THE CORRUPT CHURCH - PART 31 FALSE TEACHERS, FALSE DOCTRINE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PREACHER * Warn Against Apostasy (Continuation) See 1 Timothy 4vs1-6. To be a good minister of God, the preacher will warn against digression and apostasy. It is presently urgent that all faithful preachers wield the Sword Of The Spirit against the encroachments of liberalism that now seek to permeate the church of the Lord. Satan is alert to every opportunity to turn souls from truth. We serve satans cause when we fail to warn against error. * BRING TO REMEMBRANCE THE WAYS OF PAUL (1 Corinthians 4vs17: For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church): HE (PAUL) FOLLOWED CHRIST (1 Corinthians 11vs1: Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ); HE SOUGHT NO PERSONAL GLORY (1 Corinthians 2vs1-5: And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God); HE WAS HONEST (Acts 23vs1: Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day”); HE DECLARED THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD (Acts 20vs20,27: How I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God); HE GAVE HIMSELF WHOLLY (2 Corinthians 11vs23-31: Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness— besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation? If I must boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying). .....TO BE CONTINUED.
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