Ezekiel 25:17

“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you” (Ezekiel 25:17).

Federal Visionists love this passage and consider it to be one of the jules of the canon. We are rather busy re-reading St. Muller at this time, so we are not going to comment on this text.

We are, however, going to take this opportunity to announce that Modern Reformation will be changing its name to Modern Antinomianism. This move is to explicitly align ourselves with what we truly believe.

We are not historical antinomians. That is, we are not against the Ten Commandments. Neither are we antinomians in the generic sense that we are against the use of the law in the life of believers. The law shows us our sin.

We are Modern Antinomians in the "Zane Hodges sense." Sola fide demands fide to be sola. In order to preserve the purity of justification by faith alone, we must urge people to simply believe.

Focus your mind on the minimum number of propositions necessary to activate justification. Purge your mind of any notion of fidelity or trust or faithfulness or loyalty or commitment or repentance. These poisons destroy the purity of the gospel. In fact, this becomes another gospel, which is no gospel at all.

Thank God that the gospel is Absolutely Free!

That Federal Vision Heretic, John Gerstner

John Gerstner has recently been exposed as an incipient Federal Visionary and a heretic. The evidence appears in footnote 798 on page 211 of this dangerous book.

Regarding Norman Shepherd's paper, "The Grace of Justification," Gerstner wrote these disturbing words: "This paper is very clear evidence of his sola fideism to which only an antinomian could take exception."

Only an FVer/heretic could make such a statement. Unfortunately, Gerstner actually read Shepherd's paper and came to his own conclusions. Apparently, he did not get the memo that Shepherd was to be lynched without a proper trial.

Of course, Gerstner did speak rather prophetically by predicting that only an antinomian would find Shepherd offensive. The entire Anti-Federal Vision movement could be summed up as antinomian. Our goal is to redefine sola fide as antinomianism.

Romans 6:1

“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?” (Romans 6:1).

Here is one verse that Federal Visionists hate. Paul has just finished proclaiming the gospel (Romans 1-5), and now, he faces the inevitable charge of antinomianism. Indeed, all who desire to preach JBFA will be accused of being antinomian.

Federal Visionists claim that Paul is in the middle of proclaiming the gospel and that he is only responding to a hypothetic question as a means to more fully explain the gospel.

Obviously, this cannot be true because Paul does not mention JBFA after Romans 5. Thus, Romans 6-16 is not about the gospel. These chapters are probably important for other reasons, but Romans 1-5 is all we need for the gospel.

So, when a truly Reformed preacher declares the gospel, he can expect to find a throng of the elect surrounding the pulpit, breathlessly waiting to ask the all-important question, “Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?” This is the hallmark of modern Reformed preaching.

Therefore, the entire goal of preaching is that we may be accused of antinomianism. Truly, there is no higher compliment than to be accused of being antinomian. Only then can you know that you have been faithful to sola fide.

In fact, if are not accused of antinomianism Sunday after Sunday, then you are not preaching the gospel. You are starving the sheep from the pure antinomian milk of JBFA.