A Defiant & Symbolic 41-Disputations on Hebrews 1:1-2 and Divine Revelation Through the Eternal Son Who Has Spoken in These Last Days, PART 1

Dr. M.A. Petillo,

Reformed Baptist Scholar 

A Little Sermon Based 
Somewhat on the LBCF of 1689 

Hebrews 1:1-2 KJV "....God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds..."

 

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 Jesus Christ, our Lord most holy,
Lamb of God so pure and lowly,
Blameless, blameless, on the cross art offered,
Sinless, sinless, for our sins hast suffered.
Weep now, all ye wretched creatures,
As ye view his gracious features.
Jesus, Jesus, on the cross is dying,
Nature, nature, in dark gloom is sighing.
Christ, his last word having spoken,
Bows his head as life is broken.
Mournful, mournful, stands his mother weeping,
Loved ones, loved ones, silent watch are keeping.
The great veil was torn asunder,
Earth did quake 'mid roars of thunder,
Boulders, boulders, into bits were breaking;
Sainted, sainted dead from death were waking.
As his side with spear was riven,
Blood and water forth were given.
Jesus, Jesus, sinners' only Saviour,
Mercy, mercy, grant to us for ever.  (TH, 196).

 

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"...If I did not believe in the infallibility of this book, I would rather be without it. If I am to judge the book, it is no judge of me. If I am to sift it, and lay this aside and only accept that, according to my own judgment, then I have no guidance whatever, unless I have conceit enough to trust my own heart. The new theory denies infallibility to the words of God, but practically imputes it to the judgments of men. At least, this is all the infallibility which they can get at.  I protest that I will rather risk my soul with a guide inspired from heaven, than with the differing leaders who arise from the earth at the call of “modern thought.”  (C.H. Spurgeon, Sermons, 35.257).

1.)  The written Word of God is contained in the 66 books of the Holy Bible is unaddable because it is God-breathed in inspiration, inerrancy, infallibility and the purity of perfection.

2.)  God's supernatural words in Bible times were meant with the divine intention for the biblical Scriptures in 66 books alone that alone are God-breathed touching justification by faith alone and godly Christian living for the glory of God alone.

3.)  Inspiration refers to God's divine superintendence by the work of the Spirit of God.

4.)  Infallibility refers to Jesus' testimony that the written Word of Truth cannot be broken.

5.)  Inerrancy refers to the perfection of God's holy written Word.

6.)  The purity of perfection is about the supernatural unity and divine peace and eternal self-authentication of  the written Word.

7.)  The supernatural unity of the written Word is about the clear perpetuity of the Bible in that all of the writers of different times clear of a harmonious divine teaching pointing to Jesus Christ.

8.)  The divine peace of the written Word is about about the divine peace that the Spirit brought about in the meticulous superintendence in governing the chosen authors in such a way that is all about the Prince of Peace because the Father is all about the glory of Jesus Christ as the God-Messiah.

9.)  The eternal self-authentication of  the written Word is about the set apart power of God's divine revelation because when He speaks something into existence because He has the power of being so we live and move and have our being through His sustaining power but the Word alone is God-breathed.

10.)  The Lord spoke through visions of the past that God approved of to be written God-breathed revelation for His people's redemption and the judgment of His enemies.

11.)  The Son did not record everything He said but those things that were needful in justification by faith alone and holy Christian workmanship that needs not to be ashamed but rightly handling the God-breathed Scriptures in the original manuscripts that are so cherished that would rightly fit into the Ark of the Covenant for their preservation because in it is the mind of Christ.

12.)  The written Word of God is all-sufficient.

13.)  The Bible is all-certain in its revelation.

14.)  The Bible is infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience.

15.)  The Bible shows the handiwork of God's creation in His outward creation.

16.)   The Bible is about wisdom and power of God.

17.)  The Bible leaves fallen sinners inexcusable.

18.)   The written Word of God and the Holy Ghost are necessary for spiritual rebirth not baptismal waters with Roman oil.

19.)  Creation is insufficient to give the gospel but the Bible is sufficient to provide the gospel.

20.)  God revealed Himself at sundry times for the intent of the recorded and reliable God-breathed Word in His special revelation.

21.)  God declared His will for the local church in the God-breathed Scriptures for how someone is declared right before God and godly means of grace.

22.)  The Written Word is for better preserving and propagating of the truth.

23.)  The Bible is for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh.

24.)  The Bible is spiritual trustworthiness in defiance of the malice of Satan.

25.)  The written Word is in defiance of this fallen world because of cosmic villainy.

26.)  The Bible commits all that is necessary for justification by Christ alone in a predestinarian demonstration of radical good in meticulous deeds written with the finger of God that does not add to Jesus but poorly reflects His unaddable and matchless image of images!

