James 3 -- False Teachers 2

Why is we thank you for this Christmas season? There were coming up on and we ask and pray that our hearts might be open to the awareness of you not just to the awareness of you as you came into this world. But the purpose and the reason for which you came into this world, you might minister to those who are in need that. You might pay for those who have a sim problem that they cannot take care of, which is every single one of us, we are incapable of dealing with our own sin but you provided Escape restoration to God and the path were in. We can live the righteousness. The righteousness of God in our very own lives by the spilling of your spirit. And by the out working of the word of God within us. We thank you for all of that. This morning, we take our gaze and we turn it to your word to the expression of Truth. We pray the doctrine, Mike resonate in our hearts, we fight might find ourselves resonating with the word of God. We might recognize who we are and what this afternoon road is the. We are on. We might not be discouraged, but we might be in Courage by the outpouring of your ministry in our lives, Ms to us and through us all these things, we pray in the Blessed name of our Lord and savior Christ. Jesus.

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Few weeks till Christmas and we do plan on having the regular scheduled meeting times on Christmas. And if you have early morning, kids who need to come and climb out and get their presents or whatever, for you going to be there with them or you're out of town, then you're excused to go ahead with our with our Standard Time as part of our worship, might be a special message on the menu will see what the Holy Spirit can craft between now and then I don't know if you think he's good enough to do something and I don't know.

so, while we are in James 3:1, Where we read my brother, and let not many of you become teachers knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgement. A stricter judgment and we have reviewed the history and timeline of the Book of James and immersed, ourselves in the very history recorded in the text of the Bible itself about what was happening at the time. The Book of James was recorded and you missed several people come up and tell me, they appreciated that and We do have the recording along with the slides and if you did miss it, for some reason, you can go back. Just let me know and I'll text message it to you. We don't have a good rapport pository for the sound slide. At this point. We have repository, for, for the audio recording, lonely will have to text you. Each of the individual messages, if you want to see the sound or give the sound at your computer and watch the slides as they go across, which I think helps with the teaching at least the way I'm delivering it now, so I'm all conservative. Non-liberal scholarship is pretty much in agreement with James Peron. This important epistle. Prior to the Jerusalem Council, that is recorded and Acts chapter 15. In Acts chapter 15. We have that great Council. That was called by the coming off of the Apostle Paul cuz he was being accused of teaching in properly when actually people are coming and teaching falsely to his Converse and so he came up to Jerusalem so that there wouldn't be any more of this. Well Jerusalem said, so Paul went to Jerusalem to make sure that everything was clear, he confronted the Council of Jerusalem Here's this nobody Apostle Paul people heard of him, but they didn't know him. He wasn't around with Jesus. He wasn't there for the Miracles. He wasn't there at the death, crucifixion, and resurrection of our Lord. Jesus Christ. Has he come from, what right does? He have getting off saying that, he knows proper Doctrine and we don't. Well, he came up to the church or up to Jerusalem, to the temple, where they all gather together. Who may have a little powwow if you will. Everyone got their Indian feathers out? They sat down around the campfire. They started to pull out the Buffalo to roast and they said they got to work and gave him his understanding of the gospel and also brought them up to speed on his background that Peter had connected with him. Some of the leaders of the church knew who he was, where he came from, but this meeting need to happen. It was designated and ordained by God for his purposes. And at that point, it became clear that there was a gospel message that needed to be spread to the Gentiles. Paul had a burden for the Jews, and yet he was called to the Gentiles. And so, with his burden constantly burning for the Jews, he was out there teaching and ministering, an Avenged lysing. Gentiles. Those unbelievers who didn't know anything of Judaism, which Paul and his own attestation, is the jittery Judy weisser of all judaizers. If there is anyone who is representative of a Jew, it was Paul. And yet, he is the Apostle to the Gentiles. And here in Jerusalem and Acts chapter 15, he gives his piece and then James, the leader of the church at that time and the author of our book. Gave his confession says go out, we only ask that you do these four things that you might be able to carry the gospel to Jews. Of course, that was the very one thing that Paul held, most dear and wanted to do so that was, of course, not a problem. We're going to run into that this week of Lord willing. If we get to that point in the, in the teaching,

