November 11, 2005

• Jesus Christ and His Apostles were rejected by almost all the Jews.
  Why? Because they promoted a Kingdom that was simple and bare, which in
  the eyes of the Jews, was “devilish” and “dead.”

  Today, nothing much has changed. Our modern Pharisees only differ
  slightly in their method of attacking Christ. Nowadays, the bare belief
  of the bare truth is considered “devilish” and “dead”. A simple
  conviction that the gospel is true is considered a common thing that
  even a reprobate can possess. Put simply, the modern Pharisee considers
  a bare belief in the gospel — the faith of God’s Elect — to be the
  faith of reprobates.

  It’s no small wonder that today’s Rabbis and their followers doubt
  their salvation. Instead of basing their assurance on God’s testimony,
  they are looking for some peculiar “mark of grace” in themselves. They
  want some goodness in their own character to be the evidence of their
  salvation. After all, a mere belief of the gospel record would be
  completely useless and prove nothing! Even the reprobates have this
  faith (they say)!

  Here is what one wrote to me, “I hope, Mr. Bain, that you have not
  built your house on the sand of
  man-made salvation, based upon the error that “believing” is the same
  thing as “faith” … Millions upon millions of hell-bound “Christians”
  and “Moslems” believe all that there is written about Him [Christ]. In
  Matthew 25, the King here, the Lord, will set the
  sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. He shall separate
  them, the sheep to inherit the kingdom of God prepared for them from
  the foundation of the world – hence elect believers. But read verses
  41-46. Can you, Mr. Bain, deny that these goats were not also
  believers? They surely were “Christians” of some kind. And these shall
  go away into everlasting punishment.”

  In the quotes above, not only does Stanley Phillips assert that faith is
  more than belief. He also affirms that the reprobate can believe the
  gospel. In fact, according to Phillips, you can believe the whole Word
  of God, and be a reprobate.

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