Archive for April, 2009

David Jeremiah’s plan of salvation

April 23, 2009 at 4:18 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

A friend of mine sent me a link to one of David Jeremiah’s conspiracy theory lectures.  While I was checking out his site, I clicked on the link that said “How to become a Christian.”  This is what it says (with my comments in parens):

How to Become a Christian

God Loves You!

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

(Okay, so far so good…)

God has a wonderful plan for your life!

I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10b

(I’m with ya!)

Walking Down the “Romans Road” to Salvation . . . .

  • Because of our sin, we are separated from God.
    For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.  Romans 3:23
  • (Okay, this is true.)
  • The Penalty for our sin is death.
    For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23
  • (Also true)
  • The penalty for our sin was paid by Jesus Christ!
    But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we  were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
  • (Hey, this is true too!  Maybe he has it right….)
  • If we repent of our sin, then confess and trust Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we will be saved from our sins!
    For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.  Romans 10:13
    …if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe  in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will  be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness,   and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:9,10
  • (Wait a second…..”If we repent of our sin?”  Hmm, seem to be missing that part in the verses he quotes.  The verses he quotes talk about salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.  Why does he had his own requirement that we “repent of our sins?”)

Maybe he should come up with his own version of the bible (the David Jeremiah Standard Version, or the DJSV.)  He could fix verses like this:

John 3 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him AND REPENTS OF HIS SINS may have eternal life.  16“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him AND GIVES UP ALL HIS SINS (OR IS AT LEAST WILLING TO BECAUSE NO ONE IS ABLE TO STOP SINNING ENTIRELY) shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him AND LIVES A REALLY GOOD LIFE is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Yep, the DJSV would be a great version for anyone who doesn’t mind when the plan of salvation is changed to add works.

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Jesus Christ, the Passover Lamb

April 23, 2009 at 3:22 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

I’ve been doing some studying into the parallels between Jesus and the Passover lamb described in Exodus.  Most people know the story, but here’s an abbreviated version:  The Israelites were slaves in Egypt.  Moses, an Israelite who had been raised an Egyptian in a life of luxury, had been sent by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.  God sent numerous plagues, which convinced the Egyptian people that Israel should probably move on, but which had been unsuccessful in convincing the Egyptian Pharoah to release them.  Finally, God announced one last devastating plague; God would kill the first born throughout Egypt.

God offered a safe haven for His people, though.  They could kill a lamb and mark the sides and top of their doors with its blood and the death angel would pass by that house.  Those houses that were marked with the blood were saved from death;  those without were not.

Some interesting thoughts:

  1. It didn’t matter how “good” or “bad” the people in the home were.  Those with the blood were spared; those without were not.
  2. There were almost certainly some very “good” Egyptians that lost a child.
  3. There were almost certainly some very “bad” Israelites that were spared.
  4. The lamb didn’t do anything wrong, and was chosen because it was “without defect.”
  5. If an Israelite wanted to be spared, he couldn’t come up with his own way, even if it seemed better to him.

The Apostle Paul called Christ “our Passover Lamb in 1 Cor. 5:7.  The Passover account in Exodus is clearly about Jesus:

Ex. 12:5  Your lamb shall be without blemish…

Luke 23:4  Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.”

Ex. 12:6  …the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.

Matt. 27:22-23  Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” 23And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”

(The flesh of the lamb was to be roasted with fire, just as Jesus descended into the fire of hell for three days and three nights as prophesied by Jonah.)

Ex 12:8-10  They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.

(The flesh of the passover lamb was eaten by those saved, just as we are to eat the body of Christ, figuratively.)

Acts 2:29-31  Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, 31he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

John 6: 53-57  53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

Ex. 12:46  …you shall not break any of its bones.

John 19:36   For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled:”Not one of his bones will be broken.”

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