27.)  The Holy Word is most necessary for justification by faith alone through Christ alone and a foredetermined workmanship that defies this fallen world in radical corruption.

28.)  God does not add anything to the God-breathed Scriptures but the time of God-breathed biblical revelation is ceased even in eternal glory nothing will add to the matchless Word but heaven is meant to establish the Word and seek to fulfill the depths of its inexhaustible learning.

29.)  The Word of God is contained in the Old and New Testaments in God-breathed indestructiblity!

30.)  The Book of Genesis is about Jesus Christ.

31.)  The Book of Exodus is about enslavement to sin but turning it on its head a Spirit-led enslavement to Christ as the only true lawgiver.

32.)  The Book of Leviticus is about Jesus Christ in His offering of Himself at the Cross and the One who offers Himself to the Father as an acceptable sacrifice that is unmatchable.

33.)  The Book of Numbers is about God the Son becoming man and living to about thirty-three years of age but the One who is older than the years.

34.)  The Book of Deuteronomy is about Jesus Christ in His sinless life for how someone is right with God in the only and all-acceptable grounds earning salvation and the aftermath of the exodus out of darkness into the light of the Father of lights.

35.)  The Book of Joshua is about Jesus Christ as the conquering King and Captain of the Lord's Army.

36.)  The Book of Judges is about Jesus Christ as the only true Judge who tests the secrets of the hearts and minds of fallen man in a world of Philistines.

37.)  The Book of Ruth is about a love story that teaches us about the love of Jesus Christ.

38.)  The Books of 1 & 2 Samuel are about the greatness of God that points to the only great One who is Jesus Christ alone.

39.)  The Books of 1 & 2 Kings is about the only One who has the right to the Crown who is King Jesus.

40.)  The Books of 1 & 2 Chronicles is about the native people of Israel but really is a symbolic picture of those He gathers to Himself like Revelation's innumerable born again people in Christ Jesus our God and Redeemer.

41.)  The Book of Ezra is about Jesus Christ who had the approbation of the Spirit in His baptism by John the Baptist in a special emphasis where He was approved of the Spirit of God for public ministry and what was already true in His birth that was ordained for death that would bring life against a living death that is an imitation of hell before the time.

 

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Thy Word is like a garden, Lord,
With flowers bright and fair;
And ev'ry one who seeks may pluck
A lovely cluster there.
Thy Word is like a deep, deep mine;
And jewels rich are rare
Are hidden in its mighty depths
For ev'ry searcher there. Thy Word is like a starry host:
A thousand rays of light
Are seen to guide the traveler,
And make his pathway bright.
Thy Word is like an armory,
Where soldiers may repair,
And find, for life's long battle day,
All needful weapons there. O may I love thy precious Word,
May I explore the mine,
May I its fragrant flowers glean,
May light upon my shine.
O may I find my armor there,
Thy Word my trusty sword;
I'll learn to fight with ev'ry foe
The battle of the Lord.  (TH, 257).

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"...Give me the plenary, verbal theory of biblical inspiration with all its difficulties, rather than the doubt. I accept the difficulties and humbly wait for their solution. But while I wait, I am standing on the rock. "  (J.C. Ryle).

70-Disputations on 2 Peter 3:10-11 and the Day of the Lord for Wrath for Non-Elect Reprobates and for a Joyful Mercy for Elect Saints and Holy Godliness As A Predestinarian Demonstration by the Foredetermined Gift of His Hand That Does Not Add to Christ Alone But Poorly Reflects a Shattered Civil Goodness That Is A Gift of God's Goodness Though Radically Depraved That Could Never Add to the Unaddable Self-Existent JESUS the Very I AM WHO I AM (the Incarnate Second Member of the Blessed & Holy Trinity) (update on Trinitarian Godliness later in Other Sermon Posts)

 

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2 Peter 3:10-11 KJV  "...But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness..."

This is the day of light:
Let there be light today;
O Dayspring, rise upon our night,
And chase its gloom away.
This is the day of rest:
Our failing strength renew;
On weary brain and troubled breast
Shed thou thy fresh'ning dew.
This is the day of peace:
Thy peace our spirits fill;
Bid thou the blasts of discord cease,
The waves of strife be still.
This is the day of prayer:
Let earth to heav'n draw near:
Lift up our hearts to seek thee there;
Come down to meet us here.
This is the first of days:
Send forth thy quick'ning breath,
And wake dead souls to love and praise,
O Vanquisher of death!  (TH, 327).

