GOD REMAINS GOD WITHOUT YOU OR ME!
MODERNIZED CHRISTIANITY IS NO LONGER A MYTH, BUT A STARK REALITY!
( PART 3 OF FALSE SECURITY!)
You know sometimes, a believer... A truly conservative believer feels lonely and frustrated with himself, even feeling at odds with himself... asking himself if he was actually alright or mentally unstable. And this happens because of what he sees going wrong,but can't control nor prevent.
Times like this, I remember Jeremiah,who aside from being called the lamenting prophet,was also call the Prophet of Doom, NEVER seeing anything good in his generation... even like Job,cursing the day he was born, including the bearer of the news;
14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16. And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17. Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
18. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (Jer 20: 14-18)
Someone without understanding will come out to blame him without considering the situation that made A BATTLE AXE OF GOD to suddenly become suicidal. Do you know why Jonah ran? Do you know what made Elijah to flee,just a day, after winning one of the greatest battles ever recorded in both Bible and secular history?
It wasn't faithlessness...it was the feeling of loneliness,a haunting feeling of being the only one seemingly seeing the TRUTH,and at the same time wondering how possible it is,THAT YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE RIGHT! For you, something is wrong somewhere. At least for Jonah, I've a clear answer. He knows God will eventually forgive Nineveh,a heathen super power that has humiliated Israel so much. For him,God should just go ahead and destroy them. But we come to Isaiah;
8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa 55: 8-9)
Right now, I feel like a fugitive in God's Word. Please, don't get me wrong... I'm not laying claims to be as good as anyone, much less being better. BUT, I WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE PREFERRED WHEN CHRISTIANS WERE TAGGED AS "CHURCH RATS" BECAUSE OF BEING POOR...WHEN MUCH MONEY HASN'T BEEN INTRODUCED AND INCORPORATED BY MAMMON INTO GOD'S WORSHIP.
When, I see pithy memes ,targeted citations from men of God,posts and comments,likes and shares...the version of the Gospel that thrills the people to get their attention, I certainly feel lonesomely lonely in my plain unworthiness. Yes,I feel often, I'm the one with the problem.
THIS IS THE DANGER,FALSE TEACHING POSES TO US... WATERING DOWN GOD'S WORD,WITH ONLY PROPHETIC UTTERANCES OF PROSPERITY AND UNLIMITED BLESSINGS... WITHOUT TEACHING A CORRESPONDING FEAR, RESPECT AND OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUE OWNER OF WHAT WE SEEK!
J.C. Ryle, a pastor from Liverpool in the 1800s, says “We have no right to expect anything but the pure Gospel of Christ Jesus, unmixed and unadulterated...the same Gospel that was taught by the Apostles...to do good to the souls of men. I believe that to maintain this pure truth in the Church men should be ready to make any sacrifice, to hazard peace, to risk dissension, and run the chance of division. They should no more tolerate false doctrine than they would tolerate sin.”
We have the right and responsibility to get false teaching out of our churches and minds as much as we have the same responsibility to get sin out. We get so caught up in religious tradition that we start to believe that the Bible actually says those things.
Watch what Jesus said about false doctrine in Matthew 16;
..... 11. How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
12. Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (Mat 16: 8-12)
What He is really saying is a little bit of false teaching is going to endanger the rest of your understanding of scripture. A little bit of false teaching in the church, is going to leak out into the rest of the teaching in the church. Beware of false teaching. We have to read and interpret, correctly, scripture for ourselves.
Identifying False Teaching
1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.... . (1Jn 4: 1-3)
Having known that the spirit of the antichrist is already in the world, we are commanded(not begged) to test the spirits.
So how do we know if a teaching is false? How do we test the spirits? Does it point to Christ? If not, its not of God.
For instance, the twisted teaching of predestination and election...does it really agree with Christ Jesus' teaching us to PICK UP OUR CROSS AND FOLLOW HIM? Is it true because we cannot lose salvation when we're careless with it? And is it true that he who loses salvation wasn't truly saved before? If so, why will apostle Paul, the apostle of grace declares that "he dies daily?" (To the flesh) Why would he go to say that he doesn't want to be a castaway? Is it not because of the fact that,if he is casual with his salvation,he can lose it,even after leading many to salvation.
Because of this false teaching of FALSE SECURITY,MANY HAVE LET DOWN THEIR GUARDS AND BECOME VERY CASUAL IN THEIR WORSHIP OF GOD,WITH THE BELIEF THEY'RE ALREADY SAVED, AND CAN'T BE UNSAVED,NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO. Paul warned;
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. (1Co 10: 12)
Our enemy is the great deceiver. We’re told that in Ephesians that we wrestle against spiritual hosts of wickedness.
We have to have discernment! John tells us that the spirit of the Antichrist is already in the world. The time is now! We have to be ready now! I'm not going into the subject of heaven and hell now, though a lot of wrong teachings are in wide circulation.
YET,ONE THING I MUST SAY IS THAT, CHRIST JESUS, WHILE ON EARTH, SPENT 90% OF HIS TIME TEACHING ON HEAVEN AND HELL FIRE MORE THAN ANY OTHER SUBJECT.
As for election,both predestination and personal responsibility are true...God is completely in control, but humanity makes choices and is completely accountable for those choices. The Bible does not present these as irreconcilable truths (as theological traditions sometimes do). We learn that, if God elected those He foreknew, He both knows His creation before it exists and He determines important things about His creation. If God is great enough to be the Creator of all, then He is not stumped by the mutual existence of His sovereignty and human volition, choice, and responsibility.
We will be back !
