For those ‘mid-Acts-ers’ who insist that Paul was the 1st person saved into the body of Christ, I ask .... why don’t YOU get into the body the same way Paul got in?
What are you waiting for? Follow Paul, get up, and get baptized!
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Just because Paul said he was sent not to baptize, but to preach the gospel (1 Cor 1:17), does not change the fact of what he did when he got saved. Paul was water baptized!
I’m not preaching water baptism .... but ‘mid-Acts-ers’ ought practice what they preach!
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Whether I or They
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ will not admit that Paul and Peter both wrote to the same people .... even though the Bible says they did. The verse plainly says so:
2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
So we must go back to the beginning of this epistle to find out to whom Peter addressed it. Right here it is:
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
There you have it! Simple as can be! I’m not going to allow ‘mid-Acts-ers’ to twist the word of God for me. I choose to believe GOD’s word .... instead of the Cunning Royal Jester’s paradigm .... because they are not the same.
When you read on past where ‘mid-Acts-ers’ stop in 1 Cor 15:4 .... you see that there were a lot of men preaching the gospel .... not just Paul. ANY of them were "ministers by whom ye believed" (1 Cor 3:5):
1 Cor 15:11 Therefore whether it were I (Paul) or they (Peter, James, any of the 12 apostles, and over 500 men - in the context),
so we preach (the gospel by which ye are saved - 1 Cor 15:1-11),
and so ye believed.
That is plain as day! Whether I or they!
This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"
2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
So we must go back to the beginning of this epistle to find out to whom Peter addressed it. Right here it is:
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
There you have it! Simple as can be! I’m not going to allow ‘mid-Acts-ers’ to twist the word of God for me. I choose to believe GOD’s word .... instead of the Cunning Royal Jester’s paradigm .... because they are not the same.
When you read on past where ‘mid-Acts-ers’ stop in 1 Cor 15:4 .... you see that there were a lot of men preaching the gospel .... not just Paul. ANY of them were "ministers by whom ye believed" (1 Cor 3:5):
1 Cor 15:11 Therefore whether it were I (Paul) or they (Peter, James, any of the 12 apostles, and over 500 men - in the context),
so we preach (the gospel by which ye are saved - 1 Cor 15:1-11),
and so ye believed.
That is plain as day! Whether I or they!
This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"
Saturday, November 13, 2010
A Trusted Book in the Hands of Untrustworthy Men
The Cunning Royal Jester demonstrated why he holds the title tonight! He began wasting time on opening night by telling folks to turn in their Bibles to Psalm 33, and without even reading it, he immediately took off into Story-Telling Land for more than half an hour, pivoting from television personalities to politics to a trip with his wife to falling down an escalator to a dog chewing up his Bible to his rule on whether you should sing in public or not to musical instruments he can play to the first time he preached on the street and at the mission when he was 16 years old to losing a parked car ..... and on .... and on .... and on. His audience seemed entertained like they were watching a variety show. He is a Cunning Royal Jester, indeed.
Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
One story was about a man who didn’t know that the good Samaritan was from the Bible. The Jester described him as a blank (meaning, I assume, that the man had no Biblical knowledge), so the Jester just quit talking to him. Then he said you should think about your opportunity to be a light in a dark world. Why encourage others to do what he himself did not do? By his own testimony that he just gave, his experience was a bad example.
For a ‘speaker’ who claims to be celebrating 400 years of the KJV, it is a tragedy that he avoids the KJV word ‘bishop’ for the very office he holds, written by inspiration of God from the very apostle he pretends to follow .... all the while preferring The Living Bible word ‘pastor’ instead.
1 Tim 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Oddly, the Cunning Royal Jester does not handle the word ‘cross’ like he does ‘bishop’ by switching the ‘cross’ to be called the ‘tree’ since many religious denominations with which he disagrees use the word ‘cross’. Neither does he substitute even the KJV’s other translation ‘stewardship’ (Luke 16:2,3,4) for the KJV word ‘dispensation’ (Eph 3:2), by which he identifies himself.
When he finally got around to reading the Bible, the ‘instructor’ who teaches others to ‘divide Paul’ from the rest of the scriptures, taught from ‘outside of Paul’ as he expressed the authority of the Bible. He admitted he "talked too long getting started" .... but, hey, why should that matter, since "we’re people of the book"?
Prov 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:
but a faithful man who can find?
Prov 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
1 Cor 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards,
that a man be found faithful.
This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"
Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
One story was about a man who didn’t know that the good Samaritan was from the Bible. The Jester described him as a blank (meaning, I assume, that the man had no Biblical knowledge), so the Jester just quit talking to him. Then he said you should think about your opportunity to be a light in a dark world. Why encourage others to do what he himself did not do? By his own testimony that he just gave, his experience was a bad example.
For a ‘speaker’ who claims to be celebrating 400 years of the KJV, it is a tragedy that he avoids the KJV word ‘bishop’ for the very office he holds, written by inspiration of God from the very apostle he pretends to follow .... all the while preferring The Living Bible word ‘pastor’ instead.
1 Tim 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Oddly, the Cunning Royal Jester does not handle the word ‘cross’ like he does ‘bishop’ by switching the ‘cross’ to be called the ‘tree’ since many religious denominations with which he disagrees use the word ‘cross’. Neither does he substitute even the KJV’s other translation ‘stewardship’ (Luke 16:2,3,4) for the KJV word ‘dispensation’ (Eph 3:2), by which he identifies himself.
When he finally got around to reading the Bible, the ‘instructor’ who teaches others to ‘divide Paul’ from the rest of the scriptures, taught from ‘outside of Paul’ as he expressed the authority of the Bible. He admitted he "talked too long getting started" .... but, hey, why should that matter, since "we’re people of the book"?