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All conservative non-liberal scholarship is in agreement that James penned, this important, a pistol, the first written document to. And for the church hoodie pendant wire 2, best Jerusalem Council is recorded in Acts 15 and intimacy pistol at the beginning of the second section which corresponds to the. If you remember, our organization is slow to speak. Portion of the outline of the pistol. We see this in James 1:19, you said. So then my beloved Brethren, let every man be swift to hear slow to speak and slow to wrath. We find but Loosely our entire Epistle of James wraps around those three posts. Arrest the stool of his message on the three legs that will support it. If you will, we have the concept of being Swift to hear that it is listening to go taking in Divine Viewpoint, orienting to the word, not being a listener only but being a doer.

And with that said, there should be reverberations of conviction where we have not actually done the word of God but we have listened only, we take it in Doctrine, I love that house that apply to my life.

So James comes down and he says, you know, who do that or like a person who glances at your face in the mirror and you immediately forget what you look like as you walk away. Well, that would be me. I glad somebody mirror and then I have no clue afterwards, what I look like.

Can you say? We wish you did? Did you pay more attention to that?

Remember we have our second section where we are to be slow to speak with swift to hearing is orienting to God's word. What it's about orientation to God's word, is what the Swift to hear is about him. Not just orienting to understand it, but orienting to have our souls being the doors on that. Those of you who know the vocabulary epignosis of a full it is that more mature knowledge that comes from experience in the coming up on Ministry of the holy spirit. Wear in God, Blends for us, Bible Doctrine, truth with our situational reality, and we have the maturity. We know how that is expressed in life. God, the Holy Spirit, then takes it and places it in that compartment of our soul. That we Cycle it and reuse it and keep it going. It is a point of reference for our thinking. So that is in that first section being Swift to hear. And then slow to speak. Here, we find that Paul is doing something different now. He hasn't quite left off. 1B slow down the Swift to hear, which is why verse one of this passage is a little bit. You need all the rest of the passage is talking about the time, the barrel. What you say, how simple the things are that come out of your list, how unmindful we are actually carrying what we say. Because our mentality, our thinking our soul overflows through her mouth, and sometimes we just don't give a rip. And so we say what it is, that we think there's an old adage that the older you get. The more you're able to just say whatever you think will that would be just the opposite of what scripture teaches. You know, there is another as you were when you were a child. So you will become when you're an adult somewhat true. I actually in a little bit worried about that day, I was a little too outspoken as a child. I had a tendency to insulting and say things that were hard for people to hear because well, So I don't want necessarily return to that. I'm praying that the Lord is actually massage my soul and massage you in the oil with his word, that I might be more flexible to hear him more responsive to him. So that what comes out of my lips at those times is more appropriate. We can all pray that now we find in this second section on the topic of speech that the leader of the church at Jerusalem wants to front load the discussion about speech. I'm talking about James 31 here with comments about teaching and teachers, before we get into speech, Let's transition from listening to the word of God. Two teachers, who engage with their mouths teaching by speech and then the rest of the subject of the tongue which will tie it together. So, the first one is a transitional Point to get us from A to B, from major subject, a that is quick to listen to Major subject be, which is slow to speak.

And what is Paul's conclusion? What is his? Excuse me? Paul James. What is James conclusion here? What is he say when it comes to the subject of teachers? Don't do it? Teachers are to be accountable for their words in fact, more strictly accountable. If you get up and teach you put a Target right between your eyeballs. Right on your forehead, you have the Target because you are accountable for what you say and support to a James's Point here to what you teach. Now our investigation movie history about James of this epistle and the wife of James and when he wrote this epistle, showed us that there were many false teachers at the time that James wrote this epistle back, Paul was running into them. Even as he's goin up to Jerusalem and ax15 he ran into false teachers tried to tell him along the way that he was that he was a false teacher.

