A Letter from Pastor D. A. Waite
Dear Dr. Tow
Mrs Waite and I want to congratulate you and your fellow believers on your new RELBP church in Singapore. Thank you for sending us ALL of your bulletins from October, 2003 to the present. We read them with great joy.
I had hoped you would have begun such a NEW CHURCH when you resigned from your Life BP church, and I was very glad that you did do just that. It seems that you have a very good following with 200 and then 300 who followed you.
It is vital that Bible believing Fundamentalist people continue to believe in the inerrant preservation of the original inspired Hebrew and Greek Words as represented by the Hebrew and Greek Words underlying our King James Bible. It is also vital that Bible believing Fundamentalist people continue to believe that our King James Bible is the only accurate translation of those preserved Hebrew and Greek Words that underlie it.
You and your people in your new church and Dr. Jeffrey Khoo and your Far Eastern Bible College and Seminary are our compatriots of those in our USA who are holding fast to these above truths. We are facing the wrath of at least 10 Fundamentalist Colleges and Seminaries here in the USA who do not agree with us and are writing many volumes of false books in order to drown out these above truths. We are holding steadfast both in our Bible For Today ministry and in our Dean Burgon Society ministry.
May our Lord give you many more useful years of ministry for Him. Please greet your son-in-law, Dr. Jeffrey Khoo, for me and give him my congratulations also for his firm hold on these truths.
In Christ our Saviour and Lord,
Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D.
Bible For Today Baptist Church
900 Park Avenue, Collingswood,
New Jersey, 08108, USA
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SERMONS FROM THE EIGHT-PEAKED MOUNTAIN OF BLESSING
II. The Law of Moses and of Jesus
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matt. 5:17-20)
I have written a book by this title to refute the dispensational teaching of Scofield during the last hundred years that Moses Commandments refer to the letter, the outward act whereas Jesus goes far deeper into the inward thoughts. Chafer says, “These teachings (of grace of Jesus) surpass the Law of Moses in the measure in which infinity surpasses the finite.”
The scribes and Pharisees are worse than Scofield and resist Jesus for allegedly coming to destroy Moses’ Law and the prophets. This Jesus denied. He came rather to fulfil, to show the true teaching to be followed and true obedience.
Now when Jesus said, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” this also meant the full preservation of the Hebrew text of the Old
Testament. And when Jesus declares, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away,” recorded three times in the synoptic gospels (Matt. 24:35; Mk. 13:31; Lk. 21:33) He extends the preservation to the New Testament. We believe in an infallible and inerrant Bible not only in the autograph but also in the apographs. So we believe in a 100% perfect Bible without
mistake which my two assistant pastors in Life BP Church and certain elders reject. They believe only a 99.9% Bible which contradicts what the threefold statement in the synoptic gospels
affirms.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the
officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. (Matt. 5:21-26)
Take note that v. 21 is not quoting Scripture, “It is written” but the saying of lawyers, “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shall not kill and as long as you kill, you are guilty. Not otherwise!” The lawyers were saying you are guilty only in the outward act. But Jesus sees God’s Law governing the inward thought behind the act. Anger is the root of killing which can amount to murder. To use an angry word like Raca, Block Head and Thou Fool, Idiot, will lead to judgment and hell fire.
Therefore get right with your enemy before you come to sacrifice to God. Leave your gift before the altar and be reconciled with him lest he bring you before the judge and you have to pay for your misdeed to the last cent. Every sin you commit must be paid for. Conversely, if we want God to forgive us, we must first forgive others as taught in the Lord’s Prayer.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her
already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut if off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. (Matt. 5:27-30)
Similarly, the lawyers were concerned with the act of adultery, like those of John 8 where the Jews caught a woman in the act of committing adultery. But Jesus goes into even the glance of the eye
that inflamed the heart with lust. One has already committed adultery inside his soul. It were better that he pluck the eye out – so serious is sin. From a glance it may lead to rape. By application,
cut off your hand if it causes you to sin! Jesus’ preaching is full of power and not the evasive talk of the crooked Pharisees.
