Author: ShapedByTruth

God’s word is authoritative

Authoritative – Scripture is final authority over our life, for every matter of faith and practice.

Isaiah 55:10-11 – For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Psalm 138:2 – I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name
for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. [Neh 9:5]

Titus 2:15 – These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee

God’s word

Matthew 4:4 – But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God [Deut 8:3]

1. Man shall live by every word – authority and applicability of scripture
2. Every word proceedeth out of the mouth of God – scripture is inspired and spiritually discerned
3. It is written (not was) – scripture is pure, preserved, and accessible

drunk on old wine

Luke 5:39 – No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

“old wine” is fermented alcoholic wine that causes drunkenness, fermentation is a type of leaven which represents corruption.  The old wine represents “corruptible seed”.


“new wine” is recently squeezed grape juice that is not fermented, the sugar brightens the countenance.  New wine represents incorruptible seed of God’s word.

who causes divisions?

Romans 16:17-18 – Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Notice who are the ones that cause divisions…

It is not those who prove all things and hold fast to that which is true.  It is not those who stay with “the old paths” and remain steadfast the in the doctrine they have learned.

It is those who promote contrary doctrine using good words and fair speeches and deceive the hearts of the simple.

Popery teaches man becomes GOD

A quote from St. Athanasius that is found in Catechism no. 460 of the Catholic Church:

“For the Son of God became man so that we might become God”

Roman Catholicism promotes the lie of the serpent as seen in Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature“:78 “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.”79 “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.”80 “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”81

80 St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a3p1.htm

unity

Unity of the body without compromise is only achieved when we are all members of the same family

Family members are those who are of the same father (whether through blood, adoption, or marriage).

Your father is who you are yielded to, either you serve the Father in heaven, or the father of lies.

Those who look to God’s word as their final authority are of the same family.

Unity is preserved when any differences between the members are resolved by looking to God’s word for the resolution.

incorruptible seed

The ONLY source of
faith
Rom 10:17 – So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.
Rom 14:23b – for whatsoever
is not of faith is sin.
Prove all things
1 Thess 5:21 – Prove all things; hold fast that which is
good.
1 John 4:1 – Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world.
Isaiah 8:20 – To the law and to the testimony: if they
speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them
Acts 17:11 – These were more noble than those in
Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and
searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

You search scripture
in order to tell if something is true.
2 Tim 2:15 – Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
You study scripture
in order to rightfully divide the word of truth.
Warning
Deut 12:32 – What thing soever I command you, observe to do
it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. (also Deut 4:2)
Is it fear?
Concerning accusations
of “being in fear”.  TRUE! I am in fear…
FEAR OF THE LORD.
The lampstand is the only
source of light inside the tabernacle or temple Holy Place.  It has seven lamps on one lampstand made out
of a single piece of pure gold. (Ex
25:31-40; Ex 37:22)
Revelation references
the 7 spirits of God. (Rev 1:4; 3:1;
4:5; and 5:6).
Isaiah 11:2 – and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon
him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear
of 
the Lord;

Fear of the Lord is
not last in the list, it is at the bottom of the list signifying it is the FOUNDATION
upon which knowledge, might, counsel, understanding, and wisdom are built.

Prov 9:10 – The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom:
and the knowledge of the holy is understanding
Psalm 111:10 – The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise
endureth for ever
Ps 119:120 – My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am
afraid of thy judgments.
Phil 2:12b – work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling.
Drunk on corrupted
wine
Luke 5:39 – No man also having drunk old wine straightway
desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

Sowers of
corruptible seed
2 Tim 3:1-9 – This know also, that in the last days perilous
times shall come.  For men shall be
lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4
traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away.  For
of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women
laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,  ever learning, and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.  Now as Jannes
and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt
minds, reprobate concerning the faith.  But they shall proceed no further: for their
folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
Prov 30:6 – Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove
thee, and thou be found a liar.
Consequences
Rev 22:18-19 – For I testify unto every man that heareth the
words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God
shall add unto him the plagues
that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of
the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of
life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in
this book.
Luke 17:2 – It were better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one
of these little ones.
Gal 1:6-9 – I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:  which is not another; but there be some that
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach
any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.  As we said before, so say I now again, If any
man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
2 Cor 11:13-15 – For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel;
for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers
also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be
according to their works.
2 Peter 2:1 – But there were false prophets also among the
people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Isaiah 9:16 – For the leaders of this people cause them to
err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.


Our Responsibility
Eph 5:11 – And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works
of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Instead of reproving
them, many pastors are “bidding God speed” to false teachers for their own gain
but they will not escape the consequences.

2 John 1:10-11 – If there come any unto you, and bring not
this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is
partaker of his evil deeds.