Christian Cooperation and Separation - John R Rice

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Christian Cooperation and Separation on the horse, and the horse stomped the flies and stomped the flies until the horse got one hind foot in the stirrup of the saddle. “Well,” said Pat, “if you are going to get on, I am going to get off!” So he got off. If a church is going to put a modernist preacher in as pastor, then I am going to get out. If a ministerial association is going to have the Jewish rabbi or the Christian Science reader or Jehovah’s Witness teacher or anybody else who is obviously and openly unconverted, I have no reason to stay in. It would be a sin to do so. We are not to yoke up with the unsaved. Modernists, Those Who Are Wrong on the Doctrine Concerning Christ in the Bible, Are Unsaved Now there comes another important part, and you listen carefully. Modernists are not saved. Liberals in the true sense are unsaved people. Some who are friendly to modernists are saved. Some who are friendly to liberals are saved. But a true modernist, one who does not believe the Bible, who does not believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, who does not believe that Jesus is God, one who does not believe that Jesus rose from the dead, one who does not believe that the blood of Jesus Christ is the only hope to pay for sin, is not saved. Read again II John, verses 7 to 11, “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.” Notice the double name—Jesus Christ. We are accustomed to hearing that together. But up until Jesus came, it was never 18
Christian Cooperation and Separation “Jesus Christ,” but always “the Christ.” The word is taken from the second Psalm where the word in English is “anointed.” In the Hebrew it is “Messiah.” In the Greek it is Christos or Christ. Now there are people who say, “Well, I don’t agree that Jesus, the child born in Bethlehem, and the Christ of the Old Testament are the same person.” They believe there is a historical Jesus. They do not believe that He is Jehovah God of the Old Testament. They do not believe He fulfills Isaiah 53, Psalm 2, all the Passover lambs, etc. They deny that Christ of the Old Testament is Jesus of the New Testament, God in human form. Now, “This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves .... Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.” You say, “I believe Jesus is a good Man.” But if Jesus is just a good Man, you are going to Hell. There is no salvation for anybody who takes Jesus only on the basis that He is a good Man. You hear somebody say, “I believe Jesus died as a martyr to convictions.” Well, if He died as a martyr instead of a Redeemer, then nobody can be saved. You say, “But I believe Jesus may have been the best Man who ever lived.” But the best man who ever lived is not good enough to keep a sinner out of Hell. Jesus is the God-Man, the perfect, sinless Man, the Second Adam, God in human form, who took our place, paid our debt, was made sin for us, or nobody can ever be saved. All right! You don’t have to be right on baptism to be saved. 19
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