I'm through the early church, there seem to have been waves of incoming false teachers that continually broke over the young church as it were just like the Relentless waves of the ocean. So too there has and always will be relentless waves of false teaching they come in and try to in Nunda the church. So I gave us synopsis for you before or definition Falls teachers for those who teach error and in so doing they lead others astray.

Last week we began a review of the false teaching in the New Testament based on its being mentioned, in the text of scripture. Another words we have been doing a synopsis or review of the accounts were false teaching, is brought up in Scripture. So we're looking at what scripture says about the concept because it's specially as we're dealing with false teachers. Who cares? What anyone else says? We need to know what scripture says about false teachers and once properly oriented to what scripture says, then we can be accountable to the proper place for the place that matters. Not what I think, not what I say again, I don't want to teach what someone else teaches I want us to review. What scripture says here, so we are quite pointedly doing that.

So, here's the question.

Why should we spend any time on. Or false teachers? Shouldn't we stick to the gospel? Positive teaching? Can't we just review what's ride and just stopped dealing with all this? What's wrong? I don't care about what's wrong. I don't care about what they teach, are they teacher? He teaches for she teaches or was taught then or will be taught in the future. I just care about what's right. I've heard that Express even by members of this congregation while John was teaching through. Teaching,

And keep your hat on. Keep your blinders on, keep your poker face up because I'm not trying to speak to any of you individually. Because I heard you personally at that time complaining about what John was doing. And here's the thing why do we teachers teach about what's wrong in about false teaching? Because we're commanded to buy, God. Scripture tells us we must do this to protect the flock and we are the Sheep. We are the flock therefore we must be aware of these things that only teach about that, that's all we teaching out. Know we go through scripture and as we go through it, we will come across passages and will be currently there. One thing I think you might take away from the teaching today, is this There may be a lot more said on the subject and a lot more exhortation to be aware of this than you are aware of. So we're going to unleash a few of these were going to bring a few of these up to the up to the front as we're working our way through that survey. so, the last week we took a look at

False teachers. So we worked our way through a good amount of the inventory of what's out there. We looked at the Old Testament, Prophet, warnings, against false teaching and then we took a look at Jesus Christ, himself condemning false teaching when we saw as we pulled out verse afterbirth, passage after passage where Jesus Christ was opposed to legalism and hypocrisy. And he identified who those people were and spoke to the subject. Are you? Shua Jesus identified, teachers of the law and Pharisees as false teachers.

And he warned his followers against who not to follow on what not to follow. Interesting because there are entire lengthy chapters where Jesus Christ is talking about the Pharisees and the Sadducees and you will find in the text that he says, do not be like them.

Figured you might think that would be enough just for receipts. I just see these. Scribes just don't be like them, that's it, right? But it goes on and on and on and on and on, and on, and on, and on, and on describing what it is, if they're doing and what's going on. So if our Lord did that, then maybe we need a little bit of patients on the same subject as well. So when we come to it in the future, once we're past this be patient as we're dealing with the issue of false, teachers and false teaching it is for your good. It is for your protection and perhaps God has gifted you to be a minister and other people's lies in which case you need to know a few things as well. So that you can be properly ministering to those that God has placed in your life. As well. So

We Begin jumping back into our outline today were picking up with the the condemnation of false teachers in the early church, the condemnation of false teachers in the early church. So if you were to give this an overall outline, our major premise is we're dealing with false teaching and false teachers. And this is a sub-point. Too bad the condemnation of false teachers in the early church and before that we had Jesus Christ condemned false teaching. And before that we had the Old Testament prophets warned against false teachers, we have the Old Testament Jesus Christ and now the condemnation of false teachers in the early church. So that means after the time of Jesus moving forward, to the way I have this organized, we looked at the Old Testament, we have looked at the words of Jesus Christ concerning false teachers and now we're dealing with after the resurrection, James Ford, the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 and that's what we have on the table. And that's what we're looking at. So, the first sub-point, then to condemnation of false teachers in the early church was dealing with Paul. Urges his readers to avoid false teachers, the urges his readers, or we should say he urged those to whom he addressed the text. Which inner first example is Timothy

We soared in 1st Timothy Chapter 6.

