ARTICLE OF STEPHEN FLURRY BEWARE OF FALSE CONVERSION      

 16/10/2011                                  

The following are excerpts from the article of S.Flurry, and many of the points are biblical and true for Christians, and explained below are scriptures that should be understood with Jn 6: 63 (spirit is words of life)—and 1 Co 2: 2 (which says Paul determined to preach nothing but Him and Him crucified), then Rom 6: 3-7 baptizm into the death of JESUS CHRIST has to be followed by all believers to understand the blessings of His crucifixion, so that they be raised in Righteousness to serve Him, Ro 6: 19,22.

S, Flurry’s article--

Millions of churchgoers claim to “know” Jesus Christ, but fully reject the very teachings He proclaimed during His ministry, including the very laws that Jesus Himself abided by. They have been deceived by the teachings of false ministers who are hostile to God’s laws and who misapply and distort the plain truth of the Bible.---Consider one popular passage of Scripture in Acts 16:31: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” If you believe,you shall be saved—that’s future tense. But what kind of belief is Paul talking about here? Most people do not realize that the Bible speaks of two kinds of belief, or two kinds of faith: 1) living faith that brings salvation; and 2) dead, “no works” faith that leads to death. It is the first kind of faith—the living faith that is coupled with works (James 2:18)—that so many fail to understand today. Why won’t the same preachers who misapply Acts 16:31 also quote what Jesus Himself said when asked about inheriting salvation? “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments,” Jesus said (Matthew 19:17). And when a young man asked Him which commandments He was referring to, Jesus proceeded to list some of the Ten Commandments.Jesus said if we are to be saved—there was a condition—if we are to be saved, by God’s grace, then we must keep the commandments!

Comment---Jas 2:17  Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ----20  But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?--21  Was not Abraham our father justified by works -----22  Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?---23 ----"Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." --24  You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.----IN THESE VSS.

ABRAHAM’S FAITH AND WORKS ACCOUNTED AS RIGHTEOUSNESS!                                     Through which scriptures could you be accounted as Righteousness? ---is it not Rom 6: 3-7, 19,22 that one is made righteous? –that is if you get baptized into His death, and made newness of life, you would be having Righteousness to serve Him!---therefore that is the works that should be followed with faith in JESUS CHRIST—Paul preached Him (to have faith in Him) ---and Him crucified (for us to believe the works –that has to be accomplished through His death, crucifying our lusts, loading our sins on Him to get remission of sins through His blood, so that we be prepared to make the new covenant through the blood of the covenant ---well these things had been written in detail in the articles sent recently!)-----THEREFORE THE BELIEVERS SHOULD BE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH, THROUGH HIS SPIRIT AND FIRE, Mt 3:11, Lu 3:16,  (which are His words of correction, Jer 5: 14, 23: 29, through life giving words, Jn 6: 63)

S Flurry’s writings continued--Now the Bible also reveals that man cannot earn salvation. --a free gift. --to those who repent of sin and turn to God in humble obedience. God will not give eternal life to someone who is living in sin.Many who claim to know Christ say the Commandments have been done away. Yet John says that the only people who truly know Jesus Christ are the ones who keep His Commandments (1 John 2:3)Verse 4 says, “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” --There is no contradiction in what John wrote. Instead, we see that the kind of belief required for salvation is far different than many have carelessly assumed.

Comment---we see how believers get newness of life, through baptizm into His death in Rom 6: 3-7, to be with Him in holiness, Ro 6: 19, 22, as no one would see Him without holiness, Heb 12:14  Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:----one should see how peace with brethren—and holiness is essential to be with the LORD! ---should not we get the help of the Holy Spirit which had shed love in our hearts, Ro 5: 5 (when you follow the loving commandments of JESUS CHRIST, you would be able to love brethren).

S. Flurry continued--Human beings would rather do almost anything else than surrender to God. Human nature detests the thought of submitting to God’s law! This is why men have substituted their own laws, customs and traditions in place of God’s commandments, thinking they can still receive salvation by merely believing in Christ as their Savior.Yet Christ says those who want to worship Him without obedience to His commandments worship Him in vain (Mark 7:7-9). In other words, it is entirely possible to think you are worshiping Christ and to actually be doing it in vain.What must we do in order to know we are worshiping Christ the right way? The Apostle Peter answered this question in a sermon he gave to some unbelievers. Acts 2:37-38 says that after hearing Peter preach, these people “were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them,Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy [Spirit].”

