The very first thing the demoniac conspiring horde
behind the mystery of iniquity conspires to do is to
cast doubt upon, or discredit God's word. This tactic
was utilized by Lucifer in the garden of Eden when
he suggested to Eve the old question; Hath God actually
said thus?
When the pure inspired word of the living God is
shackled, it leads to a Falling Away!
II Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness.
Notice that all of scripture is divinely inspired by
God, and is intended to serve the purpose not simply
to provide information, but also serves as the weapon
for combating the assimilation of false doctrines.
The 20th century has witnessed an abandonment by
the church of the doctrine of God's inerrant capacity
to preserve his word without any stain of error.
Whereas Papal Rome attempted to keep the truth of
the Bible hidden from the masses of people during;
the dark ages by reserving the right of interpretation
to themselves, the 20th century church has permitted
that inerrant book to be viciously slandered, bringing
a spirit of contempt on its credibility.
This condition was foreseen by Paul in his epistle
from II Peter 2:1-2:
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.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason of
whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
By what method again? By allowing the truth to be
evil spoken of!
The last days Apostasy could never have come into
prominence were it not for the fact that the church
allowed the precious, divine and perfect word of God
to be maligned by modern scholarship.
This radical obliteration of the very foundation of
the church paved the highway for departure from the
Christian faith to such a degree that it often chokes
out the very planting of the word seed itself.
Therefore, the church looses its foundation when it
allows itself to be disjointed from the absolute 100%
reliability of God's word!
II Peter 1:21 specifically indicates that God inspired
"Holy Men", to record his words. God does not use
Unholy men to write, or translate his word. Also, it
has never been the quality of God to have to revise
his inspired word. He always inspires 100% accuracy
on the very first attempt.
Jesus quoted from the Old Testament, he informed
his apostles of the writings they penned, and Jesus
himself personally signified, and sent the Revelation
to John for recording. Had there been any errors in
any of these writings, Jesus would have over-ruled in
their being spread as his word.
Any variation from the directives expressed within
the Bible would therefore denote a falling away from
the church's original design and purpose.
The Word of God strips the apostate mind of any
veneer of respectability, and exposes them as the tools
of Satan that they are. It is for this reason that the
adversary seeks to soften its punch, in order to gain
an entry into the church's functioning leadership.
Jesus himself rebuked the writers and translators of
the Old Testament in his own day for perverting the
Word, and being an inhibitor of the exposition of the
Truth, and therefore becoming a usurper of our duties
to plant that good seed among mankind.
God takes a far more serious view of the pollution
of his word than the modern church today does. The
hallmark criticism of today’s fallen church rings loudly
down the corridor of time, as it emanated from Jesus
very own lips:
Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against
men; for ye neither go in yourselves, neither ye suffer them
that are entering to go in.
Today, it is the exception rather than the rule for
the great fundamentals of the church to be sounded
aloud from the pulpit, and just as rare for the pews
to manifest the transforming grace of God in lifestyle
or in devotion.
The incremental growth of hyprocrisy, selfishness, and
outright total disbelief in even the most fundamental
doctrines of Christianity within the bounds of many
of today’s professing churches reflects the fact that the
shepherds have, not only failed to feed the flock; but
have led the flock directly into the pack of wolves.
But, that is little wonder in most churches, as the
Holy Spirit hasn't been promulgated there by strong
powerful, uncompromising preaching in generations.
The shocking condition of today’s churches, being
in a Fallen State came about due largely to the sad
consequence of having lost the innate spiritual guide
which enlivens the mental capacity to utilize wisdom
from Biblical doctrine to detect false teaching.
The result is that the people enjoy the laid back,
carefree traditions of church affiliated lifestyles. They
wallow in Biblical ignorance and laziness, completely
incognizant of the waging war of the cosmos, a war
in which they can't seem to find the enemy in their
own backyards.
II Timothy 4:3 describes it thusly:
For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap unto them
teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their
ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Having lost the fundamentals of Christian doctrine
and having been exposed to worldly philosophy, thus
acquiescing to a non-confrontational theology, many
of today’s churches cannot endure to hear the sound
doctrine penetrate their hearing, chastising them always
to stand and oppose worldly evils.
Today’s congregations simply will no longer tolerate
in their pulpits those expositors of apostolic doctrine
and Bible fundamentalism. Rather, today’s listener fits
the pattern of believer who prefers a preaching style
that will deliver unchallenging sermons, and leave the
the membership in an undisturbed air of positivism,
and also delightfully and cozily entertained.
II Peter 2:17-22 describes the Fallen Away church
as being like a well without water, or clouds which
are carried along by any old tempest, with preachers
who speak great swelling words of vanity.
Misguided by religious phrases and the pomp and
ceremony of modern churchdom, with all of its mask
of Biblical scholarship and its supposed correction of
Biblical error, many today are either simply confused,
or unwilling to contest the heresy being propagated
by teachers of false Christianity.
The modern liberal church cannot hide behind its
mask of vanity, hypocrisy, and empty doctrine; as the
Bible foretold their rise to prominence before the fact
and reminded true Christians to beware of the wolves
in sheep’s clothing that would creep into the church
of the last days.
II Timothy 4:1 Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits, and Doctrines of devils:
A gospel from seductive spirits, and authored even
by the very Devil himself?
Can you imagine the Devil even wanting to go to
church? Yet here we see that he not only attends a
church, but even utilizes his demons to teach among
the churches by promoting false doctrines.
This fact makes it all the more imperative that all
true Christians should make it their personal duty to
be able to differentiate between true and false gospel!
We have an adversary, who cannot hope to defeat
the church, but he sure can join it, and even assume
leadership inside of it, and all to often this is the case
in today’s church world.
No notion was ever incorporated upon the church
with less justification than the post-millennial notion
that the world would over the ages gradually progress
to acknowledging the spiritual triumph of the church.
The idea that the church would gradually subdue the
world and bring the world into submission to Christ
is flatly contradicted by the Bible.
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