FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 23
THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST VS THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 5)
FF 205-6: “But mark! It was FALLEN MAN that was to be rescued from sin. And go make contact with him, Christ had to CONDESCEND to take our NATURE (not some ‘higher kind’ of flesh).
Notice what Paul wrote: ‘Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, HE ALSO HIMSELF LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME. . . . Wherefore in ALL THINGS it BEHOVED Him to be made like unto His brethren.’ Heb. 2:14,17, KJV.
“This text is so worded that it cannot be misunderstood. Christ ‘took part of the SAME’ flesh and blood as ours: He came in THE [not ‘a’] flesh. To deny this is [also] the mark of Antichrist. (See 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7). To bridge the gulf that sin has made [separating creature from the Creator, Isa. 59:2.].’Christ must be one with the Father in DIVINITY, and one with [fallen] man in HUMANITY, and thus connect AGAIN earth with heaven.”
“God revealed this truth to the Patriarch Jacob that lonely night in Bethel. When he feared that his sins [of deceiving his already-blind with age father, Isaac, to bless him with the birthright that legally belonged to his older twin brother, Esau] had CUT HIM OFF from heaven, God showed him [in an night vision-dream] that mystic LADDER, connecting earth with heaven, which Christ explained to be the ‘Son of MAN.’ (See Gen. 38:12; cf. John 1:51).
“Modernism [and other religions such as Judaism, Islam, the Church of Christ, etc.] has tried to cut off this upper part of the LADDER by denying Christ’s divinity, while the Roman Catholic Church has tried to cut off the lower rounds by teaching that the VIRGIN MARY was born without sin [their unbiblical doctrine of the ‘Immaculate Conception’], and that therefore Christ did not take upon Himself our kind of flesh and blood [at the incarnation], ‘holy flesh,’ so far above us that He does not make contact with our [fallen, sinful] humanity!”- Edwardson, Facts of Faith, p. 205.
(To be continued. Stay connected and in tune!). Bless all hungry detergent truth-seekers, NMF