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The acts of sinful nature are obvious: debauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy. I warn you as before that those who live like this will NOT INHERIT the
Lord, help and teach us to recognize people by their fruits. In Jesus’ powerful name we ask. Amen.
Beloveds, let’s watch out for false teachers or mere HIRED MEN. Watch out also for the false prophets - those who prophesy peace when there is no peace (Jer.6:13). They come to us in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are FEROCIOUS WOLVES. The cause of false teaching is evil and selfish ambition. (here insert like priest like people*) Be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. Be wise. Don’t follow any one blindly. If a blind person follows another blind person, both will fall into the pit. Mt 23:8 onwards says (paraphrased) you have only ONE MASTER, ONE FATHER AND ONE TEACHER THAT IS JESUS CHRIST. 1 Tim, 6:3-10 says, if any one teaches false doctrines and does not agree or obey the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
Beware of covetous people who regard people as dupes* to be exploited for their own ends. Please read 2 Peter 2. In Galatians 1:1-9 we see that the Judaizers, that is the false teachers were motivated by a jealous desire to destroy Paul’s authority. Their false teaching threatened the new churches and HAD TO BE COUNTERED. A twisting of the truth is more difficult to spot than an outright lie. There will always be people who will twist truth to suit their own ideas/lifestyles. Either they do not understand what the Bible teaches or they are uncomfortable with the truth as it stands. How can we tell when people are twisting the truth? You can’t if you yourself don’t know the truth! Therefore, individual Bible reading, study and meditation are absolutely non-negotiable aspects of Christian living. Teaching has to match the truth in God’s word. Then like the Berean Christians you can weigh what anyone teaches. But for that we have to know the scriptures ourselves. “Lord, help us in this area. Open our spiritual eyes. Have mercy upon us. Forgive us for playing the fool for so long. Shake us out of our complacency. Help us to take our salvation seriously and work it out as set out in your Word (Phil. 2:12-13). Put zeal in us to know you better and better through your WORD. May we not only read study and meditate on it but enable each one of us by your mighty HOLY SPIRIT to obey and do what it says so that little by little we are made more like our Lord, Jesus Christ! Halleluiah! Lord, we confess we are weak but Lord you are strong. Will you help us? Please. In the all powerful NAME OF JESUS we ask. Amen”
In 2 Cor. 11:14-15 Paul warned that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Here he invoked a curse on any angel who spreads a false teaching – a fitting response to an EMISSARY OF HELL. Paul extended that curse to include himself if he should twist the WORD OF GOD. HIS message must never change. Paul used strong language because he was dealing with a life and death issue.
False teaching comes from the desire to put its own ideas in the place of truth of JESUS CHRIST. The false teacher is guilty of nothing less than of usurping the place of Christ. False teachers encourage men to take the way of blatant error. Both, the false teacher and his followers are lost to shame. They care for the judgment of neither man nor God. In 2 Peter 2:2 we saw that false teaching brings Christianity to disrepute.
False teaching destroys people’s faith. We must not shape the doctrines of Scriptures to match our opinion. If we do, we are putting ourselves above God. Instead our beliefs should be consistent with God’s Word. False teachers still spout lies. Some distort the truth, some dilute it, and some simply delete it. But no matter how many people follow the liars, the solid foundation of God’s truth never changes, is never shaken, and will never fade. ONLY WHEN WE FOLLOW GOD’S TRUTH, HE WILL NEVER FORSAKE US.
Any teaching which produces a person, who repels men from Christianity instead of attracting them to it, is a false teacher. False teaching and false prophesy is the work of those who are ENEMIES OF CHRIST! The ultimate end of false teachers and false prophets is destruction. Their doom is foretold even in the Old Testament (Deut. 13:1-18). It might look as if that sentence has become inoperative or is slumbering, BUT REJOICE it is still valid and today the day has come when false teachers, false prophets, liars, accusers, false witnesses, false brothers, hired hands, false workmen, masqueraders, legalists (CHURCH MAFIA), smooth talkers, deceivers, manipulators, intimidators, idolaters, stooges of devil, enemies of the cross, spies, in short FALSE BELIEVERS and those taken captive to do SATAN’S WILL INSTEAD OF GOD’S, will have to pay the terrible price for betraying the SON OF GOD, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Please read 2 Tim. 3:1-9. NO MAN WHO LEADS ANOTHER ASTRAY WILL EVER ESCAPE HIS OWN JUDGMENT.
The wicked suppress truth. Truth is suppressed by wickedness. Please read Rom. 1:18-32. Verse 32 is a BIG ONE. God bombarded me with this one verse 7 times since 30.1.01. The second time on 11.8.01, 20.1.03, 19.10.06, 8.11.06, 24.7.07 and finally on 19.1.08. And as of today (7.4.2009) I have lost count (practically every day!).Many of us will be surprised on judgment day to discover that even though we may not have committed the same evil acts as wrongdoers, if we approve of what they do, we will, in God’s sight, be as guilty as those who do them. If someone is doing something wrong, our being silent is giving them our approval for their acts. IN GOD’S KINGDOM SILENCE MEANS APPROVAL. And it is a sin. Whenever the honor of our LORD JESUS CHRIST is at stake, we need to speak-up but in TRUTH AND LOVE.
TRUTH FOREVER ON THE SCAFFOLD. WRONG FOREVER ON THE THRONE. YET THE SCAFFOLD HAS SWAYED AND WILL YET AGAIN KEEP SWAYING THE FUTURE, AND, BEHIND THE DIM UNKNOWN STANDETH GOD WITHIN THE SHADOW KEEPING WATCH ABOVE HIS OWN.
Lord, help and teach us. Have mercy on us. We have failed you. We have been faithless to you. But now O Lord we accept that we have sinned against the HOLY SPIRIT. We have grieved and resisted you. Will you forgive us? Will you take us on; for YOUR GLORY AND HONOR, for YOUR KINGDOM and for the sake of the PERISHING LOST? Will you Lord? Please? In JESUS’ MIGHTY AND ALL POWERFUL NAME WE ASK. AMEN. THANK YOU LORD. WE LOVE YOU.
ALL GLORY AND HONOR TO HIM
APART FROM HIM WE CAN DO NOTHING!
Deepti Bankeshwar
21.1.2008
4 a.m.
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