2 Timothy 4:2-5
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
There are many professing believers who do not see that they have a ministry.
Folks, those who have large SCALE ministry doesn't make them any more important than those who have few, or even just one, to whom they minister. Every soul is precious to the Lord given that His blood was shed for all who would call upon His name.
Unfortunately, those who are in the mass of professing believers who are among those who have turned away from sound doctrine, they have the ears and hearts of many otherwise mainstream leaders throughout Christendom. Dare we reprove, rebuke and exhort, we standing guard on that wall find ourselves rebuked by said leaders and personalities. We are told that we need to be more tolerant and patient with those who have turned away into fables and falsehoods that only enslave and put the followers of such under bondages that Christ came to set us free from in this life.
The turning away in these last days is manifesting in many expressions...some ancient, and some more recent. I will not belabor this thread topic by a recap of the ancient forms of the turning away from Truth, for those cults are well known to most here, if not all. What's amazing is that, as it is written there is nothing new under the sun. The same Moloch of ancient Babel is still at work today, string the pot of religious mixtures slowly toward an amalgam religion of the end of days before the return of Christ to do some serious taking care of it all when He crushes it all under His feet.
One of the most dangerous and insidious of them all is the seemingly benevolent sounding, and allegedly biblical-based upholding of obedience to the Mosaic Law as still binding upon followers of Christ today.
Now, the most common fallacy to which most defenders of this falsehood gravitate is to accuse me of throwing away all of the moral codes and standards stated in the Mosaic Law.
To that I will say...yes and no!
Yes...the Mosaic Law has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus.
No...God's Law is still the timeless and boundless absolute (since it originates from His very nature) upon which the Mosaic Law was built, as well as the statutes, commandments and laws that Abraham is said to have obeyed in Genesis 26.
Those laws and commandments, as well as the Mosaic Law, and, yes, the Law that is not written upon our hearts, as it is written, ALL of those constructs of Law were and are erected upon the unchanging foundation of God's Law, which is eternal. The Mosaic Law, although is the old, having been replaced by the new:
Romans 7:1-6
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
Those who wish to observe the feasts and sabbaths of the Mosaic Law, they are free to do so as they wish. We are all free to do such.
The problem arises from those who DARE to teach that we are still bound to obedience and observance of those things from which the truly redeemed have been delivered. For those who don't believe that, read those passages above again and again. Let it sink in. Look in your lexicons and Greek dictionaries if you wish.
One of the largest movements today not only spends most of their time studying Torah, and even the Tanach, but they do so at the exclusion of the New Testament, especially the epistles as a result of their discrediting Paul as a legitimate apostle. Some even believe the NT has been corrupted through the centuries since they were penned. This is the same kind of junk philosophy I always heard from the Mormon leadership when I was one of them many years ago. We were encouraged to study the Bible ONLY when in their presence and oversight so that THEY could "properly interpret it for us," which meant that it all needed to pass through the filters of their own dogmas.
Therein is the danger. Some who try to enslave others under the Mosaic Law, they are the dangerous elements to the very souls of their hearers and followers. The resulting formula from their teachings, although they will deny it till blue in the face, is this:
Christ + Mosaic Law = Salvation.
No doctrine of works-based salvation can be legitimately erected upon the foundation of the scriptures. If you find yourself fighting this battle in your own mind and heart, then talk with us. Reach out and we will talk with you about it all. Ultimately, however, you have Holy Spirit (I hope) Who can guide you:
1 John 2:26-27
26 These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Teaching is only good when it is rooted in Truth. All else is dross and chaff that will blow away in the wind.
MM
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
There are many professing believers who do not see that they have a ministry.
Folks, those who have large SCALE ministry doesn't make them any more important than those who have few, or even just one, to whom they minister. Every soul is precious to the Lord given that His blood was shed for all who would call upon His name.
Unfortunately, those who are in the mass of professing believers who are among those who have turned away from sound doctrine, they have the ears and hearts of many otherwise mainstream leaders throughout Christendom. Dare we reprove, rebuke and exhort, we standing guard on that wall find ourselves rebuked by said leaders and personalities. We are told that we need to be more tolerant and patient with those who have turned away into fables and falsehoods that only enslave and put the followers of such under bondages that Christ came to set us free from in this life.
The turning away in these last days is manifesting in many expressions...some ancient, and some more recent. I will not belabor this thread topic by a recap of the ancient forms of the turning away from Truth, for those cults are well known to most here, if not all. What's amazing is that, as it is written there is nothing new under the sun. The same Moloch of ancient Babel is still at work today, string the pot of religious mixtures slowly toward an amalgam religion of the end of days before the return of Christ to do some serious taking care of it all when He crushes it all under His feet.
One of the most dangerous and insidious of them all is the seemingly benevolent sounding, and allegedly biblical-based upholding of obedience to the Mosaic Law as still binding upon followers of Christ today.
Now, the most common fallacy to which most defenders of this falsehood gravitate is to accuse me of throwing away all of the moral codes and standards stated in the Mosaic Law.
To that I will say...yes and no!
Yes...the Mosaic Law has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus.
No...God's Law is still the timeless and boundless absolute (since it originates from His very nature) upon which the Mosaic Law was built, as well as the statutes, commandments and laws that Abraham is said to have obeyed in Genesis 26.
Those laws and commandments, as well as the Mosaic Law, and, yes, the Law that is not written upon our hearts, as it is written, ALL of those constructs of Law were and are erected upon the unchanging foundation of God's Law, which is eternal. The Mosaic Law, although is the old, having been replaced by the new:
Romans 7:1-6
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
Those who wish to observe the feasts and sabbaths of the Mosaic Law, they are free to do so as they wish. We are all free to do such.
The problem arises from those who DARE to teach that we are still bound to obedience and observance of those things from which the truly redeemed have been delivered. For those who don't believe that, read those passages above again and again. Let it sink in. Look in your lexicons and Greek dictionaries if you wish.
One of the largest movements today not only spends most of their time studying Torah, and even the Tanach, but they do so at the exclusion of the New Testament, especially the epistles as a result of their discrediting Paul as a legitimate apostle. Some even believe the NT has been corrupted through the centuries since they were penned. This is the same kind of junk philosophy I always heard from the Mormon leadership when I was one of them many years ago. We were encouraged to study the Bible ONLY when in their presence and oversight so that THEY could "properly interpret it for us," which meant that it all needed to pass through the filters of their own dogmas.
Therein is the danger. Some who try to enslave others under the Mosaic Law, they are the dangerous elements to the very souls of their hearers and followers. The resulting formula from their teachings, although they will deny it till blue in the face, is this:
Christ + Mosaic Law = Salvation.
No doctrine of works-based salvation can be legitimately erected upon the foundation of the scriptures. If you find yourself fighting this battle in your own mind and heart, then talk with us. Reach out and we will talk with you about it all. Ultimately, however, you have Holy Spirit (I hope) Who can guide you:
1 John 2:26-27
26 These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Teaching is only good when it is rooted in Truth. All else is dross and chaff that will blow away in the wind.
MM
