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Nine serious errors of teaching affirming a “carnal Christian”: 1. The “carnal Christian” doctrine depends upon a wrong interpretation and application of 1 Corinthians 3:1-4. 2. The “carnal Christian” teaching divides the two basic blessings of the new covenant [forgiveness of sins and a new heart] because it denies that one of them is experienced by all true Christians. 3. This teaching does not distinguish between true, saving faith and the spurious belief mentioned in John 2:23-24; 12:42-43; Luke 8:13 and Acts 8:12-23. 4. The “carnal Christian” teaching lies in its virtual exclusion of repentance from the conversion experience. This is implied by the suggestion that the “carnal Christian” has not changed in practice but lives and acts just like the natural man. 5. The three-class theory is prone to give assurance to those who were never really converted. 6. The fruits of this teaching are not new to Christianity even though the teaching appears on the present scene under a new mask (see Romans 6:1-2). 7. “Carnal Christian” teaching is the mother of many second work-of-grace errors in that it depreciates the biblical conversion experience by implying that the change in the converted sinner may amount to little or nothing. 8. The “carnal Christian” teaching is also the mother of one of the most soul-destroying teaching of our day. It suggests that you can take Jesus as your Savior and yet treat obedience to His lordship as optional. 9. This teaching breeds Pharisaism in the so-called “spiritual Christians” who have measured up to some man-made standard of spirituality. There ought to be no professed “spiritual Christians,” much less “super-spiritual” ones!

Ernest Reisinger

It is not merely the pleadings of patriarchs and prophets, apostles and martyrs, men strong in faith giving glory to God. Neither is it the prayers enshrined and intoned in imposing ritual, rising from the great congregation amid ornate temples, and borne on the wings of enchanting music – but the groan, the glance, the tear, the tremulous aspiration of smitten penitents, the veriest lisping of infant tongues; the unlettered petitions morning and evening of the cottage home, where the earthen floor is knelt upon, where the only altar is the altar of the lowly heart, and the sacrifice that of a broken and contrite spirit.

John MacDuff

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Chocolate Spongecake

January 22, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Cakes	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3/4	c	Sifted cake flour
1/4	ts	Salt
4	tb	Cocoa
1	tb	Lemon juice
5		Eggs, separated
1	c	Sifted sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Sift flour, salt and cocoa together 4 times.  Add lemon juice to beaten egg
yolks and beat with rotary egg beater until thick enough to hold a soft
peak. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold in sugar in small
amounts, then fold in egg yolks.  Fold in flour mixture in small amounts.
Pour into ungreased tube pan, cut through batter with spatula to remove
large air bubbles and bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 to 60 minutes.
Invert pan and let cake hang in pan until cool. Makes 1 (9 inch) cake.
Randy Rigg  The Pinnacle Club BBS 812-963-9139
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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