02/01/22 BEWARE OF FALSE APOSTLES

02/01/22 BEWARE OF FALSE APOSTLES

Be Biblical in your thoughts, words, and deeds.
To ensure these three things, you must be totally dedicated to studying, accepting, and following God's revelation. There is a place for tradition in the Christian experience, but not when it contradicts Biblical revelation.

Thoughts and words are interdependent.
We cannot think clearly or broadly without an adequate vocabulary and we cannot communicate without orderly thinking. This is especially true when dealing with technical writing or speaking, and it is especially important when we are writing or speaking Biblical truth.
We must let God's word direct our thoughts and determine our speech.
We must use God's words to express God's thoughts. Otherwise, we will change God's message if we change God's words or change God's meaning. The process is more complex since we must use Scripture that has been translated into our language. Even though we may not be trained linguists, we must make certain that we are studying the word of God, as close to its original form as possible.

When our terms are extra-Biblical or our definitions of Biblical words are not what God intended, then our thinking and our behavior will not agree with God.

Faulty interpretation, faulty translation is the catalyst, which leads well-meaning Christians into aberrant beliefs and behavior. This becomes the faulty foundation upon which cultism stands.

For instance, God told us that He miraculously communicated His word through apostles and prophets. They were Divinely chosen, thoroughly equipped, infallibly led, and instructed to record God's word, as given to them by the Holy Spirit. There are no present-day apostles or prophets who meet Biblical criteria. And remember, to be a New Testament apostle, a person was required to be an eyewitness of the physically resurrected Christ. There is no such thing as a Biblical apostle today.

To claim to be an apostle is to claim the same gifts, calling, leading, and Divine inspiration as that of the New Testament apostles. Cults, like Mormons (LDS), Watchtower (JW), Seventh Day Adventists (SDA), Word of Faith (WOF), and other New Age Charismatics claim to get revelations from God that are equal to and as authoritative as The Holy Bible, as does the Roman Catholic Religion.

Don't allow traditions or culture or anything else to define God's word or His words.
Be a stickler for Biblical accuracy.
If you start compromising God's revelation you are opposing the revelation of God.
Lies are being fed to the people of God because they don't believe lies are being packaged as truth.