Abraham's Four Seeds Quotes

“The covenant written on “tablets of stone” (the Ten Commandments) was deliberately designed by God to minister death (2 Cor. 3:6–9 and Rom. 7:9, 10) to the people described in Deut. 29:4 and Heb. 3:18–4:2. Those rebels did not need a rule of sanctification; they needed a law covenant to kill their conceit and pride—and God graciously gave them a legal covenant to do that very killing work. Do not confuse a gracious purpose (the giving of the legal covenant to convict lost sinners) with the nature of the law covenant that does the essential convicting work. Likewise, do not try to use the instrument that God specifically designed to administer death as the chief instrument in a believer’s conscience today to produce holy living.”
― John G. Reisinger, Abraham's Four Seeds

“The law covenant was laid on the conscience of a generation of blind rebellious sinners to convict them of their unbelief and to kill their hope in their own righteousness! That covenant only ministered grace as it effected the knowledge of sin and spiritual death in an Israelite’s heart and led him to faith in the gospel covenant given to Abraham.”
― John G. Reisinger, Abraham's Four Seeds

“The church of Christ is not simply the adding of the Gentiles to the ‘Jewish church’; it is the true ‘new man’ (Eph. 2:11–22) and the totally ‘new creation’ (2 Cor. 5:17). The church of Christ is also not a parenthesis between a supposed “temporary casting aside and future dealing of God with the nation of Israel.” The church as the Body of Christ is the fulfillment of God’s redemptive goal as prophesied in Genesis 3:15.”
― John G. Reisinger, Abraham's Four Seeds

“The Jew had much advantage, but he did not have a separate spiritual status before God. His position of much advantage was primarily because he had both the law covenant (to convict him of sin) and the gospel promise (to bring him to salvation) clearly preached to him. The Gentiles had neither (Eph. 2:11–13).”
― John G. Reisinger, Abraham's Four Seeds

“The nation of Israel was under great privileges, but it was not under grace unless the people believed the gospel. They had great advantages, but they were neither under a covenant of grace nor in a separate spiritual category before God. Any theology that does not see those facts is simply not following Scripture.”
― John G. Reisinger, Abraham's Four Seeds

“Union with Christ that is produced by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit because of electing grace is the only ground for any person being the object of any spiritual promise given to Abraham and his seed (Rom. 9:11, 23, 24). Both Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology either deny or totally ignore this clear biblical fact.”
― John G. Reisinger, Abraham's Four Seeds

“Let us not make the same mistakes that the Reformers made. They thoroughly reformed the gospel message of justification by faith but failed to reform some other doctrines. They threw out justification by the works of the law, but held on to sanctification by the law. They rejected the church’s authority over your soul, but hung on to the church’s authority over your conscience. They discarded priestcraft and substituted clericalism. They rejected the authority of church tradition (which taught Papal infallibility) but replaced it with man-made creeds that soon became as authoritative as Scripture. In reality they replaced a two-legged Pope with a paper Pope. They cried “Sola Scriptura,” while waving a creed in one hand and a sword in the other.”
― John G. Reisinger, Abraham's Four Seeds

“The nation of Israel was not the ‘Body of Christ,’ even though the Body of Christ is indeed the true ‘Israel of God.”
― John G. Reisinger, Abraham's Four Seeds