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Rejecting UnBiblical Phrases

I reject the phrase: "God can use anything" to justify disobedience against God.

God can Use Anything but that does not mean you can!

When we come up against a bad doctrine, explaining why the Bible does not teach it or teaches a principle wrongly, especially if it follows new-age thinking we must stand firm against it.

There are many people who follow traditions they like that are not Biblical principles and even send the wrong message to perhaps new believers.

Once someone begins their Christianity with a wrong doctrine and practice they become accustomed to it so much so they cannot wrap their minds around a different thought even when scripture proves it true.

Matthew 23:15 "… 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are."

I notice some of the Pentecostal doctrines that have been taught by the likes of Joyce Meyers and Benny Hinn, are infiltrating into the evangelical gatherings too. When we hear these wrong doctrines we must bring Scripture to bear as soon as we encounter them.

Unfortunately, too many people fear being seen as rude for confronting unbiblical beliefs. The mentality that we ought to never offend anyone has become a rule, so much so that the bad guy is the one who speaks the truth out of love for Christ and the brethren.

Because the fear of man rules in the church gatherings today, resistance to truth is rampant as well as paganistic practices that have no Biblical basis.

If we are to be honest and diligent we must search the Word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth and expose anything we hear or have learned that is not Biblical. We must be willing to step out of our comfort zone to follow Christ.

Here's the reason:

Jesus Christ is called "the Word", He is the very essence of His own Word, the Bible.

It is vitally important that we understand His meaning to obey Him His way. There are those who think as long as our heart is right we can change God's word or His principles using human tactics and mantras our own way because it is for Him.

But wait, is it really for Him when we want to do it our own way just because it seems to work? NO, God cares that we do things His way. Man tends to choose the easy way that does not disrupt their life too much.

There are many people who claim to be Christian who think they can sin as long as it brings about something good for God.

God told Moses to speak to the rock but instead he struck the rock, because of this God did not allow him to go into the promised land.

Num. 20:8 “Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink.”

Num. 20:9 So Moses took the rod from before the Lord, just as He had commanded him;

Num. 20:10 and Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly before the rock. And he said to them, “Listen now, you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?”

Num. 20:11 Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank."

The rock in the desert was a picture of Christ, Moses was expressly told to speak to it, not to strike it.

1Cor. 10:1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

1Cor. 10:2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

1Cor. 10:3 and all ate the same spiritual food;

1Cor. 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

It matters that we do not sin in attempting to do something for righteousness' sake. It is important that we do what God commanded us to do His way, not to disobey God to get His command done our own way.

Just because something appeared to work does not mean it was right to do. God is perfect and all-knowing, He knows the right way to do something for His purposes, even if it doesn't make sense to our minds.

Please remember this when you hear the modern mantra; "God can use anything." Yes, He can use anything in spite or our foolishness, but that does not mean it is alright to ignore Him and do our own thing.

It is disobedience to do things our own way thinking as long as it worked it was obedience.

It is disobedience to make up our own sayings pretending to please God when we should be using His sayings. This is nothing less than willfulness, thinking we know better than God.

When we get before God we will not get away with saying; "but Lord didn't we have results", and God will say: "but you didn't do what I told you to do."

Matthew 7:21-23 "I Never Knew You

21 “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. 22 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?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

I reject the phrase: "God can use anything" to justify disobedience against God.

Defend the Scriptures not the Mantras

I am always grieved when someone fights to defend wrong doctrine without using scripture. We see so much of this, let's be diligent to use Scripture to defend the truth.

Also, there is a strong movement that takes events from the Old Testament to apply them to the New Testament believers today.

When God gave a direction to the Jews as a picture of Christ to come, this was the picture, not the substance. We no longer place the blood of a lamb on the doorposts so the angel of death will pass over us. It wasn't the blood that had power it was God who commanded this picture of His Son to come in the future. It was their obedience in placing the blood that blessed God and caused Him to overlook their household in the judgment.

We need not do this ritual now because that action in the OT was a picture of what has already come. Christ's blood paid for the sins of mankind and covers the born-again believer Who has trusted in Him.

There is a movement that loves "mantras" and "rituals" to express matters of the Bible that the Bible never gave. The need for mantras and rituals do nothing except make the one doing them feel spiritual and superior.

Using mantras is nothing more than expecting the magic of saying words to manipulate God into acting on their behalf. The goal is their own will not God's.

It is superstition to use mantras that have no clear use in the Bible. It goes along with the Charismatic movement that teaches our words have power and can produce whatever we want.

God is powerful and all our utterances toward Him ought to be understood that He answers His way according to His will and that should be our desire, for His will even if it is not our fleshly hope.

Isaiah 55:8-9

8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways

And My thoughts than your thoughts."

James 4:7

"7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

Here is the key to our prayer life, that we submit to God no matter what He has in store for us. We do not need to know ahead of time what will come except what is already revealed to us in the Scriptures.

We walk by faith, we accept the trials, difficulties and blessings as His will. When we are sick we pray for healing but also pray His will, perhaps our trial will show others we can remain faithful to Him even when life is very difficult, He gets the glory instead of us.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

"9 And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong."

Those who wish to pray a mantra to eliminate trials are not seeing the bigger picture. They are focused on this life and their own comfort far more than the will and purpose of God.

There is no greater witness for the believer than to be praising God in the middle of difficulties that others would melt and be destroyed, who do not have Christ.

James 1:2-8 "2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do."

Even if we lose all we have we have lacked nothing in terms of our walk with Christ. We are counted as Spiritual beings not according to this world.

1 Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

2 Corinthians 5:15-17 "…15 And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again. 16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!…"

Those who need continual mantras and rituals to heal problems are more focused on this earth than they are on Spiritual matters. There is a greater purpose than comfort and possessions here.

That greater purpose is our Spiritual growth and usefulness in growing the Kingdom of God that many people will become born again before the rapture.

We are living in times that are difficult, mostly through our own sinfulness. Families in America have all they need but they are grabbing at every physical and emotional desire rather than seeking Christ.

Our families are ruined, every venue we encounter is full of clamoring after worldly pleasures and personal freedom. Little thought is given to what happens after they leave this life.

The mantras and rituals to appease and manipulate God are all focused on this life and its comfort and pleasures.

It is when we begin to think entirely in Spiritual terms to please God, walking with Him daily, moment by moment that we see what real blessing looks like. We can do this even if we lose everything and everyone because He lives in us and it is His will we should be desiring.

1 Corinthians s13:1-2 "1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not to love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not to love, I am nothing.…"

If we can heal every ailing person, fix all the finances of the poor, and even feed the world but if we do not have Christ and we do not have the fruit of His Spirit, it's the same as doing nothing.

The greatest blessing we can give anyone is the knowledge of Christ and what He did on that cross for us and for them. Then they will choose and either learn the blessing of Spiritual change within them or they will discard the message and go to hell. But at least we obeyed God, that is our blessing to be in obedience to God.

1 John 5:3

"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome."

1 John 3:24

"Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us."

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