Prov 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:
but a faithful man who can find?
Prov 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
1 Cor 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards,
that a man be found faithful.
This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"
Friday, November 12, 2010
LOVE SHOWS
When a scribe questioned Jesus about the first commandment, He answered him with BOTH the first and second commandments .... BOTH about love .... first for God; second for others in the kingdom of God:
Mark 12:28-34 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
There is none other commandment greater than these.
32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth:
for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
And no man after that durst ask him any question.
All the law and the prophets are hung on just two commandments:
Matt 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Here is the 1st one:
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
Here is the 2nd one:
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
‘Mid-Acts-hyper-dispensationalists’ don’t like for Paul to mention the law in a ‘working’ manner .... yet he did. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ need to look at what Paul said about ‘US .... fulfilling the law’. It is all about showing love:
Rom 13:8-10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Being free from the law does not mean that we disregard it. The law is expressed by love:
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.
John understood this issue, too. Believers in Christ love each other:
1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
This is the very same thing Paul said that GOD taught:
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.
We love God, and we love others. That is not a problem for believers, but it sure seems to be one for ‘mid-Acts-ers’ who SEPARATE from God’s children who don’t ‘follow Paul’ the way they do:
1 John 5:2-3 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Our heart will not condemn us and we will have confidence toward God (1 John 3:20-21) and not be ashamed before Him at His coming (1 John 2:28). We will not feel guilty when we live and show love this way:
Rom 8:1-4 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Read Luke 10:25-37 about a certain Samaritan, who had mercy on a man who fell among the thieves that robbed him, stripped him of his clothes, wounded him, and left him half dead.
Love God, love your family, love your brothers and sisters in Christ, and love your neighbor. Let your love show!
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
Mark 12:28-34 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
There is none other commandment greater than these.
32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth:
for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
And no man after that durst ask him any question.
All the law and the prophets are hung on just two commandments:
Matt 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Here is the 1st one:
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
Here is the 2nd one:
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
‘Mid-Acts-hyper-dispensationalists’ don’t like for Paul to mention the law in a ‘working’ manner .... yet he did. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ need to look at what Paul said about ‘US .... fulfilling the law’. It is all about showing love:
Rom 13:8-10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Being free from the law does not mean that we disregard it. The law is expressed by love:
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.
John understood this issue, too. Believers in Christ love each other:
1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
This is the very same thing Paul said that GOD taught:
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.
We love God, and we love others. That is not a problem for believers, but it sure seems to be one for ‘mid-Acts-ers’ who SEPARATE from God’s children who don’t ‘follow Paul’ the way they do:
1 John 5:2-3 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Our heart will not condemn us and we will have confidence toward God (1 John 3:20-21) and not be ashamed before Him at His coming (1 John 2:28). We will not feel guilty when we live and show love this way:
Rom 8:1-4 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Read Luke 10:25-37 about a certain Samaritan, who had mercy on a man who fell among the thieves that robbed him, stripped him of his clothes, wounded him, and left him half dead.
Love God, love your family, love your brothers and sisters in Christ, and love your neighbor. Let your love show!
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
Sunday, November 7, 2010
When Saints Judge
In the Psalms, it was prophesied that God’s saints would be judges:
Psa 122:5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Psa 149:6-9 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written:
this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Jesus prophesied to Peter that His 12 disciples/apostles will be judges:
Matt 19:27-29 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ teach that a portion of God’s saints (those who have trusted Christ through the apostle Paul’s ministry, who-they-call, solely, the body of Christ) will be in heaven for eternity .... and that all the rest of God’s saints (meaning those who were saved BEFORE Paul and AFTER their unscriptural pre-tribulation, pre-70th-week-of-Daniel rapture of just Paul’s converts) will inherit the earth, especially and particularly the nation Israel. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ ignore the very apostle they claim to follow, Paul, when he prophesied to the saints that they/we will be judges:
1 Cor 6:2-3 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Recently, I heard the Cunning Royal Jester ask, ‘Do you know what world the saints will judge?’ .... Then he answered his own question, ‘The world of angels, that’s what world!’
For Paul to tell the saints that they shall judge the world, presupposes the fact that the saints will have to be ‘in the world’ in order to judge it. We know where ‘the world’ is. We know about this world .... and the world to come (Matt 12:32; Mark 10:30; Luke 18:30; Eph 1:21; Heb 2:5, 6:5).
This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"
Psa 122:5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Psa 149:6-9 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written:
this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Jesus prophesied to Peter that His 12 disciples/apostles will be judges:
Matt 19:27-29 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
‘Mid-Acts-ers’ teach that a portion of God’s saints (those who have trusted Christ through the apostle Paul’s ministry, who-they-call, solely, the body of Christ) will be in heaven for eternity .... and that all the rest of God’s saints (meaning those who were saved BEFORE Paul and AFTER their unscriptural pre-tribulation, pre-70th-week-of-Daniel rapture of just Paul’s converts) will inherit the earth, especially and particularly the nation Israel. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ ignore the very apostle they claim to follow, Paul, when he prophesied to the saints that they/we will be judges:
1 Cor 6:2-3 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Recently, I heard the Cunning Royal Jester ask, ‘Do you know what world the saints will judge?’ .... Then he answered his own question, ‘The world of angels, that’s what world!’
For Paul to tell the saints that they shall judge the world, presupposes the fact that the saints will have to be ‘in the world’ in order to judge it. We know where ‘the world’ is. We know about this world .... and the world to come (Matt 12:32; Mark 10:30; Luke 18:30; Eph 1:21; Heb 2:5, 6:5).
This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"
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