Christian Identity – Part VI – The Believers Power
Christian Identity – Part VI – The Believers Power
Nov 02
“. . . the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe . . .” (Ephesians 1:19).
The power of the triune Creator, as displayed in the resurrection of Christ, is directed toward us! We can be certain that we will never fully comprehend that, but the Scriptures provide several clear statements that will help us get some usable grasp on this resource: We receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on us (Acts 1:8). The Holy Spirit indwells every believer (John 14:17; I Corinthians 6:19) and is therefore readily accessible to all believers (Ephesians 3:20). We use the power of God every time we preach the gospel (Romans 1:16; I Corinthians 1:18), whether to one person or to thousands. We learn of the power of God through “great and precious promises” (II Peter 1:3,4).
Indeed, those promises involve “all things that pertain to life and godliness.” We see the results of the power of God in our lives when our characters reflect “all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness” (Colossians 1:11).
The Lord desires “that [we] might be filled with all the fullness of God” Ephesians 3:19) and “strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man” (Ephesians 3:16). The purpose of this empowering is to be “. . . rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith” (Colossians 2:7), “able to comprehend . . . the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know [!] the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge” (Ephesians 3:18,19).
“Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen” (Ephesians 3:20,21).
That is a very poor explanation of Covenant theology. To say it is not Biblical is absurd. I could understand you saying you do not agree with it, but saying it is un-Biblical shows your lack of understanding. Of course you know that dispensational theology is not even 200 years old, none of the church fathers or reformation hero's were held to dispoensational theology. Men like Augustine, Calvin, Luther, Wesley, J.I Packer, RC Sproll, N.T. Wright are un-Biblical? . You may disagree with the reading/interpretation of scripture, but to use the word un-biblical shows how arrogant and uninformed you are.
Editorial note: I wrote Mr. Beaty directly (he apparently is a Pastor at a reformed fellowship in souther California). The term “unbiblical” means what it says; “the teaching of a doctrine not found in scripture.” “Replacement Theology”, promoted by the reformers and much later, Sproll, Kennedy and Packer; relies heavily on “allegorical interpretation” of scripture versus a “literal interpretation.” This is the only way these “teachers” can wrongfully claim that the Book of Revelation was written and fulfilled BEFORE 70 A.D. Not only is this poor interpretation of God’s Word – it seeds doubt that the very promises God declares to both Israel and the believer – as being doubted! Even worse, it allows all sorts of unbiblical doctrine to be promoted based on the teacher’s “allegorical” view of, what otherwise to be, literal declarations of God.
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