When truth doesn't matter anymore in the church gatherings we know we have moved into apostasy. When everything is based on feelings more than on the Bible there has been self-righteousness, dismissiveness of God and self-exaltation.
Romans 10:3
"For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness."
Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ "
When the person who corrects an erring believer the unbiblical thinking is minimized and despised for attempting to bring the group back to Biblical thinking, we know the church has lost its way.
God made it clear that everything we say and do ought to be supported by Scripture. When someone brings a false doctrine or belief we are to correct it to bring the group back to right thinking.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 sums it up like this: "Obey and you will be blessed. Disobey and you will be cursed."
Those who obey will be blessed and those who disobey will be cursed.
A person cannot expect to receive help and blessing from God when they care so little about His truth and commandments.
Those who say it is legalism to assert the principles of God's word do not understand that every word of the Bible is the very essence of Jesus Christ, He is the Word. He never meant for His Word to be treated like suggestions with an option to ignore.
Just recently my heart was grieved when someone I know quoted from a bible version that stated that Christ will bow before us one day. When corrected with scripture this person dismissed the correction as being legalistic, after all feelings mean more than truth to this person and many others.
It is not legalism to speak the truth of God openly to bring someone back to obedience to His word with the heart of God in mind. We grieve the Holy Spirit when we do not take seriously His teachings and commands.
Why would God bother to give us all His wonderful truths and commands just to have them ignored as insignificant?
Legalism is obeying man's ideas that God never commanded. Obedience is obeying God because we love Him and His word more than anything else in the world.
When someone's feelings take presedence over God's truth then those who do it have moved into the realm of making man the god, reducing Jesus Christ to nothing more than another human being with some good suggestions.
So many "Christians" do not understand that God's word is not a book written by men to be ignored or to cherry pick passages we like making them say what pleases man. God's Word is the very essence of Jesus Christ Himself, it is His heart and instruction to man for man's own good.
Worship is not merely saying nice things about God, it is valuing above all else His character, His desires, He is God, we ought to treat His Word with great care and diligence out of love for Him.
How can we think so little of Christ after all He did for us? How can we dismiss His words as though they are worthy of dismissal equal to human feelings.
Luke 10:27-28 "27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” 28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”…"
It is not possible to love God with all our heart, soul and mind and still minimize the Bible!!!!
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