Comments on: Fundamentalist Pharisees http://www.frozenpreacher.com/2010/03/10/fundamentalist-pharisees/ Provoking to Righteousness Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan http://www.frozenpreacher.com/2010/03/10/fundamentalist-pharisees/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Jonathan Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:44:30 +0000 http://www.frozenpreacher.com/?p=306#comment-183 A good thing to remember is that the Pharisees of Jesus' day were just like the Pharisees of our day: the last thing they were interested in was submitting to the word of God as it had been delivered by God through inspiration. They had perverted it profusely, especially during the Babylonian captivity, and then tried to live by their own rules and regulations-- not God's. Instead of placing their faith in God's plan for their justification and redemption in the face of their utter lack of ability in keeping his law, they invented their own laws, rules, and regulations. That is the mark of a Pharisee in any age. It has never been true that he Pharisees were ones who knew and revered the Scriptures, once given by God. On the other hand, Godliness is exemplified by those who, regardless of the actions of man-made institutions, simply seek to submit themselves to God through obedience to His word in order to bring Glory to the Father and lift the Son high so others will come to glorify their Father who is in Heaven. A good thing to remember is that the Pharisees of Jesus’ day were just like the Pharisees of our day: the last thing they were interested in was submitting to the word of God as it had been delivered by God through inspiration.

They had perverted it profusely, especially during the Babylonian captivity, and then tried to live by their own rules and regulations– not God’s. Instead of placing their faith in God’s plan for their justification and redemption in the face of their utter lack of ability in keeping his law, they invented their own laws, rules, and regulations. That is the mark of a Pharisee in any age.

It has never been true that he Pharisees were ones who knew and revered the Scriptures, once given by God.

On the other hand, Godliness is exemplified by those who, regardless of the actions of man-made institutions, simply seek to submit themselves to God through obedience to His word in order to bring Glory to the Father and lift the Son high so others will come to glorify their Father who is in Heaven.

]]> By: BaptistThinker http://www.frozenpreacher.com/2010/03/10/fundamentalist-pharisees/comment-page-1/#comment-164 BaptistThinker Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:07:10 +0000 http://www.frozenpreacher.com/?p=306#comment-164 Excellent article. I was raised a Fundamental Baptist(although I'm now a Southern Baptist), and for much of my life as such I took great care to have a highly polished exterior. I did not get saved until I was eighteen, but you wouldn't have known it. Even after I got saved, I wasn't able to get the hang of letting Christ live through me. I continued to keep my exterior highly polished. I did and said all the right things, and looked like a great Christian, but inside I was struggling all the time, constantly under conviction and unable to discern why I wasn't able to live up to my expectations and everybody else's expectations of what a Christian should be. Honestly, it's only been in the past couple of years that I've really learned that Christ living through me is the only way to live. I can't do it on my own. I've seen so many men fall in ministry, including my father, who had all the right standards, and looked like great men of God. But inside, there's something not right. Inside, there may be nothing but death. I think that what you point out is a symptom of a much deeper issue. When I went off to Bible college at 18, I was never taught about Christ living through me and working His power in me. I only was told to do more, and work harder, and be better. And that's the problem. We try to do what we can't do, and what only Christ can. Excellent article. I was raised a Fundamental Baptist(although I’m now a Southern Baptist), and for much of my life as such I took great care to have a highly polished exterior. I did not get saved until I was eighteen, but you wouldn’t have known it. Even after I got saved, I wasn’t able to get the hang of letting Christ live through me. I continued to keep my exterior highly polished. I did and said all the right things, and looked like a great Christian, but inside I was struggling all the time, constantly under conviction and unable to discern why I wasn’t able to live up to my expectations and everybody else’s expectations of what a Christian should be. Honestly, it’s only been in the past couple of years that I’ve really learned that Christ living through me is the only way to live. I can’t do it on my own. I’ve seen so many men fall in ministry, including my father, who had all the right standards, and looked like great men of God. But inside, there’s something not right. Inside, there may be nothing but death.
I think that what you point out is a symptom of a much deeper issue. When I went off to Bible college at 18, I was never taught about Christ living through me and working His power in me. I only was told to do more, and work harder, and be better. And that’s the problem. We try to do what we can’t do, and what only Christ can.

]]> By: FrozenPreacher http://www.frozenpreacher.com/2010/03/10/fundamentalist-pharisees/comment-page-1/#comment-136 FrozenPreacher Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:28:06 +0000 http://www.frozenpreacher.com/?p=306#comment-136 This is bang on. I agree wholeheartedly. However, let this not be taken as an endorsement of the Emergent Church ideology. The Pharisees were legalists (Matt 23), the EC movement is reveling in God's mercy (1Cor 5:2). Well done Bro. Gibbesh. This is bang on. I agree wholeheartedly. However, let this not be taken as an endorsement of the Emergent Church ideology. The Pharisees were legalists (Matt 23), the EC movement is reveling in God’s mercy (1Cor 5:2).

Well done Bro. Gibbesh.

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