 

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"...Jesus Christ demands self-denial, that is, self-negation (Matt. 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23), as a necessary condition of discipleship. Self-denial is a summons to submit to the authority of God as Father and of Jesus as Lord and to declare lifelong war on one's instinctive egoism. What is to be negated is not personal self or one's existence as a rational and responsible human being. Jesus does not plan to turn us into zombies, nor does he ask us to volunteer for a robot role. The required denial is of carnal self, the egocentric, self-deifying urge with which we were born and which dominates us so ruinously in our natural state.  Jesus links self-denial with cross-bearing. Cross-bearing is far more than enduring this or that hardship. Carrying one's cross in Jesus' day, as we learn from the story of Jesus' own crucifixion, was required of those whom society had condemned, whose rights were forfeit, and who were now being led out to their execution. The cross they carried was the instrument of death. Jesus represents discipleship as a matter of following him, and following him as based on taking up one's cross in self-negation. Carnal self would never consent to cast us in such a role. "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die," wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was right: Accepting death to everything that carnal self wants to possess is what Christ's summons to self-denial was all about..."  (J.I. Packer).

 

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"...The way to godly living is surprisingly simple: We are to walk with God in His appointed way (Micah 6:8), diligently using the means of grace and the spiritual disciplines, and waiting upon the Holy Spirit for blessing.  Note that godly living involves both discipline and grace.  This emphasis upon duty and grace is fundamental to Reformed, experiential thinking on godly living..."  (Joel R. Beeke, Feed My Sheep, ed. Don Kistler, Soli Deo Gloria Ministries, 2002, p. 115).

1.)  The Day of the Lord is a Day of Wrath for non-elect reprobates.

2.)  The Day of the Lord is a Day of Joy for the elect saints in Christ who is the ETERNAL I AM.

 

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3.)  The Day of the Lord is Jesus as a thief at night for the people of God to take them to glory in the realm of Satan's tyranny.

4.)  The Day of Salvation is now: REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL OF GOD!

5.)  The Day of the Lord is about being ready for Him at any time.

6.)  It is about being prepared no matter what.

7.)  Are you prepared for Jesus in standing before Him?

8.)  Do you have His unified white robes of His imputed righteousness by the gift of faith?

9.)  Are you a vessel of wrath or a vessel of mercy?

10.)  Do you possess His unified merit alone or additions to Him or subtractions to Him?

11.)  The Day of Joy is the SECOND RETURN of Jesus for the people of God.

12.)  We are sanctified by the Triune God.   

13.)   The Father sanctified us in His Son but through His Spirit.   

14.)  The gracious act of sanctification involves the union of the Triune Godhead.   

15.)  There is one God who sanctifies us and we are to understand the distinction of the Three Persons.  

16.)  We teach the Trinity in Unity and the Unity in Trinity.   

17.)  The Trinity is one God as it is taught in the book of Deuteronomy.   

18.)  We ought not to make ungodly preferences.   

19.)   Christ is lovely and gracious but some misunderstand that the Father alone is for justice.  However, Christ is just but He is also lovely and gracious.   

20.)  People also depreciate the Spirit.  When it comes to the Trinity they always act in unity.   

21.)  By their essence, the Trinity is united in their deeds.  The Trinity’s love for the chosen is one and indivisible.   

22.)  This is in the case of sanctification.  Sanctification is the work of the Spirit; however, the Father and the Son are not devoid of this work of holiness.   

23.)  The work of sanctification is the work of the Father, of the Spirit and of the Son.  We were made in His image and the Triune God was involved in the creation of men.  We are called as God’s workmanship which He ordained that we should walk in them.

24.)  God values true holiness because the Godhead wants the church without “spot, or wrinkle or such thing.”

25.)  Anyone who stands against holiness of heart is in direct conflict with Almighty God.

26.)  Holiness is an architectural plan when God builds His spiritual temple.  Scripture speaks of the beauty of holiness.
 

27.)  The only thing that is beautiful is holiness before God.
 

28.)  The devil defiled himself and it violates holy, holy, holy.
 

29.)  The cry of the cherubim is the greatest song the creature offers.

30.)  The Trinity accepts this song because God is holy.

31.)   Holiness is His choice treasure.

32.)   Holiness is the seal on the heart and holiness is the signet ring upon His right hand.

33.) God can’t cease to be holy because He is pure, righteous, and holy.

34.)   Those who consider themselves to be followers of Christ are to set a high priority on a godly life and holy conversation.

35.)  The blood of Christ is the foundation of our hope.
 

36.)  We ought to never speak disparagingly of the Spirit’s work.
  

37.)   It is our inheritance for the saints.

38.)  Prize holiness of life and make it a way of life to hate evil.
   

39.)  Prize it so it would flow in your life as a royal priesthood, a holy nation a peculiar people

40.)  We ought to praise Him because He called us out of darkness into a marvelous light. 

41.)  My intention is to enlarge upon sanctification in this time. I use the term sanctification as theologians understand it.

42.)  Sanctification in the Bible is understood in various ways.
  

43.) We must understand how the Bible uses the term sanctification.  It has a wide meaning.

