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"For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach." (Titus 1:10-11 KJV)
For the less Elizabethan inclined the CEV - Contemporary English Version - states, "There are many who don't respect authority, and they fool others by talking nonsense. This is especially true of some Jewish followers. But you must make them be quiet. They are after money, and they upset whole families by teaching what they should not."
Paul sermon to the Ephesians included this warning, " I know that after I am gone, others will come like fierce wolves to attack you. Some of your own people will tell lies to win over the Lord's followers. Be on your guard!..." (Acts 20:29-31 CEV).
To place my posting of these biblical texts in the context of this blog you need to read Dr. John MacArthur's latest message titled 'Unholy Trinity' at the Shepherds Fellowship site which is available by clicking here .
Here are my thoughts concerning Dr. MacArthur's comments:
What can we do as orthodox, biblically sound Christians, to counter-act those heresies identified by Dr. MacArthur? Specifically what can we do as a church and as an individual believer in the Truth of the Word of God? Even when the pulpit preaches the Truth there are few that are paying attention and those outside can't hear it.
Even in our small community we have churches that are proclaiming the "health-and -wealth" gospel. There are locally available faith healers that can't heal; prophets who can't deliver on the message, etc. We have locally prosperity preachers who fleece the flock of Christ by offering everything now, contrary to Jesus' call to "taking up His cross". And there are those who preached a "works salvation" contrary to the Gospel of Grace and others who disdain the message of the gospel altogether by ordaining biblically unauthorized pastors. In our small town we even have a "Temple of Gaya" which worships the earth promoting hyper-environmentalism including it's twisted step-children such as the current climate change hysteria which is rapidly warping into population control.
So my question is, what can we, as individual biblical Christians, do to promote true Biblical Truth as evidenced in the Gospel of Christ? Can we do better than what we are doing now? How?
These are my thoughts, what are yours?
For the less Elizabethan inclined the CEV - Contemporary English Version - states, "There are many who don't respect authority, and they fool others by talking nonsense. This is especially true of some Jewish followers. But you must make them be quiet. They are after money, and they upset whole families by teaching what they should not."
Paul sermon to the Ephesians included this warning, " I know that after I am gone, others will come like fierce wolves to attack you. Some of your own people will tell lies to win over the Lord's followers. Be on your guard!..." (Acts 20:29-31 CEV).
To place my posting of these biblical texts in the context of this blog you need to read Dr. John MacArthur's latest message titled 'Unholy Trinity' at the Shepherds Fellowship site which is available by clicking here .
Here are my thoughts concerning Dr. MacArthur's comments:
What can we do as orthodox, biblically sound Christians, to counter-act those heresies identified by Dr. MacArthur? Specifically what can we do as a church and as an individual believer in the Truth of the Word of God? Even when the pulpit preaches the Truth there are few that are paying attention and those outside can't hear it.
Even in our small community we have churches that are proclaiming the "health-and -wealth" gospel. There are locally available faith healers that can't heal; prophets who can't deliver on the message, etc. We have locally prosperity preachers who fleece the flock of Christ by offering everything now, contrary to Jesus' call to "taking up His cross". And there are those who preached a "works salvation" contrary to the Gospel of Grace and others who disdain the message of the gospel altogether by ordaining biblically unauthorized pastors. In our small town we even have a "Temple of Gaya" which worships the earth promoting hyper-environmentalism including it's twisted step-children such as the current climate change hysteria which is rapidly warping into population control.
So my question is, what can we, as individual biblical Christians, do to promote true Biblical Truth as evidenced in the Gospel of Christ? Can we do better than what we are doing now? How?
These are my thoughts, what are yours?
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