As someone raised in HH who left over the last couple years, and still has inside connections, I have to admit that there has been a lot of change since Blair Adam’s death. Many baptized as well as...
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The Blood of Jesus is what provides your Salvation.
- we understood that in the early decade or two. Now it is pro forma, a few words here and there, but the blood of Jesus is now considered figurative, this actually came from Blair in the 1990s, I remember when the meeting was described. (Sadly, it was a type of mime, almost mockery.)
It really shocked me, at the same time came the other apostate idea that they would do their own Homestead Heritage Version -- because all the English versions were corrupt and super-scholar Joel (sarcasm alert!) and company would straighten it all out. oy vey is mir.
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What can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of JESUS!
We sang it, we felt it, we meant it, we knew it, we loved it.
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Once the blood of Jesus is devalued, Christianity is going down. That is why John MacArthur combined his similar low view of the blood of Jesus with a new Version that had "Yahweh" everywhere, the so-called Legacy Standard Bible. The devil is in those details! I wonder if the fellership is starting to use that dark version? As the newest of 15 contradictory modern corruption versions that pollute the place.
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- here is one comment from John MacArthur, who I believe you can connect with the Homestead position.
"you must stop short of saying that we are saved by the blood of Jesus."
A very astute writer, Kent Brandenburg, really wanted to sympathize with John MacArthur on his blood of Jesus statements:
Is John MacArthur Off on the Blood? If So, How Far Off?
https://jackhammer.wordpress.com/.../is-john-macarthur.../
Part 2
https://jackhammer.wordpress.com/.../is-macarthur-off-on.../
Powerful writing, note the fountain hymn discussion in Part 2! From John Bunyan, The Fountain of Christ!
"The things that Bunyan says in this poem are things that John MacArthur won’t say about the blood. Somebody’s wrong. I’m saying it’s MacArthur. The blood of Christ is a fountain. The blood of Christ has power. None of these are new ideas, novel inventions of modern theology. They are old. Actually they’re Bible. "
In the first part is a beautiful listing of Bible verses by Kent!
Romans 3:24-26, “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”
Romans 5:9, “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.”
Ephesians 1:7, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;”
Ephesians 2:13, “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
Hebrews 10:19, “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,”
1 Peter 1:18-19, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:”
Revelation 12:11, “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
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These beautiful teachings on the blood of Jesus are lost at Homestead Heritage. And it is a big part of "losing" salvation.