Verses 3 through 6. 1st Timothy 6 starting in verse 3.

If anyone has otherwise and does not concern to Wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ into the doctrine, which Accords with godly man. First for, he is proud, knowing nothing. But is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words from which come and be strong by revealing evil suspicions. Kind of sounds like the fruit of the flesh a little bit. So if this person is not holding to what we thought, it was teaching, someone else, Paul is implying, here it is. Wesley, it is carnal, it is not the things of God is not what God has pointed us to. It is wrong teaching verse five useless wranglings of men and of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who's suppose that godliness is a means of game. From such withdraw yourself. So these false teachers are wrangling, they had corrupt Minds. That is their thinking has been destroyed. It has been polluted. They are not reflecting Divine. Viewpoint on matters are reflecting a human Viewpoint perspective. When they suppose that godliness is a me a means of game. They are into it for what they can get from it. From such withdraw yourselves, over 6 godliness with contentment is great, just the opposite. They are looking for their looking for a great game that they might have contentment as false teachers. Get the girls, get what I'm after. Get the bunny. The car is a mansion.

Whatever that individuals proclivities, Maybe. And then, I will have contentment. It's what we see in the world. Now it is the world message, get to have Get things get accomplishment, get recognition, get whatever that I might have contentment, but we are told here by the Apostle, Paul, under the ministry of God, the holy spirit that godliness with contentment is great gain. The godliness plus great game godliness with contentment and that contentment comes from actually a right mental attitude. It comes from a perspective that has been submitted to God. That is I'm not trying to accomplish my things. I'm asking God, to accomplish two things. My life is not set up such that God will give me everything I want. And need my life is set up such that I see to give God when he is asked of me.

So godliness inverse X by the way, as our word used to buy it, used to buy a e u s e b.

AIA just to simplify it instead of bae.

AEI.

Godliness here is a transliteration and probably a better translation of it is spiritual life. The spiritual wife comes, as we are in Fellowship of fighting. In the ministry of God, the holy spirit filled with the word of God. So we're talking about spirituality by Grace here, is what he's referencing. So if I were to transliterate, verse 6 will not transliterate, give you an expanded translation. I would say.

No.

Spirituality by grace.

With submission to God.

Is great gain.

That is not what false teachers wants, not what they teach Because unless you're inciting people.

To do the same thing. You're going to lose them as a false teacher as a false teacher, if you're inciting people to Grace spirituality, And an attitude a relaxed mental attitude. The God's Providence is sufficient in my life and then I can not be anxious, but rest. If your congregants have that, you're not going to be able to manipulate them and move them and work them in the direction you want to do. So you can gain the things that you want. Praise God. You guys have been taught over many years rightly so that you have that right perspective. So you have a built-in immunity that is needed as we're flying in the whole covid world. Right now, those people who have gotten the job the shots or more likely to die from covid in the people who didn't, if you're in that category, don't worry. Don't be anxious. You're in the hands of your heavenly father but in terms of what our country has done and what they have foisted on people, those who bowed and buckled under and did what they were told to do or now more exposed than in a worse position than they ever were before. So pray for them. Pray for those. In our family, who have gotten the covid shot, make sure that your undergirding caring, and considerate for those people who for one reason or another. For some it seemed wise to do. I'm in that age bracket. I'm in water bowl. I have health issues, it seemed wise to do.

So pray we were making decisions wrongly was just at this is an untenable situation for people have warped and disguised the science and misused their Authority and lied. But other people might be affected along the way much like false teachers, do they give false information, may have you in their power. They utilize our power against you at the other passages.

the school next to Acts chapter 20,

Starting to verse 29 through 31.

