’s divine Word? Either it is
Cayce’s views or the Bibles’. You will
never do wrong holding to the truth of God seen in Holy Scripture.
Chapter 5: The Holy Spirit and the Christadelphians
According to the Christadelphians, the Holy Spirit is not a person. Rather He is God’s energy or divine power (The Constitution of the Glendale
Christadelphians Ecclesia, p. 18, and God
is One Not Three, p. 15). The Bible
supports the Holy Spirit as a real person.
Here the words of Christ who can never err. For He believed the personality of the Spirit
by using personal pronouns:
“However,
when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for
He will not speak on His own authority,
but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what
is Mine and declare it to you. All
things that the Father has are Mine.
Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:13-15 NKJV).
Christ used
personal pronouns to describe the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of
truth. He will lead His people into all
truth. He refers to when He will
come. The Spirits guides into all
truth. Only a divine person can do
this. The Spirit will not speak of His
own authority. That is, He does the will
of the Father through the Son. Whatever
the Spirit hears He will speak. He
communicates God’s divine truth to His beloved people. The Spirit will communicate to them the
things to come. Only a person can guide
and speaks. He declares the truth of God
to His people that they wrote down in Scripture. He also guides and directs His people as they
read Scripture.
Chapter 6: The Holy Spirit and the Mormons
According to the Church of the Latter-Day Saints of Jesus Christ, the Holy
Spirit is a spirit man who is the third god and He is an impersonal influence (Articles of Faith, pp. 488). Matthew 28 indicates that the Holy Spirit is
the Third Person of the Trinity. He is
not a third god. Rather He is the one
true God but He is not a spirit man.
When Scripture refers to Him, it always does as the Spirit. God the Son is the only One within the
Godhead to take upon Himself flesh. God
the Spirit did not take upon flesh nor did God the Father. Therefore the Spirit is Spirit of very Spirit
and He is the One true God.
Chapter 7: The Holy Spirit and the Church Universal and
Triumphant
According to the Church Universal and Triumphant, the Holy Spirit is flame of
God, and its main function is to take away karmic debt (Profile: Elizabeth Clare Prophet—Teachings of the Ascended Masters, p.
9, and The Lost Teachings of Jesus, vol.
1, p. 72). As we have seen the Holy
Spirit is indeed a true person. He is
not an impersonal it. Rather He is a
personal He. If the Holy Spirit is
within the one true being of God, it follows that He must be a true
person. He speaks, grieves and hears
prayers. Therefore He must be a real
divine person.
Chapter 8: The Holy Spirit and A Course in Miracles
According to A Course in Miracles, the Holy Spirit is
the inner voice in all people. God
created the Holy Spirit. This happened
when man experienced the illusion of separation. The Spirit does not say we have sinned. Rather He says we have committed mistakes and
errors (Cults, Sects & Religious
Movements, p. 98).
The Spirit is within the Godhead. He is called God in Acts 5. If He God He has the power of being in
Himself. If He has the power of being in
Himself, He could not have been created because only God has the power of being
in Himself. A creature does not have the
power of being in and of himself. Only
the Creator has it, and rightly so.
Chapter 9: The Holy Spirit and Eckankar
According to Eckankar, teaches that the Holy Spirit
is not a person but an impersonal force called Sound and Light (What Is Eckankar, pp. 1-2; What You Need to Know About the Light and
Sound of God, p. 1; Eckankar: Ancient
Wisdom for Today, pp. 93-94). How is
it logical to say that an impersonal force can be grieved (Ephesians
4:30)? How is scriptural to say that an
impersonal force can speak and be resisted?
Such things are suitable to a personality only not an impersonal force.
