Christian Cooperation and Separation - John R Rice

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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 20
Christian Cooperation and Separation believe not that I AM, if you don’t accept me as the I AM, Jehovah God, who met Moses in the burning bush in the wilderness and said, ‘Go tell Israel that I AM has sent you’; if you don’t accept Jesus Christ as Jehovah God, God in human form, ye shall die in your sins.” There is no salvation without Jesus who is God. Remember that. No salvation without Jesus who is God. He was called God in Isaiah 9:6, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given... and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God.” In the forty-fifth Psalm, God the Father said to Jesus, “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.” Jesus is the Mighty God. Jesus said, “I and my Father are One.” If you don’t believe that, you can’t be saved. Jesus only a Man? I don’t care how good, He couldn’t save you. If the confidence you have in Him is just the confidence you would put in a man, it is not saving faith. Nobody can be saved who is wrong on the essential doctrine about Jesus Christ. You might be wrong on the church and be saved; you might be wrong on baptism and be saved; you might misunderstand some other Scripture and be saved; you might be wrong on eternal security and be saved; you might be wrong about some details of the Second Coming and be saved, but you cannot be saved unless you take Jesus Christ for what He claims to be— the dying Son of God, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and hence virgin-born, raised bodily from the grave. That is a part and proof of His deity. Now note here that this is the doctrine of Christ. You may 21
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