Maybe you’ve heard from "All Hat, No Cowboy" as he swings on his pendulum .... going from vanity (where he brags on the superiority of his new commentary) ....
Prov 27:2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
.... to disdain (where he rails Christian brothers, whom the Bible instructs him to love):
John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Gal 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
1 Thess 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
The slander he constantly spouts on and on and on really wearies me. I’m so tired of reading his racist allegations against a friend, whom I personally know is not at all prejudice.
Then to deal with the authorship of Hebrews in "no uncertain terms" takes quite a big ego! Didn’t he even read the first word of the epistle? .... God! But I guess for someone who thinks the morning sun rises in himself, it is not a stretch for him to think he can prove who wrote Hebrews.
Gal 6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
And, oh, what we would pay to have his Bible notes! What conceit! People begging him to print his own mid-Acts Bible .... I can imagine the line up at book-signing now. Better take a sleeping bag the night before!
I wonder if his tax return would show the same dollars worth of give-away books as his cutting edge newsletter touts. But of course, his mid-Acts dispensational position easily disregards Jesus’ words of warning:
Matt 6:1-4 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
But he makes exception for his own convenient use of the gospels, as he refers to the ‘well done’ statement from our Lord in the book of Matthew:
Matt 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Everything he does, to hear him tell it, is so much better than anything anyone else offers .... with his "Amen" Sister-Wife cheerleader coming in 2nd place.
1 Cor 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
It also baffles me that such a self-proclaimed proponent of the KJV would be so negligent of the plain verse that ‘our apostle Paul’ says is ‘the office of a BISHOP’. He still calls himself and others by the term ‘pastor’ which is a shepherd of sheep! Mid-Acts-ers strictly believe that the ‘sheep’ are Israel.
1 Tim 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
In my opinion, that bald-headed clown in cowboy boots is riding a high horse. Since this is my blog, I’ll tell you that I think he’s more ‘suited’ like the story of the emperor’s new clothes!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Promise of Liberty
Peter warned of false prophets and false teachers among the people, who will bring in damnable heresies (2 Pet 2:1). Many will follow their pernicious (destroying, wasteful, utterly destructive) ways (2 Pet 2:2). Through covetousness they will make merchandise of you with artificial, fictitious words (2 Pet 2:3). They are presumptuous and selfwilled (2 Pet 2:10). They speak evil of the things that they don’t understand and they will perish in their own corruption (2 Pet 2:12). They that count it pleasure to riot in the day time, and they sport themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you (2 Pet 2:13). They cannot cease from sin, beguiling unstable souls (2 Pet 2:14).
2 Pet 2:18-19 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
False teachers are enslaved to sin, and yet with flattery, they guarantee liberty for all. Paul also warned believers not to fall into their trap:
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Don’t take that liberty too far and run hog-wild into sin! Those who are saved should be good examples of the grace of God that worked in their lives. God designed for His saints to graciously minister to each other:
Gal 5:13-14 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
1 Pet 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Some people say that Peter and James put believers "back under Israel’s law program." They think God will resume dealing with man by the law, rather than continuing to extend His grace. Well, Peter opened all of his epistles with ‘grace and peace,’ just like Paul did. And James specifically identifies that rule .... as the law of liberty:
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Liberty is living like we should, not as we please:
Rom 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
The ‘liberty walk’ is a life of faith:
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
It is a principle from many years ago: God will honor those who honor Him (1 Sam 2:30). Faith is the requirement. Saints are encouraged to live like who we are:
1 Thess 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
When you take away all the clutter, faithfulness shines:
2 Tim 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Let us not forget our ultimate allegiance is to the Lord:
Gal 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
2 Pet 2:18-19 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
False teachers are enslaved to sin, and yet with flattery, they guarantee liberty for all. Paul also warned believers not to fall into their trap:
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Don’t take that liberty too far and run hog-wild into sin! Those who are saved should be good examples of the grace of God that worked in their lives. God designed for His saints to graciously minister to each other:
Gal 5:13-14 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
1 Pet 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Some people say that Peter and James put believers "back under Israel’s law program." They think God will resume dealing with man by the law, rather than continuing to extend His grace. Well, Peter opened all of his epistles with ‘grace and peace,’ just like Paul did. And James specifically identifies that rule .... as the law of liberty:
James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Liberty is living like we should, not as we please:
Rom 15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
The ‘liberty walk’ is a life of faith:
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
It is a principle from many years ago: God will honor those who honor Him (1 Sam 2:30). Faith is the requirement. Saints are encouraged to live like who we are:
1 Thess 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
When you take away all the clutter, faithfulness shines:
2 Tim 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Let us not forget our ultimate allegiance is to the Lord:
Gal 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
Sunday, January 10, 2010
When Clouds Were Angels
Several years ago at a ‘grace’ Bible conference, a preacher read 1 Thes 4:17, and made the comment that the clouds in that verse were really angels:
1 Thess 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The ‘grace’ preacher used Heb 12:1 for support of his statement:
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Well, way back then, we took issue with that assumption. The question was asked, “When do you change the common sense, natural meaning of a word or verse?” The consensus of the answer was, “When the natural meaning doesn’t make good common sense; then you look for an alternate or another definition.” That seemed like sound advice. After a round table discussion, the next morning, comments were made, like .... “The sky is so blue; there’s not an angel in it.” “Maybe it’s going to rain; I see lots of angels gathering on the horizon.” We had a good laugh, and hopefully made a few points, that if we are ‘caught up’ .... ‘in the air’ .... it is logical to believe that we would be ‘in the clouds’ .... rather than change the verse to be ‘in the angels.’ Beside that, the verse in Hebrews actually SAYS what the cloud is there. It explains the cloud to be witnesses.