Chapter 10: The Holy Spirit and the Children of God
According to the Children of God, the Holy Spirit, as
H. Wayne House says in Cults, Sects &
Religious Movements on page 129 is called “the naked, sexy wife” of the
Father, and Berg claimed he had sexual relations with the Spirit who is called
Mother (Disciples and Friends Only,
723:3, 6, 11, 14; 723:20; 723:5, 27 “The Goddess of Love” and Disciples Only, 2115:25, 26, “Our
Audience with the King of kings!”). Such
statements about the Holy Spirit are far from the divine Scriptures. The Holy Spirit is never described as a
“she.” Rather the Spirit is described as
a He in John 14 through 16. There are
references in Scripture that refer to experiences of saints with heaven. But these experiences do not ever include
sexual activity. Actually, the Lord
Jesus said that in heaven saints will not be married. I believe sexual activity which is only for
marriage anyway, is restricted to this life.
There will no reproduction in heaven.
For the saints in heaven are not given to marriage but are like the
angels in heaven.
Chapter 11: The Holy Spirit and Freemasonry
According to Freemasonry, the Holy Spirit is a type
of universal agent and the concept of Him is from Hebrew philosophy (Albert
Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, p. 734, 552). We have seen that the Spirit is the Spirit of
God. He is indeed divine. The Craft says that God is developing. Yet we know that He is immutable or
unchangeable (Micah 3:6).
Chapter 12: The Holy Spirit and the Mind Science Groups
According to Mind Science Groups, the Holy Spirit is
merely a famine quality or a supernatural truth (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 588, Ernest
Holmes, What Religious Science Teaches, p.
65 and H. Emilie Cady, Lessons in Truth, p.
8). The Holy Spirit is the everlasting
person of the Godhead. He is not an
actual person according to Christian Science, Religious Science and the Unity
School of Christianity. We see in divine
Scripture that the Holy Spirit is spoken of with personal pronouns. He is the one true God. It is a spiritual truth that the Spirit is a
divine person. He is not to be
associated with a famine quality because it has no Scriptural support.
Chapter 13: The Holy Spirit and the Reorganized Mormons
According to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Holy
Spirit is described in impersonal terms as energy or a force (Exploring the Faith, 1987, p. 53, 54,
251). We know that the Holy Spirit is a
divine person. The Holy Spirit empowers
His people because He is all-powerful. He
is distinct from His power; it is His attribute, and only God has such an
attribute.
Chapter 14: The Holy Spirit and Rosicrusianism
According to Rosicruianism, the Holy Spirit is called
Jehovah, but He is the highest evolved angel that came from Virgin
Spirits. They are alleged to be
embodiments of the Universal Life and Principle. And this is supposed to have sprung from God
(KHEL, Rosicrucian Fundamentals, p.
149). The Holy Spirit is God and He has
all the attributes of being divine. No
creature has the power of being in and of Himself except God Himself. The Holy Spirit is not a created angel.
Chapter 15: The Holy Spirit and Unification Church
According to Unification Church, the Spirit of God is described
as a female spirit, the True Mother and the Second Eve (Divine Principle, 2d ed., p. 215, and Moon, “On Prayer and the
Spirit World,” sermon, MS-3, p. 20). The
Holy Spirit is not described as female in divine Scripture. The Holy Spirit is described as a He in
Scripture but as a Spirit He is neither male nor female. It is not Scriptural to say the Spirit of God
is female or to use female terms to apply to Him.
Chapter 16: The Holy Spirit and the United Pentecostal Church
According to the United Pentecostal Church, the Holy Spirit is identified as the
Father. He is not distinct from the
Father. The Father is in Jesus, and that
is what makes Him divine. And the Holy
Spirit is also Jesus (Meet the United
Pentecostal Church International, p. 61, 59-60, and The P.A.S.T.O.R.S. Course: Pneumatology, Book Three of Five, p.
2). We know that in John’s Gospel the
Lord Jesus petitioned the Father to send the Holy Spirit. Such indicates the distinctions within the
Godhead. Therefore there are three
persons within the Godhead. The Spirit
of Christ proceeds from the Father and the Son.
