The Gospel Of Repentance

I recently read a story where a father asked his young son, “ Do you know where you are going when you die?” The son replied, “Yes. I would go to heaven.” The Father asked his son a second question, “If you were to die tonight and God asked you why should I let you into my heaven what would be your answer?” The son answered immediately, “Because I’m dead!” Do we see the logic in the child’s response? From his understanding of these questions, he believed that a person automatically goes to heaven when they die. Why did the son respond the way he did? It would be safe to say the reality of hell had never been taught to him. This boy like most people (this includes many in the church) believe in what someone called Justification by death.   A more popular way to say it is Universalism – meaning that everyone is automatically saved when they die.   This is a novel idea, an emotionally comforting one especially when loved ones and friends die. It makes us feel better to believe t

Yet she will be saved in childbearing – if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self control.   -I Timothy 2:15   To understand the aforementioned passage we need to start at verse 8 to verse 15 to get the whole flow of thought . The Apostle Paul speaking says, “I desire that in every place that men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or quarreling (some versions say without wrath and doubting); likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel with modesty and self control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper of women who profess godliness – with good works. Let the women learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather she is to remain quiet. [i] For Adam was created first then Eve, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor (of the command of God not to eat the fruit from t

Imputation by definition means: the act of placing something into one’s account. To lay something to one’s charge.   Imputation is the effect of a prior cause; some act someone has committed. In the Bible we deal with imputation negatively and positively.             Let’s begin with the negative. When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, their act of sin was imputed, reckoned or charged to everyone of their descendants, the entire human race. Since we were all in the loins of Adam when he sinned, we in God’s eyes are guilty and condemned before we were ever born!             Guilty by association to our father Adam. Remember God told Adam specifically, “the day you eat of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, you will die” (Gen 2:17).   Death was the result of disobedience to the command of God. The scripture says when Adam died (spiritually and eventual physical death), we all died (Rom 5:12). We were born dead as a result of Adam’s sin (Eph 2:1; Col