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In the Scriptures, it is common to hear
of whole households coming to believe
the Gospel at the same time
(John 4:53, Acts 11:14, Acts 16:15,
Acts 16:31, Acts 18:8, 1 Cor 1:16).
Because Christ has often placed the elect
together in households by birth and by
circumstances, as well as in other settings
(such as area, church, business, Internet),
he has provided the believing remnant
with the means of reaching others of
the remnant even in such times as ours.
Today the real Gospel is hardly heard,
while the clouded Gospel that obscures
the Gospel by glorifying the sacraments,
and the false "gospels" that claim to be
the real Gospel but glorify repentance,
are being heard everywhere, being all
that the thousands of denominations
have for the people.
In the clouded Gospel, baptism and
sacrament are being glorified as means
that bring faith for salvation, and so
people trust in those.
In the false "gospels" so popular today,
rather than Christ being glorified by
faith alone in him alone for salvation,
people are trusting in things that should
definitely be done but never trusted in
for salvation, things such as baptism,
repentance, sacrament, endurance:
all trust must be on Christ alone
for anyone to be saved.
Most people professing "Christianity"
attend denominations with infant baptism
(such as Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox,
Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist,
United Church of Christ), and as a result many
people trust in infant baptism for salvation.
The situation is that those who have
the means to reach the world with
the Gospel, namely the denominations,
do not do it because they do not have
the Gospel. And yet people trust them
to be able to tell them how to be saved,
but the denominations cannot.
Christ has reserved for himself, scattered
among the thousands of denominations
and throughout the earth, a saved remnant
that believes the Gospel, a remnant of just
a few million that Christ has shown the truth
thru his word, scattered among hundreds
of millions of those who believe they are
saved or being saved but who have never
trusted Christ alone for salvation.
But the remnant believes the truth that
is being clouded by the few denominations
that once knew it, and that is being ignored,
suppressed, and opposed by the multitude
of denominations who never knew it, and
that most theologians are now treating as
though out-of-date, old-fashioned, older
Protestant theology: that the righteousness
required for salvation is Christ, not us.
Christ has shown his people that he is
their Righteous Substitute who took
their place on the cross to become
their righteousness and salvation,
so that all trust must be on him alone
for anyone to be saved.
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