Jan05

The Scripture and its Interpretation – How sound are you?

by TKMission on January 5, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Posted In: Articles, Teachings

One of the biggest issues in the Church today is how we arrive at truth. There are so many different camps and eveyone has his own view and truth. For example: We have churches that think frenzied laughter is a way to worship God, while other churches conduct services that sound like a barnyard. Ourworld is dotted with Word-Faith proponents that see God as the great vending machine in the sky.

All of the groups in this confusing mix say they are preaching the truth and being led by the Spirit.

It is also obvious that some arrive at truth in the same fashion as the poem, “Why Are Fire Engines Red?”

They have four wheels and eight men

four plus eight is twelve

twelve inches make a ruler

a ruler is Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth sails the seven seas

the seven seas have fish

the fish have fins

The Finns hate the Russians

the Russians are red

Fire engines are always rushin’

So they’re red.

 

Many handle the Bible in much the same way. Unless we come to true Bible interpretation truth will become more relative by the hour and thousands will perish while clinging to some Scripture verse or doctrine that was derived at in error. Peter warned:

“And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.” (1 Pet 3:15-18)

From the words of Peter it is evident that it is the “unlearned” and “unstable” that “wrest” or twist the Scriptures to their own destruction and that of others! We should then in short:

1. Become advised and instructed in how to interpret Scripture and how to deal with it (from Scripture itself first).

2. Become stable or fixed in the life and teaching of Christ Jesus. No one that is not fixed in the “doctrine” and “wholesome words” of Christ can or will be able to interpret Scriptures rightly. No one that are not stable or fixed in the doctrine of Christ, of sin, of the nature and revelation of God etc, can be able to rightly interpret the Scriptures for example. Please remember that the words of Christ is the combination of everything from Genesis to Revelation that God wanted men to know, it is a concise and exact and precise form of all God wanted men to understand and be confronted with. In the Words and doctrine of Christ is embodied all that man needs to understand God and how God revealed Himself, for He is the Word made flesh!

3. We should know and beAWAREthat Scriptures are being twisted and this should have a personal application to us to do our best to:

“present ourselves to God and to Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Tim 2:15)

4. We should be take great care lest we also be “led away” by the “ERROR OF THE WICKED” (which are already in the Christian church working)and so “FALL from our own steadfastness” (error let you lose your ground and lets you slip)! This call for serious discernment and personalexamination of the things you hold as truth and sound -

“Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.” (1 Tim 4:16)

5. We should grow in grace! Do you know that the Grace you received must be cultivated in your life? To grow in grace means that you should use every means of grace that are available from God so that you may grow in it. Also to lay down sin and things that would make God’s grace in your life void! It is a moral matter. It also means that you should what you know and have come to learned (the light you received) – that you should walk in that and abide in that! Without growing in grace you will never be able to be what God wants you to be, cultivate a good conscience and walk humbly with the Lord!

6. We should Grow in knowledge of Christ! Christ has not merely given us a doctrine; He also gave us an example to follow! We should not merely continue in His Word but also be followers of His Life and be conformed to His likeness! This is not a “mental” or intellectual pursuit but a pursuit of the heart -

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls…” (Matt 11:29)

 

Without His yoke around your “neck” and without a eager and intense “learn of Me” (by let your heartfollowing a life example) you will not be able to interpret His Word because you are not under its discipline!

These 6 things will if followed carefully helps and safeguards us to a true interpretation of the Scriptures!

How do you know that the way you interpret Scripture is not what Peter describes here!

What happens when what you hold to as truth in the light of Scripture is erroneous, will you repent or just ignore it to your own destruction?

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Jan05

Same sex relationships is a grim act of rebellion against the True and Sovereign God!

by TKMission on January 5, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Posted In: Articles, Teachings

Same sex marriage or relationships is rebellion against God.

 

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”  Rom 1:26-32 

If you are in a same sex relationship or even consent to those who have then you are in danger of God’s Wrath and indignation! Same sex marriage is a deep rebellion against the authority and sovereignty of God.  It is destroying humankind and those that are involved in it. It bears fruit unto death and damn the soul that is caught up in its vices! No man or woman who partake in same sex relationships are in God’s will but are under the wrath of God presently and if there is no repentance and deliverance for eternity! God did not make anyone homosexual, God made you what you were, male or female. If you are not what you were made and fulfil the role that you were created for then you are in rebellion against God.

People caught up in this grim act of rebellion are people who do not recognise God for Who He is! Deliverance comes when you realise and recognise God for Who God truly is! Your idea about God must change. This is the first step out of this serious sin and bondage.

Those caught up in same sex relations make a god that suit themselves. They tell themselves that God is not what some make Him too be! They do not acknowledge God nor do they give Him true honour. They change what God has said into doubts and bring all kinds of questions about who and what they are and the things that God has created for a purpose and so they exchange the truth for a lie and start worship their own tailor made god!

