Street Preachers Fellowship

Hi, I’ve been reading your website and finding much that rings true to my own observtions. One question I have is about the use of the law. In your “Reproofs” article you indicate that you think Ray Comfort’s “method” is satanic. I’m not defending the “way of the master” or any person. Just curious of how you can bring a person to a knowledge of the need of a savior without exposing sin for what it truly is in a biblical and Holy Spirit led way? I am quite interested in your answer as I’ve found “preaching the law” as a way to bring a person to an understanding of why the gospel is good news seems to frequently not work. I appreciate the advice of someone like yourself who has done this longer than I have. Thanks.
Jim

Brother Colwell,
Every heresy in the history of the church relating to the law of Moses came into being with ministers and teachers who refused or failed to read the plain King James English warning about the very law they “desired to teach”. The New Testament told every minister very clearly that with “the priesthood being changed, there is made a necessity A CHANGE ALSO OF THE LAW” (Hebrews 7:12). Missing that very clear verse, they also missed or out right refused to listen to the Author of the Best of Books (Hebrews 12:3), when God said, “that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law” (Romans 3:19). Every law-preacher that damned his congregation only read the last half of Romans 3:19, “that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God”. The first half of Romans 3:19 clarifies the second half with this defining statement, “that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law”!! The entire second chapter of Romans was the pre-emptive finalization of God in declaring very plainly that the Gentiles did not have the law (Romans 2:12, 14), nor did they have to have the law to go to hell or to heaven (vs. 12). The Bible makes it very clear that “as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law” (Romans 2:12), to teach you the if Gentiles do not need the law to go to hell, they do not need the law to go to heaven either!
That is why the apostle Paul made it very clear that as “the apostle to the Gentiles” (Romans 11:13/ Galatians 2:7) when he brought the message that “salvation is come unto the Gentiles” (Romans 11:11) he did not preach or teach the law to them! On the contrary, Paul testified that “the Gentiles, which HAVE NOT THE LAW” (Romans 2:14) were “without law” (vs. 12); and that when “the apostle of the Gentiles” came preaching to them, he ordered that ministration in accordance to the three groups listed in 1 Corinthians 9:20-21, and that he preached “to them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law” (1 Corinthians 9:21). And “this [he did] for THE GOSPEL’S SAKE” (vs. 23). He told you plain out that his preaching to the Gentiles who were “without law” was also “without law”, which he did “for the Gospel’s sake”.
The entire argument from the law preachers is that when you preach or teach the law to the lost, that the law “works” on their heart to make them realize they are “become guilty before God” (Romans 3:19). But the verse did not say that! And further, the Gentiles are without law (2:12, 14) and perish without the law, just as fast as “the Jews” and “them that are under the law” (1 Corinthians 9:20) go to hell with the law. The Gentiles go to hell because that in spite of the fact they are “without law” (Romans 2:12, 14) “they do by nature the things contained in the law” (vs. 14) and thereby “become a law unto themselves” without anyone preaching it to them (vs. 14), because verse 15 says that by the Gentiles “doing by nature the things contained in the law”, they “shew the work of the law written in their hearts” (vs. 15). And Brethren, if you already have the work of the law written in your hearts, you do not need anyone preaching it to your ears to become guilty! The “work of the law is written in their hearts” (Romans 2:15). And Brother the Bible is very clear, “the law worketh wrath” (Romans 4:15). But Brethren, as saved Gentiles, full of the Holy Ghost, I ask you one thing from God! “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by THE WORKS OF THE LAW, Or by THE HEARING…THE HEARING…THE HEARING OF FAITH?” (Galatians 3:2). The clear fact that all of these law preachers themselves did not get saved because the law was preached to them in the manner they want everyone to believe now is the way of salvation. Strange in deed.
Without exception, every time these law preachers mention “the law”, they are referring to the ten commandments. And brethren, the ten commandments are not the law! That is why the Holy Ghost says very clearly, “THIS IS THE LAW…” twenty five times in the Books of Moses, and not one time is it ever a reference to the ten commandments (see Leviticus 6:9, 14, 25/ 7:1, 11, 27/ 11:46/ 12:7/ 13:59/ 14:2, 32, 54, 57/ 15:32/ Numbers 5:29/ 6:13, 21/ 19:2, 14/ 31:21/ Deuteronomy 4:44/ 17:11/ 30:10/ 31:26). The very first reference to “the law” had nothing to do with the ten commandments, but is a direct reference to the Passover (Exodus 12:49) and is called “the Lord’s law” (Exodus 13:9). The second reference in the Book of Exodus to the law was directly about the Manna (Exodus 16:4). The final reference to “the law” in Exodus clearly distinguishes the difference between “the law” and “the commandments” (Exodus 24:12). In fact, the verse does not even say “the law”. The verse says, “I will give thee tables of stone, AND A LAW, and COMMANDMENTS which I have written”. And the first two of those commandments, Jesus Christ said, “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (Matthew 22:40). He said that in answer to a LAWYER’S question, “Which is the great commandment IN THE LAW?” (vs. 36). I would have every student of the Scriptures note the difference between this same identical question, when it is asked by “a scribe”, who new the divisions of the scriptures: When the lawyer asked this question, he emphasized “the great commandment IN THE LAW” (Matthew 22:36). When the scribe asked the same question, he never mentions THE LAW, but inquires, “Which is the first commandment of all?” (Mark 12:28). The answer from Christ is the same, for Christ knows the difference between “the law and the commandments” (Exodus 24:12/ 2 Chronicles 31:21/ Nehemiah 10:29), and Christ also knows that the law is not contained in the commandments, but “his commandments and his statutes…are written in the book of the law” (Deuteronomy 30:10) and both are “contained in ordinances”, hence, “the law of commandments contained in ordinances” (Ephesians 2:15).
Now Brother Colwell, which is it that you are preaching when you refer to the LAW?? When Moses was about to bring the children of Israel into the promised land the first time, and they were “over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth…eleven days’ journey from Horeb” (Deuteronomy 1:1,2), the Bible says that “Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him IN COMMANDMENT unto them…on this side Jordan in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare THIS LAW, saying…” (vs. 5) and none of what he said had anything to do with the ten commandments. But it was called “this law”. Honestly, brother Jim, this old man prefers to keep with Christ and the New Testament command to “go into all the world and preach the gospel…the gospel…THE GOSPEL to every creature” (Mark 16:15), for I have learned by the Holy Spirit and God’s word in this “ministration of the spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:8) and “the ministration of righteousness” (vs. 9), that “the preaching of the gospel”, not the law: but “the preaching of the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation” (Romans 1:16/ 1 Peter 1:5) “unto EVERYONE that believeth”. Like all the other perversions of the Bible, there are also perversions of the gospel! Who needs the baloney in the deep freeze when you have the Bread of Heaven? Who needs the law, when we have the gospel of Christ?

I’m a street preacher that finding it hard to ANY support from established churches/denominations in my area. I minister in two nursing homes and I’m registered as a volunteer chaplain in the local correctional facility, but yet to get anylocal pastors or ministers to volunteer or participate. I’ve been doing street ministry off and on for 15 years now ( I love it .. weather permitting). I encourage all my street preaching brothers and sisters. Continue to go to the streets/ highways, and lanes of the city and compel them to come in that the Lords house may be full. God Bless, and for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I was very excited to find this site from a link from one of my email messages. God bless you SPF.