I am familiar with the midActs, I know of it have read things. Am I wrong, it says no works have a part in the saving anyone for salvation today and says baptized in water is a work. So is tithing if required by a church. And other things like keeping confessed all sins to God.
If that is true then few today are saved, actually because most Christians everywhere are always told to do something helping Jesus to save you and keep you. Midacts is the only people I ever hear saying this, which Paul did say.
Yes, you are wrong but not in the way implied by the way you asked the question. It's clear that your exposure to Mid-Acts Dispensationalism is somewhat superficial. You've come to the right place to fix that!
It would be basically impossible for Paul to have stated it any more bluntly....
Romans 3:28 (NKJV) – “Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.”
Romans 10:4 (NKJV) – “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”
Titus 3:5 (NKJV) – “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 (NKJV) – “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”
Romans 4:5 (NKJV) – “But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.”
It is true that most Mid-Acts folks do not practice baptisms and they certainly do not tithe but none of them - NONE - teach that such practices will prevent you from being saved. That would just be replacing the law with another law.
As for "keeping confessed all sins to God", no, Mid-Acts people do not teach that either, but again, we do not teach that doing it is going to keep you from being saved. What we teach is that you're cutting your Christian walk off at the knees by holding on to a mindset that implies that Jesus didn't rise from the dead. There are three main points here....
1. Jesus’ Death Fully Paid for Sin: Christ's death was a once-for-all sacrifice that completely dealt with sin (Romans 6:10, Colossians 2:13-14). If one must keep confessing sins to stay forgiven, it implies that Christ’s work was not sufficient.
2. Believers Are Already Forgiven: Paul never commands believers to continually confess sins for forgiveness. Instead, he teaches that all sins past, present, and future have already been forgiven through Christ’s work (Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 2:13). Mid-Acts Dispensationalists argue that confession for forgiveness keeps a person focused on the flesh rather than on Christ and their identity in Him.
3. Resurrection Life, Not Perpetual Guilt: Christ’s resurrection means believers are now identified with Him in His risen life (Romans 6:4-5, Galatians 2:20). If one believes they must keep confessing sins (or perform rituals or pay tithes or whatever) to remain in good standing with God, it suggests they are still operating under the mindset of needing continual atonement, as if Christ did not rise and provide complete victory over sin.
John declares, in 1 John 1:9 that, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins”. John's audience, however, is believing Israel, not the Body of Christ. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, never teaches ongoing confession for forgiveness but instead speaks of walking in grace and reckoning oneself dead to sin (Romans 6:11). If we are identified in Christ, meaning that we have been crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20) then the law has nothing more to say to us. The most the law can do is to kill you and then you are no longer under the law. However, we have not merely died in Christ, we have also been raised with Him to new life. We are a new creature, in Him! It is no longer we who live but Christ lives His life through us - by faith!
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
What then do we do when we sin? Well, Paul directly addresses that exact thing...
Romans 7:20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
So, in short, Mid-Acts dispensationalism teaches that we ought not resurrect our flesh by doing this or that ritual nor should we focus on the fleshly sin that dwells within us by constantly confessing to God that which He already knows and has already dealt with, but rather we are to learn to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God and to rest in the finished work of Christ. This is the only path to good spiritual fruit as Paul goes on from Galatians 2 to say in Galatians 3...
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
The answer there is, of course, NO! You cannot be made perfect by the flesh and so stop trying! Instead, as Paul says to the Colossians...
Colossians 2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.
