But doesn't this very need to test myself coincide with:

a) that all of us start out as goats prior to regeneration
b) we become more and more like our shepherd via process?




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chad Richard Bresson" <breusswane@...>
To: <soundofgrace@...>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: [soundofgrace] Acts 6 and deacons


> Evangelism.  Point them to Christ so that they become sheep.  The warnings
> keep them from deluding themselves that they are sheep, even though 
> they've
> made a profession and are members of the visible body.  If I am not 
> thinking
> and acting like a sheep, it could very well be that I am not one and I 
> need
> to make sure that I am one.
>
> It is this that Peter has in mind of "being *diligent* to making our 
> calling
> and election sure".  This is why we are to "examine ourselves" and "test
> ourselves" to see whether we are "in the faith".  The warnings in Hebrews
> and James serve that function.  God's divinely ordained means of 
> preserving
> His saints is through our perserverence.
>
> Pastor Chad Richard Bresson
> Clearcreek Chapel
> Springboro, OH
> http://breusswane.blogspot.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Fuchs" <SteveF_MS@...>
> To: <soundofgrace@...>
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [soundofgrace] Acts 6 and deacons
>
>
> > Chad,
> >
> > I'm just curious your thoughts.
> >
> > What's the point of warning goats?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Chad Richard Bresson" <breusswane@...>
> > To: <soundofgrace@...>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [soundofgrace] Acts 6 and deacons
> >
> >
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "H Dorrington" <hjdinfl@...>
> >> >  Oh yes, the passage that tell us that the goats make great teachers!
> >> > Not.
> >> > It is rather describing those who are spiritual "babes" in Christ .
> >>
> >> I disagree.  In giving them the benefit of the doubt, he is still 
> >> holding
> >> out the possibility that they are in danger of neglecting their
> >> salvation.
> >> What looks like a babe in Christ, if it never grows, is an imposter 
> >> (Heb.
> >> 6:6-8 - same thought, same context).  If they stay "dull of hearing" 
> >> will
> >> "end up being burned" (Heb. 6:8).
> >>
> >> The contrasts of the warning passages are almost exclusively, through 
> >> the
> >> whole of the NT, between sheep and goats and almost never between
> >> categories
> >> of Christians.  Those "categories" just don't exist.
> >>
> >> Pastor Chad Richard Bresson
> >> Clearcreek Chapel
> >> Springboro, OH
> >> http://breusswane.blogspot.com
> >>
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