If we do not know the Word of God and know it well, we are fooling ourselves if we don't think the world, man and the enemy will chip away at our walk with God until, it not only is a shadow of what it should be, but SOMETHING ENTIRELY UNLIKE what it IS. If we do not know the Word, we run the risk of one day being like the Israelites who were convinced they were worshiping G
od, while worshipping the image of an animal. We think it absolutely crazy that the Israelites worshipped an animal, how stupid could they be? we think. But it is much easier than we think. If we don't know the Word, our Christianity won't be about Spirit and Truth, but about what we FEEL, or, to put it another way, what our INSTINCTS TELL US. Animals are, for the most part anyway, purely instinctual creatures, and that is what we will become if we put away sound doctrine and a sincere and continued effort to know our Lord according to the truth and revelation found in His Word. Without truth, we will begin to conform to a world that is led by whatever feels good, a world that prides itself on instinct, and that unwittingly worships itself and an image of itself, while ignoring the love and commands of an almighty God.
Much of the Western Church today has tried to take on an image of the world and the world's culture in order to make Christ attractive, and so has unwittingly started to worship by the alter of their own feelings and instincts, and listen to those things, instead of submitting everything to the rule and guidance of the Word. This has resulted in unevenness in doctrines, in men going after every wind of teaching and every kind of teacher; being blown back and forth until they are so jaded and confused that they simply switch off and revert to remaining at the little they already know, in order to not completely shipwreck their faith, instead of being spurred to to maturity and a greater love and knowledge of the Lord. Instead of becoming teachers, many are still needing to be taught the fundamentals of the faith and this is a dangerous place to be, for if you always stay at the place of needing to be taught the fundamentals, false teachers may, sooner or later, have you question the very fundamentals that are crucial to our faith in Jesus alone.
Much worse however, is the silence that now exists in the Church over these things, as though a tiredness and resignation exists over the battle that is coming against our faith and now we ignore the admonition in Jude to 'contend for the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints.' And, as the Church sits silently by, slowly but surely, not only the world, but this nation of Australian is changing, what governments believe is changing, and, if the salt loses its saltiness, how will it gain it back again? If the Church does not keep what saltiness it still has, we are in danger of losing our 'Christian' nation, or, at least what is left of its Christianity. Correct and thorough knowledge of doctrine is not only the heart and soul of a healthy individual, but also a healthy Church and a healthy nation. Never underestimate the value and effect that one Christian has, so be encouraged; KEEP CONTENDING.
Matt 5v13: "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.'
Heb 12v5-14: In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Jude 1v3: Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Matt 24v24 “Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
28 “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. 29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Heb 13v9: Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.
Eph 4v14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
2 Tim 2v15: Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Much of the Western Church today has tried to take on an image of the world and the world's culture in order to make Christ attractive, and so has unwittingly started to worship by the alter of their own feelings and instincts, and listen to those things, instead of submitting everything to the rule and guidance of the Word. This has resulted in unevenness in doctrines, in men going after every wind of teaching and every kind of teacher; being blown back and forth until they are so jaded and confused that they simply switch off and revert to remaining at the little they already know, in order to not completely shipwreck their faith, instead of being spurred to to maturity and a greater love and knowledge of the Lord. Instead of becoming teachers, many are still needing to be taught the fundamentals of the faith and this is a dangerous place to be, for if you always stay at the place of needing to be taught the fundamentals, false teachers may, sooner or later, have you question the very fundamentals that are crucial to our faith in Jesus alone.
Much worse however, is the silence that now exists in the Church over these things, as though a tiredness and resignation exists over the battle that is coming against our faith and now we ignore the admonition in Jude to 'contend for the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints.' And, as the Church sits silently by, slowly but surely, not only the world, but this nation of Australian is changing, what governments believe is changing, and, if the salt loses its saltiness, how will it gain it back again? If the Church does not keep what saltiness it still has, we are in danger of losing our 'Christian' nation, or, at least what is left of its Christianity. Correct and thorough knowledge of doctrine is not only the heart and soul of a healthy individual, but also a healthy Church and a healthy nation. Never underestimate the value and effect that one Christian has, so be encouraged; KEEP CONTENDING.
Matt 5v13: "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.'
Heb 12v5-14: In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Jude 1v3: Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Matt 24v24 “Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
28 “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. 29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Heb 13v9: Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.
Eph 4v14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
2 Tim 2v15: Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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