William Carden, Dean of Admissions, assisting students with schedules during registration.
Paul had previously depended upon his works for salvation. Now he had no confidence in the flesh. No one could refuse his claim of being an ardent religious worker. He was desperately zealous in his attempts to withhold the work of the early Christian church. The re ligious man works ardently preach ing another gospel and sowing tares among the regenerated man's wheat. Paul's work was building the Kingdom of God, while the evil workers, of which he had been a part, were tearing it down. From that day to this the powers of dark ness have been attempting to do the very same things. If the devil can succeed in rob bing the Christian of his childlike faith in Jesus Christ, causing him to rely upon form and ceremony of mere religion, he will have ac complished his purpose. When the Puritans came to America in the 17th century they did so that they might be free from the ritual and ceremony of a powerless church.
are clean while others are not. When you see the word "kosher" written on the front of a store it means that the food sold there is ceremonially clean. Most of us eat any kind of meat, in any form or combination, without real discrim ination whatsoever. Dogs were lit erally scavengers, and this is the way some of us eat. Theologically, in the New Testament, the term "dog" was applied to anyone who was outside of Christ and not a believer. We find this in Revela tion of those who will not be in heaven. Therefore, Paul says in essence, "Avoid the man who is religious, but who is outside of Christ." As a religious man Paul was lost; but as a regenerated man he was saved. The regenerated man is in Christ in the sense of that mystical union which can only be partially described in such terms as the branch and the living vine, stones forming a part of a living building, and members of an in tricate living body. Page 18
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