Remove this good. After my departure, Savage wolves will come in among you not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up speaking. Perverse thing to draw away the disciples after themselves first 30. Number 31, there for watch and remember them for three years. I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears. Paul is recorded as saying here in the book of Acts, he was warned and he was imploring people to pay attention to Doctrine. The doctrine is Meaningful, it significant Truth is true. We must see it as such even though we live in a generation where my truth your truth is truth her truth. I'm speaking power to truth and truth to power. They have distorted the entire concept of Truth. In this postmodern generation that we live in the same is the forecast for Hagel. It's a a galleon trauma that has been foisted Upon Our civilization and it has turned it into one of those little finger traps

Woven toys. That's what we have going on here with the postmodern Revolution because people don't know how to get out of it. They don't know how to stop. They can't stop thinking about your truth but that's not my truth. We have different truths. There is no truth. Well that is wrong. There is a truth. It is true. It is the only thing that screw into something is not that it is untrue that which is true is true that which is not. That is untrue by definition of my nature but that's not what post-modernism teach yourself. We are under attack

Paul says, I know this that after my departure Savage was will come in among you not sparing. The flock for any of you have any experience with with sheep with Lambs, with livestock with Predators, you know, that can be that can go really bad really quick. Warren Wolf can take out a flock. 1 coyote coyote never travel alone. One, we'll bring in another car which will bring in another car and they will take out the flock. I just read an interesting thing that popped up in the news on my phone and said that there was a dog, a shepherd dog in North Carolina and it Protected the fork. The point of the article, why is it? This is pack of coyotes came in and this dog killed five khaios. And was at the brink of death but it protected the flock and so this is a little fundraising call out that made the news going to help us raise enough money. So this dog can be rescued instead of being put down and so they raised the whatever was $15,000 needed to do. All the surgical repairs and so forth to save the doc. So interesting, there, there are was, there are predators amongst us and they are everywhere. Into a part of our job is to play the role of protector by the way. That's not just my rule. That's your role to. Yes, you are sheep. You are being said, you are of the pasture, but you also stand in the place to be vigilant to be watching out. Who is the maturity that says I have discernment. I see what's going on and I will let the rest of the congregation in the left of the church. Rest of the flock know what's happening so that we do not become victims. Too bad. Romans chapter 16. Where's the 17 and 18? Visions, and offences contrary to the doctrine which you learned and avoid them. so, these are people who are Call Zina fences because they are stipulating teaching and trying to leverage points that are opposed to good Doctrine. We are trying to destroy before I go into visual sheets or exert their teaching for their message or their Viewpoint, contrary to good teaching. So those are to be avoided, those people who are trying to destroy doctor and every time you're around them, they're trying to destroy Doctrine. Here's what Paul says to the Romans. Don't go hang out with them. They're trying to destroy a good Doctrine, avoid them. I know some of you say, well, I'm mature enough. And this person, I think I can leverage, I can speak to them. I can help them. They do have a good heart after all, even though they seem to hate Doctrine.

Verse 18, for those who are such do, not serve our Lord, Jesus Christ. But their own belly, and by smooth words, and flattering speech to see the hearts of the simple, Those people who are opposed to good Doctrine are soup, they are seeking their own. Their own desires when he says. They serve their own belly. This is a concept of figure. That means they are after what feels good to them. They are after that, which is emotionally, satisfying, There are many people who won't step into this church. For that very reason because what they are after is that which is emotionally satisfying they're not really after we were interested in the truth they want that which will satisfy then make them feel good not make them

So, we have that against us, to start with, when people pop in here and sit down and say hello to talk about the word. So my way talking about scripture so much, that might be part of the reason don't judge. I mean, we don't know what's in individual hearts and we know that that is out there, but those people who are opposed to Doctrine are after something else. Other than truth, the truth is true there. For those who want to know, God, who want to understand. Jesus, better one to know about that, which is true. Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, he is permanently affiliated with truth and that which is true. That is our objective as well.

