Our number one desire for these Bible lessons is for them to be understandable, defendable, and most important, for the Holy Spirit to bear witness that the conclusions are the true, and correct interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.
Guidelines for our Bible studies on this website:
1. We treat the living words of the
living God as spoken by the Lord Jesus and given to the Apostle Paul for the
Body of Christ the
same importance, as the words of the Lord Jesus
recorded in red letters in the books
of Matthew – Acts Chp. 8, as what should be known as the instructions to the
nation Israel.
2. We will not be wresting the scriptures
against each other, we will look at the verses in their context, and will not
try to make the scriptures say anything, but what they say.
3. We will be
using the verses out of the Authorized Version, commonly known as the KJV. It
is fine if you want to look the verses up in other translations if you like,
but we will consider the Authorized Version as our final written authority.
4. We do not and
will not use the Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, or Latin languages to prove any
points, or give any indication that the Authorized Version has been incorrectly
translated.
I hope these studies are interesting enough to provoke you to study your Bible, and for you to grow in the grace and knowledge of our savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul said in 2 Tim. Chp 2 verse [15] “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
It never ceases to amaze me when I ask people if they think Satan would be involved in changing or corrupting God’s word every one of them answers yes immediately.
Funny thing is, when I ask them if they think these new translations could be the corrupted word of God, they almost always say no.
Flowers verses Weeds
I was recently on a trip traveling on interstate I-10, and there were all these flowers along the road way, to which I wondered, were they flowers or weeds?
So, I looked up flower verses weeds on Google and got the following info “A weed is a plant that makes a gardener unhappy”, with an explanation that in gardens some plants like garlic, self-seeds, and becomes a weed because the gardener now has to remove all the unwanted garlic plants.
Sometimes weeds are simply the wrong plant, in the wrong place.
After reading this, I thought this might be another opportunity, and a good way to help my fellow Christians in their understanding of the Bible, as I like to say rightly divided.
I have a phrase I like to share people,
“Most unsound Bible doctrine, is sound Bible doctrine, misapplied to the wrong time period or wrong group of people!”
For a simple illustration, Noah was told by God in Genesis 9:6, that it was ok to eat every moving thing, basically if he could catch it, he could eat it.
Move forward, in Deuteronomy 14: the Israelites were told they could not eat swine (pigs i.e., bacon, pork chops). This was just one of the many things that God told the Jews they were not to eat, things like oysters, buzzards, etc. were also on the do not eat list.
In 1st Timothy 4:3, we find out that now in the dispensation of Grace, that it is ok for Christians (Jew and Gentile) to eat anything including swine (pigs i.e., bacon, pork chops).
So
is this a contradiction in the Bible? Absolutely if you do not rightly divide
the word of truth!
If you do not understand that all the Bible is for us, but all the Bible does not doctrinally apply to us, unfortunately you will be like the majority of well-meaning Christians who literally are teaching unsound or false doctrines.
You have to take into consideration of who was speaking, to whom was being spoken to, and who the instructions (doctrines) apply to, or you can never get it right!
Today’s modern Christian is so consumed with the words of Jesus in Matthew-Acts chapter 8, that are in fact Old Testament doctrines/instructions for the nation Israel, that the Christian Churches have become saturated with confusion and unsound doctrine!
You ask me, shouldn’t we follow the words of Jesus, absolutely!
But, we should be following the words Jesus gave to the Apostle Paul for the Gentiles found in Romans through Philemon, this is where the doctrines and instructions for Christians are found!
Satan don’t care if you are preaching the wrong Bible verses for today, but he hates it when people understand that Salvation today is not obtained today by simply believing John 3;16!
Salvation is not obtained today, by confessing Jesus is the Jewish Messiah as required for the Jews in Mathew-John!
Salvation today is obtained by believing the words Jesus gave to the Apostle Paul for the Gentiles, in his resurrection from the dead for the forgiveness of sins.
1 Corinthians 15:3,4 "Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; [4] And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
Help stamp out all this rampant Bible ignorance do some studying!
2nd Timothy “[15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
1st Cor. 15 "[3] For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; [4] And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"
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hope all of you have a wonderful upcoming week!
I am so thankful for the Preachers that were my mentors were Bible Believers and not bible correctors!
Satan is having a field day with the Body of Christ with all these modern-day preachers proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom with its earthly kingdom hope, repentance, confession of sins, and water baptism required to be saved or a member of a denomination, Miraculous signs as evidence of salvation, such as speaking in tongues and healing; Teaching the observance of the law, teaching the conditional forgiveness of sins based on forgiving others, teaching forsaking all and selling all to gain eternal life, Having the authority to forgive sins, Reaching Jerusalem and Israel first.
These things are simply incompatible with the truths found in the Pauline epistles, and the gospel of the grace of God. Even if you believe the Bible and you fail to understand the word of truth rightly divided you can still be misled, not lost just misled, and rendered a useless Christian witness.
We are saved not by our works, but by our faith in the crucified and risen Lord Jesus!
With modern day technology being what it is, it is very easy to do word searches and check when someone quotes a Bible verse or tells you something is in the Bible for you to look it up and verify if they are pulling your leg!
The Truth of God’s Holy word is easy to determine if you let the Holy Spirit lead you.
Remember all of the confusion among Christianity/Christians today can be attributed to the simple fact that the church, the Body of Christ, does not recognize the separate, distinct, and unique apostleship, ministry, and message of Paul.
If you have never trusted the Lord Jesus as your savior, I encourage you to believe in him and invite him to save you today! All one need do is to trust and believe in the Lord Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins to be made new in him.
Gal.2 [16] Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified
Eph.3 [17] That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, [19] And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
What a great day that will be when Jesus Christ returns in all his glory, friend don’t let that day take you unawares. Today Jesus has his arms outstretched and open to sinners to put their trust in him. One day we will all stand before him either as our savior or our judge, don’t put it off invite Jesus to save you today!
"The crowd that will not accept one truth will decay to the point that it does not accept one God: many denominations, many translations, many gods."
The words of our Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles!
2Tim.2 [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Come join with us as we study God’s Holy Word!
Remember most unsound Bible Doctrine, is sound Bible Doctrine misapplied to the wrong time period, or wrong group of people.
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