Scriptures That Have Been Misapplied

December 15, 2019

The Church’s Job

Read: 1 Timothy 3:15, so that, if I am delayed, you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Sheep: The church is made up of sheep, and many times, sheep will blindly follow a leader that they have. If they have a good leader, it is to their benefit, if not, their detriment, but for the most part they will still follow. The job of the church, is that it is by designate, to be the outlet of truth in the world.

Entity: The moment that the church becomes darkened by worldly principles, is the moment that the church fails, in it’s initiatory purpose and reason, and everything it does becomes obsolete. And the functions of it and all the enterprise and activities in it are all in vain and considered as wasted resource and wasted stewardship.

The Church Is A Place Of Doctrine:

a. The church is a place of saving doctrine: 1 Timothy 4:16, “16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.”

b. The church cannot be naive: Romans 16:18, “For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.”

Doctrine, simply means what you communicate and teach to others. Your job is to know the doctrine of the church. This means, that when the church misapplies Scripture, it should be explained correctly, and believed.​

Israel And The Individual

​Mistake In Application of Scriptures In The Church 1:

Read: Exodus 3:17, “And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites--a land flowing with milk and honey.'

Read Psalm 78:52-69, 52 He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness. 53 He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies. 54 He brought them to His holy land, to the hill country His right hand had acquired. 55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. 56 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees. 57 They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow. 58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. 59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely. 60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men. 61 He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary. 62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage. 63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs. 64 His priests fell by the sword, but His widows could not lament. 65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine. 66 He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame. 67 He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim. 68 But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved. 69 He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.“

- Attributing God’s faithfulness and his overlooking mercy to us as individuals in the same manner that he treated Israel on the whole. Many times in my life as a believer have I heard it taught, that when individuals are unfaithful, or commit sins, that God is faithful to them, just like he was to Israel in the Old Testament. This is a misapplied Scripture. He promised his people. He led them out, He rejected those who tested him, and gave them over to the power of the enemy because they provoked him by idols and sexual sins. He rejected many people in Israel due to their faithlessness. But after, it says he chose Judah, and chose his promised people, and Zion and established forever his sanctuary. What Is The Truth Here? - The real truth, is that you cannot attribute to yourself, the national promise of Israel. You can attribute to God his love for you, but know that those who he kept, are those who did not provoke him to ruin them.

The truth is: The church blindly believes falsehood and ignores the fact and truth of there being Israelites, who fell, Israelites who provoked, and Israelites that were left to the enemy forever.

The truth is: God will establish a remnant of persons, who are going to be faithful, who “do not bow the knee to Ball” and will use these people. No where in the Bible does it say (like many people in the church erroneously state) that God will establish a remnant for himself, who he accepts, despite them bowing their knee to Baal”. Beware of pastors, who are not “wanting” to teach what Scripture says about these things, because of the difficulty of accepting this truth and the difficulty to understand and preach it - because they can induce the sheep, into a false sense of security - when the Bible is clear that security in faith comes from being in a “right spirit with God” like King David - though he sinned, still sought repentance, and found it, he found his heart loving God again! We also see, that this can even be depleted to even one person on the earth, like Noah, who was the only one in his day, who loved God.

​It Still Applies Today

Read: Romans 11:3-5, “3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”? 4 And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” b 5 In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.”

So here Romans is clear, that God still is working in the same pattern and that today, the claim of grace is evidenced by a holy and Righteous life, and life that is committed to the truth, and to be soldiers in God’s kingdom today. This remnant chosen by grace, is real. But this is evidenced by resistance to and not giving in to sin.

Look what it says in Hebrews 11:35, “35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.”

These women, would rather die, and have a better life, and others even tortured, than to give into sin, and unbelief, and the world and to be tortured for faith in Christ, rather than to be released from torture, if they deny knowing or association with Christ or the gospel.

If we can deny him in life, it is a form of divine abandonment. Your acceptance with God, and your election, is directly related to your response of fearing him, and bearing the fruit of holy living, and your salvation is not attributed, if you fail, and give in to sin and unbelief and openly denying God, by claiming that the promises to Israel corporately, apply to you, because they do not. Not for anyone.

Meditating On These Matters

We need to exemplify lives that nominal Christians cannot deny and makes them exposed as fraudulent, and causes them to question themselves, and acknowledge that we are the real thing. We need to communicate, that salvation assurance, is there, for the believer who evidenced applied faithful living and that it is misapplied doctrine, to presume or to erroneously comfort fallen believers with Scriptures, meant for Israel on the whole because they do not apply to individuals in this case. We are called to call people to repent.

- Are you loving God, and others and the lost, by telling them the truth?

- We need to understand the importance of our doctrine, in which we give to others, so that we encourage restoration and revival.