44.)  It has been well said that the Bible is not systematically arranged.  Systematic divines provide truth for common life.
 

45.)  The Bible is a hand book to heaven.  It is a guide to eternity.  It is meant for the farmer as well as the scholar in the classroom.  It is meant for the small child as well the educated adult.  It is meant for the humble and the ignorant man to renew his mind.  God has not given us a scientific book but He has given us His own Word for a practical way for daily use and edification. 

46.)  The meaning of sanctification is the pursuit of holiness.
 

47.)   The Bible is the key book to give us a proper understanding of holiness as a way of life.

48.)  The Old Testament helps us understand the New.  The New also helps us understand the Old as well.

49.)  The Bible teaches self-interpretation when Scripture interprets Scripture which was used by the early church fathers to interpret Scripture. 

50.)  A goldsmith has a rule of a diamond cut diamond and so it must be the rule of divine Scripture.

51.)  It must be studied in its own light.  The Old Testament uses the word sanctify very often but it is used in three senses.  Let us consider the first one.

52.)  Sanctification means to be set apart.  It means in the Old Testament a setting apart.  The legitimate use is for God’s service alone but a life changed by God is never isolated. 

53.) It touches and infects all it comes in contact with.  The Bible calls it to be sanctified or holy.  The book of Exodus says to sanctify unto me all firstborn.

54.)  The firstborn of men and cattle are God’s possession but the firstborn of Egypt were destroyed.  Levi was set apart for the representative of the firstborn.  Levi was set apart to minister day and night.  The seventh day in the book of Genesis says it is set apart.

55.)   The seventh day was meant to be for rest and to serve the Master.  Leviticus 27:14 speaks of the set apartness of a house or a field because it is God’s.   The produce of the field on the occupation of the house was set apart for holy use.  There was no special thing done but it was set apart for God for sanctification.   

56.)  In Exodus 29:44 God sanctifies the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar.  It means it was set apart to be his house which is the special place of his abode.  It is where bright light of the Shekinah might shine forth between the wings of the cherubim.  It is the precious and glorious evidence where the Lord God dwelt in the midst of God’s people.

57.)   In Numbers 7:1 is the setting apart of the altar, instruments and vessels and the sanctification of Eleazer which kept the ark of the Lord.

58.)  First Samuel 7:1 and Joshua 20:7 speak of appointed to sanctification.  It means setting apart holy uses.

59.)  In John 10:36 it speaks of sanctification by His Father.  Jesus had no sin because someone with no sin could be purged from sin.  He was gloriously sinless and had no need of the Spirit’s work against sin because He was immaculate.  Jesus was set apart and removed from every dross or corruption.

60.)  In John 17:19 Jesus sanctifies Himself so they may be sanctified by His truth and He gave Himself in a special way to the service of Almighty God.  He was all about the Father’s business.  It was His meat and drink to do God’s will. And the passage in Jude speaks of sanctification by God the Father.  He has especially sanctified God’s people.

61.)  However, it is not the Father alone but the Spirit who work operatively and effectively in the heart of a believer in Christ.  In the decree of election He set a people separated unto Himself forevermore.  It was the precious gift of His Son to redeem them so they may be holy.  His people are sanctified and set apart among men.

62.)  All Christians are already perfectly sanctified in a past tense.  The Father in Christ through His Spirit sets us apart.  Before creation they were set apart. 

63.) We are legally set apart by the purchase of Christ.  We are also set apart manifestly and visibly by the effectual calling of the Spirit of divine power, grace and truth.  We are at all periods sanctified.  The Father sanctifies us unto the Lord forever.

64.)  The Day of Fire is the destruction of all by Jesus.

65.)  The Sun does not destroy creation but the Son.

66.)  There is a redemptive fire and a civil fire.

67.)  There is a good fire by the Spirit and a fire unto punishment for reprobates in divine torment.

68.)  There will be a new heavens and new earth by Jesus.

69.)  Holy conversation is about practicing godly things.

70.)  The eternal Son recreates creation into new life like rebirth.

"...The evidence of genuine piety is to be found in real humility, self-distrust, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, sorrow for sin, and a continual effort to regulate your thoughts, feelings, and conduct by the Word of God..."  (J.A. James).

 

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The ends of all the earth shall hear
And turn unto the Lord in fear;
All kindreds of the earth shall own
And worship him as God alone.
All earth to him her homage brings,
The Lord of lords, the King of kings.
For his the kingdom, his of right,
He rules the nations by his might;
All earth to him her homage brings,
The Lord of lords, the King of kings.
Both rich and poor, both bond and free,
Shall worship him on bended knee,
And children's children shall proclaim
The glorious honor of his Name.  (TH, 295).

