>>Hello, Trey.
This is a fellow dispensationalist calling from Baltimore, Maryland.
I discovered your channel a couple months ago, and I will tell you that there's no better way to put this message out live stream in worldwide.
I can't believe how comprehensive it is the way you explain scripture.
I've been rightly dividing since probably about 2017, and I will tell you, sir, I am compelled to give every Christian that I talk to the address, TTR, True Time Radio, tell them about the live stream.
I'm just amazed at how good you do what you do.
Your, your eternal reward.
Singular, most Christians say rewards, plural.
I think your eternal reward will be great.
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All right, here we are coming to you live from the app, bringing you grace talk and grace songs, and the coffee's on as we press forward with our ambassadorship for the Lord while waiting to be caught up together to meet him in the air.
I wanted to take a moment to salute some ministers of reconciliation.
Miguel Ortiz, Shawn Ayler, and our dear brother Rick.
I was aware of Rick and Shawn and the work they're doing, but not Miguel.
But just before coming on, my wife, she brought me up to speed.
This brother puts on a Truth Time shirt, finds various locations, outdoor areas and events going on in central Florida, where he will set up a table with our merchandise on it and speak with people about the gospel.
And he's bilingual, so he ministers to Spanish speaking people as well.
Praise God.
He wrote to us and said, "Thank you for these Pauline teachings.
They've been a true blessing for the renewal of my mind.
Believe me, it's pretty hard to separate from religion, especially when you have been religious almost your whole life.
I guess I was confused because of the religious mindset that I had in the Pentecostal church, but I finally came to the whole understanding of grace when I found TTR.
Now, I know where I stand in Christ.
I'm a new member of the body of Christ, an ambassador for Christ, and a minister of reconciliation saved by grace through faith and Christ alone.
And we salute brother Rick, who I've known about for a while.
He sets up outside the University of West Georgia, where he is a student.
He's sent a picture of a really well put together banner that he had made.
Looks very professional.
And he wrote, Your YouTube channel was invaluable to me in pursuit of a deeper understanding of right division.
I make a point of stand as close to my understanding of Paul's epistles heavily influenced by your teachings as I can.
And whenever I'm challenged, I admit if I don't know and I go study it so that I'm ready again.
For simplicity's sake, I refer to it as gracism and myself as a gracist.
And our final salute goes out to Shawn, who bikes around the New York area,
ministering reconciliation and telling others about our app.
He recently went to Washington DC for the 250 celebration where he was able to effectively spread the word to scores of people.
And we thank God for men like this, hats off to these brothers who are not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
It takes a lot of courage to do what they're doing and we are very grateful for them, grateful indeed.
Okay, we're going to take a few moments here to review and respond to something a listener sent us.
A lady named LeighAnn, she wrote to one of our listeners who was just minding his own business and having a conversation with a Facebook friend, but not wanting to be left out, Facebook LeighAnn, you know, she had to insert herself.
So she wrote, quote, "TTR ministry promotes the heresy of universal forgiveness, the universal forgiveness saints deny these verses."
End quote.
You know, Peter, he described people like this as busy bodies.
Busy bodies who Peter said should stay out of other men's matters, 1 Peter 4:15.
And he lists the sin of being a busy body right alongside murderers, thieves, and evil doers.
Pretty serious sin, I'd say.
First of all, universal forgiveness is not heresy.
Universal salvation is.
We don't teach that.
What we do teach and rightfully so is to be saved, there isn't anything you have to do to get your sins forgiven.
Because today is the day of salvation, not the day to get forgiveness.
Just as Paul said in 2 Corinthians 6:2, it's a shame she doesn't believe this verse.
Secondly, we have never denied any verse from a King James Bible.
But this, sadly, this isn't her first and won't be her last time she uses her Facebook platform to spread lies about us and other ministers of reconciliation.
Paul's rightly divided word is not on her side concerning forgiveness, so telling lies is her way of distracting from that.
Okay, so let's get to the first verse she claims we deny.
She wrote, quote unquote, "Forgiveness must be received by faith, Acts 26:18."