Chapter 17: The Holy Spirit and the Urantia Foundation
According to the Urantia Foundation, the Holy Spirit is
known as a Paradise Mother, and there are many divine Spirits. The Spirit was created by the Universal
Father and the Mother-Son. There are
infinite created Spirits. There are 700,
000 Creative Daughter Spirits. These are
for one of each Creator Son. The influence
of one of Creative Daughters is the Holy Spirit. Every individual as the Spirit of Truth. They are teaching spirits. They also have a Thought Adjuster. The Thought Adjuster is another spirit
being. These spirits enter children at
six years. This group says that
Christians misunderstand these things as the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit
does not live within a person or contacts a person (The Urantia Book, pp. 379, 2061-2062). The Christian Scriptures does not refer to
many Spirits. The Bible refers to one
and the same Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:11).
Therefore there is only one Spirit (Ephesians 4:4-6). The Spirit in Scripture does not refer to
many different spirits. The Holy Spirit
is a divine person. He has a full
personality and full deity. He is not
merely an influence. The Holy Spirit
acts as a divine person. The Bible
speaks of God indwelling them (Romans 8:11; Ephesians 4:6).
Chapter 18: The Holy Spirit and The Way International
According to The Way International, the Holy Spirit
is the Father. This is because He is
holy and a spirit. There is a “holy
spirit” that does not have capital letters.
And it comes from God the Holy Spirit.
Paul spoke of the gift of the “holy spirit” as “Christ in you, the hope
of glory” (Colossians 1:27). The “holy
spirit” is an impersonal force.
Christians serve the “holy spirit” as God. The thinking is that all believers should
have the gifts of the Spirit. People who
speak in tongues have evidence that they have the “holy spirit” (Jesus Christ is not God, pp. 127-128,
brackets in original, Receiving the Holy
Spirit Today, p. 4, 5, 41 and Power
for Abundant Living, p. 279, 362).
The Holy Spirit is not God the Father.
The three persons in the Godhead are distinct yet they are One! The Bible refers to the unique person and
work of the Spirit of God. Colossians
1:2 does mean that the Spirit is an impersonal power. The Spirit is a person who is God
Almighty. We also know that not all
believers receive the gifts of the Spirit.
Chapter 19: The Holy Spirit and the false Virgin Mary
Cult
According to the Mary is God
cult, the Holy Spirit has Mary as His Soul.
The Bible speaks against this because the soul of the Spirit of God is
His essence. He had no beginning or end,
but the Virgin Mary had a beginning and an end.
Therefore the Spirit alone is God not the false Virgin Mary in any
sense.
Chapter 20: The Holy Spirit of Christmas Time
I have included a
gospel presentation on Christmas. I have
done this because I have a passion for truth.
That is, I pray people would worship the Spirit of Christmas. Christmas time is a glorious time. Why is Christmas time a glorious time? Is it only because we receive Christmas
presents? Is it only because we meet
with family and friends? No, it is
primarily because of the birth of the glorious Savior-King, Jesus Christ. He was born on a certain day in history. His birth was and is incomparable to any
other birth. His birth is the matchless
birth. Christmas time is about a
Redeemer who was born to save His people from their sins. This Redeemer was no ordinary man. He was and is God Incarnate; the Savior of
people from every tribe, tongue, and nation.
The gospel of
Christmas day is the gospel of the all-sufficient Savior. Christ preached the true gospel. It is the gospel of repentance and
faith. Christ also preached the
necessity of being born again! Someone must be born again from the Holy
Spirit of Christmas to have genuine, authentic and true faith and
repentance. The Spirit of Christmas is
not the spirit of the power of the air.
He is not the Spirit of modern advertising. He is the Spirit of truth; He is the Spirit
of God. The Holy Spirit is not an
impersonal force. He has a will; He can
think; He speaks; He makes judgments and He commands. The Holy Spirit is the Holy Ghost, and the
Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit. He is the
Third Person of the Trinity. He is a
divine person; He is the one true God.