 

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"...On January 12, 1723, I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had to God; to be for the future, in no respect, my own; to act as one that had no right to be himself, in any respect. And solemnly vowed to take God for my whole portion and felicity; looking on nothing else, as any part of my happiness, nor acting as if it were; and His law for the constant rule of my obedience: engaging to fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, to the end of my life..."  (Jonathan Edwards).

 

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4-Summary Sections in 36-Abbreviated Concise Dissertations in a Selected Disputation Format in the Manner of Biblical Rationalism in Utter Refutation of the Heresy of Hyper-Calvinism That Denies Essential Reformed Baptist Truth

Dr. Mike Petillo,

THEOLOGIAN AT LARGE,

THANKSGIVING 2013 

 
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SECTION 1:  Objection to Orthodox Reformed Baptist Theology:

"A person does not have to hear the gospel to be saved."

1.)  "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise..."  (Eph 1:13 KJV). 

a.)  Christ is trusted by the Spirit and the Word (Jn 3ff).  

b.)  Christ is trusted by the word of truth (Jn 17:17).  

c.)  Christ is the Word preached: namely, the gospel of salvation (Mk 1:15).  

d.)  We believe by the Spirit (Jn 1:13) because of the gift of faith (Eph 2:8).

 e.)  We are sealed with a guarantee of the Spirit not of works (Tit 3:5). 

2.)  "Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.."  (Philippians 1:27 KJV).

a.)  We know believers by genuine example in our changed hearts.

b.)  We treasure believers by the Spirit in our Word-given hearts.

c.)  The defence of the Gospel involves preaching.

d.)  The confirmation of the gospel involves preaching the resurrection.

e.)  We could not be partakers of grace unless it was for preaching the gospel.

3.)  "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.."  (Philippians 1:27 KJV).

a.)  Conversation involves the Word-based gospel of Jesus (1 Tim 4:12).

b.)  We are to be an example among all believers in Christ.

c.)  We are called to stand fast in one Spirit even the Spirit of God.

d.)  We strive for the faith of the gospel as with one mind.

e.)  If we strive we strive on that which is based on the Word.

f.)  We are striving together for the Christian faith.

4.)  "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister.."  (Colossians 1:23 KJV).

a.)  We continue in the word preached in a grounded and settled way.

b.)  We are not moved away from the Christian gospel.

c.)  We hear the Word preached in the transformation of the Word that is based on the Word by God's Spirit through a biblical rationalism.

d.)  We are called to preach to every creature.

e.)  Preaching to every creature is an hyperbole but it means the gospel must go forth to all nations no matter what by the means of preaching the Word.

f.)   St. Paul was a minister of the gospel that preached the Word.  Many responded to the written Word by God's Spirit. 

5.)  "But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts."  (1 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV).

a.)  Those who preached the Gospel are allowed by God.

b.)  Those who are entrusted with the gospel preach.

c.)  Some are called like Judas Iscariot (outwardly) some are called like St. Simon Peter (inwardly.)

d.)  God causes sound preaching for mercy to try hearts.

e.)  God uses heretical preaching for the good to refine truth by those called but also pass judgment over a stiff-necked people.

f.)  Preaching the sound Word is not pleasing to men.

6.)  "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."  (Hebrews 4:2 KJV).

a.)  The gospel is preached to God's people.

b.)  The gospel is preached to other sheep that are also God's people.

c.)  How do people grow in progressive sanctification?  By the Word preached!

d.)   The Word preached did not profit the non-elect reprobate unto mercy but unto wrath because the Word never comes back empty.

e.)  The Word preached accomplishes its mission by the Spirit.

f.)  The same means to soften are meant to harden deepening on how the Spirit uses the Word.

g.)  The Word preached brings faith to the deaf and sight to the blind.

7.)  "And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe."  (Acts 15:7 KJV).

a.)  Godly men rise up like St. Peter to preach the Word.

b.)  The Gentiles heard the Word preached unto a saving knowledge.

c.)  A saving knowledge is through the hearing of the Word preached.

8.)  "Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached."  (Luke 7:22 KJV).

a.)  The gospel has the power to open eyes by the Spirit.

b.)  The gospel has the power to open ears by God's Spirit.

c.)  The gospel has the power to make men walk godly before Him.

d.)  The gospel has the power to cleanse God's astray people.

e.)  We must preach the Word so His saving message advances.

f.)  God can work above, against and through secondary means if He chooses.  Here is how it breaks down:

