I think he shall find little comfort there. If the blood itself has no significance, then why do we have all of these Scriptures? While MacArthur is trying to make out like fundamental leaders are in agreement with him on the blood, we venture to say that there are many fundamental pastors who are deeply disturbed over his stand.
We believe that there are many who want to distance themselves from the false teaching of John MacArthur. On 22 nd September, Dr. Hymers Jr.
MacArthur, and the Blood of Christ. At the very beginning he stated:. Who said that? Was it John MacArthur? Was it his teacher, Colonel Thieme? But our text corrects her error. When we eat the bread we are reminded that His real Body actually died. And it was the real flesh and bone Jesus that rose from the dead and ascended to Heaven cf. Luke ; Acts Yes, the Blood of Jesus is real also. The cup reminds us of His real Blood.
But Mrs. When the Bible speaks of the blood of Christ is it literal or is it an allusion? The answer to this question is found in Leviticus xvii. It is because the soul, or life, is in the blood; and that the blood is offered to God on the altar, that it has in it redemptive power.
The life of a sheep, or goat, is of less value than the life of an ox, and so the blood of a sheep or a goat in an offering, is of less value than the blood of an ox Lev. And now who can tell the value or the power of the blood of Jesus?
In that blood, dwelt the soul of the holy Son of God. The power of that blood in its divers effects is nothing less than the eternal power of God Himself. What a glorious thought for everyone who desires to experience the full power of the blood. But the power of the blood lies above everything else in the fact that it is offered to God on the altar for redemption. His blood redeems us. There was a price against us that we could not pay, but the blood of Jesus redeemed us.
His blood brings us into fellowship with God. His blood makes peace with God. Man, by nature, is at war with God; and we can only come to God on His peace terms—the blood atonement. His blood cleanses. Not only does it remove the punishment of sin, it removes the pollution.
His blood gives power over the devil. He hates it! Before this planet was ever swung into space, God had determined in His heart that He would send His Son to die upon the cross.
How wonderful it is to trace the scarlet thread of the blood of Christ woven throughout the Bible! How much more wonderful to experience its redemption personally. Praise God for the blood of His Lamb!
We are not required to be prepared as sons, and then come and be accepted of God, be justified, and have our sins pardoned through Jesus; but we are instructed to come to Jesus in order to our being justified freely by His grace, and made sons through living union with Him who is the eternal Son of God.
We are justified freely as sinners, and being thus accepted in the Beloved, we become sons of God, and have the nature, experience, and walk of His children. Awakened sinner! I do not know a more striking illustration of salvation by the blood of Jesus alone, than that which is furnished by the sprinkling of the blood of the passover lamb on the homes of the Israelites, on the eve of their redemption from the bondage of Egypt.
These things had their proper place, and their proper value; but they never could be regarded as the ground of peace in the presence of God. It is most needful to be simple and clear as to what it is which constitutes the- groundwork of peace.
So many things are mixed up with the work of Christ, that souls are plunged in darkness and uncertainty as to their acceptance. They know that there is no other way of being saved but by the blood of Christ; but the devils know this, and it avails them nought.
What is needed is to know that -we are saved -absolutely, perfectly, eternally saved. There is no such thing as being partly saved and partly lost; partly justified and partly guilty; partly alive and partly dead; partly born of God and partly not. There are but the two states, and we must be in either the one or the other.
The Israelite was not partly sheltered by the blood, and partly exposed to the sword of the destroyer. He knew he was safe.
He did not hope so. He was not praying to be so. He was perfectly safe. Freedom of religion still means something even at the Supreme Court level. Resulting, in a suit by Grace Community Church against Newsom and the state of California, which the church won. None of that settlement will go to the church or MacArthur. All of it will go to the Thomas More Society for its expenses in its litigation and for the continuation of its great legal work on behalf of non-profit entities.
Good for you, John MacArthur, good for you. Newsom obviously never got the message but the LA county, where Grace Community Church is located, did.
As a result, it modified its health order banning such indoor worship and lifted the restriction after the ruling. To be sure, it was anything but voluntary, but at least, the county complied even if the state did not.
But that was last winter. He also stated that there were individuals in his church, congregation members, who also contracted the disease. Nonetheless, the issue for him and his parishioners was the freedom of worship guaranteed by the Constitution, COVID notwithstanding. They, as mature adults and American citizens, were free to exercise their constitutional rights, which of course unconditionally guarantees the right to worship in-person, in church, or to congregate anywhere with others as the worshipper would see fit.
Cesar, in this case, Newsom, would not have any right to exercise any authority to shut down Christian worship religious freedom at work no matter the circumstances. You did a great legal service not only for your good church, but for all sincere and uncompromising Christians everywhere in this once great Country. MacArthur won, but not money, but rather the protection of the integrity of his church. Thank You!
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