Well, the Corinthian Church had been undiscerning intolerant of deceivers on their myths. That we see that in 2nd Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 3 and 4. But I fear he says must I somehow as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness. So your minds may be corrupted from the Simplicity that is in cried. What is he talking about? You see the Gospel of Jesus Christ is so simple. With any child can understand it and many have him. For those of us who have been involved in child evangelism, we see that children get it and they immediately gravitate towards truth. You tell them about the truth about Jesus Christ. You pull out the color book or whatever teaching mechanism you have a, you show them that we have sim problem that we have offended. God, do we need to be reconciled to God. That Jesus Christ has paid the price for our sins so that we can come to God and we can be made holy and righteous. If we do the work of Jesus Christ in our place, To have. For our sins and made us reconcile, the God, and the kids like

I may do remember doing that as a three-year-old thrusting, in the work of Jesus Christ. And maybe have maybe have that various points in their juvenile Journey. They have trusted in Christ. That is to say it is simple and there are those who want to come in and complicated. Oh yes. Probably doesn't mean believe believe means you have to obey. Leave means you have to repent first. If you're not old enough to read you don't know what it is. You're going from and what is you're going to have to turn from a sinful life and turn the goddamn lights are complicating? It is jerking a theology but his inner woven by humans to try to make it cohesive and hold together. like a nice gelatin display, gourmet food, or many types of the French entrees and and I didn't create this funny. Interesting looking layout of food and menu. David and Joe, it turned upside down in a canister. And then once it's all hard and you turn it upside down, pull off the cover. And there you have this little vignettes of food inside a Big Blob of gelatin, but you can see right through it. So it's kind of like a candy behind the window display only just cut through the gelatin, pour out your portion.

Our minds can become corrupted from the Simplicity that is in Christ. All we have to do is say, I like complexity better than simplicity. Why have one thing when I can have 14 instead?

Bruce for we are told for it he who comes preaching another Jesus whom we have not breed or if you receive a different spirit that is Doctrine or teaching which you have not received, you didn't get that teaching from us or a different gospel, an explanation of Salvation which you have not accepted you may well put up with it.

You saying you might put up with these things. If you are paying attention to Doctrine and when Doctrine is simple, we keep it simple. There are portions of doctrine that are quite involved to take quite a bit of background and maturity to be able to understand, that's fine. But the gospel is not that way and spirituality by Grace is not that way some of the subtleties of maturity are that way. But that's okay, but we don't want to take the simple and make it complicated, nor do we as an afterthought. Want to take the complicated and make it so simple that it isn't true anymore. You can't over reduce complex things and take out the details cuz if you take out the details and you don't have the structure that's needed to be there,

Fusion chapter 4.

Verse 14. Paul told this quote that we should no longer, be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrine. Why the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting? There is deceitful, partying. That is at work here. Now I can't always give the credit of the deceitful, partying, to the people who are doing the deceitful teaching, cuz I don't think they're that bright sometimes. But the enemy of our souls is he who is the God of this world, he who runs the cosmic system that we live in, is that brilliant? In fact, we are told that it's a two and he himself

is as brilliant as the entire rest of creation combined. Take the intellect of every person on the planet.

Add it up, not as brilliant as Satan himself is. Take the Brilliance of all the Angels, plus all of the humans. Still not as brilliant as Satan himself to see his unique. He was set up to be the one who would guide and Lead everyone to the worship of God. And so he was given remarkable gifts. Musicianship, it is unparalleled.

Brilliance in fought and thinking inability to be as attractive as anything you have ever desired or wanted in your life. All of that is who he is and what he does.

so we're talking about trickery of, man, and cunning of craftiness of deceitful partying, but we know that it doesn't stay there, but that's what Paul is teaching us about as this deceitfulness of men and I seen man who can wind up some pretty messy deceitfulness. We used to have Roy Masters over in the Grants Pass area who this whole Cult of the mind that you developed people coming in from all over the place and Walter Martin used to come into this area specifically just so that he might be able to interact with those people who are followers of Master. So you guys know who Walter Martin is used to be the Bible answer man years ago. So Walter Martin I had the Bible answer man show on TV. The big one that was read that was running across all the you know, the news all the Christian radio from early 1970 is all the way up through about 1980. So maybe maybe before that brilliant, man, he was a disciple of Donald, then he came as a young Christian and under the wings of Donald barnhouse and between the two of them, they went and they investigated because

