Post by frienduff on Apr 13, 2019 15:13:07 GMT -5
How do we know if our faith is in God or in men.
Is it in Christ alone or is it in men and institutions and denominations etc .
What is the one common denominator of men and women who FOLLOW ONLY CHRIST .
And what is the one common denominator of men and women who follow men and women .
When one who loves Christ and has truly been changed by HIM hears a word they will test that word with the BIBLE .
Before you say but many who follow men do or cliam to do the same thing , AND RIGHT one would be who said this , THIER IS a POINT to be made .
A true lamb TRUSTS ONLY IN GOD .
But those who trust in men , IT SEEN .
And its seen by this .
Let me use the pope and rome as an example , but this applies to many who are in dead faiths and mens institutions of wrong learning .
When a catholic hears a correction , They will either automatically trust what they were taught by their church , Or if they realize something is off
they will go to their own leaders and let those leaders explain away the truth that was even sown in their hearts .
But many do this as well .
What is the defense of one who truly LOVES CHRIST above all , THEY will stand ON the bible as absolute truth . They will test all things that ALL MEN TEACH .
They never come to trusting in men . They trust only GOD and KNOW the bible is absolute truth .
They will always examine what a man says or does , against scripture .
But many follow men and NOT CHRIST . Catholics , Mormons , heck the list goes on . And what is the common response of them ,
WELL you either need to sit under their church or their exergies that MEN made and they TRUST IN that .
Many examples I can give .
Those who love and trust men MORE than GOD also love their own self . SO let me give an example .
WHEN I first heard OSAS , I tested that teaching against the HOLY SCRIPS and it failed . I did not then try and make the SCRIPS make THE OSAS make sense to me .
I KNEW IT WAS incorrect and the LOVE of truth was enough for me .
WHEN I first heard I could not be remarried , I DID not try and find OTHER scrips or teachers to make or find a way to make it possible for me to remarry , I Just LOVED TRUTH .
But when men love self they TRUST IN MEN . THEY will find and do battle contending for error or their church , or their doctrine and NOT CHRIST .
Examples are all over the place . Like seven dayers , or prosperity or ...............
But the love of truth is not in many .
We see this all the time in mens teachings . They have to twist the scriptures to align with their own teaching , they have to omit it , or say we have poor exergies
YET , it is they who deny the plain scripture .
WHEN ROME made it clear that the bible was not the number one deal , IT was a set up for total control and power over men .
Jehovas changed it , Mormons changed it and brought another book . Rome does the same things too . But so do many .
Because men desired power and preeminence we have many destructive teachings and because many loved to have it so and thus sat under them through all generaitions .
BUT a lamb SITS UNDER CHRIST and they will test all things that all men say and they will do it daily and they will do it against the HOLY pure and Wonderful bible .
For a sheep KNOWS the voice of the SHEPARD and they will flee the voices of all strangers .
They will not take even one bit of grass mixed with weed . For they feed only of the SHEPARDS pure truth green grass and even the slightest whiff of a a wolfs weed and they wont HEED nor eat it .