Behold, the LORD’s
hand is not shortened,
that it cannot save;
nor His ear heavy,
that it cannot hear.
But you're in the
iniquities have separated you
from your God;
and your sins have
hidden His face from you,
so that He will not
hear....
The Redeemer will
come to Zion,
and to those who turn
from transgression in Jacob,
says the LORD.
Isaiah 59: 1 -- 2, 20
These words
of Isaiah should cause us to examine our hearts, our intentions, and our sin;
they have separated us from the hearing of God. So often, depression in one form or another causes us to doubt
God. We wonder why does not God hear
our prayers; have we not cried out to Him for justice: "We growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves; we look for
justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before
You, and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us, and as our iniquities we know them"
(Isaiah 59: 11 -12). Our
misunderstanding often asks for a reason why God has not answered our prayers as
quickly as we wish they would be answered, and this is simply a distrust towards
God. If we are living in some form of
an equity; why should we expect God to hear us? The opening Scripture gives to us God’s position toward loans
where living outside of Authentic Biblical Truth: He will not hear. Good news: the Redeemer will come according
to Isaiah’s prophecy and that prophecy was fulfilled in Jesus Christ:
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse
for us (or it is written, "Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree"),
that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that
we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith" (Galatians 3: 13
-- 14). God does hear the cries of the repentant and will answer his
prayers according by His Providence. If
our trust is in God then we do not allow ourselves to superimpose our wishes,
and desires for a quick response as though we are greater than God. Distrust of God, or a need to have a god
according to what we think God should be is often the result of false teaching:
"O foolish Galatians! Who had
bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus
Christ's was clearly portrayed among you as crucified" (Galatians 3: 1)? No one has an excuse for Jesus Christ has
been, and is testified to all generations, and you. It may be that you have fallen prey to false teaching and need to
remove yourself from that teaching and this is done by knowing the truth, and
the truth is in Scripture properly interpreted by Scripture. To aid us in our quest to know God and to
know that which is attempting to undermine the truth we study history and see
where paganism has infected, and affected the church. The proper method in our quest for truth is by using the
grammatical/historical method. This is
the mission of this blog, and I hope it become your mission.
In the
previous blog I introduced Babylon as being the source of iniquity, and spread
its evil into all corners of the world; and into Christian religion. This is not to say that all Christians, or
churches are teaching that which is false, or heresies, but we must be on guard
individually to not allow some form of heresy to be able to affect our lives,
our families, our friends, and our church.
What has been learned at this point is this; heresy in the Christian
religion has its foundation not only in the philosophies of Greece, or other
Oriental religions but as become the foundation for false teaching, false
practices in the church, misleading truth seekers of the truth by being
bewitched. We find many things
practiced by both who call themselves Christian to have been influenced by
false teaching, i.e., the ascetic life, the practice of celibacy that is
practiced by the priestly class found in such religions as the Roman Catholic
Church, setting those priests apart from the rest of the believers, who are
considered to be only laymen. It also
introduced mysticism into the church and this mysticism may be described in
three forms, (1) an epistemological type of mysticism in which the emphasis is
upon how man comes to know God. Those
who have become swayed, or enamored by this type of mysticism believe that all
our knowledge of God is immediate and comes directly to as by intuition or
spiritual illumination. We see this
form of mysticism and such as the Roman Catholic Church, Quakers,
Pentecostalism in its various forms, and is taught in such schools as in the
Bethel Church of Redding. (2) a
metaphysical type of mysticism in which the spirit of man is thought to be
absorbed mystically into the divine being in occasional experiences here and
now. What is taught in this form of
mysticism is that upon a man's death, the spirit of man he is absorb into the
divine. We see this in some forms of
Neoplatonism, Buddhism, Hinduism, (3) an ethical and spiritual type of
mysticism in which the individual is related to God through his identification
with Christ and the indwelling holy spirit.
Thus the Bible when interpreted in a proper method will lead a person to
an understanding that this is the true Authentical Biblical Truth.
In the next
upcoming blogs I will expand upon the mystical forms enabling us to come to
know the truth not only in regard to the form of mysticism, but as to what he
is proved biblical mysticism. They
tuned, this is an exciting journey, and the end is presented to us in
Scripture: it is becoming form in the image of Jesus Christ's.
He has shown you, O man,
walked he
is good;
and walked does the LORD
required of
you
but to do justly, to love mercy,
and to walk
humbly
with your God?
Micah
6: 8
God loves you, not as you are, but as what you all are
becoming
Richard L. Crumb
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