The Crossless Gospel
Bible teacher Pastor Mike Nault and Keith McKenzie expose this politically correct gospel that ” seeker-sensitive, Emergent, and many others who are seeking church growth models have unwittingly emptied the Gospel of Christ. An exposition and commentary on this sad phenomenon in the Church in America. Emptying the gospel… Sound surprising, yeah it should. In the epistle of [1 Corinthians 1:17-19], an interesting Greek word (kenoō) for the phrase should be made of none effect.
Strong’s G2758 demonstrates the word has these uses.
1) to empty, make empty
a) of Christ, he laid aside equality with or the form of God
2) to make void
a) deprive of force, render vain, useless, of no effect
3) to make void
b) cause a thing to be seen to be empty, hollow, false
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 1 Corinthians 1:17-19
Stay in the word and bless the Lord in spirit and truth. Truth is our salvation comes through the cross. Shout it from the housetops!
Shalom, Keith
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i believe that every blood bought child of GOD will echo what paul speaks “For i am determined not to know anything among you except JESUS CHRIST and HIM CRUCIFIED.” I Cor.2:2. we HIS people (by HIS GLORIOUS and INFINITE GRACE!!) “by our own ears shall hear a word behind you saying, ” This is the way, WALK in it”!!Isaiah 30:21.My wife, worked at a bank for some years and was taught to know the true dollar as opposed to the false dollar by studying that which is true. so should it be now with HIS people. Teach that which is THE TRUTH and the lie will be seen.
The gutting you refer to is more a phenomenon related to futuristic dispensationalism, which is antinomian at its core. You might just as well say that a gutless Gospel is the result of a lawless church whoʻs king (they teach), has not yet assumed his Kingly throne from which he will one day rule the Nations. This strange rejection of the law and Kingdom during the so called gap period, makes the 1000 year kingdom (the Jewish State), an imposing thing on its subjects all the same. Thus the pre-mill system is guilty of gutting the gospel no less than the social gospel “Phnom” they condemn. For anyone struggling to reconcile the moving parts of the dispy system I suggest you Google Kenneth Gentryʻs website. Take some time to learn what the Bible actually says on the subject of eschatology.
This strange rejection of the law and Kingdom during the so called gap period, makes the 1000 year kingdom (the Jewish State), an imposing thing on its subjects all the same. Not only has it abandoned its mission, but it offers a manufactured society no less than the social gospel “Phnom” they like to contrast themselves with. The spiritual ones are all into manifestations and demonstrations of power as a way to contrast gutless social work with real Gospel preaching, by which I think they mean unmixed with any social hope for a better life, nation, future etc. “The Kingdom cometh not with observation.”
You sound very loving. Not one scriptural point we offer a complete course on dispensational eschatology. We make no apology for our futuristic dispensationalism view of eschatology. A strictly literal hermeneutic is foundational to the dispensational premillennialist viewpoint. Interpreting Scripture in this manner will, in fact, demand such perspectives unique to dispensationalism as:
an earthly kingdom of God from which Christ will reign
a future redemptive plan for national Israel
a seven-year period of great tribulation
the rejection of prophetic idiom
Dispensational premillennialism holds that a seven-year tribulation (foreseen in Daniel 9:27) will precede a thousand-year period (Revelation 20:1-6) during which time, Christ will reign on the throne of David (Luke 1:32). For more. We lovingly offer.
By Dr. Missler, The Reality of the Millennium
For anyone who takes the Bible seriously, the numerous explicit commitments of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that the Messiah would literally rule from Zion cannot be ignored or explained away. God’s explicit and unconditional commitment of the land of Israel to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the very issue that is being challenged by the world today! And, the resurgence of amillennialism, and its attendant doctrines are again setting the stage for the next holocaust.1
In the New Testament, these commitments are reconfirmed. Every Christmas we are reminded that Gabriel promised Mary that her son was destined to sit on the Throne of David (which did not exist during the days of His ministry).2 It is yet to be fulfilled. In fact, He taught us to pray specifically for it: “Thy Kingdom come….” What does that mean? The thousand-year reign, from which the Millennium takes its label, is detailed in numerous passages including Revelation 20, Isaiah 65, and Ezekiel 40-48, among others. Ezekiel’s detailed tour of the Millennial Temple virtually defies any skeptic’s attempt to treat it allegorically (see diagram). Encompassing a Temple area 50 miles on a side, substantially to the north of Jerusalem, as a source of a river that flows toward both the Mediterranean to the west and the Dead Sea to the east, Ezekiel’s description implies a total change of topography, which is explicit in the Scripture. 3
However, the more we learn about the Millennium, the more questions it raises. It is not heaven: it is clearly distinctive in contrast to the eternal state which follows (Revelation 21). It will be characterized by a limited amount of evil, which Christ will judge perfectly and immediately. 4 Neither is it the “new earth” that God will yet create;5 for therein righteousness dwells, which is something not true of the Millennium.
