Changing Words?

‘Mid-Acts-ers’ are notorious for changing words in songs. They alter messages in traditional hymns in order to replace the doctrine with what-they-think will make them ‘rightly’ divided. When I did my own investigation, I discovered information from the Greek that proved even more of the Cunning Royal Jester’s teaching was wrested. I found that he builds doctrines on words, particularly prepositions, that do not bear out to be true when you test them.

For example, he creates 2 different gospels (1 for Peter and 1 for Paul) from the word ‘of’ that does not even have its own word in the Greek:

Gal 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that
the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me (Paul),
as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

The Cunning Royal Jester furthers his 2 different gospels deception with the prepositions ‘by’ and ‘through’. With Rom 3:30, he teaches that
Israel is justified ‘by’ faith ....
and we Gentiles are justified ‘through’ faith:

Rom 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify
the circumcision by [Greek: ek] faith,
and uncircumcision through [Greek: dia] faith.

Many times I have heard him preach, "You don’t need the Greek! You can’t read Greek! You read English!" He can read Greek, so we were supposed to trust him. But unless you check out the Greek for yourself, you won’t catch his errors. Since I got away from the Jester and looked at the Greek myself, I realized he deceived me. When you compare Rom 3:30 (above) with Eph 2:8 (below), it seems that he is right. But when you look at another verse, and compare Rom 3:30 (above) with Rom 5:1 (below), you can see that he is wrong.

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through [Greek: dia] faith;
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by [Greek: ek] faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Now see how the Greek and English switch yet again:

Gal 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through [Greek: ek] faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

The Greek word [ek] is written 921 times.
It is translated
‘of’ 366 times
‘from’ 181 times
‘out of’ 162 times
‘by’ 55 times
‘on’ 34 times
‘with’ 25 times
and miscellaneous words for the others.

The Greek word [dia] is written 646 times.
It is translated
‘by’ 241 times
‘through’ 88 times
‘with’ 16 times
‘for’ 58 times
and miscellaneous words for the others.

‘Mid-Acts-ers’ ought to be careful not to change the KJV word ‘bishop’. But for ‘bishop’, they substitute the word ‘pastor’ like The Living Bible does. Then they defend the KJV word ‘dispensation’ with vigor, and will allow NO substitutions for it .... yet the KJV translates the same Greek word 3 times as ‘stewardship’. So, a word of caution .... beware of the Cunning Royal Jester’s ‘sleight of word’ and his (along with other 'mid-Acts-ers') unfaithfulness to the scriptures.

Col 1:20 And, having made peace through [Greek: dia] the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Eph 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by [Greek: dia] the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

As for me, I will still sing the old hymn ‘AT the Cross’ and rejoice!

This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"

Divide and Conquer

Even if ‘mid-Acts-ers’ engrave a plaque with a school logo based on Eph 4:4-6, don’t be fooled into thinking they support bringing all God’s people together in a unifying message. Far from it! They believe only ‘certain’ believers (specifically, just those who have been saved since Saul of Tarsus’ conversion in Acts 9, and by his ministry alone) are made ‘one’ in the body of Christ. But God wants us to have, and make an effort to maintain, a unity, a one-ness of the Spirit .... (which 'mid-Acts' teaching tries to destroy):

Eph 4:3-6 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, (also see Eph 3:6)
and one Spirit, (the Holy GHOST is not separate or distinct from the Holy SPIRIT)
even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; (there are not '2 hopes' as 'mid-Acts-ers' think .... 1 being for the 'body of Christ' - who 'mid-Acts-ers' see as 'just themselves' .... and yet another, different hope being for Israel)
5 One Lord, (the -SAME- Jesus .... not 'another Jesus' as 'mid-Acts-ers' teach)
one faith, (Paul preached the -SAME- faith which once he destroyed .... not a different faith - Gal 1:23)
one baptism, (THIS is the only 'one' 1 of the 7 that 'mid-Acts-ers' believe)
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Jesus even prayed for that when He was on earth:

John 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Clearly, God wants us to have a one-ness with each other, and with Him .... a unity of the faith:

Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Chloe’s family told Paul about the strife in the church of God .... who were debating over which minster brought them into the faith. Quite frankly, it did not matter ‘WHICH MINISTER’ gave them the gospel .... whether it was PAUL .... or Apollos .... or Peter .... or Christ. But 'mid-Acts-ers' don't agree with anyone's testimony who claims to have been saved by reading the epistles of Peter, or even the words of the Lord Jesus, much less any of the 4 gospel records while Jesus ministered on earth:

1 Cor 1:11-13 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith,
I am of Paul; (This is the only one 'mid-Acts-ers' will accept. They think all the others are FALSE conversions.)
and I of Apollos;
and I of Cephas;
and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

Christ is not divided .... and neither should His body be! We are ONE body:

Rom 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. (also see 1 Cor 10:17, 12:12-13,20; Eph 2:16; Col 3:15)

Initially, Apollos knew only the water baptism of John the Baptist. Aquila and Priscilla expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. Then Apollos helped them much which had believed through grace (Acts 18:24-28). Obviously, Apollos preached the gospel to people at Corinth, since some of his converts were joined to the church of God there:

1 Cor 3:3-9 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul;
and another, I am of Apollos;
are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos,
but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
6 I (Paul) have planted,
Apollos watered;
but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, (Paul is nothing.)
neither he that watereth; (Apollos is nothing.)
but God that giveth the increase. (also see John 3:30)
8 Now he that planteth (Paul) and he that watereth (Apollos) are one: ('Mid-Acts-ers' say that Paul and Apollos were in SEPARATE 'programs' .... but GOD said they were ONE!)
and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

Paul and Apollos are one. So why won’t ‘mid-Acts-ers’ be ‘one’ with those ‘in Christ’ before Paul (Rom 16:7)?

After Paul detailed the gospel that he preached "unto you" (at Corinth in 1 Cor 15:1-4 .... just like "unto you" in Gal 1:9 .... and "unto you" in 1 Thess 4:15) .... he listed many other ministers (1 Cor 15:5-7) and showed again .... it did not matter WHICH MINISTER they got the gospel from:

1 Cor 15:11 Therefore whether it were I or they,
so we preach,
and so ye believed.

That's just what Abraham did .... he believed .... and God counted his faith for righteousness (Rom 4:3). UNITY .... NOT DIVISION .... has been enjoyable among God’s people for a long time. I think I’ll be glad in that. "What about you?"

Psa 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

It is NOT ‘right division’ to divide God’s saints from each other. It is wrong! There are no verses that teach that foolishness. 'Mid-Acts-ers' are protecting their paradigm, charts, etc.

This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"

First in the Body?

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!"

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!"

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!"

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!"

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!"