When we agree with false doctrine we are saying we prefer the humanistic wisdom over God's truth.
So many people proclaim they love Jesus Christ, but have little interest in His principles to live by, they live by the man made rules and false doctrines of those who love their own ideas or have been brain washed into the ideas of those in the academic world, because of the credentials behind their name.
I cannot tell you the number of times I have been dismissed, mocked and demeaned because I had no degree that validated my writing. I laugh at this because I am one of those radicals that believes the Holy Spirit is the teacher in every believer.
Anyone who thinks a born again believer must have a degree from a college created by man in order to know truth, have placed their trust in man rather than in God. The apostles didn't have degrees from any organization, their teacher was Christ in them, the same Christ Who lives in every believer.
Christ is "THE WORD", He is the essence of everything He had written in His Scriptures by the men He chose to do it. He chose men who were not elevated by the world, in fact the world murdered them.
Know that there will be many who will devalue you merely because you do not have a prize to show them, a degree, a paper or a trophy to show them you are qualified, after all of what value is anyone who does not have renown.
The people who require credentials as proof of ones wisdom from God, deny the power of the Holy Spirit. They live by appearances, to be seen as spiritual by their choice of "educated" companions.
Denial of Christ does not have to be in words such as "I don't believe in Christ", it can be and often is in the form of resisting sound teaching from His Word, rejecting correction from those who walk with Christ or by twisting Scripture to make it say what they want it to say.
People who deny Christ by their snooty and irreverent attitude toward the Bible are predisposed to every false doctrine and heresy that society has adopted. Why? Because people like this must be accepted by the world to feel validated. They cannot think on their own, nor can they accept anything that goes against the latest trend. This is the reason movies such as the "Shack" are so popular, especially among Pentecostals who live by their feelings instead of the Word of God.
When we learn to think with the mind of Christ we gain much discernment, able to reject everything the worldly church throws at us. Even able to be rejected by everyone, family included to obey Christ.
May the Lord make you stronger than the pull of the world.
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