Straight out the gate, she starts off with a swing and a miss.
A simple search for Acts 26:18 on our website will bring up 16 different teachings where we address this verse.
Not a good start here for Facebook LeighAnn, addressing it 16 times is about as far away from denying it as you can get.
And why would we deny Acts 26:18 anyway?
That's a good news verse.
It's referencing Acts 9 when Jesus and red letters told our Apostle to take the gospel of grace to us.
The good news of how his crosswork had forgiven us of our sins and that all we need to do is receive it, believe it.
She apparently doesn't understand the definition of receive regarding intangible things like a decision from the offended to forgive the offender.
See, forgiveness was a decision belonging to God, Daniel 9:9.
Your receiving it is just accepting the good news about it as being truth.
To receive something that is already finished and done is to agree with God about it.
We can't pick up forgiveness, handle it, pass it around, or set it on a shelf to look at.
We can't receive it like an object to be possessed.
We just believe it, we believe it happened, just like we believe the past tense finished declaration of 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.
Christ died for our sins, he was buried with our sins, he rose without our sins.
This is how we know, we don't have to guess, we know it's impossible for God to impute sins today.
It isn't rocket science.
So, in 1 Corinthians 15:1, when Paul declared the gospel and said, "...which also you have received," there's that word, do you think that meant by their receiving it, it would become true at that moment?
Or is it more reasonable to think that the death for sins, the burial, and the resurrection was already true and by their receiving it made them saved?
Give it some thought.
Their receiving it was their believing it.
I think this should be clear to anyone willing to take God at his word.
If you still have questions, questions concerning Acts 26:18, don't forget that a simple search at our website will bring up 16 different teachings on it.
All right, two more verses she claims we deny.
Quote, "Forgiveness is only in Christ," and her verses for that are Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians 1:14.
She's invented a standalone in Christ's doctrine that turns Christ into a place, a location to enter in for forgiveness, rather than the God-man who died for our sins.
She has changed, "in Christ," from a position of spiritual unity with Christ
into a thing you have to get into to be saved.
When studying God's perfectly preserved word, it's important to pay close attention to grammar.
That's something to remember, it'll help you.
Not respecting the Holy Spirit's grammar is why some fall for the Jesus
as his own father heresy.
The Holy Spirit used personal pronouns for the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
Newsflash, you wouldn't use personal pronouns if you weren't talking about a person.
Not hard.
Every single word used in your King James Bible, the Holy Spirit used it for a specific reason.
The words that God chose are so important that in Psalm 1:38, David said,
"Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."
His word is magnified above his name.
Don't lose sight of this.
So, when you see the words, "in whom," in Ephesians and Colossians, it's important to know a little bit about grammar.
Grammar dictates that, "in whom," is identifying the source, not the location.
Christ is the source of forgiveness.
His finished work is what purchased it.
Not only for those of us in him, but for the entire world.
Only those in Christ have spiritual unity with him, but he is not a location that the world had to get into before God could forgive them.
The Son made the payment, the Father accepted it, and that's that.
No one gets a participation trophy for their forgiveness.
Facebook LeighAnn has multiple problems with the theology she's created around this term.
Our identity is that of in Christ, because we are at one with him.
We are his body.
This is about identification.
It's about intimacy.
The body of Christ is a group of believers connected by our unity with him
through Paul's gospel.
Kingdom saints, they're also in Christ, so that term cannot mean what LeighAnn says.
Else the kingdom saints are enjoying the benefits of our gospel and our blessed hope.
Now, on to the next verse we supposedly deny.
She says, quote, "Blessed man equals forgiven. Romans 4:6 to 8. No blessed people in Hell." End quote.
I wonder how many of you caught what she did here. She assigned the definition, and listen, people do this all the time.
This is why we did the five-part series defining biblical terms and recently wrote a book about it, because people redefine Bible words to suit their beliefs, just as historians revise history to fit with their prejudices.
So, here she assigned the definition of blessed to be forgiven instead of just acknowledging how David recognized God's mercy in the form of undeserved forgiveness as a blessing.
