Christian Cooperation and Separation - John R Rice

Christian Cooperation and Separation
To be saved you don’t have to be right even on eternal security.
You don’t even have to be premillennial to be saved. Neither do
you have to be right on church government to be saved. You
don’t have to be right on a thousand details of interpretation of
minor scriptural matters to be saved.
But you have to be right on the essential things—Who is
Jesus Christ? Is He what He claimed to be? Is Jesus the God-
Man, the Lamb of God? Is He the One the Bible says He is?
Now if you deny that, you are a lost sinner going to Hell.
You can be wrong on doctrines; you can be wrong on many
other things; but you cannot be essentially wrong on the
Person of Christ, who He is and on His death for sinners, and
be saved. That is what the Scripture says: “Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath
not God,” is not saved.
Turn to John, chapter 8, verses 23 and 24. To the Pharisees
Jesus said this striking and powerful thing:
‘And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from
above [Jesus is saying, “I am not like other men. You need to
be born again. You were born wrong the first time; I was not.
You are sinful; I am not”]: ye are of this world; I am not of this
world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins:
for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Dr. Bob, it says, “If ye believe not that I am he.. but the
word he is in italics meaning it is not in the original Greek. I
don’t know much Greek. I am like Dr. Tom Malone who said, “I
know a little Greek and a little Hebrew. The little Greek runs
a restaurant, and the little Hebrew runs a clothing store!”
Here the word he is not in the Greek. Jesus said then, “If ye
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