#Salvation_or_Destruction
#Ministry_of_the_word
Does it really matter what kind of ministry
of the word you sit under? Does it matter whether you are taught sound
doctrines and are doctrinally established (stable)? There are too
many sincere Christians who loathe, yes, they loathe, doctrines.
Ponder on these passages, if what the Bible
says still matters to you. Do you know how to draw out the necessary implications
and practical lessons from these passages of God's word?
Apostle Paul's solemn words to young Pastor
Timothy:
"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." 1 Timothy 4:16 KJT
And again,
"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." 2 Timothy 4:2 KJT.
Here is Apostle Peter's solemn word
concerning Christians who are neither soundly taught nor grounded:
"As also in all his epistles, speaking
in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which
they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other
scriptures, unto their own destruction." 2 Peter 3:16 KJT
And this is how the Apostle Paul graphically
describes unlearned believers: unstable kids easily carried away by falsehood.
"That we henceforth be no more children,
tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the
sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to
deceive." Ephesians 4:14 KJT
Why did the Lord Jesus Christ give teaching
offices to His church? Let's hear from Apostle Paul:
11 ¶And he gave some, apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the
work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the
faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." Ephesians 4:11-13 KJV
(Of the four distinct NT teaching offices,
the first three offices were unique to the apostolic church; only the fourth is
normative to the gospel age.)
Does it matter what kind of preaching
ministry you attend? Too many can't even distinguish truth from falsehood, and
they just don't care.
For example, what does your preacher teach about how God justifies a condemned sinner? And the doctrine of justification by faith alone is declared as THE article that determines the standing or falling of the church!
O Lord, have mercy!
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Sonny
It does make a big difference. True preaching
brings life and immortality to light and gives God due honour for eternal
salvation. Which also saves us from this untoward generation of false teachings
and brings us to a fellowship with our Saviour that only the truth can bring,
which is freedom in Christ.
Sing
Sonny, what's true preaching? How can
one in the pew know? Thanks.
Sonny
Sing: Scriptural preaching of the truth
is foolishness to those who have not the spirit of Christ. They have no
spiritual ears to hear nor eyes to see the truth. They cannot believe because
they are spiritually discerned. In regeneration God puts his laws into their
heart and because they are sons they cry Abba Father and when the truth of the
gospel is preached unto them the spirit of God in them bears witness of the
spirit that God gave them where they cry of a truth this is of the LORD.
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