SUFFICIENCY?

SUFFICIENCY?

Thursday, December 6. 2018

   Isaiah 44 [MKJV]  … So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb, I am Jehovah who makes all things; who stretches out the heavens alone; who spreads out the earth; who was with Me? … who brings to nothing the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns the wise backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; who makes the word of His servant sure, and makes good the counsel of His messengers; …

   John 17 [Jesus said] And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them. … I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not pray for You to take them out of the world, but for You to keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify [to purify and make holy] them through Your truth. Your Word is truth. As You have sent Me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. And I sanctify Myself for their sakes, so that they also might be sanctified in truth….

   2Peter 1:2-4 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue, through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

  I believe the doctrine most under attack in the church today is the sufficiency of God’s Word; the spreading belief that in these modern times there are wiser ways of “Doing church.” This is akin to the serpent’s better way of and by knowing more than God’s way; in practice inadvertently (or in some cases, deliberately) directing people away from God’s sanctifying Truth.

  As I reviewed today’s Scripture and other related passages I’m reminded that churches propagating and emphasizing psychology, marketing schemes, entertainment et al are being contrary to Biblical life and godliness; godliness in manhood, womanhood, confidence, relationships, marriage, parenting, church growth, church discipline,  leadership, ministry, philosophy, wisdom, honor, decency and much more pertaining to life here and thereafter.

  To say the knowledgeable ways of God’s Word is insufficient in these modern times is a yeast problem. (Gal.5:1-9)

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