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July, 2011

Dear Friends:

 

It will be a miracle of Biblical proportions if the U.S. dollar doesn't lose 50% of its value in the next two years. Is there any protection against this seemingly orchestrated depreciation? You bet your sweet savings there is!

 

Join us in Coeur d'Alene for the Compass Financial Forum, Friday night, August 5, 2011. If you can't make it live, watch it online! It could save you a bundle!

 

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We take on one of the "often preached" but "not at all accurate" Bible teachings in our main article. Sure to raise some eyebrows!

 

And for the mathematically inclined, check out the article below, "Silver Dollars All Over Texas!"  

 

Lastly, if you have the time and sheckels, join us for the November Biblelands Cruise - definitely the "trip of a lifetime!" Info right ----> 

 

Shalom!

 

Bill Perkins

Executive Director

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Should We Confess Sins For Forgiveness After Salvation?   

 

         "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and

          righteous to forgive us our sins and to

          cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

1John 1:9 

 

The above verse may be one of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible, even for relatively solid and well-versed Believers!

 

At first glance, this verse seems pretty simple. "If" we confess our sins, He (Jesus) will forgive our sins and cleanse us.

 

MOST churches today teach this verse means that we must confess our sins, on-going, to be forgiven. That we must continually "clean the slate." An often heard reference to this verse is, "It's the Christian's 'Bar of Soap.'"  

 



But, thankfully, this is not true. We can't scrub ourselves clean. scrub sinHere's why not... 

 

For this verse to mean that we have to continually confess our sins to be forgiven, as the popular interpretation implies, means that the finished work of the cross is not finished. That Jesus didn't pay it all, and that we have an ongoing part in our personal salvation.  

 

And what if we don't confess a sin? Do we lose our salvation? What if we forgot a sin? What if we didn't know we had sinned?   

 

Three Key Words 

Under closer scrutiny of the verse we see there are three key words that prove it could not mean that we must continually confess our sins.  

 

The verse begins with the word, "If..." This would mean that for your sin to be forgiven, it is dependent on something that you do, or do not do. It would imply a false works doctrine.... salvation based on what we do, or do not do.  

 

Anything to do with salvation by works, of course, contradicts other scriptures like:

 

      "For by grace you have been saved through faith;  

       and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;  

       not as a result of works..."     Eph. 2:8, 9

 

       "He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we  

        have done in righteousness, but according to His

        mercy, by the washing of regeneration and  

        renewing by the Holy Spirit"    Titus 3:5 

 

The second word is "forgive." To mean that you are not forgiven until you confess each sin is opposite what the Bible teaches... that ALL your sin was taken out of the way 2000 years ago:

 

          "having canceled out the certificate of debt  

           consisting of decrees against us and which  

           was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of  

           the way, having nailed it to the cross" Col. 2:14

 

The last word is "cleanse." Does ongoing confession make you clean? Not according to other verses.

 

          "... those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.'   

                                                                        Acts 26:18

 

When you were saved, God the Holy Spirit came into your life FOREVER, never to leave (Heb 13:5). Therefore you were fully and completely cleansed FOREVER at salvation and it's unnecessary to be ever cleansed again. 

 

Did Paul Forget?

Paul, our Church Age apostle, never mentioned ongoing confession of our sins except to one another for accountability (James 5:16). If ongoing confession was required before God forgave each of our sins, did Paul just forget to mention it in all his letters? No, he said just the opposite:

 

          "But now having been freed from sin and  

          enslaved to God, you derive your benefit,  

          resulting in sanctification, and the outcome,  

          eternal life." Rom. 6:22

 

Jesus only mentions confessing to the Jews under the law in the context of salvation (Matt 10:32).  

 

It is also interesting to note that John wrote 1John about 95 AD, about 50 years after the first New Testament books were penned. Would this be the first mention if it were THAT important!?     

 

John did say in the verse before, 1John 1:8, that if we say we don't have sin, we are a liar. So even if we could continually confess sin for forgiveness, the moment we confess it, we are still the same dirty rotten fleshly person we were before we confessed! Nothing would be changed!!   

 

Self-sanctification? 

Some people teach that you have "positional" sanctification at the moment of conversion but have to work for your "progressive" sanctification. Any concept of self-sanctification is from the pit of hell. All it does is yoke people with the lie that they have to do something to be acceptable to God. 

 

The concept of ongoing confession of sin to procure forgiveness is simply a bad doctrine holdover from the Catholic Church... just as A-millennial and anti-Jewish doctrines were initially embraced by Luther and others in the early Protestant movements. 

 

Then What IS the meaning of 1John 1:9?

If 1John 1:9 doesn't mean we have to continually confess our sins to be forgiven, what the heck does it mean?

