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Another
Sermon for the Starving Bible Believing Christians All Over the World Wide
Web
2007
- KJV Bible Believers Church in Touchet, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike
Paulson - 2007
Expounding
the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26
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with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II
Timothy 2:15
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| "QUICKEN,"
Not Born-again |
Rightly dividing the word 'quicken' we see a marvelous example of Paul's
'more excellent' way - which is 'beyond the Gospels' and from the Risen
Christ!
Born-again?
Born again is a term used to the Jews, not be used by Christians today.
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1) The fact that everyone uses it ought to send warning signs to us today.
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2) John 3:7 shows the importance
of knowing the "thee's" and "thou's."
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Thee is singular
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Ye is plural
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Referring to the Jewish nation
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I John 3:9 tells us that if we have
sinned at all, we can not be born of God. Is that to us today?
Hardly!
"QUICKEN"
Paul says 'quicken!'
Quicken - make alive
Old Testament / Gospel usage.
A dead person being made alive - John 5:21;
Romans 4:17
We will be quickened after we die physically.
Romans 8:11
However, this is the exciting news!
We die spiritually
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We die in Romans 7:9, so we do know
that we have to be made alive again spiritually.
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So, we must be made alive again - spiritually!
We are quickened - made alive!
Ephesians 2:1 -
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
Ephesians 2:5 -
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
(by grace ye are saved;)
Colossians 2:13
- And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.
There is more!
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Read Romans 6:14-23 - we are made
free from sin... (vs. 18,22)
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Romans 8:2 - made from from
the law of sin and death.
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Galatians 5:1 - don't let the 'do's'
and don't' of Paul put you back in bondage.
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II Corinthians 5:21 - we are made
the righteousness of God in him.
So, can you can see that saying we are 'born-again'
says nothing else -and is just plain confusing as it takes folks to a place
in the Bible that is not written to them? It is there FOR them, but
not TO them. So why send folks to John 3:7
when Paul explains it so much better?
This is why we are follow Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles - not to
follow John today - or Peter, etc.
Bonus note:
II Corinthians 5:17 -
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Ephesians 2:10: For
we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
See the depth of this simple rightly dividing awareness?
Great, isn't it!