Comment---John baptized with water, sinners need Christ’s baptizm with fire and Holy Spirit, Acts 1: 15-- --PCG is blind to the fact that they sinned through breaking the covenant through Bamah matter , Eze. 44: 7 (it could be seen in www.gentileassembly.org) - the word confirms through Eze. 16: 8, 59, therefore their worship could be in vain! They do not even know that their work is abolished, Eze. 6: 6, This is Laodecian blindness, PCG needs LORD’s grace, to have faith in Christ,   PCG taught these things, but are blind to all what they taught! ---they are to take words and turn to Him, Hos 14: 1,2, they should take the words of Ro 6: 3-7, to repent and be baptized into His death as His blood is for remission of sins!

S. Flurry continued-----sin, the Bible reveals, is the transgression of God’s law (1 John 3:4). In Romans 7, Paul says he would not have known what constituted sin, except by the law. What law? The law that says: “Thou shalt not covet” (Romans 7:7). That law is of the Ten Commandments. God’s law is summed up in the one word: love! It is further defined in the two great commands Jesus outlined in Matthew 22: to love God and to love neighbor. This same law is further defined and divided into ten points by the Ten Commandments—the first four of which tell us how to love God; the last six of which tell us how to love neighbor.--Jesus also said, “Repent ye, and believe the gospel” (Mark 1:15). -----Here, then, is the Bible’s formula for becoming a true Christian: repentance from sin, belief in Christ and His gospel message, and baptism—an ordinance symbolizing faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.-----Notice Romans 8:9. “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” According to the Bible, then, a Christian is one in whom the Holy Spirit dwells!

Comment—Holy Spirit is word, Jn 6: 63, therefore words must dwell in us to do them! could you see that S. Flurry too mentions the ORDINANCE symbolizing the death—burial—Resurrection of Christ—THAT ORDINANCE IS WRITTEN IN ROM 6--4  Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.—through keeping that ordinance, we get new life, be born again!—at Passover we are to remember His death to be baptized into Him, this is why even the end time Feast of Tabernacles is to be kept as Passover , Ez 45: 21-25.

S. FLURRY continued---The Apostle Paul added, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” It is Christ’s own faith, in other words—which God supplies and places in us by the Holy Spirit—that actually imparts eternal life. The Holy Spirit dwelling in you is Christ in you (Romans 8:10). God’s Spirit is how Christ dwells in us—it is how Jesus Christ comes again in the flesh. God’s Spirit will then “save” us, completing this process of salvation (verse 11). --This passage shows that final salvation means being given eternal life at the time of the resurrection. 

HERE ARE MORE COMMENTS—the very reason PCG broke the covenant is not keeping His commandments, Eze. 16: 8,59 (PLEASE UNDERSTAND ---IT IS POSSIBLE TO BREAK A COVENANT IF YOU HAD IT—THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE COVENANT CANNOT BREAK IT, PCG CLAIMED THAT THEY MADE IT, Ez 16: 8!) –this is why the LORD forgives them through the remission of His blood, Mt 26:28 , Heb 9:22 (without blood one cannot be purified)  , and that blood is the blood of the new covenant, Mt 26: 28, which will enable to make the captives return, Zec 9;11, --all through His blood shed on the cross—that is why Paul preached Him and Him crucified, so that believers should be born again of Spirit, baptizing into His death, going through Ro 6: 3-7 to be born in newness of life—For this purpose, LORD had given “WORDS OF LIFE” TO LIVE BY THEM, ---According to Jn 6: 63-- It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.---THE WORDS ARE SPIRIT! ---they quicken you---the words are life-giving! –if words or spirit, Jn 6: 63, dwells in you, Christ is in us!