• The mentally disabled are saved by the gospel apart from ordinary means and the murdered unborn children are saved apart from ordinary means.
• He is also able to take the memory of the Word while under condemnation to later use it for saving purposes unto spiritual salvation like Mark 1:15 or for a rejection by the unsaved pre-converted elect sinner for future purposes unto redemption at His choosing.
• The non-elect reprobates hear the gospel and reject it or they never respond the gospel like the scattered millions of Noah's day or they simply never hear the Word preached at all but its up to God's Spirit through His Word to bring the message everywhere through His chosen vessels of mercy to spread the mercy of the saving gospel.
• He uses the gospel preached to advance His kingdom unto mercy for His people at His timing and we are no less called to spread the gospel to every living creature all over the earth to glorify Jesus whether He chooses to use it for softening of the heart unto mercy or hardening of the heart unto wrath.  Again God can use the very same means to harden or soften a sinner at His timing but the Word never comes back empty.  God is working out His plan, will and purpose for wrath or mercy, but we humbly pray to a holy Triune God to save a great innumerable people from all over the world unto the glory of His ultimate mercy through Jesus Christ in His unified righteousness imputed by a Spirit-born gift of grace, faith and repentance toward the Triune Jehovah.

9.)  "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."  (Matthew 11:5 KJV).

a.)   The gospel is about opening eyes.

b.)  The gospel is about causing the lame to walk.

c.)  The gospel is about cleansing spiritual criminals.

d.)  The gospel is about making the deaf to hear.

e.)  The gospel is preached to poor sinners.

f.)  Here are spiritual applications to the above verse as previously mentioned, but the immediate meaning in the Days of Jesus was His supernatural miracles where it attested His eternal self-existent deity in which He preached the Word of Truth concerning the gospel of our eternal salvation to the glory of the Father through the finished work of Jesus by the Spirit's application of Christ to lost sinners in spiritual rebirth through the accompanied Word.

10.)  "And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie..."  (Mark 1:7 ESV).

a.)  John preached about the Mighty I AM Who is Jesus Christ alone: namely, God the Son in sinless human flesh.

b.)  None of us are worthy because of original sin and actual transgressions.

c.)  The Lamb is worthy because He is the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity who has two natures God and man in One Person Jesus Christ.

d.)  John preached the complete worthiness of Jesus Christ and the complete unworthiness of everyone because he was the highest example but even he lacked spiritual worthiness to stand before Jesus Christ due to his sin.  

e.)  All of God;s little children can stand before Him robed in His garments of unified purity by the Spirit and Word in justification by Christ alone. 

11.)  "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs..."  (Mark 16:20 ESV).

a.)  We are called to preach everywhere like His apostles.

b.)  The Lord worked with His disciples.

c.)  He works with us but we are not authors of the Bible.

d.)  He confirmed the saving message by reliable signs.

e.)  Confirmation of the message today is not like the author's of the Bible.

f.)  There is the same saving message preached today.

g.)  The same saving message by doctrine is apostolic doctrinal tradition that is handed-down by the clarity of the Word.

h.)  The signs that confirm the Bible are set apart and unique in God's God-breathed superintendence of the biblical revelation.

i.)  There are unGod-breathed signs from God today that help confirm the same message of the Bible today like godly living where Jesus is writing our biographer of each saint and that is like the Word preached.  Our thoughts preach, our words preach and our deeds preach.

j.)  He also uses an unsign sign that testifies of approval of God if used for a biblical rationalism but if its something apart from a biblical pursuit it will yield mere human uncreditability creditability to false religion but if its used for the real gospel of Jesus without Roman evil of using a false miracle for a true miracle it will be like an instruction of a poor, shattered and corrupted image of Bible times without an untrue account but a true account of Bible-post times that teach us Jesus is all about the Word preached.

k.)  The Bible alone provides the God-breathed signs to confirm the gospel.

l.)  We go to the NT Scriptures to provide evidence to the Word preached.

m.)  Signs in post-Bible times are not matchable to the unmatchable Bible.

n.)  The signs of post-Bible times are a shattered image of the Bible.

o.)  The best evidence is fulfilling our Jesus calling (to be a "little Jesus") in the scope of godly living the reflects our true faith in Jesus who gives us His imputed unified merit.

p.)   Imagine if you constructed your thought-life like a sermon?  Preach that!  Isn't your audience God?

q.)  Imagine if you constructed your word-life like a sermon?  How about you preach that!  your neighbor thinks you could use Jesus for a curse word!

r.)  Imagine if you made your deed-life into a sermon?  Preach the deed!  have you given to the poor?  Does it add to Jesus to be right with God?  By no means!  How much more you ought to reflect His sinless life in a shattered image?  Preach the deeds!  What are you waiting for?   "Get up and do.!"

12.)  "So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people."  (Luke 3:19 ESV).

a.)   The Word preached is about the good news.

b.)  Exhort the people of God about being trained in righteousness.

13.)  "And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them."  (Luke 7:22 ESV).

a.)  The poor are totally depraved sinners.

b.)  Jesus preached to fallen sinners.

c,)  The gospel is the power of God unto salvation.

