Christian Clarity Review

In this apparent age of natural disasters for men, it is well to do well as God does it through us, especially to those of the household of God, both after they know they are of that household and before. Let not the enemy deceive himself and say that we are afraid of his lies as his false gods and the charity God performs through us a subtle form of taxation we pay as any homage to the lies of demons, most especially to the demon who calls himself ‘allah’.

It is also well to recall that acts of charity and words of reason are in every way insufficent for salvation in Jesus Christ, the only name given under heaven by which men may be saved.

To wit:

Act 10:1-6 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall

tell thee

what thou oughtest to do.

It is evident that Cornelius is unconditionally elect and yet is involved in religion that has not saved him. We see that Cornelius, bound in ignorance by Satan and yet seeing religion around him, and having been witnessed to by both nature and men as to the existence of God, was blessed by God to not be bound by Satan in such a way as to be blind and deaf of God’s Existence. Yet we also see that the piety and fear which was wrought in him toward God while he was yet a sinner and the slave to sin was not enough to save him and was no indication of God’s indwelling Spirit within him.

We see plainly that it was the Word which God Spoke through Peter that birthed Cornelius as new creation and we see that he was divinely told to listen to exactly those words by an angel, not speaking those words but indeed being Spoken through by God as Creating Speech. For we see immediate obedience and therefore the irresistibility of God’s Word as grace to the unconditionally elect, who could not have satisfied any command were it not for God having done it through them.

Act 10:7,8 And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually; And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.

God commanded / created in Cornelius the obedience. But the obedience was not the thing that saved / birthed Cornelius even though Cornelius is unconditionally elect. How do we know that Cornelius was not yet saved / birth again in Jesus Christ, even though he was very involved with religious activity? Because God tells us very plainly through Cornelius as He relates the Truth of what occurred to Peter, who has heard the Creating Word of God as well and obeyed as irresistible grace.

Act 10:30-33 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee. Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.

Very plainly, Cornelius is a free willer at this point, even after seeing the angel and even after being blessed with obedience by God as irresistible grace. For he says to Peter not “God has blessed you in that you have come.” but “You have done well in coming.” To the last Satan and anti-Christ are loath to lose their grip on Cornelius and still to this moment think of Cornelius as not being unconditionally elect at all but their servant forever whom they have deceived will earn his way to heaven by works (alms and fasting and prayer –even though that prayer and alms be God through Cornelius, but not as having blessed Cornelius with as yet new birth in Him as Word or His Spirit.)

( For God Speaks through the heathen as evidenced in Balaam, whom God used to bless Israel with a mighty blessing and yet Balaam was and is a false prophet excepting that one instance and was justly killed for his actions against Israel, in advising the king of Moab to send Moabitish women to entice the men of Israel to sin by marrying them and worshiping their false gods in an effort to kill Israel by making God angry at them for dis-obedience (they were commanded to worship only God). Therefore seeing the difference between Balaam and Cornelius, we see the difference between the unconditionally elect and non-elect. For God Spoke through both. God caused both to obey in the thing that He wished. But both were not saved, even though both were witnesses that it was God who Spoke to them personally.)

But we see God’s hand specifically through His Word as both obedience in the unconditionally elect, not-yet born again and the reprobate (those who will never be born again, the non-elect) for His Own Purposes.

On hearing the Word of God specifically through whom God had sent to Speak through that Word, those who were called eternally, from the founding of the world to life in Christ Jesus were saved / born again and baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Act 10:34-48 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

Very plainly we see that God saved Cornelius and those others present who were appointed to hear from the founding of the world. It wasn’t that Cornelius was already saved and that he merely lacked being baptized with the Holy Spirit. For God plainly says through Peter in Jerusalem:

Act 11:12-15 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house: And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter; Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. And
as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.

Here God fulfills His Own Word in former times:

Matthew 10:20 For ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you.

It is very plain that Cornelius awaited Word as spirit and life to repentance unto life. For we hear no less than three times that Word was anticipated:

Act 10:6 …he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.

Act 10:22 …they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

Act 11:14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.

Very plain, as God was Speaking through Peter the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius and those who were to be saved as being marked out prior to the founding of the world for just such new birth / salvation. For God had already made plain through Himself as Incarnate Word:

John 6:28,29 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

God then Speaks through many as Creating Word / Spirit / Christ / Father without restraint both in the unconditionally elect prior to their actual new birth / salvation and through the reprobate. Yet the mere doing of alms and fasting and prayer was not sufficient for salvation, as is claimed by Satan and anti-Christ, even though in unconditionally elect Cornelius, those alms and fasting and prayers were to him false signs he was deceived were true signs of already having been saved and he supposed in his ignorance that his ‘own free will’ had wrought for him his salvation in the future ‘next life’.

For it is a very plainly lie among all free willers and worshipers of anti-Christ who think to worship the real Jesus Christ that their own free will makes their own salvation in some unspecified future. Yet a lie is a lie, whether spoken for free or for money even when some are rescued from having been spoken through by it and some are maintained in it by God far beyond physical death forever. For anti-Christ has sought to make Cornelius a proof of one who wrought his own salvation by works when in Truth it was God who rescued Cornelius from that very lie in Speaking through Peter and birthing Cornelius out of that lie and bestowing gifts of the Spirit besides. Cornelius was born again, as are all unconditionally elected souls, in this present body before physical death.