Then Christ had come in flesh, you should notice His servants speaking His words—words of prophecies---words of Judgment –of law—of commandments –of grace,- of  covenant—of His love—of His crucifixion---of His baptizm ---and our requirement to be baptized into His death to be resurrected as He resurrected---IN OTHER WORDS--- RO 6: 3-7---then and then ONLY—could WE BECOME RIGHTEOUS TO SERVE HIM! –ROM 6: 19, 22.We are expected to keep His CHANGED LAWS—listed in Rom 13: 8-10—therefore the LORD is giving knowledge, Isa 11: 9, of His laws, to make new covenant, Heb 8:10.

They are laws of love—Ro 13: 8  Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. (notice that Paul listed the old law--Ro 13: 9  For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.---- 10  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.------

11 –And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.----12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ---JESUS CHRIST is WORD OF GOD, Re 19: 13, ---and to Him belong the words of God---if we become doers of the word of God, be obedient to Him, we could put on JESUS CHRIST!---that means we become spiritual---we could get His free gift of salvation through His blood.

Gentiles were made first fruits of poor, Isa 14: 30, through His blood, Eph 2: 13, and they were made nigh to covenant, Eph 2: 12,13, and thus gentiles took hold of the covenant, and be in God’s house, Isa 56: 4-6, and they work like David, Zec 12: 8.

Whatever words of God repeated are safer for the hearers, Ph  3:1

2 Co 5: 10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.---11  Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;

Therefore LORD’s servants have a responsibility to persuade men to examine the word of God!

EVERY ONE KNOWS OF MOSES, HOW HE EXALTED LAWS OF GOD!

BUT, NOW JESUS CHRIST HAD SET LAWS OF LOVE AS  HE CHANGED THE COVENANT MAKING THE OLD ONE OBSOLETE, Heb 7:12, THE CHANGED LAWS ARE JUST AS THE  OLD ONES, ROM 13: 8-10---TO ADD LOVE MENTIONED IN THOSE VSS., HE HAD MADE IT EASIER FOR MEN, HE SHED HIS LOVE ALONG WITH HIS SPIRIT, ROM 5: 5. that means when He is pouring the life giving words as spirit, Jn 6: 63, those words TEACH us how to do things in a godly manner, being obedient to His words. If you do not obey after conversion, the punishments are worse than for who are punished through Moasaic law, if you insult the blood of the covenant, which was granted through GRACE, Heb 10:29, you could be even outside the city of God, Re 22: 11-15

Not only hearing, but doing those words—Jas 1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your ownselves.----if we do not do so---we are deceiving our ownselves! Then if we stray from the word, we are not worthy as His followers!

1Co 8:12  But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.--When we sin against brethren---we could sin against brethren in many ways—if we offend, Mt 18:6, if we do not strengthen the weak minds, Isa 35:3, Eze 16:30, Ro 15:1 , 1Co 8:10 - 12 , 1Co 9:22 , if we do not understand their problems and help them, Ac 20:35,  if we mistreat them, if we are partial and mistreat the poor, if we misunderstand brethren and hold on to our own opinions, Jas 3:14 , if we have a bitter root against brethren, Heb 12:15 (it can cause you to be giving up your birth right as Esau, and could be rejected, having NO PLACE FOR REPENTANCE , vs. 16-17 (it is dangerous knowledge—just for a small plate of food even you could get a bitter root which grows---grows up to the point WHERE YOU COULD LOSE YOUR SALVATION--- 17  For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.) --- biblical knowledge!. ---THIS IS FROM BOOK OF HEBREWS---to those who are being saved through faith in JESUS CHRIST!  The LORD shows us how much we should love our brethren, if we sin against brethren, it is sinning against Him, 1 Co 8: 12!

And the love necessary to love brethren had been poured to us through the spirit, Rom 5: 5.—it is shed on our hearts!----PCG had disfellowshipped many people, is it with love for brethren, or is it for their safety? Each person is accountable, think on these things!

He would require His servants to be serving Him in Righteousness!

When all ISRAEL had failed through law, Da 9:11, they would be saved by JESUS CHRIST , Ro 11:26, who sacrificed Himself on the cross, Isa 53: 10, through which LORD JESUS CHRIST would save those who are baptised into His death, Rom 6: 3-7, and then they would be in Righteousness to serve Him, Rom 6: 19,22.

If you had failed through law, you are not holy,--then you cannot see the LORD, Heb 12:14—but now when you are made new, Rom 6: 3-7--to enter INTO  THE  TRUE TABERNACLE OF JESUS CHRIST , HEB 8:2 , that is with a new covenant with HOUSE OF ISRAEL when God’s laws would be written in their minds, Heb 8:8-10 (here the LORD is speaking of His chosen ISRAEL, His people of SANCTUARY, of Ro 9:4,6) .

Sin could be measured by law (that is strength of sin), 1Cor 15:56, therefore laws of love REMINDS us not to sin, Ro 13:8-10, that is why the LORD exalts the law and makes it honourable, Isa 42:21.---  He fulfilled the law ,Mt 5:17-19, His people should not bless God and curse brethren, Jas 3:9. -- He writes  His laws in our hearts and minds to make the new covenant , Heb 8:10, taking away sins is included in the covenant,  Ro 11:27. His people ought to crucify their lusts and purify themselves to have the Righteousness  to serve Him by taking words to return to Him, Hos 14:1,2----, taking the words of Ro 6:3-7, to be obedient to the  words of baptism into His death, Ro 6:3-7, to be born of Him!

THIS IS WHY PAUL WAS DETERMINED TO PREACH HIM AND HIM CRUCIFIED, 1 Cor 2:2

(Isa 42: VV 20-25 SAY THAT ISRAEL LEADER DID NOT HEAR ( vs. 24) THE LORD’S WILL IN CREATING HIS LAWS HONORABLE, (vs. 21) THEREFORE THEY ARE IN PRISON HOUSES (vs. 22, in CAPTIVITY), ---LORD SPEAKS OF THE TIME THAT WOULD COME –(Isa 43: 1-2, LORD would be with ISRAEL when HE SENDS RIVERS OF WATER ---to cleanse them, Zec 13: 1.)  Because, THE PROPHET’S WORK IS ABOLISHED, Eze. 6: 2, 6, prophet was among ISRAEL of  Ro 9: 4,6-, Eze. 2: 5, 33: 33—now, no more prophet in ISRAEL--Ps. 74: 9.(more in article, “preach the gospel to nations”)—the fallen prophet and his ministry work with one mind-- Re 17:17  "For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. ---Ps 49:20  A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, Is like the beasts that perish.

So the LORD sends His words through His end time gentile servants, Re 11: 2---UNTIL HIS WORDS ARE FULFILLED---JESUS CHRIST IS IN CONTROL—ALL OF US WORK TO FULFILL HIS PURPOSES!

Today the LORD is building His SPIRITUAL TABERNACLE, for Him to dwell with the spiritual tribes of ISRAEL, Eze. 48: 35, Re 21: 2,3. Today, the LORD desires a spiritual house, whose foundations had been laid by Christ —and the men themselves to be gold and siilver, Mal 3: 3-5—THEY SHOULD OFFER THEMSELVES WILLINGLY. 1 Cor 3: 11 - For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;--13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

16 -Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?--17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

In His throne, He requires a priesthood who are willing to be molded as silver and gold to serve Him, Mal 3:3, Re 21:18-23. A ministry if ISRAEL  as jewels to the LORD are not a people who are worried about wordly things ( like digging soil, collecting treasures, watching world events), but priest should have the fear of God to have wisdom of God, Job 28:28, to serve Him with Godly wisdom. LORD requires a spiritual house. Spirit is words, Jn 6: 63—therefore spiritual people are doers of the word!

Above 1 Co 3: 13, the testing done by fire—the fire being LORD’s words, Jer 5: 14. 1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

LORD’s people should be built upon Him, His words which are His spirit. They should have one mind, 2Co 13:11, Ro 15:6, Php 1:27, 1Pe 3:8  Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous, ---that shows LORD REQUIRES TO DWELL AMONG A PEACEFUL FAMILY, Eze. 47: 21, 48: 35, A CHOSEN PEOPLE FOR HIS PURPOSES, RO 9: 4,6, GENTILES INCLUDED AMONG ISRAEL, Ez 47; 22.

ALL PRAISE BE TO JESUS CHRIST THE SAVIOUR OF ISRAEL, AND ALL BELIEVING PEOPLE, Joel. 2: 28,29, Amen.

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