Walter Martin had an interest in the Colts and being apologetic and apologize or someone who helps protect the truth. And also show the people in the Colts are in error. And they took a look at the Adventist Church Seventh-day Adventist, who up until that time about 1940 and 1955 that are they had been considered a non-Christian call Mainstream Christianity by the barn house. Took a look, what did their doctrines met with them? And with the leadership of The Seventh-Day Adventists and they concluded. They are indeed Christians. They have some aberrant theology. They believe in works. We believe in our meeting on the Sabbath day, the seventh day as opposed to the Lord's Day. But beyond that and a few other peculiarities having. I mean, I do in whites of their head of their Church, a few weird things like that saying that she was a prophetess, they said they were actually Christians and so they brought them back into Christianity and since then they've been recognized by the rest of us as Christians. Walter Martin did that. So, any other photographic mind? And I was at actually. Yeah, we had a big rally here, back in the 70s. I remember at one of the one of the Assembly of God churches and had a really big meeting room at the time. And so all these thousands of people came in and Walter Martin was there, and it was pretty interesting when I got to the question-and-answer section, people would come up and they would ask him questions than they thought. We've got him cuz we've done our research and we know he's not going to be able to answer this until they come up with a task, their question and then he would go. Yes. Well, that's not true because dada dada dada. For 4:12 by such-and-such book written by the gentleman that you're referring to he says and then he would quote it because he had a photographic memory and everything. He ready was able to go to and pull it off then refer to on the spa. So it was just it was like he do that. Like a minor form of walking on water or something for it.

For those of us who are watching. So next, we have the

next, we have the caution heresy, the colossian, heresy,

Thought with the combination of faith in Jesus Christ with man-made philosophy and regulations was necessary for salvation. So there is a philosophy being taught to the Colossians, which we were being told. They had to join the Christianity to the teachings of The Gospel, Four men to be able to be safe. Colossians. Chapter 2 shows us the colossian heresy here is worth mention, but the passage is so rich in Colossians chapter 2, that I want the full context. So, instead of just looking at 2, versus I want to look at a 10 versus here, we're going to read it through since chapter 2. Verse 14, I want you to know what a great conflict. I have for you, and those in Leo daisja, and for as many as have not seen my face in the Flash, We're still that their hearts may be encouraged being knit together in love and attaining to all Riches of the full Assurance of understanding to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the father and of Christ.

1st Street in whom are hidden all. Treasures of wisdom and I should have read that as in whom are written some of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and looked up to see if anyone noticed it, but it says all all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Both the father and Christ. First for a serious question, one should deceive you with persuasive words because if everything is hidden, Christ and the father, then what else is there? If someone is bringing something from outside, what's hidden in Christ in the father? What is that? What is it? They're doing respite for though. I am absent in the flesh. Yet, I am with you in spirit rejoicing to see your good order from the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. For 6 as you therefore have received Christ, Jesus, the Lord. So walk in him, this is such an important

So important for your walk. So important for your spirituality, it is everything because you see we have received our salvation by grace through faith that is we have trusted. And for ourselves personally, the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. In place of our work, we will never come to God based on our work, what we've done. If they'd, let me into your Heaven because of such and such and what I've done here and how I did this thing, These things over there, and this about me. No, we will come to heaven, will say hahaha, I'm so grateful that you will let me into heaven because of what? The Lord Jesus Christ did on my behalf. And the story, nothing to be added to that. So as we have received Christ, Jesus, the Lord. So walk in him in the same way in the same manner. That means my spirituality, my walking is entered into in the same manner, it's by the provision of the Lord. Jesus Christ, gave me. The means to be ability to walk in the filling of the holy spirit. That means has been made available to me, through the confession of sin. What a joy that when I messed it up, I don't have to go.