GOD REMAINS GOD WITHOUT YOU OR ME!
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MODERNIZED CHRISTIANITY IS NO LONGER A MYTH, BUT A STARK REALITY!
( PART 3 OF FALSE SECURITY!)
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You know sometimes, a believer... A truly conservative believer feels lonely and frustrated with himself, even feeling at odds with himself... asking himself if he was actually alright or mentally unstable. And this happens because of what he sees going wrong,but can't control nor prevent.
Times like this, I remember Jeremiah,who aside from being called the lamenting prophet,was also call the Prophet of Doom, NEVER seeing anything good in his generation... even like Job,cursing the day he was born, including the bearer of the news;
14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16. And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17. Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
18. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (Jer 20: 14-18)
Someone without understanding will come out to blame him without considering the situation that made A BATTLE AXE OF GOD to suddenly become suicidal. Do you know why Jonah ran? Do you know what made Elijah to flee,just a day, after winning one of the greatest battles ever recorded in both Bible and secular history?
It wasn't faithlessness...it was the feeling of loneliness,a haunting feeling of being the only one seemingly seeing the TRUTH,and at the same time wondering how possible it is,THAT YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE RIGHT! For you, something is wrong somewhere. At least for Jonah, I've a clear answer. He knows God will eventually forgive Nineveh,a heathen super power that has humiliated Israel so much. For him,God should just go ahead and destroy them. But we come to Isaiah;
8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa 55: 8-9)
Right now, I feel like a fugitive in God's Word. Please, don't get me wrong... I'm not laying claims to be as good as anyone, much less being better. BUT, I WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE PREFERRED WHEN CHRISTIANS WERE TAGGED AS "CHURCH RATS" BECAUSE OF BEING POOR...WHEN MUCH MONEY HASN'T BEEN INTRODUCED AND INCORPORATED BY MAMMON INTO GOD'S WORSHIP.
When, I see pithy memes ,targeted citations from men of God,posts and comments,likes and shares...the version of the Gospel that thrills the people to get their attention, I certainly feel lonesomely lonely in my plain unworthiness. Yes,I feel often, I'm the one with the problem.
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THIS IS THE DANGER,FALSE TEACHING POSES TO US... WATERING DOWN GOD'S WORD,WITH ONLY PROPHETIC UTTERANCES OF PROSPERITY AND UNLIMITED BLESSINGS... WITHOUT TEACHING A CORRESPONDING FEAR, RESPECT AND OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUE OWNER OF WHAT WE SEEK!
J.C. Ryle, a pastor from Liverpool in the 1800s, says “We have no right to expect anything but the pure Gospel of Christ Jesus, unmixed and unadulterated...the same Gospel that was taught by the Apostles...to do good to the souls of men. I believe that to maintain this pure truth in the Church men should be ready to make any sacrifice, to hazard peace, to risk dissension, and run the chance of division. They should no more tolerate false doctrine than they would tolerate sin.”
We have the right and responsibility to get false teaching out of our churches and minds as much as we have the same responsibility to get sin out. We get so caught up in religious tradition that we start to believe that the Bible actually says those things.
Watch what Jesus said about false doctrine in Matthew 16;
..... 11. How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
12. Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (Mat 16: 8-12)
What He is really saying is a little bit of false teaching is going to endanger the rest of your understanding of scripture. A little bit of false teaching in the church, is going to leak out into the rest of the teaching in the church. Beware of false teaching. We have to read and interpret, correctly, scripture for ourselves.
πIdentifying False Teaching
1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.... . (1Jn 4: 1-3)
Having known that the spirit of the antichrist is already in the world, we are commanded(not begged) to test the spirits.
So how do we know if a teaching is false? How do we test the spirits? Does it point to Christ? If not, its not of God.
For instance, the twisted teaching of predestination and election...does it really agree with Christ Jesus' teaching us to PICK UP OUR CROSS AND FOLLOW HIM? Is it true because we cannot lose salvation when we're careless with it? And is it true that he who loses salvation wasn't truly saved before? If so, why will apostle Paul, the apostle of grace declares that "he dies daily?" (To the flesh) Why would he go to say that he doesn't want to be a castaway? Is it not because of the fact that,if he is casual with his salvation,he can lose it,even after leading many to salvation.
Because of this false teaching of FALSE SECURITY,MANY HAVE LET DOWN THEIR GUARDS AND BECOME VERY CASUAL IN THEIR WORSHIP OF GOD,WITH THE BELIEF THEY'RE ALREADY SAVED, AND CAN'T BE UNSAVED,NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO. Paul warned;
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. (1Co 10: 12)
Our enemy is the great deceiver. We’re told that in Ephesians that we wrestle against spiritual hosts of wickedness.
We have to have discernment! John tells us that the spirit of the Antichrist is already in the world. The time is now! We have to be ready now! I'm not going into the subject of heaven and hell now, though a lot of wrong teachings are in wide circulation.
YET,ONE THING I MUST SAY IS THAT, CHRIST JESUS, WHILE ON EARTH, SPENT 90% OF HIS TIME TEACHING ON HEAVEN AND HELL FIRE MORE THAN ANY OTHER SUBJECT.
As for election,both predestination and personal responsibility are true...God is completely in control, but humanity makes choices and is completely accountable for those choices. The Bible does not present these as irreconcilable truths (as theological traditions sometimes do). We learn that, if God elected those He foreknew, He both knows His creation before it exists and He determines important things about His creation. If God is great enough to be the Creator of all, then He is not stumped by the mutual existence of His sovereignty and human volition, choice, and responsibility.
We will be back ππ!