Millennium Paradoxes
As an example of some of the ostensible paradoxes of the Millennium is the strange question of death. Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, a dear friend, and highly respected Messianic scholar, suggests that death in the Millennium will be for unbelievers only. Nowhere in the Bible does it speak of a resurrection of Millennial saints. This may be why the resurrection of the tribulation saints is said to complete the “first resurrection” (Rev 20:4-6).
From the New Covenant in Jeremiah 31:31-34, it would seem that there will be no Jewish unbelievers in the kingdom; all Jews born during the Millennium will accept the Messiah before their 100th year.6 Unbelief would thus be among the Gentiles only, and therefore, death would exist only among the Gentiles.7 [Jer 31:35-37 refutes “Reconstructionism” and similar heresies.] Another strange issue is the prominence of sacrifices in the Millennium. It would seem that they are memorials after the fact, just as the sacrifices in the Old Testament were memorials in advance.
We note that you promote Kenneth Gentry. He is a brother who holds to a of a new postmillennial preterism
Kenneth Gentry grew up in a dispensational Christian environment in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which included a high school youth group led by Kay Author. Ken graduated from Tennessee Temple College in his hometown and then went off to a dispensational Seminary in Indiana, known as Grace Theological Seminary. It was at Grace that he got involved in Reformed Theology and moved away from dispensationalism, first to amillennialism, which put him on the road to eventually becoming a postmillennial preterist. After two years, he left Grace and transferred to Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi where he finished his Master of Divinity. While at Reformed, he came under the influence of the late Dr. Greg Bahnsen and was discipled into the Christian reconstruction movement, from which he gleaned and developed his postmillennial preterism. A number of other reconstructionists were also students at Reformed Seminary during this time and they also became advocates of postmillennial preterism under Dr. Bahnsen’s tutelage. They include: Gary DeMar, the late David Chilton, and James Jordan.
WHAT IS PRETERISM?
Perhaps the best way to understand the preterist approach to prophecy is to see it in relation to the other possible interpretative systems of prophecy. Simply put, the approaches are the only four possible ways to relate to time: past, present, future, and timeless. These are known as Preterism (past), Historicism (present), Futurism (future), and Idealism (timeless). Preterism is defined by Dr. Gentry as follows:
The term “preterism” is based on the Latin preter, which means “past.” Preterism refers to that understanding of certain eschatological passages which holds that they have already come to fulfillment. . . .
The preterist approach teaches, for instance, that many of the prophecies of Revelation and the first portion of the Olivet Discourse have already been fulfilled. Matthew 24:1-34 (and parallels) in the Olivet Discourse was fulfilled in the events surrounding the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. In Revelation, most of the prophecies before Revelation 20 find fulfillment in the fall of Jerusalem (A.D. 70). (Gentry, He Shall Have Dominion, p. 159)
For a stimulating debate on the book of Revelation see. https://amos37.com/date-of-the-book-of-revelation/ 3 hour debate.
God bless you.
A desire by some church leaders to accommodate and become friends with the world has taken away much of the heat or passion needed to sustain a Godly fire in the congregation; “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” (Matthew 24:11,12) The result of this is a declining confused church: “And it will be: Like people, like priests. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. ‘They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not flourish, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.” (Hosea 4:9,10) A church that produces no fruit and withers away is a sad and usual sight in our time.
http://walkingwithtony.blogspot.ca/2013/06/a-fire-that-cannot-be-put-out.html