Through trials, and Trauma to get reconciled. I don't have to go through the Esther problem will, if I walk into his Majesty's chamber is the one going to be down, or up to be executed. Or will I be safe? I don't know. I guess. It's not like that at all. Grace provision has been made as our Salvation has been provided. Our reconciliation to Fellowship has been provided, you simply site. Beautiful, wonderful. Language that is used here. Homola, Gala means to speak the same thing in a courtroom and legally isn't that I sight? I quit claim. I make a legal mention and when I do John chapter 2:2, told us that we have a lawyer and Advocate who intercedes for us and he has paid for our sins and not for ours, but also those of the whole world going back to 1st, John 1:9, then we understand. Then when I make that legal citation, he pulls up the case in reference that deals with the citation I have made us. I have send this is a sin ignore. This is my son and I own it and he flips through the records he says, oh when it comes to the case of the sin of David Bruce's. The Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb of God and took away the sins of the whole world has been settled. The sin has been dealt with, you are free, you are at Liberty. There is no adjudication, no judgment. That comes down to you for that sin and in addition, you are cleansed, your released, you are filled. You are free to walk for, in forgiveness, in the empowerment for Ministry and engaging in this life.

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Every single time we can best. Oh so in the case of doing your name versus Lord Jesus Christ. My case has been settled. No judgment. There's only forgiveness and now because you've decided that case you move forward with Fellowship. there are those who like to point out the distinction between the forensic or legal system, which they Play Saint salvation that is our justification are being made righteous, then they say it is a parental or it is a family or a polly-o about is our relationship as sons of God to our father. That is about fellowship. And that is true, there is a great deal of Truth to that when I get in trouble. It is the Lord who disciplines me personally because I am now his child. So when I fall into sin and I keep walking and he will spank me, you will set up the circumstances, he will intervene he will do that which is the spanking that I need that. I might Return. My thinking to write order get things right and out, straightened out. Remember my little brother? Used to just have a hard time, he would get in trouble and I just couldn't get a ride out at 2 to. My parents will talk to him, and he was rebellious and wrong, and me. And so they said once they spanked it, and you can just see me relaxation. And letting go, they just came into his body. The man he would breathe and he was repentance and he was right after the discipline, it brought him to that place. So as kids, when we are getting together and we're doing a little family project, my brother was for Christmas in my and we are supposed to come up a little saying that we were going to send everyone in the family and we're going to ride it out on little rolls are so, we'd made our little same with our little stroll on my brother said. Loathing means getting in Fellowship.

That's what rule really was a time. Five year old little boy. That's what he came up with loving means getting in fellowship and he do that because you've been disciplined along the way and personal relationship with his heavenly father. So, there is truth to that our abiding, in our fellowship has to do with personal relationship. We, we don't want to lose track of. I actually had interaction with some people just last night where I was pointing this out. We don't want to lose track of the forensic or legal aspect of what's going on in 1st. John 1:9 we are coming into a courtroom, we are citing a case, he who is faithful and just is a description of his legal standing that he is actually one who is in his personality faithful mess. He is as to his personality Justice, no, reference to his righteousness, but it's employed here. This has been met based on Justice because of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a legal issue in 1st, John 1:9. I think that's one of the reasons why I be Siri one teaching on rebound, when people would question it, they would say it. But do you have to believe anything? You know, it's just it's just the fact that you just do it. Milsim beg to differ. And then we had some little Wars between the pastures and theme and and you can imagine how the hair of their head was singed along the way. After that. But in the end, we find that there is truth. We need to be aware of what's going on. There is relational intent as we come back with confession but the reality is truth. It is a court case. We are to site, understand your siding to God and he was restoring you to a biting. He is restoring you to Fellowship is restoring youtube, personal relationship. But this restoration is based on a legal precedent in and out working of that precedent. So important for us. We're still having you rooted and built up in him and established in the faith as you have been taught abounding in it with Thanksgiving. So this is what follows of walking in the same way as we have been saved. We are built up.