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A little girl came home from school and said to her mother, “Mommy, today in school I was punished for something that I didn’t do.”
The mother exclaimed, “But that’s terrible!
I’m going to have a talk with your teacher about this … by the way, what was it that you didn’t do?”The little girl replied, “My homework.”
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The book of 1 John is one of the five books in the New Testament that was written by John the Apostle, brother of James.
They were known as the sons of thunder.
This letter was written between A.D. 85 to A.D. 100.
First John was written to a church or group of churches in crisis—churches who were being attacked by false teaching.
Some individuals who had once been associated with the church had accepted heresy and had left the church.
After they left they continued to spread their false teaching to the church.
They went so far as to organize and send out itinerant preachers to various churches with the goal of converting those in the churches to their beliefs.
This created confusion and plunged the churches into crisis.
In response to this situation, John wrote 1 John, following that up with 2 and 3 John.
His goal was to stop this false teaching and to bring comfort to the Christians in these churches.
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Life Principle - Test Biblical Teachers, Rely On The Holy Spirit And Ask, “Is What I Am Hearing Man Centered Or God Centered?”
Life Point- Test Teachers And Their Messages
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This section is not talking about some super spiritual event.
John is calling us to be discerning about the people we listen to.
About those that call themselves ministers or teachers of the Word of God.
God’s Word is Holy and precious to the believer it should be handled with an attitude of reverence and awe.
It should be studied in the light of its’ Historical, cultural context.
Any teacher who says they have been given special revelation or special knowledge about a topic or passage, make sure that what they teach isn’t heresy.
A lost of people have claimed this over the years and they usually fall into a heresy called gnosticism.
Gnosticism is nothing new.
The term gnostic means special knowledge.
The largest false teaching out there right now in the church, as a whole, calls itself the Word of Faith movement.
One of the most awful things they teach:
God wants for Christians to be healthy and wealthy.
Many Word-Faith teachers equate poverty with sin, including a lack of faith.
Wealth, and health, needs to be “claimed” because Jesus through his atoning death has freed us from the curse of the law, and we are now freed from all disease and poverty.
They twist scripture to come up with this garbage.
Mainly Galatians 3:13 and Deuteronomy 28.
If this is true, then Paul was a sinner.
Many scholars believe Paul is talking about an illness as being the thorn in the flesh.
He says he will boast in his infirmities.
I believe it was his eyesight.
Now according to the Word-of-Faith Paul lacked enough faith for God to heal him.
As far as prosperity goes, Paul writes:
Let me tell you some truth.
The truth is, that life is a roller coaster.
Sometimes you will abound and sometimes you will find yourself in need.
Notice I said need and not want.
When you are in need that is when the people of the Christian community are supposed to help.
So you see how important it is to be discerning.
So if you hear a new preacher, or and old preacher who is teaching something that doesn’t sound quite right what should you do?
First of all, remember:
Second, Ask you pastor.
That is what we are here for:
Whatever man may teach you, don’t just accept their word for it.
Don’t just accept my word for it.
Be like the Bereans.
The scriptures are your final authority.
We are to search them in their proper context, praying for discernment of what is being taught to us.
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(Testimony of the Word-Faith movement)
Life Point - Is It Man Centered Or God Centered?
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The gnostics, those who thought they had special revelation from God, were teaching a heresy that Jesus was not 100% man and 100% God.
The theological term is called the Hypostatic Union.
They taught that He only looked like man.
They would say that anything that is of the flesh, the material world is evil and anything of the spiritual world is good.
So Jesus being fully man puts a monkey wrench in their teachings.
So, they took it out.
Believe it or not this teaching is alive and well in different forms today in the church, where the spiritual realm is regarded far above the physical realm.
Mostly today you will find that in your Word-Faith churches.
You see the God of the Bible created both realms, and in order to redeem mankind Jesus had to be a man.
One of my favorite Apologetics websites, Carm.org, has it succinctly.
By the ways Apologetics has nothing to do with apologizing.
Apologetics is the study of God’s Word using simple logic and reason in order to defend the Christian faith.
The sinner cannot fulfill the law because he is sinful (in the flesh).
Since the sinner cannot fulfill the law and satisfy God, it follows that only God can do this.
This is simple logic.
If we are unable to fulfill the Law, then we will be punished by it.
But, since God desires us to be saved, the Law must be satisfied.
Since we cannot keep the Law and it must be satisfied, then the only one capable of keeping the Law must keep the Law: God.
Jesus is God in the flesh.
Jesus was also a man under the Law.
Jesus became sin for us and bore our sins in His body on the cross – thus fulfilling the Law.
Look at that last part there.
John equates false teaching to the spirit of the Antichrist.
That is what is so insidious about false teachers and their false messages.
They mix truth with error and in-so-doing they actually give us a different picture of Christ.
Which, when followed out to its’ logical conclusion, gives us a false Gospel.
For example, the message is not the good news of health and wealth.
It is the good news of peace between God and man.
The wiping away of our sin debt and bringing us into God’s Kingdom.
The salvation of our souls from Hell.
Which, if may say so, is a better Gospel than just health and wealth.
The health and wealth Gospel makes God out to be some celestial Santa Clause who does our bidding if we manipulate Him with our words and do the right formulas to get what you want.
That is a different Gospel.
Paul said:
God’s Gospel is God centered.
Man’s Gospel is always man-centered.
A good test to know if a message is from God or not can be summed up this way.
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