We won't jump the gun and dive too deep with this today, because this very passage, it's coming up in our next Romans study.
But I will say this, just because one is forgiven during their life, doesn't mean they will be blessed in Hell.
No logic there at all.
Her line of reasoning is really out there.
They're in Hell because they rejected God's merciful blessing of forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a blessing.
The obsession some have with the state of lost people in Hell, if they put that much energy into publishing the gospel of reconciliation, perhaps they'd be a happier people, and able to experience the joy of the Lord.
No one in Hell is currently blessed, but those who had an opportunity to believe the gospel and be saved while they were here, without having God's wrath poured out on them because of their rebellion?
Yeah, most definitely they were blessed, blessed before they died.
But since they squandered or rejected the blessing, it's not even relevant to the context of this conversation.
Okay, as to claim number four here, she says, quote, "No condemnation in Christ, Romans 8:1. So again, no forgiven people in Hell." End quote.
Well, we covered that earlier.
This is just a repeat of the second verse she claimed that we deny.
So, same response.
All right, on to the next one here.
She wrote, "The wrath of God will come on the unsaved," and then she emphasizes, "because of their sins," and sights Ephesians 5 verses 3 to 6,
and Colossians chapter 3 verses 5 and 6.
Here again, she demonstrates the lack of material to come against reconciliation because we've already answered this in a response blog to her.
We blogged about it before when, when she brought up the children of disobedience argument.
That was years ago.
And it even has her name on it.
You can go to our website in the search box, type in the word, LeighAnn,
L-E-I-G-H-A-N-N, and it should come up.
She's been regurgitating these same arguments for a long time, and she's been corrected with King James English.
But sadly, some are beyond reproof.
So while we certainly hope something that is said today helps her, I'm not counting on it.
Our hope is to equip others to deal with these arguments when they come their way.
She also claims a very odd order for salvation that is neither supported by scripture nor logic.
She says that Paul's order is as follows: Belief comes first, righteousness comes second, and then she says you get forgiveness.
And she lists Romans 4:5 to 8, and Romans 3:22 to 26, as if they support this order.
I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
It was hard to believe that she seriously has forgiveness at number three in this made up, man-made, or should I say, lady-made, Facebook list.
Buyer beware.
Just because you see someone on Facebook using the word grace, or rightly dividing, or dispensation, doesn't necessarily mean they have full knowledge of what grace means.
They may have the standard dictionary definition, but still fail to understand how grace applies to forgiveness under this current economy.
As the listener who sent this to us said in big bold letters, "She says she rightly divides."
That's correct.
You know, a lot of people, a lot of people say that.
And to be clear, some do rightly divide certain things.
They may know we're not in the law dispensation, that Paul's our apostle.
We're not the born again bride of Israel and so forth.
But when it comes to something as essential as being forgiven of your sins,
they digress two steps back, sounding very close to what we all heard when we were back there in denominationalism.
If anyone's interested in God's order, you can go download our new book,
Understanding Bible Terminology, Explained by Context, not Tradition.
You'll find that at truthtimeradio.com.
According to LeighAnn's order, a person getting saved by believing the gospel is put into Christ as a location.
And then after they get there, they then at that time get forgiven.
Why does an already saved person who has declared righteous, justified,
still need to get forgiven?
Make that make sense.
She has turned forgiveness into a useless act of God by default.
Justified, righteous people have no need of forgiveness.
But she puts forgiveness as the final act in the order of salvation.
LeighAnn has been actively campaigning against our ministry directly and all ministers of reconciliation in general since at least 2016.
For 10 years, this is where her time and energy has gone.
Time and energy she'll never get back.
So, you all keep her in your prayers.
Let's continue.
Here she says, quote, "The events of Acts 5 occur after the resurrection
and ascension of Christ. So there is no way everyone's sins were forgiven at the cross. Acts 5:1 through 5," end quote.
It's hard for us to believe that Ananias and Sapphira are even being brought up.
But it certainly does make it clear that some in grace circles aren't teaching actual right division anymore.
Ananias and Sapphira were part of the little flock and have no dispensational connection to us whatsoever.
They were not a part of the 2 Corinthians 5:19 world.
John chapter 15 verse 19 and chapter 17 verse 14, just to name a couple.
Those who make these foolish claims must not study.
I mean, how can they?
They're always on Facebook, stirring up strife and sewing discord.
Anyone calling themselves a mid-Acts believer should know that Ananias and Sapphira were before Israel's fall.
God not imputing sins to the world falls under mystery information.
Kept secret, not known until made known to and through the due time testifier, the Apostle Paul.
Kingdom saints only had their past sins in remission.
They had to endure to the end without sin because they had no more sacrifice for sin.
And if they blasphemed or turned away, it was a death sentence.
Paul isn't even recorded preaching the forgiveness of sins as past tense
until Acts chapter 13.
2 Corinthians 5:19 says, "world," not Israel.
It's funny how some, they'll lose sight of mid-Acts right division when it comes time to argue against Paul's gospel of reconciliation.
And it's strange that they don't understand that many of their arguments actually prove the truth we present from scripture regarding forgiveness for this dispensation.
For example, Facebook LeighAnn here bringing up Ananias and Sapphira when the account of what happened to them makes our point.
If God hadn't stopped imputing sins and forgiven the world, just like those two, folks today would still be dropping dead for their blasphemy.
Some, they arrogantly make posts and memes against the finished cross-work of Christ, not realizing that they're only putting their ignorance out there on full display for others to see.
Like a dear friend of ours, brother Gerhart used to say, he called this behavior, "Arrogant audacity, arrogant audacity," a perfect term to describe some of these who limit God's forgiveness.
His matter of fact stand, he took for the ministry of reconciliation his deeply appreciated and sorely missed.
Those who place limitations on God's forgiveness, they take issue with having to face the possibility of those they label bad people not receiving the wrath of God.
They don't like that.
They want them to suffer.
They have separated themselves from the so-called bad people, so they can appear to be the good people.
And they have to avoid a lot of verses to do that.
What do you do with the fact that you're telling people they need to get their sins forgiven when a very apostle you claim to follow did not write one verse explaining how to do that?
What do you do?
You ignore it.
What do you do with 2 Corinthians 5:19 that plainly tells us that God's not imputing sins today?
What do you do with Romans 5:13, "For until the law sin was in the world,
but sin is not imputed when there is no law?"
What do you do with that?
This is the dispensation of grace, not law.
What do you do with that?
They ignore it.
Then we back up a chapter, what do you do with Romans 4:15, "For where no law is there is no transgression."
What do you do with that?
Again, they ignore it.
Why?
To preserve the myth of selective forgiveness.
Under grace forgiveness is not conditional.
This is the dispensation of grace, not covenant.
The covenant of doing something to get forgiven isn't currently an effect.
This is just basic mid-Acts.
Nothing advanced about it.
But what do they do with this information?
They ignore it.
They ignore it.
Grace is being ignored in order to make God's forgiveness conditional.
We've heard from many who are becoming increasingly sick and tired of having
their intelligence insulted by those who have no idea how forgiveness works
in this time of grace.
Okay, so we'll end with the good news.
God, he stopped imputing our sins.
He stopped imputing our sins because Christ died the death we deserved.
He was buried but defeated the grave on our behalf.
Paul tells us that today is the day of salvation, but he never tells us
that today is the day of forgiveness.
Salvation isn't getting your sins forgiven.
It's believing they already are.
Believe that and believe that he rose on the third day to give you justification for your eternal life.
Grace and peace.
To everyone that has let us know how much you appreciate this ministry,
thank you.
Your words of appreciation mean more than you know.
We are so encouraged and thankful for all your cards, letters, and emails.
2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 24, "Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy, for by faith ye stand."
Rightly dividing the word of truth is the key to unlocking your Bible.
Thanks for selecting us to help with that.
Truth Time Radio.
Here to be helpers of your joy.
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