If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. (John 13:17)
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:25)
The focus of this volume is to discuss why the concept of obeying the word of God seems to be unfamiliar and unpopular with the believer today. It is to draw attention to the fact that the believer seems to have mentally segregated the Word into two parts: the part which must be aspired to and the part which is impossible to do. Consequently, many believers exercise ‘faith’ in relation to their material prosperity, healing and deliverance from demonic influence, job prospects and the like. In this duplicitousness, the believer’s attempts to extort gain from the Lord are proverbially referred to as acts of faith. So to such, the exercise of faith and the application of spiritual laws such as confession of one’s faith or the making of faith declarations are seen as means to gain material from the Lord and not necessarily to obey His word.
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Saturday, April 18, 2015
HOW TO KNOW THE TRUTH
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether
it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. (John 7:17)
One of the things that have become increasingly difficult to know in the body of Christ is what the truth is. We are now in a time in the Church when so many ‘truths’ are being taught. While some of these messages seem to be opposing, it is also not uncommon to meet two people espousing divergent opinions who can both comfortably quote not less than two verses to support their opinions, not caring whether they are rightly interpreted or not. Consequently, a new trend is developing where believers are now choosing to believe ‘truths’ not as a result of their proper scriptural merit but as a result of the influence of or a sentimental attachment to the professor of the ‘truth’. But this is wrong because such a posture separates the believer from the Scriptures and therefore his knowledge of the Lord is not a personal one but only secondhand. This is because teachings which the believer cannot confirm through the Scriptures and therefore from the Lord do not point the believer to the Lord but to the one who taught. In such a case, the believer’s faith or confidence does not rest in the power of God but in the wisdom of the one who preached.
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it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. (John 7:17)
One of the things that have become increasingly difficult to know in the body of Christ is what the truth is. We are now in a time in the Church when so many ‘truths’ are being taught. While some of these messages seem to be opposing, it is also not uncommon to meet two people espousing divergent opinions who can both comfortably quote not less than two verses to support their opinions, not caring whether they are rightly interpreted or not. Consequently, a new trend is developing where believers are now choosing to believe ‘truths’ not as a result of their proper scriptural merit but as a result of the influence of or a sentimental attachment to the professor of the ‘truth’. But this is wrong because such a posture separates the believer from the Scriptures and therefore his knowledge of the Lord is not a personal one but only secondhand. This is because teachings which the believer cannot confirm through the Scriptures and therefore from the Lord do not point the believer to the Lord but to the one who taught. In such a case, the believer’s faith or confidence does not rest in the power of God but in the wisdom of the one who preached.
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