I said that, to say this. A ‘pastor-shepherd’ brother (whose name I choose to withhold, although he mentioned mine excessively in his article, making it appear quite personal, in my opinion) recently replied to my inquiry about the timing of the last trump. I had sent five questions to folks who attended the Great Smoky Mountains GRACE Bible Conference last year. After reading a text message posted on my website www.magnifiedword.com on the subject, he accused me of falling into a trap of quoting definitions from a Greek dictionary without any regard for Greek grammar. Oddly, by the bottom of his first page, he admitted that his criticism in this regard was irrelevant to the question, and that he probably agreed anyway. He also charged me with being a very presumptuous Bible student, rather than a true one. That is a matter of opinion, and I could say likewise. He indicated that I did not diligently compare the details to make my determination that the last trump will be the seventh trump. Just because the 'last' trump being the 'last' trump in the Revelation doesn't fit into his paradine, does not mean that I didn't put my time in. He has no idea how much I studied. I'm letting the verse say what it says, and I'm believing it, as is. If their doctrine doesn't match what the verse says, then they need to change their doctrine, not the verse!
His rebuttal went into great Greek detail as to why the ‘last’ trump did not have to be the ‘last’ trump (as ‘last’ in a series). Other than what he said about me personally, which I believe is wrong, I did not see that any of his points proved any of my statements to be incorrect.
So I’m going to let clouds be clouds, not angels;
and I believe the ‘last’ trump is the ‘last’ trump, not the ‘extreme’ trump!
I think he can better pick a banjo than a trumpet!
This is David Dowell, saying, “Think about it!”
1 Thess 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The ‘grace’ preacher used Heb 12:1 for support of his statement:
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Well, way back then, we took issue with that assumption. The question was asked, “When do you change the common sense, natural meaning of a word or verse?” The consensus of the answer was, “When the natural meaning doesn’t make good common sense; then you look for an alternate or another definition.” That seemed like sound advice. After a round table discussion, the next morning, comments were made, like .... “The sky is so blue; there’s not an angel in it.” “Maybe it’s going to rain; I see lots of angels gathering on the horizon.” We had a good laugh, and hopefully made a few points, that if we are ‘caught up’ .... ‘in the air’ .... it is logical to believe that we would be ‘in the clouds’ .... rather than change the verse to be ‘in the angels.’ Beside that, the verse in Hebrews actually SAYS what the cloud is there. It explains the cloud to be witnesses.
I said that, to say this. A ‘pastor-shepherd’ brother (whose name I choose to withhold, although he mentioned mine excessively in his article, making it appear quite personal, in my opinion) recently replied to my inquiry about the timing of the last trump. I had sent five questions to folks who attended the Great Smoky Mountains GRACE Bible Conference last year. After reading a text message posted on my website www.magnifiedword.com on the subject, he accused me of falling into a trap of quoting definitions from a Greek dictionary without any regard for Greek grammar. Oddly, by the bottom of his first page, he admitted that his criticism in this regard was irrelevant to the question, and that he probably agreed anyway. He also charged me with being a very presumptuous Bible student, rather than a true one. That is a matter of opinion, and I could say likewise. He indicated that I did not diligently compare the details to make my determination that the last trump will be the seventh trump. Just because the 'last' trump being the 'last' trump in the Revelation doesn't fit into his paradine, does not mean that I didn't put my time in. He has no idea how much I studied. I'm letting the verse say what it says, and I'm believing it, as is. If their doctrine doesn't match what the verse says, then they need to change their doctrine, not the verse!
His rebuttal went into great Greek detail as to why the ‘last’ trump did not have to be the ‘last’ trump (as ‘last’ in a series). Other than what he said about me personally, which I believe is wrong, I did not see that any of his points proved any of my statements to be incorrect.
So I’m going to let clouds be clouds, not angels;
and I believe the ‘last’ trump is the ‘last’ trump, not the ‘extreme’ trump!
I think he can better pick a banjo than a trumpet!
This is David Dowell, saying, “Think about it!”
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