How many times do people have to be told things are not true before they will actually start believing them.
In all these points of dispensation, all believers are dispensationalists to a degree.
We are in the dispensation of the Spirit. We are under the law of Christ, not the
law of Moses.
From Pentecost the baptism of the Holy Spirit became a reality. A new communion,
a new revelation, where the Spirit taught the apostles what they had heard and what
it meant. Until the Spirit came it was all a mess, ideas that did not quite fit together.
Evangelical thought has been too intellectual and not open hearted and emotional enough.
In its extreme form it does become pure legalism, which is why pilgrims progress caused such
a problem from all sides of the church because no side has it all.
Pure mysticism ends with quakers who rely on the mystical experience to define their spirituality,
all the way to the foundational reformed positions.
.. The flesh wants there to be NO security in Christ, Because the flesh wants to take credit, and work hard to save itself. It rejects any notion that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in the FINISHED work of Christ.
Pride always wants to claim to have achieved something.
Once you see the cross, there is infinite security in Christ.
One can have pride in knowing the King.
Now the only way you find security in the cross is by understanding Gods determination
to die for us, and compare that with our best efforts with anybody. In Christ my hope is
found.
And you do not break someones pride by attacking them, but be showing them Christs
victory and power through the believers life.
So this war of bashing pride is pointless, because it just generates antagonism.
The cross is the healing of the nations and our hearts, through following His humble and
servant ways to know the wisdom of God. I am worthy only of judgement, but through
Christ I am redeemed, washed, pure and holy, Amen.
Everyone makes judgements or observations of others positions. To hold a position is
to reject others. It is not wrong to make judgements, but it is wrong to condemn works
of God in peoples lives.
What people often are reflecting is their emotional antagonism with one group, and openness
to another. This became very obvious when "spiritual gifted" christians celebrated talking to
the pope, when this was obviously a contradiction of theological and spiritual positions, but
the whole leadership were supporting it, as if this made sense. You can tell when a group is
more about loyalty than truth when such things are followed.
