A Reformed Baptist Defense of Predestinarian Joy Against the Pontificate of Pope Francis I, PART 1

 

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Written on Thanksgiving Day 2013

Dr. M.A. Petillo

Reformed Baptist Bible Detective

A predestinarian Christian joy is denied by Pope Francis I because it refers to a meritorious joy.  Those who engage in meritorious living won by the satisfaction by the Virgin Mary engage in the pursuit of misery.  

The elect of God are completely covered in the white robes of Jesus Christ alone.  It is in set apart uniqueness, supremacy, intrinsic, unmatchable and unaddable unified righteousness of Christ alone.  

Once the exclusive unified merit of Christ alone in His holy life and holy death is denied by the Papists it is room for the idolatry of a self-pursuit of demi-god pride-filled spite. It yields a blinding willingness to the farce of meritorious cooperation.  

It is about the facsade of a Roman pursuit of sinner's glory that is really about totally depraved self-reliance of the radical corrupt nature of the sinful flesh that finds a fallen joy in the love of self-works that only add sin to sin to Christ alone in how someone is right with a holy God.

The premise of this thesis is that there is a civil joy that is not a redemptive joy.  There is a civil joy that is a Roman joy in the sinful satisfaction of joy that does not find its rest in Christ alone but a damned joy that finds its rest in Christ plus various kinds of additions.  

Joy is a positive consequence of Christ alone because it is by God's Spirit and Word.  It is a gift from God but joy cannot be meritorious like faith, repentance, and prayer.  The Roman joy of the gospel is a Roman joy in a false gospel because the false gospel is a gospel of idolatry. 

The joy of the gospel is from Christ alone in justification by faith alone in how someone is right with God.  The joy that fills the Papists is a civil joy found in the excitement of the darkness of hell.  It is widely known in hell that a denial of Christ alone is fit for admittance.  Here is a quotation in block paragraph from Pope Francis I in Rome:

1. THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept his offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew. In this Exhortation I wish to encourage the Christian faithful to embark upon a new chapter of evangelization marked by this joy, while pointing out new paths for the Church’s journey in years to come. (POSTOLIC EXHORTATION EVANGELII GAUDIUM OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS TO THE BISHOPS, CLERGY, CONSECRATED PERSONS AND THE LAY FAITHFUL ON THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL IN TODAY’S WORLD).

The Roman gospel cannot provide true joy because they deny the all-sufficient Jesus.  It does not mean there will not be great fiery pain because of standing for imputation for God's elect alone.  This may in fact bring all hell against you but to endure the trails of this life is nothing compared to be without Jesus or to compare to the eternal pleasure at God's right hand for His elect in Christ chosen before the foundation of the world. 

If a true Christian is set free from sin,how can this be spiritually true when if a sin is committed in the state of grace with a mortal intent is not the state of grace broken and must be regained through meritorious works?  The offer of salvation is accepted by the non-elect in a saving manner.  For the non-elect there is no regenerating Spirit and Word in spiritual rebirth.

There is a ungodly sorrow of the damned (Esau).  It is the pursuit of the fear of punishment, but the godly sorrow for the elect that is mainstream in their thought-life is repentance unto life.  There is a sense that a true Christian should fight for radical good that indeed may cause great sorrow.  

Those who stand for what is right in gospel living are misunderstood and hated with hatred against Jesus Christ. There are times of a true Christian where he or she may experience true emptiness and loneliness.  There is a blessed self-despair where a true Christian knows they cannot save themselves but it must be by the Spirit and the Word. 

Loneliness is likely to happen when a little Jesus speaks for the welfare of the Reformed church but elders turned into a papal hat cause the isolation of a little Jesus to a psychiatrist.  This is the fault of an elitist church that has spread like a plague where just like Rome they criminalize reports of abuse so injustice is preserved while justice is overlooked through the cover of a mental illness. 

There is joy in following the 1, 050 NT commandments.  Jesus had a joy at the Cross in His greatest agony where He laid His head on the Cross in triumph over sin, death and Satan.  Sometimes the joy of fellowship for standing for radical good will take you to your Cross.  Its a place where you are alone but Jesus is near-by like a friend who sticks closer than a brother.  When there is fear at the Cross where darkness surrounds the pain of loneliness it is there where God will turn it into the joy of resurrection unto life.

Merit is not a time to say "happy birthday" to discover a new state of grace from baptismal regeneration.  Joy is born with the meaning of sound doctrine applied to sound living.  The only way to have joy is to be born not by perishable water with Roman oil but by the Spirit and the Word.  

If evangelization is marked by the joy of Rome it will produce empty souls of the deceitfulness of sin.  This is the essence of the Roman gospel and the blind deception of those who partake of her spiritual villainy.  All we hear is a joy from Rome! 

I submit there is a joy greater than Rome.  What is it?  It is the simplicity of the joy of Christ alone in His unified meritorious righteousness alone devoid redemptive satisfaction of the Virgin Mary and the saints, because once you add to Christ alone by additions you glorify the sinner over the Savior.  Get busy glorifying Christ alone that was the design of the Father by the work of the Spirit.  Who are you O man to add to Unaddable and Unavoidable God-man?