 

In his book, Forgiven Forever, Hector MacLeod explains in eye-opening fashion that 1 John was written in response to the Gnostic claims of the time. And he shows that the context is actually dealing with individual salvation.

 

Yes, make no mistake about it, to be saved we ARE to confess to the Lord that we are a sinner, confessing that we know we can only escape the horrors of hell via the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary.    

 

And we are certainly to acknowledge and repent of each and every sin by which we are convicted by the Holy Spirit living inside us. But that is because we are already forgiven, not to earn forgiveness! Acknowledgement of sin is the natural process of spiritual maturity -- growing in knowledge, faith and the grace of our Lord. 

 

Ongoing confession of sin to the Lord, for forgiveness, is not required... actually, we are called "foolish" for even thinking that way! 

 

           Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit,  

           are you now being perfected by the flesh? Gal. 3:3

 

I will go as far to say that there is nothing one can do, or not do, to make themselves more, or less cleansed, than that which Jesus accomplished on the cross!

 

Is that not just incredible! Everything that can be done, has been done by our Lord. When He said "It is finished" it was totally finished! Wow wow wow, that is just incredible! 

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Through the years while Hector was alive, we bought his book, Forgiven Forever, by the caseload. God has used his book to make known the true grace of God to countless individuals.  

 

The most common remark we hear is that reading it brought them such a peaceful release!  

 

           "And the peace of God, which surpasses  

            all comprehension..."    Phil. 4:7

 

Before Hector died at age 93, he graciously gave the rights of the book to Compass in order to keep it in circulation. We have reprinted it and also have it available both in paperback and in an inexpensive eBook format.  

 

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Bill Perkins

Executive Director

Compass International, Inc.

 

 

Silver dollars Silver Dollars  

All Over Texas! 

 

Since 1993, Compass has held Steeling the Mind Bible Conferences that defend the accuracy of the Bible. By providing this Biblical armor, it is our hope a Believer can better "make a defense" of what and why we believe (1Pet 3:15).  

 

And as the world turns slowly toward God's predetermined conclusion, we expect to have more and more opportunities to be used by God in the lives of friends, family and loved ones. Nothing like being armed for action! 

 

With that in mind, see if you can get your arms around these facts: There are over 300 prophecies in the Bible of Jesus' first coming, all having come true. What would be the odds of just eight of these prophecies coming true?

 

(1) Messiah to be born in Bethlehem.  

(Micah 5:2)

 

(2) Messiah betrayed for thirty pieces of silver. (Zechariah 11:12-13)

 

(3) Messiah's clothes would be gambled away. (Psalms 22:18)

 

(4) Messiah's hands and feet would be pierced. (Psalms 22:16)

 

(5) Messiah's bones would not be broken.  

(Psalms 34:20)

 

(6) Messiah would be born in the tribe of Judah.   

(Isaiah 37:31)

 

(7) Messiah would be called from Egypt. 

(Hosea 11:1)

 

(8) Messiah would be buried in a rich man's grave. (Isaiah 53:9)

 

The odds of all eight coming true are virtually incomprehensible! Consider this illustration- 

 

Suppose we filled the entire State of Texas with 100 trillion silver dollars. That would make the entire state about two Texas Red-USfeet deep in coins. Then we mark only one coin.  

 

Next we stir-up the state full of coins so they are thoroughly mixed and random. The marked coin could be anywhere in the state in the two foot deep coins. Finally we blindfold a man and let him travel the entire state to choose one random coin.  

 

What would be the odds of him finding the marked coin in one try? He would have the same chance the prophets had for those eight prophecies being fulfilled. Which is virtually no chance.

 

But that was only eight of the over 300 prophecies! Figuring the odds of fulfilling all 300 Bible prophecies is ridiculously astronomical. Simply incalculable-- except that the real author of these prophecies knew the future. The God Who created the universe out of nothing was in total control and knows the past, present AND future. 

 

            "Behold, the former things have come to  

             pass, Now I declare new things; Before  

             they spring forth I proclaim them to you."

                                                                Is. 42:9

 

If this type of mathematical apologetics (defense of the faith) gets your blood pumping, consider ordering Mike Riddle's Steeling the Mind Bible Conference presentation,  

 

 "Evolution and Mathematical Probability."   

 

Mike does a great job, in layman's terms, showing the utter impossibility of evolution in light of mathematical probabilities.

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Friday night,  

August 5th

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Gold and silver recently took a long-awaited pull-back from their scorching gains since our last  Financial Forum in August 2010.


Those who followed Tom Cloud's advice made between 30% and 100% return in one year*... AFTER the pull-back!!

So, is the rally over, or is this the time to jump in with both feet? What are the projections for the next year or two? Tom will delve into the facts.

It is hugely important to stay abreast of the "financial elephant in the room" to keep from getting flattened in the future.

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