ERRONEOUS TEACHING
We as born again Christians must be vigilant and continue to pray for the Church of Jesus Christ. Four times in the New Testament we are commanded to watch and pray. Three times that we don't fall into temptation.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
We have to pray for one another that we will not become trapped in lies and deception concerning the Bible.
There are many false teachers going around trying to create doubt in Christians' minds that the Bible is not true, or cannot be believed literally, that Mary was not a virgin, that Jesus was not the Son of God, that Jesus was never crucified, that he never rose from the dead, that His second coming is going to be at a different time for everyone - when you die, that there is no hell or heaven, that nobody will end up in hell, that the millennium will not take place, the secret rapture of the Church before the tribulation . . . there are too many to mention all.
Before I start to answer any of these I want to make something very clear:
We believe the Bible is the infallible, inspired, inerrant Word of the living God and the only truth against which everything must be measured.
Let us agree one thing for starters: IF THE BIBLES SAYS IT, IT IS THE TRUTH. Let me clarify that statement. We have to read every verse in the context it is written.
Let me give an example: The Bible says In Psalm 53:1: The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. You can easily read that …. There is no God….. Out of context
That is what I mean by reading every verse in the context it is written.
Do not accept every thing that anyone says as gospel!!!! Check in God's Word for yourself. If you hear something that sound wrong or even if it sounds fantastic; go back to the Bible and make sure it is truth.
There is a new movement called the 'new reformation' that is spreading lies about everything we believe. It is not new scientific information, it is lies and deception that has been taught by non-believers for many ages, and is still lies!
Most of the things they teach are agnostic-, Roman Catholic-, atheist-, occult- and Alexandrian teachings.
Acts 6:9-10 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
There are so much eastern religion stuff being taught in the Church and taught so often that Christians believe these lies and cannot tell the truth anymore. There are people that have Christian yoga on offer. Just because they play Christian music, while doing it, doesn't mean its Christian yoga. (The truth is that there is no such thing as Christian yoga, one of the great men of God, Derek Prince, once said: before he became a reborn Christian he also did yoga, but because it is a spiritual exercise practised by the buddhist's and because he did not know what certain movements meant in the spiritual realm, and because he loved God so much and he did not want to do anything to disappoint God, he left it.)
What did satan do to Eve in the Garden of Eden? He created doubt in her mind:
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
He was clever; he never called God a liar. Today satan is using the same tactics: he tries to create doubt in people's minds.
Is the Bible really the Word of God or is it a nice story put together by the Church to prove a point?
Has Jesus really risen from the dead or was it symbolic? Was the tomb empty? Was Jesus truly the Son of God or was he a fatherless young man with a very active imagination?
They are asking very clever questions to cast doubt in people's minds - like satan did.
The terrible part of this whole story full of lies and deceptions is that it is being taught by learned men and women, professors and doctors in theology that are very prominent in the Church. The worst part of it all is that many of them are training preachers that must bring the Gospel to the lost in this end-time period we are living in.
They are lecturers of some of the biggest churches in our country.
Isaiah 47:10-13 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
I've got news for them: Isaiah 47 makes it very clear that the Lord God Almighty new about them and their teachings, their deceptions and lies.
In many cases the people that are part of these churches are going to church in all sincerity to hear the Word of God, but the church system they are part of are as evil as the devil himself.
We, as followers of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, must pray for these people that they can be set free from this deadly grip they are in.
Most of these churches are part of the ecumenical church or ecumenical community as they like to call themselves - the South African Council of Churches, that makes them part of the World Council of Churches, that are run by the Roman Catholic Church, and other ungodly organizations.
Don't think you can stand on the pulpit on a Sunday morning and try and hide your teachings from the Lord; he wrote about these false teachers in the days of Isaiah foreknowing what was coming.
Isaiah 29:13-15 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Please let us pray for our fellow Christians to remain free from these false teachings and those that are already locked in it, to be set free.
What is the solution? Read the Bible from cover to cover continuously. Make sure that you read Bibles that is not translated from the ground text prepared by Westcott and Hort. Most of the new translations after the King James and the Afrikaans 1953 translations have errors that were written in during the translation process.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children . . . Not wisdom as the world gives but Godly wisdom that comes from a praying, humble, God loving spirit.