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To: editor-surveyor
You characteristically missed placing the first one first: Believe.

You don't share the gospel with people, do you? You do not have a working understanding of the gospel. Maybe this is the first time you've heard it or seen it layed out in a way to confront the false beliefs of the unbelieving.

You do not understand how much God hates sin. His justice demands death (Romans 6:23a). "But while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." God was willing to pay for your penalty, but you can only appropriate his atonement by faith. This is the one thing you must do: believe. But you must know that there is a sin problem, or else you will not be moved to address sin in your life and realize that you need a Saviour. You can't compensate for sin my "living a good life." It's too late ("He that would keep the law, yet offend it in one point, is guilty of all." James 2:10). Your only hope is placing your faith and trust in the Saviour, in his atoning work of death on the cross. God will count your faith as righteousness. ("Abraham believed God, and counted it unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." Romans 4:4,5)

He gave us two commandments, one of which you resist, because love gets in the way of your bitter accusations that make you feel so superior to all those retched sinners.

Your railing accusations are so off the mark. The two fornicators are not Christians. If they die in their sins, they will spend eternity in the lake of fire. It is not loving to be silent. It is loving to confront them with what the future holds for the unsaved. It is loving to share the gospel with them.

God hates fornication. He hates it when Christians commit it. Here is how Paul handled a notorious case in 1st Corinthians:

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken from among you. For I verily, as absent in the body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath done this deed, In the name of our Loud Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavenend. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5:1-8)

Paul commands that this brother be "delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh." Paul is upset that these people are not mourning his sin. Paul characterizes them as "puffed up" because they are ignoring blatant sin. You accuse me of "feelings of superiority" for pointing out sin. It is those who give fornication a pass that are puffed up.

If you are one of his elect, the Father will introduce you to his son, when the time comes; ....

This explains it all. You don't share the gospel with people, because you are a Calvinist. Calvinism is a wicked false doctrine that will consign many to hell, because you remain silent. The blood of the unsaved will be on your hands, if you fail to warn them:

If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. (Ezekiel 33:8,9)

Not loving.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! (But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?) So then faith cometh by hearning, and hearing the word of God." (Romans 10:13-17)

117 posted on 02/14/2013 7:03:05 PM PST by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting

I do not attempt to “share” the gospel with those that exude rejection thereof.

Your open volition to exercise Yeshua’s perogative of judgement classifies you.


119 posted on 02/17/2013 4:09:18 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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