14.)  "The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it." (Luke 16:16 ESV).

a.)  The good news of the Gospel-kingdom is preached.

b.)  The people of God force themselves into the gospel.

c.)  How?  Through the Spirit and Word preached.

d.)  God enables His little children to come to Him.  That is "come to Jesus today."
  
15.)  "But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women."  (Acts 8:12 ESV).

a.)  Philip preached the good news of Jesus.

b.)  The good news is the kingdom of God and His Name's sake.

c.)  The people of God get baptized whether male or female.

d.)  There is no race that God excludes: namely, He saves from every corner of the world for the gift of the glory of His Son.

16.)  "But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea."  (Acts 8:40 ESV).

a.)   We are called to preach while we travel.

b.)  We are called to preach the gospel to all places.

c.)  Start preaching in your home town until you come to your spiritual Caesarea.

17.)  "But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus."  (Acts 9:27 ESV).

a.)  Paul was a great enemy of Jesus.

b.)   Barnabas brings him to the apostles to share his testimony.

c.)  Paul preached boldly for the Name Sake of Jesus.

18.)  "When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch..."  (Acts 14:21 ESV).

a.)  We are to preached for God and He will provide disciples.

b.)  We are to continue with the Water of the Word.

19.)  "Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand..."  (1 Corinthians 15:1 ESV).

a.)  Receive the gospel and stand in the gospel.

20.)  "and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain."  (1 Corinthians 15:2 ESV).

a.)  Hold fast to the Word preached.

b.)  Hold fast to sound doctrine of the Word.

21.)  "Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge?"  (2 Corinthians 11:7 ESV).

a.)  God's gospel is free and it is the best in the world.

22.)  "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed."  (Galatians 1:8 ESV).

a.)  The folly of angels preach another gospel.

b.)  Fallen angels dwell in the heavenly realms before God.

c.)  The gospel preached is Paul's gospel.

d.)  Opposing the gospel of Jesus is accursed.

23.)  "For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel."  (Galatians 1:11 ESV).

a.)  The gospel is God's gospel not man's gospel.

24.)  "And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”  (Galatians 3:8 ESV).

a.)  Gentiles are justified by faith alone (Eph 2:8).

b.)  The gospel was heard by Abraham (Rom 4).

c.)  The gospel will be embraced with the stars of heaven and the sand on the sea but each case is Christ's particular redemption (Mt 1:21).

25.)  "You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first.."  (Galatians 4:13 ESV).

a.)  The gospel goes out by those who are disabled.

b.)  The gospel is preached to many at first and it spreads.

26.)  "And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near."  (Ephesians 2:17 ESV).

a.)  The gospel is about peace.

b.)  The peace of the gospel by the Spirit and Word ends war with God by applying Christ to our souls in rebirth devoid of baptismal waters with Roman oil.

27.)  "Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel.."  2 Timothy 2:8 ESV).

a.)   The gospel is about Jesus Christ.

b.)   The good news is about the resurrection of Jesus.

c.)  The glad tidings is about the offspring of David such as Jesus.

d.)   The Word preached is about the Jesus Who is the Gospel.

28.) "It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look."  (1 Peter 1:12 ESV).

a.)  The true gospel is preached by honorable men through the Spirit.

b.)  Angels desire to look into spiritual matters about God's work.

c.)  Preaching the good news is about sound exegesis.

29.)  "but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you" (1 Peter 25 ESV).

a.)  The gospel stands forever.

b.)  The good news preached is about the Lord.

c.)  The written Word is forever and everyone has a copy in heaven.

30.)  "For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does."  (1 Peter 4:6 ESV).

a.)   The gospel falls on spiritually dead people.

b.)  The acceptance of the gospel is living in the Spirit.

c.)  Unified conclusion:  namely, the Word preached is necessary for the glory of Jesus unto mercy for His chosen in the declaring of God's Word.  If we neglect this neglect the hearing of God's people so that they may be spiritually awakened in rebirth, monergisticly regenerated, and sovereignly born again for those who He intends to glorify the eternal Son unto a mercy that is unbreakable and lasts for eternity that never fades away.

SECTION 2:  Objection to Orthodox Reformed Baptist Theology:

"A sermon should not contain the evangelistic gospel."

31.)  The Bible is about Jesus.  If the Bible is about Jesus every sermon is really about Jesus.  

a.)  We ought to preach Jesus and Him crucified.  

b.)  The eternal inexhaustibly of the Bible is about Jesus.  

c.)  It will take us for all eternity to learn the eternal depths, heights, breath, and width of the divine Scriptures but we taste of the eternal riches of the Word now to plunge its treasure that is better than gold and finer than fame.  

d.) It is good for converted sinners to hear the Word about the Gospel of Jesus to examine themselves with meticulous learning about the details of the Word.

e.)   If there is no evangelism there is no public testimony.  We see there is testimony because of evangelism, but this should encourage and enhance our advertisement without illegitimate propaganda. 