When someone EXCHANGE God for an idol god or view – the truth for the lie – that they hold for themselves and not one that which God revealed Himself through then men became open to all kinds of acts or rebellion.

Because the Truth of God was exchanged the roles were exchanged! When you see roles exchanged you see the Truth changed into lies! The phrase the Word use here in Romans 1:25 – “the truth of God” also means the “True God!” The true God is exchanged for a false God! The phrase, “the truth of God” is a Hebrew phrase, meaning “the true God.” In such a case, where two nouns come together, one is employed as an adjective to qualify the other. Most commonly the latter of two nouns is used as the adjective, but sometimes it is the former, as in this case. God is called “the true God” in opposition to idols, which are called false gods. There is but one real or true God, and all others are false. Paul states the true God is changes Into a lie – Into idols, or false gods. Idols are not infrequently called falsehood and lies, because they are not true representations of God. (Jer 13:25; Isa 28:15; Jer 10:14; Psa 40:4)

Homosexuality is IDOLATRY! It is serving and worshipping another god – a god of perversion and vile affection! If you are in a same sex relationship or “marriage” or give consent to such a life style then you are serving and worshipping a false god and in rebellion against the True God who are being exchanged for something else or something that suits you “better!”  That is why God’s wrath are against all who are involved in this for He share His glory and reference with no one. All praise and worship belongs and should belong to the True God for He alone is worthy of complete adoration and worship, but when we do not recognise Him and ignore His laws and God instituted principles that are proclaimed throughout creation then His wrath are kindled and His righteousness seeks justice to be served! So rather than serving God as He wants to be served man began serving themselves and their vile affections! They exalt themselves against God’s order and rebel against His Wisdom and sovereignty! They say no to the True God and yes to that which is not god but which serve them well! Who changed the truth – The true worship of God –  Into a lie – False, abominable idolatries. And worshipped – Inwardly. And served – Outwardly – vile affections and change the natural order into that which is inappropriate and depraved!

IF HOMOSEXUALITY is not sin apology is owed to Sodom-Gomorrah which experienced serious urban renewal. But, of course, God says it is sin.

Same sex relationship is under judgment of God and those that get involved in it and do not heed the Word of God are given over to its vile affections. Same sex relationship peopledoes not serve God but their own lusts even if they confess to know God or are in a right relationship with God!

Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around were destroyed for this sin, if God did not spare them, God will not spare anyone else that are involve or even consent to it! Do not be deceived God is not mocked, for whatever a man sow the same he will reap!  Flee from the Wrath of God and repent and seek the Lord Jesus Christ in whom is redemption and forgiveness from this destructive sin TODAY for tomorrow may be too late! Why will you die in your sins when there was a way out? Let Jesus Christ take you out of your bondage like He took Israel out of slavery and let Him brought you out to brought you into the blessed life in God’s good pleasure! You need to be clothed with His righteousness and forgiveness to be set free. When you look at yourself, you will not be able or see a way out, but when you look at the cross of a crucified Saviour and fix your eyes and choice on Him then He will lead you out of the snare of the evil one into Immanuel’s land!

My dear friend, don’t be in any doubt. Homosexuality is wrong in every way both male and female homosexuality. In God’s Word (Romans 1), the Apostle Paul stated that women who change their natural use just like men (verse 27) are in error or sin. God dislikes male homosexuality on the same level as female homosexuality.

 

Jude 7 states Sodom and Gomorrah gave themselves over to strange flesh which included both men and women. He said when God rained down fire and brimstone which was an example of them being thrown in the Lake of Fire, it revealed how evil God looks upon homosexuality.

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (Jude 7)

However, what is more important than homosexuality being a sin is why God detests homosexuality and what is bad about it.

What is bad about homosexuality is it is against God’s purpose of reproducing. 

You cannot produce children through homosexuality or even worse bestiality.

In Leviticus 18 God shows committing bestiality like homosexuality causes sexual confusion.

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:” (Lev. 18:22-24)

It is confusion because God ordained reproduction through kind after its kind (Genesis 1). Homosexuality and bestiality are against God’s way of sex. You can only produce children of kind after kind or between male and female. This is God’s Law, whole of creation testifies to this. Anything contrary to fulfilling God reproducing – be fruitful and multiply – is a sin!

Paul writes, “Evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” “Look, the so-called gay or lesbian life style, they have gay pride parades, how can you be proud of something which if everybody adopted it, it’s the end of the human race because these people don’t produce children.” Ah, but now we can do it artificially. So you can have a couple of lesbians living together and they can have children. So now they are circumventing God’s way of doing things.

The rebellion, if the Lord tarries, is only going to get worse, and for me to try to reason from the Scriptures with anyone about this as the only solution for some for the most are not going to accept that at all!

There is deliverance from this, the Way is open out of bondage into true freedom through Jesus Christ the Lord!

Repent and flee to Christ as the only deliverance for your sin, why do you want to die in your sin and be under the Wrath of God when He has made a Way out for you to live? Why will you die in your sin?

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