The Veritas Update 03.04.08

Veritas Theology Forum is official. On Sunday night we held our first session at our new location with tremendous impact. The music food and fellowship were all fantastic but the real treat was Pastor Jerry casting vision in this new hour.

Veritas is a ministry of Jerry Robinson Ministries International. Veritas is latin for truth and truth is what our ministry is after. We are:

“A fellowship of believers who desire to grow deeper in this knowledge of God and His precepts.”

“Challenging believers to think and thimkers to believe.”

“Confronting the lies of the age”

In the U.S., 80% of the population calims to be Christian. Do you believe that 4 out of 5 Americans are going to heaven? Let’s consider what Jesus said.

Jesus stated that it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. If a person makes $40,000/year they are in the top 1% of the world’s wealthiest citizens. If Jesus was accurate in His statement and the U.S. is as wealthy as it is, then how are most of us saved?

The problem with Americans is that “we desire the blessings of God but not the God of blessings.” The current culture of the American church is founded on the “Baby Boom Gospel” which is exemplified by the fiscal recklessness of 59 trillion dollars in national debt and an expectation of entitlements. The Baby Boom Gospel of this former generation in church leadership is completely focused on the sacrament of self and is a cancer upon the Body of Christ globally.

Moreover, this former generation has virtually ignored sound teaching on the second coming of Jesus Christ to the Earth. In His first coming, Christ brought forth redemption and ushered in an age of grace, of which we are now partakers. It is after the second coming, however, that we shall “ever be with the Lord.” While being held in the grasp of salvation wrought by Jesus’ first coming is, of course, the foundation of how we are here, it is the second coming we are driven on preaching.

These are the last days so ask yourselves; are we closer to the first coming of Christ or His second coming?

We are living right next to His second coming so why is this teaching being neglected?

The answer is plainly evident. We here in America are focused on a temporary gospel, caring only about the immediate and lazy when it comes to sound doctrine and solid teaching. At Veritas, we have this one goal; to focus on the Bible as the sole source of truth.

If the Bible is 100% the sole source of truth in the world then we want to dig into it completely and find out what it is all about. The Bible is life to us, it is health to us, it is great news to us and through solid teaching and application we will be employed by these benefits in seeing God’s work accomplished in us.

This is the Veritas vision:

• To challenge believers to value and trust the Bible as the sole source of Veritas (truth) through intense Biblical training and discussion. (2 Tim. 3:16)
• To equip believers in how to creatively, and genuinely, evangelize a depraved generation. (Matt. 24:14)
• To point unbelievers to the eternal benefits of Christ's first coming (John 3:16)
• To encourage believers to adopt with eternal perspective in light of Christ's Second Coming. (1 Thess. 4:16-18)
• To consistently promote the concept of the priesthood of the believer. (1 Pet. 2:9)

Historically, we see that culture affects the church. Ever since Constantine instituted the modern church in Rome during the 300’s this has been clearly evident. Unfortunately, one thorough aspect of this influence has been a gravitation towards separating church leadership from the church body. It is an inherent concept at this point that if you are on staff at a church, or have some sort of title, you are closer to God than the “sheep” in the body.

This is a backwards concept of ministry. If you are born again you are a priest!

The church is the primary vehicle for promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Leadership is here to equip. You exist to be a flame of fire, minsters of the manifold grace of God completed in Jesus Christ and revealed to a deceived world by you! The church.

Are we living in the last days? In the last days will there be false teachers? If you are saying yes then we have to ask ourselves; where are all the false teachers?

Could it be that they are on the radio, on our TV’s, on Christian television? How about our churches? If we are truly in the last days then we have no business not using discernment. This is dereliction of duty.

We are called and we need to know why. This all starts with knowing what we believe and why we believe it. We will not be afraid of the hard questions and hard topics. If the Bible is the sole source of truth as we state it is, then the only thing we have to fear is being transformed by the power that it contains.

Here is where we stand in the study plan God has given this ministry.

We started in Soteriology and learned about the full process of Salvation. Veritas went through an in depth study of the Calvinist and Armenian debate and influence upon the doctrine of the church. We have taken an in depth approach in exploring the “Word of Faith” movement, as well as its impact, and we are now in the middle of a expository examination of Genesis 1-12.

In two weeks we are going to pick right up in Genesis 6:1. As we have done in the first 5 chapters, we are going to continue to explore the Hebrew meaning of the text verse by verse. This has been an incredible journey up to this point. People who think that they already know everything about Genesis based on what they learned in Sunday school as children are just simply missing out.

Beyond Genesis 1-12 we are going to go into a full study on Eschatology. As we have admonished the Body of Christ to do, we are going to go into a full scriptural study on the second coming of Jesus Christ. Through this time we will get to a place of understanding with the prophetic text of the Bible and an ability to share it soundly with the world.

We are going to study Islam. This study will be tackled with the same tenacity and attention to detail as the rest of our teaching. Having a sound understanding of God’s word and full assurance in the Bible as the sole source of truth in the world enables us to this without fear. We are going to objectively reveal the history, precepts and eschatology of this religion and compare them to that of Christianity and Judaism.

In line with this we are going to study the nation of Israel. We are going to look fully into the culture, roots and traditions of Israel. This will include a trip to Israel which will be a tremendous benefit to bringing the teaching and direction of this forum to life. Additionally, Veritas will go through a verse by verse examination on the books of Daniel and Revelation.

Right now we are looking for leaders and teachers. If you feel like you have a call to teach you are in the right place. Let it be known, when you devote your life to lifting up the truth of God, your life will be blessed. At this point, we are receiving emails from all over the world asking for Veritas. People are asking us for the teaching you are partaking in. We will meet this need and we need your help to do it.

Next week, Pastor Jerry is going to fully explain the five phase plan God has for Veritas to go global. Don’t miss out on this exciting time and invite all of your friends. Shout it from it from the rooftops and go out into your world to bring people in. We are not ashamed to say that we are on the revolutionary edge of what God is doing in the earth and the opportunity He is giving us is huge.

We are looking forward to seeing you Sunday evening.