SECTION 3:  Objection to Orthodox Reformed Baptist Theology:

"The Second Coming, the Last Judgment and Resurrection Happened." 

32.)   The Second Coming of Jesus Christ has not happened.

a.)   The Second Coming of Jesus ends earthly time.

b.)  The Second Coming of Jesus is a the public coming with His saints to us.

c.)  The Second Coming of Jesus is the public rapture of elect saints.

33.)  The Last Judgment by Jesus Christ has not happened.

a.)  The Last Judgment is bringing all hidden things to light.

b.)  It is judgment on the civil good and the civil bad.

c.)  It is about acquittal through Christ or ultimate wrath without Jesus.

d.)  It is a confirmation of God's judgment now: namely, those sentenced to eternal hell will have no escape or time of a second chance of repentance at the Last Day.

34.)   The Last Resurrection of the sheep and goats has not happened.

a.)   The sheep rise to life eternal with glorified bodies.

b.)   The goats rise to condemnation unto eternal wrath with bodies of destruction.

c.)  The sheep have a life of all eternity because of Jesus.

d.)  The goats have a death for all eternity because of God's choice unto damnation in that He was pleased to choose them as vessels of wrath.

35.)  Unified conclusion on end times (or eschatology):  The Second Coming of Jesus, Last Judgment by Jesus and Last Resurrection of the sheep and the goats has not occurred because the world has not be destroyed by the eternal Son by supernatural fire.  If these things have already happened, why does the earth remain when if these things have occurred it would have been destroyed by God-appointed fire? 

a.)  There is no evidence for the Book of Revelation to be written before 70 AD.

b.)  There are non-Second Coming appearances by Jesus in post-ascension times like His appearance to St. Beloved John in exile.

c.)  The most accurate date for the Book of Revelation is 90 AD.

d.)  It is true that Jesus has not come back yet in His glorious Second Coming but the ultimate Antichrist has come in Nero.  The bad news is preferred first but the good news for God's people is the last: namely, a Day of Joy for God's people because of Jesus Christ.

SECTION 4:  Objection to Orthodox Reformed Baptist Theology:

"The gospel nullifies or destroys the obedience to the law."

36.)  The gospel establishes the moral law through the sinless life of Jesus.

a.)  The gospel is the merit of His sinless life where He always did what pleased the Father.

b.)  The gospel does not nullify or destroy the law but it encourages us to obey the Ten Commandments and NT commandments.

c.)  How so?  We must compare ourselves to the life of Christ where Christ alone earned our salvation by His perfect righteousness in our behalf.

d.)  See how we fall completely short?  Take up repentance and faith!

e.)  See how we fall short in light of the moral law?  Its about repentance unto redeeming the time in radical good.

f.)  No one can perfectly keep the law except positionally through Christ alone where our souls our sinless but our body sins.

g.)  We are called practically and experientially to obey the moral law by the gift of repentance and Spirit-driven obedience.

h.)  We are not commanded to obey merely in forms of legalism.

i.)  We must engage in sold-out obedience by the Spirit to practical righteousness concerning the moral law that imitates Christ in a corrupted manner (and never adds to Him) but it is a predestinarian demonstration of a reflection of God's foredetermined intent.

j.)  See all the holy things God has brought about by His mere intent of foredetermination of all things?  Imagine if we reflected God's intent?  There would be meticulous civil good everywhere.  We know civil goodness does not save, but God has commanded in His Word to be workmen not ashamed to obey the fruits of the Ten Commandments outward good works prepared beforehand by the gift of His Hand (Eph 2:10).

k.)  Therefore antinomianism is graceless lawlessness and no one should permit themselves to sanctioned impunity of lawless evil.

•  There is a grace that is lawless that is not a true grace.
•  There is a law-follower who is spiritually dead (civil obedience with no awakening by the Spirit and Word).
• There is disobedience that is struggling with sin.
• There is lawlessness that is habitual sin.

l.)  If God the Spirit through the Word of God enables us to cooperate with Himself by His work of monergistic regeneration, what would be the positive consequence of God's work if not enabled cooperation with a new heart, new life, new belief, new righteousness and new standing before a holy God?

m.)  If everything is positional, where is the foredetermined evidence of profession and possession of faith in practical Christian living?  Spiritual salvation does not depend on self-willed civil deeds.   What do I mean?  If there is no true work of the Spirit there is no true demonstration.  We are dependent on the moving of the Spirit.  Hence demonstration is a Spirit-dependence through a living faith that yields weak or strong evidence of true grounds of being convinced of your election.  

n.)  If a shattered reflection of positional truth is rejected in a practical imitation it will result in the spiritual diagnosis of meanness.

 

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