Msg #24018 Unmuddying Election
What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
In the epistle to the Romans a most marvelous dissertation on the righteousness of God and the gospel of Christ is rounded out with three chapters about Israel’s election and two chapters on “I beseech you therefore”. The dissertation theme and abstract is given in Romans.1:16-17, “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ … For therein is the righteousness of God revealed …”. The theme is presented flawlessly in eight chapters and then the Apostle Paul addresses why, how, and “what’s this” that many of God’s elect of Israel are not God’s elect in this dispensation of grace. Thus Romans.9-11 detail how Israel fits into three dispensations; past, present, and future; i.e. Law, Grace, and Kingdom. Roman Catholic’s and Reformed “covenant theology” will seep these chapters full of their muddy error, so effort must be made to clean out and keep out their twisted teachings. In Romans.9 Jacob was loved and Esau hated (vr.13) NOT for election to salvation, as the reformed Calvinists insist, but to service; election is always for service, never for salvation. Israel was elect and chosen to produce 1) the Messiah, 2) the oracles of God and 3) the knowledge that “the Lord our God is one Lord” (Gen.12:3, Rom.3:2, Deut.6:4). Don’t allow a reformed theologian who rejects all Bible dispensations to muddy this truth. Romans.10 then depicts our present dispensation of Grace wherein “Christ is the end of the law” (vr.4), and Romans 11, the salvation of Israel in the Kingdom age (vr.26). Roman covenant and replacement theology quagmires all Protestant theologians in muddy confusion about election and predestination, Israel’s status, and about the end time pre-tribulation rapture of the church. Read your Bible, it can marvelously clear away mud. No one ever became a Calvinist by reading the Bible, not even John!
An Essay for week #18, May 5, 2024
“The Biblical Doctrine of Election and Predestination” www.GSBaptistChurch.com/elect
Msg in audio at www.GSBaptistChurch.com/audio/gs240505.mp3
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