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| Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. |
Is your pastor saving himself and those under his charge; or is he destroying himself and those under his charge?
Beware, lest you are actually destroyed by the lies taught you by your pastors! Apostle Paul solemnly reminded Pastor Timothy these words;
"Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee."
You may ask if Jesus is our Saviour, then how can pastors save us? That's an excellent question. Isn't he a saved man? Then why does he need to save himself?
The salvation Jesus SECURED for and freely applied to His people, and the salvation His people have to work out for themselves are DISTINCT and DIFFERENT salvation. The former is eternal salvation; the latter is temporal, i.e. pertaining to the life here and now.
"And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation." Ac 2:40.
"For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" 1Co 7:16.
"To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might, by all means, save some." 1Co 9:22.
"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Phil 2:12
So many are UNABLE to make the distinction between the salvation that Christ has secured for His people and the salvation that His people have to work out for themselves by their obedience... that they are messed up in their understanding of salvation by free grace.
Only those whom God has freely bestowed eternal salvation are capable of working out their own temporal salvation. Isn't that simple?
Only those who have received lives from their parents are able to get a life for themselves; the former makes the latter possible!
Because they fail to rightly divide the word of truth, they INEVITABLY end up with SYNERGISM, no matter how much they boast about MONERGISM!
