Mike Fabarez
Audios:
Adam's Offspring
Dreadful Decree
Biblical Backsliding
Total Forgiveness
Patching
up the Relationship
Divine Discipline for Sinning
Some Excerpts from his Sermons:
"I'm trusting that those who die
incapable of Faith before the reach an age to do so, though they're not
innocent, because they are born into a human race that is fallen, that God will
rectify the situation and will not impute to them a guilt of a punishment that
you might expect at least mathematically in the equation of Salvation, but that
God will supply Grace and Mercy to deal with that seeming exception."
How deceptive can you be? His OWN statement of Faith (and the ENTIRE Reformed
Tradition he supports!) DECLARES that every single human being from Adam
downward, at the MOMENT of conception, is Imputed with the first man's Guilt by
God! (Federal Headship Theory) According to Fabarez's Statement of Faith:"People
forfeited their intended fellowship with God (Is.59:2),
incurred the penalty of spiritual and
physical death (Gen.2:16-17; Rom.5:12),
became subject to the wrath of God
(Jn.3:36), and lost the ability to be independently acceptable to God
(Rom.5:6-10)
through Adam's one act of disobedience
(Rom.5:12)." In other words, when Adam sinned, the human race
Transgressed with him. (he is explained to be our 'Representative') Fabarez
suggest that God will NOT impute the Guilt of Adam to those who die
BEFORE they are able to exercise
Repentance and Faith, HOWEVER, how can that be when their own theories insist
that mankind FROM BIRTH, conception to be exact, is plagued with the Sin (Guilt)
of Adam? Fabarez obviously believes this:
"As Adam's offspring the
Bible clearly teaches that we have received the guilt and the sin that
was brought upon mankind because of Adam and Eve's sin." Do you
see HOW Fabarez attempts to maneuver around the Dreadful Decree that all the
fathers of his tradition admitted? (Augustine, Luther AND Calvin) The bottom
line is this, regardless of HOW they try to dodge it today, Paul said, 'the
Wages of Sin is DEATH!' (Rom 6:23) If the human race was Represented by
Adam in the Garden, as the Reformed Faith insist, then all babies (fetus to
infancy) go to HELL if they die, PERIOD!
"Are you not forgiven of Sins, past,
present and future, when you become a Christian? Thats total Forgiveness --
thats legal Justification"
No, you're Not... PAST Sins were
Atoned for by Christ, YES! (Rom. 3:25 & 2 Pet. 1:9) And present Cleansing is
available, ON THE CONDITION that you are
"walking in the Light", meaning Obeying God (1 Jn. 1:7), however, No
'Cloak' for your Future Vice is offered
in Scripture since it is Written that "if
we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of
judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries." (Heb.
10:26-27 & 2 Pet. 2:1-3) Christ gave the Parable of the Un-Forgiving Servant.
(Matt. 18:23-35) There He taught us that Forgiveness is 100% Conditional!
"For
if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (Matt. 6:14-15)
When the Servant failed to comply with the Masters decrees, then his Forgiveness
was REVOKED! (Matt. 18:32-35) HOW could the Master remit the Servant's original
Pardon? Because his DEBT was Not "Paid
For in Advance" (as Fabarez and all Calvinist argue!), instead, it was
simply Forgiven! (Matt. 18:27 & 32) In other words, the finical acquittal was
based on the nature of the Servants initial contriteness over the Debt
(Repentance!), NOT on someone stepping in and rectifying his overdue accounts.
This is important to understand BECAUSE
its a clear illustration about Divine Forgiveness. Fabarez's language of
"Total Forgiveness" is a Total Fallacy and based on Conjecture Only! "Legal
Justification" is no better and rooted in the idea that Christ "Payed" for the
Elects Sins on the Cross. (Passive Obedience of Christ is HOW they explain this)
Since He died FOR (meaning "in
place of", instead of, "on behalf of")
their Sins, meaning, He was Imputed with their [Legal] Guilt derived from Adam,
then they are Imputed with the Son of God's Righteousness (again, in a Forensic
sense only) then we discover WHY this teaching of Future Forgiveness has to be
permitted...(because Salvation is Nothing more than God Declaring you to be
something you are Not! --1 Jn. 3:7) Don't be Deceived, God is NOT mocked! (Gal.
6:7) Christ saw the Sins of the "Christians" in the Churches! (Rev. 2-3) This
would be utterly impossible IF Believers Sins are "totally Forgiven" at
Conversion.
"If you are a child of God, God will get
you. If you're on a particular path of Sin -- the Sin that so easily entangles
you -- He will get you to stop. Okay.... He will. He will get you to stop.
Because the last step of discipline, as I said there in 1 Corinthians 11, Verse
30 is death. Does that sound weird and harsh? I know it is from our perspective,
but God will even take your life, that if you continue in a particular Sin, God
is going to get you to stop it one way or another and He will use discipline to
get it done and the ultimate tool in his arson el is to take your life from this
planet."
HOW outrageous can you be! Remember, the last quote we just covered by Fabarez
asserts that your past, present AND future
Sins are Covered once and for all when you Convert to Christ, NOW, he
tells us that if you 'Continue' to Sin (which you
MUST because Salvation Only
changes God's Eyesight and Not your moral character or conduct) God will Kill
you for it! This is double talk! (Jas. 1:7-8) Think about it for a minute....
How can God Scourge (beat/Discipline/Kill?)
every son whom He Receives, when He cant see their Sins after being Reconciled?
(Heb. 12:6) Furthermore, what about 1 Jn. 3:6, which states, "
whoever abides in Him does not sin.
Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him?" How then can the
'Child of God', as Fabarez mentions, be on a 'particular path of Sin' and remain
inside of His family when the Apostle tells us so plainly that
"he who SINS is of the Devil!" (1 Jn.
3:10) This entire notion IS repugnant to Sound doctrine. The idea that you get
to Heaven faster for Sinning more is the Devils gospel and a Proof that the
spirit of error is at work in the Churches! (2 Cor. 11:3 & 1 Jn. 4:6) Keep in
mind also that in the Bible, the Christian is described as a Sojourner, simply
passing through. (1 Pet. 1:17)"For
our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ". (Phillip. 3:20) Believers are told to "set
your mind on things above, not on things on the
earth" BECAUSE, as Jesus said, "For
where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Col 3:2 & Matt.
6:19-21) Only people who Love this world and are Disobedient to the Word would
NOT want to be taken away from this "planet"! Even the proof Text adduced by
Fabarez (1 Cor. 11:30) is questionable, in that it is dealing with taking
Communion unworthily and provides no absolute proof that those who brought
Judgment upon themselves were Saved! (the doctrine of Eternal Security is a
SCAM!) Fabarez is arguing in Favor of Sin...Don't believe the Lies!