Do you know the Spirit of Christmas?
Or do you just celebrate Christmas as merely a time of giving? Do you have a personal relationship of
obedience with the Christmas Spirit? The
Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
The Father sent His Son and Spirit comes from the Father and the
Son. The Author of Christmas is Christ
at His birth. The spiritual father of
Christ is the Holy Spirit. The Virgin Birth is prophetically true,
scripturally real and historically valid.
Christ was not conceived by a human father. God ordained that Joseph would be the
step-father of Christ. The Holy Family
of Christmas time should be the model for every family: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The very Creator Himself was born. Jesus Christ is the Creator of Mary and
Joseph, and the angels that proclaimed His birth. His birth
is matchless.
Entering through the
narrow gate is difficult. The Author of
the narrow gate is Christ Jesus the Lord Incarnate. Today people portray salvation as being easy. It is apart of the heresy of easy
believism. Easy believism is spreading
more and more. But the divine Scriptures
do not support easy believism but it supports biblical salvation. Many enter through the wide gate but Christ
says to enter through the narrow gate.
The wide gate is the way that leads to destruction. Hearken to the narrow gate: repent, believe
His gospel and obey what He commands.
Once someone is through that narrow gate, he or she is saved. Once someone is saved there is no
condemnation for them in Christ. No
condemnation in Christ; does not mean sinning with license! Rather it means that there is no sin that can
be charged against the believer. All sin
in the elect only is atoned for by Christ Himself. The elect sinner is never condemned. No one can lay any charge against God’s
elect. When sin is committed, a person
must faithfully repent.
There are so many
who claim to represent Christ with their lips and yet their hearts are far from
Him. Oh, how many do not even believe
that Christ is the all-sufficient, or divine, or one of a kind Savior! The Christ of Scripture is the glorious,
all-sufficient, divine and one of a kind; the very agent of creation! The baby who was born in Bethlehem was
Incarnate Divinity. He was nothing less
then God manifested in human flesh. As a
little baby, He was born to be the Savior of His people, and He preached the
matchless gospel to people. He is the
Way, the Truth and the Life. He is the
door; He is the Bread from Heaven; He is the Good Shepherd; He is the Vine. This glorious King Incarnate was King at His
birth. He is the person who has two
natures: human and divine. He is the
Sinless One, the very eternal Self-Existent Incarnate One; the Second Person of
the Trinity. He is perfectly righteous,
and without the capacity to sin; He is the Impeccable One.
Have you experienced
“blessed self-despair”? It is the
closest you can come to divine grace. It
is in harmony and in line with the great doctrine of divine predestination. People believe because they were
elected. Their belief is the evidence of
their election. But God does not foresee
their belief and on that basis, choose them.
Turn to the Author of predestination (who is Christ Himself), and never
give up. Elect sinners are predestined
unto eternal life. It is meant to be as
an encouragement not a discouragement.
Do not think “I have not been elected to believe.” Rather be convinced of your election, for
when you are, strive to enter through the narrow gate. Predestination for Christians should be a
great motivation to bring the gospel to a dark world. Submit to the great King of predestination,
and live in fruitfulness to serve the Holy Trinity in truth and grace.
God is holy and
just. To stand before Him we need the
perfect, unified righteousness of His Beloved Son. Do you have the imputed righteousness of
Christ alone? Christ died for His
people, and the Spirit applies the work of Him to His people. Turn then on bended knee and worship this
King of Glory. Beware, and repent and
believe God’s gospel of forgiveness.
Obey the Lord in following His commands.
Out of love for this King born long ago, we must obey Him, and do what
is pleasing to Him. Therefore hearken to
the gospel of Christmas day "...repent
and believe in the gospel." (Mark 1:15 NASB).
The King of Christmas Day is Christ: will you do what He says, and
repent and believe?