Thus, salvation is exclusively to be had on this side of physical death and not in some afterlife at all. Thus there is no “purgatory” and thus no ‘rescue’ from it by money, prayers or works. The unconditionally elect are born again in this life, as being rescued from the Lie of Free Will that is part of the spirit of the anti-Christ as the non-creating speech of sin.

What of Apologetics? What of Reason?

They are done away completely. No doubt Cornelius was full of both prior to his actual new birth as real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ. But apologetics as reason failed to save him. Cornelius’ own apologetics as reason toward others failed to save those to whom it was spoken. The unconditionally elect among them awaited a better Word without knowing it. Why is it then that a very great army has arisen of the anti-Christ to call men to ‘reason’ as if men could reason at all and as if such vain speech could save any?

Psalm 94:11 Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

We see plainly then that it was not any self-wrought works of philanthropy of a natural man / not-born again man that saved Cornelius. It was expressly the Word of God at the time of God’s choosing, at the place of God’s choosing, though the one whom God chose to Speak to those whom God chose to hear. So then, God saves the non-religious from the vanity of non-religionism and the vainly religious who worship demons and those who even worship the True God ignorantly as vain ceremony they are deceived is proof of a supposed already present salvation.

He saves them from reason. He saves them from self-piety. He saves them from their own mind, which, unknown to themselves, was the mind of anti-Christ, even as it seemed to them to cause them to do good works. For it is plain that false religion is full of charity even as it worships the True God in a false, non-saving way through some as it worships demons through others such as animists, muslims and hindus.

It is also plain that those who claim that men ‘choose God’ and that the supposed ‘proof’ of their ‘choice’ is their charity and piety such as to portray they are already saved or will earn a ’salvation’ after physical death of the flesh are very plainly being performed through by anti-Christ a very unsubtle belligerence toward God the Father, the Spirit of God, and the Son / Creating Speech / Word of God, Jesus Christ.

What of new birth some other way than hearing the Word of God?

There is no other way and those who are spoken through by anti-Christ to claim “baptismal regeneration” or who even go so far as to say that it cannot be known how God births us as new creations in Jesus Christ are plainly refuted and shown to be liars and haters of God.

1 Peter 1:22-25 Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently; being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living and abiding word of God. Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen; but the word of the Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings is preached to you.

1 Corinthians 4:15 For if ye should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the glad tidings.

James 1:18 According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.

It is not enough to be ‘intellectually’ convinced that God exists in the mind of anti-Christ, even though anti-Christ knows very well that God exists. It is not enough to say “Yes, Noah’s ark is real, there was a world wide flood.” or even “Yes, Jesus walked the earth and was killed and rose again.” One must have the Word of God dwelling in one as witnessing to oneself and through oneself to others that Jesus is the Christ / Word of God / Son of God by whom all things were and are created, to include oneself as real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ in order to be saved. One must have God as one’s sole Word and Speech. Any other is to be kept in anti-Christ as anti-Christ has tried all along to alientate God from man by pretending the anti-Christ didn’t exist but that men merely hated God ‘on their own’.

But God is not mocked at all. His children are well known by Him though they for a time be given over by Him to all manner of wickedness in order that they know His whole creation as knowing Him and not merely the best part of it as being deceived evil is a separate god or not under the express service of God.

Job 12:16 With Him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Psalm 119:91 By thine ordinances they stand this day; for all things are thy servants.

Proverbs 16:4 Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Do not be deceived that God hates those on whom He rains evil for a time. For God afflicts His children that they turn to Him, and in such ways as they wish death for themselves, so much do they loath evil.

Job 23:14-17 For he will perform what is appointed for me; and many such things are with him. Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him. For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me; Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.

Many pious and holy men wished for death rather than suffer the afflictions of God on this earth, but did not receive death. Witness Elijah who wanted to die because it seemed to him he was alone:

1Kings 19:4 And he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

But what Says God?

1Kings 19:18 Yet I have left myself seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth that hath not kissed him.

And who was it that God used to defeat the army of anit-Christ at that time but very seven thousand whom He counted as All Israel, when there were many millions of ethnic Hebrews living in the land.

1 Kings 20:13-15 And behold, a prophet drew near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith Jehovah: By the servants of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? And he said, Thou. And he numbered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he numbered all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.

Therefore anti-Christ has not suceeded at all in making God’s children a stench to God as the anti-Christ pretends in those whom he has presently in his grasp: whores and thieves, adulterers, worshipers of demons and murderers planning to spread their lies as if true religion. Yet even some among them will be saved. May God bless the brethren who do not as yet even know themselves, but who cry for loss of flesh and human emotional opportunity and seek even now only to be re-united with that wicked emotional economy and non-creating speech of sin God has stripped from their hands in order that He save them at the set time. May that time be now and they hear and live.

1 John 5:1 Every one that believes that Jesus
is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.

Act 17:30-34 God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent, because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, giving the proof of it to all in having raised him from among the dead. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also concerning this. Thus Paul went out of their midst. But some men joining themselves to him believed; among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name Damaris, and others with them.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen