I mean, he did testify of repentance, but not much of the Lord Jesus Christ. That was my concern, but he did say he was keeping it short, and it's difficult to tell about 70 years of experienced in eight paragraphs.
Again, we're running into this problem of people here not understanding what respect of persons is, and I'm not sure if I've not done my job in explaining it properly. It's starting to irritate me because I can't figure out what I didn't teach the right way; it seems that about every post here made, and every discussion where it's brought up, someone's accusing another of respecting persons where there is none involved.
Being an internet 'enthusiast' ( about 80% in Christian pursuits ) I also highly esteem David Daniels of chicktracts on you tube. I've watched nearly all of his videos and agree with him wholeheartedly. He pushed me over into fully KJB only.
Another thing that concerned me was that you said you 'highly esteemed' certain teachers. Are you aware of the fact that respecting of persons is sin?
This wasn't a direct accusation, but the implication was pretty strong.
I didn't see anything wrong in what Scott said there because, once again, respecting persons is giving ear to one person over another because title, rank, or position of any kind, and that's not what Scott did.
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
-1Th 5:12-13When Luke 16:15 warns about God hating that which is "highly esteemed" among men, it means "among men," not among the church. Though I'm not very comfortable with it, I know there are those in our church who highly esteem me, but not for any position, title, or rank that I have because I don't have any of those. They highly esteem the work I'm doing for the sake of the work being done because they love the Lord Jesus Christ.
esteem (v): to set a value on, whether high or lowThat being said, I don't know anything about David Daniels, but I tend to stay away from Chick Publications altogether. Frankly, I can't say what it is about them yet that has me on edge about them, which I know is unlike me, but I haven't had any desire to investigate them much. I have seen a number of things inaccurate on their site in the past, so that might be the trigger for me. I mean, when I looked over it just now very briefly, it seemed fine, and on the surface, it looks like their ministry and our ministry believe the same on everything, but something is bothering me about Chick Publications and I'm not sure what it is.
Some may suggest that they sell a bunch of their tracts, but that's not it; they sell them insanely cheap and they also give away a lot of them to apostles (i.e. missionaries) around the world.
Oh wait! Nevermind, I just found it on their site. Yeah, that must be the reason I'm getting warning flags about Chick Publications; here, you guys can look at it:
https://www.chick.com/Information/article?id=Gods-Plan-of-SalvationThey teach that repent means "to turn from sin." Then they say "be willing to repent," which is the typical way they like to avoid contradicting themselves by teaching works doctrine. The problem is that conversion, the word 'convert', means to turn and change. Having a will to convert before conversion would mean that a man would have to seek God out before he was converted, and Romans 3 tells us that "no one seeketh after God." It is by the power of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ alone that we are converted, not by any power of our own, and therefore, to teach that one must be "willing to turn from sin" is hopeless.
(Btw, they also add in the "sinner's prayer" at the end because they don't know what repentance is, so they don't know what else to do for people.)
I hope, one day, one of these big-name ministries might be willing to listen to the truth about repentance. They don't need to credit me with anything because it's not my doctrine; it's just what the Word of God teaches us. I just hope they'll listen and fix their broken doctrine, but the problem is that if they do fix it, they'll lose a lot of their subscribers who had their hope in their own perceived righteousness.
