Saturday, February 29, 2020

Two Aspects of Christian Liberty - by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

“And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free… If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:32,36).
The true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ enjoys glorious liberty, and our Lord Himself said that there are no strings attached… “Ye shall be free indeed,” free even from the most oppressive of all slave masters: sin. While the Law never saved one man from sin, the Lord Jesus, by His death on Calvary did, for we read that “Christ died for our sins.”
Therefore the Apostle wrote by divine inspiration: “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage” (Gal. 5:1). His letters thunder severe rebukes against believers who “desire to be under the law.” To the Colossian Christians he wrote:
“Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days; which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [substance] is of Christ” (Col. 2:16,17).
But true liberty is used for good, otherwise it only reverts to bondage again, for whatever overcomes a man becomes his master (II Pet. 2:19), and doing evil can only harm ourselves and others. Thus the Apostle says further:
“But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak” (I Cor. 8:9).
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another” (Gal. 5:13).
“…Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth” (Rom. 14:22).
There is only way to be SAVED  1.  Corinthian 15;1 - 4  Christ died for our sins was buried and rose again the third day. Believe this from you heart and you will have eternal life.







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Friday, February 28, 2020

Do You Understand? - by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

This was the question Philip asked of te Ethiopian prince as he sat reading from Isaiah’s prophecy (Acts 8:30), and it is a question which we should continually keep asking ourselves as we read the holy Scriptures.
There are always those among God’s people who do not much care whether or not they understand what they read if only it warms their hearts! To them the Bible is little more than a fetish. Taking only those Scriptures which appeal to them, and leaving the rest, they actually feel themselves quite spiritual and often talk about believing the Bible whether or not they understand it!
But such “spirituality” is far from genuine, and such “faith” is blind and superstitious at best. While it is true that the Bible teaches many truths which we believe, although they are beyond our comprehension (such as its opening verse!), yet how can we believe what the Bible says unless we understand what it says? God would have us understand what we read and believe it intelligently.
Indeed, true faith will want to know and understand more and more of God’s Word. One who does not care whether or not he understands what God has said is not truly interested in knowing what God has said. His faith is based on his own will rather than on God’s Word, for regardless of the meaning of Scripture, he will take any passage that suits his fancy and use it as he wishes. How great an emphasis God Himself places upon the importance of understanding His Word!
On one occasion, when our Lord saw the multitudes, He “was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things” (Mark 6:34). And now that the secret of God’s “eternal purpose” has been made known, how much more reason there is to study the Scriptures, with a view to understanding them! How Paul, by the Spirit, emphasizes this, as he writes of his prayers for the saints:
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him:
“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling…” (Eph. 1:17,18).
There is only way to be SAVED  1.  Corinthian 15;1 - 4  Christ died for our sins was buried and rose again the third day. Believe this from you heart and you will have eternal life.




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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Table the Fables! - by Pastor Ricky Kurth


Table the Fables!
 By Pastor Ricky Kurth
"Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth" (Titus 1:13,14).
The "vain talkers...of the circumcision" in Crete (Tit. 1:10) were telling "Jewish fables" that were turning men from the truth, so Paul told Titus to tell people to put them on the pay-no-mind list. But what were these fables about?
Whatever they were, they probably had to do with "the commandments of men" that Paul says they were also using to turn others from the truth. And since these fables were being told by unsaved Jews of the circumcision, it seems reasonable to believe that they were about the commandments of men Paul mentions in Colossians 2:21,22:
"Touch not; taste not; handle not... the commandments... of men."
The commandments of men here were the commandments of the law of Moses. The law was filled with commands concerning things that couldn't be touched, tasted or handled!
You say, "But the law contained the commandments of God, not the commandments of men!" And you'd be right--if we were under the law. But our apostle says "we are not under the law, but under grace" (Rom. 6:15). And when you put men under commandments found in past dispensations, those commandments of God become the commandments of men. What a testimony to the importance of "rightly dividing the word of truth" (II Tim. 2:15).
But now that we know which commandments of men Paul is warning Titus about, it helps us determine the nature of those fables. He was telling him to beware of men who teach the law, and then tell stories about the law. A fable is a story that is told to teach a lesson, and the fables these unsaved Jews were telling were designed to teach the lesson that we are still under the law.
What kind of stories? The same kind men tell about the law today. How many times have you heard this verse from the law quoted:
"...serve... God, and He shall... take sickness away from the midst of thee" (Ex. 23:25).
That's a promise God made to the people of Israel under the law. But when you tell people who quote that verse that we're not under the law, and so we can't expect God to honor that prom-ise, what do you hear? Stories! "But Brother Jim serves the Lord, and God took away his terminal cancer!" That's a fable, a story designed to teach the lesson that we are still under the law.
The law also said, "the LORD thy God... is He that giveth thee power to get wealth" (Deut. 8:18). That's another promise God gave the people of Israel under the law. If they would "hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD" (Deut.28:1), God promised to multiply their crops and livestock (v. 4,11,12). But when you remind people today that we're not under the law where this promise is found, what do you hear? More fables! "But Brother Smith always hearkened to God, and now he's so rich he can afford to pay Bill Gates to cut his grass!" More stories designed to teach the lesson we are still under the law. Paul says to pay no attention to fables like that!
But as I'm sure you know, most Christians put a lot of stock in those kinds of success stories. But that shouldn't surprise you, for the Apostle Paul predicted it, saying,
"...the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but... they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (II Timothy 4:3,4).
Sadly, this prophecy has come true. Most Christians would rather believe a fable than the Word of God, rightly divided.
Don't you be one of them! Table the fables, turn back to the truth of grace taught by Paul, and never look back!

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