"Write"

[Coconut]

"Write"

Rom 3:2 To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."

Rom 15:4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

1Co 10:11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

2Ti 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.


"Write":

New Testament Hyper-concordance: "Write"

Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version

A great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: So the WORD OF THE LORD was increased very greatly and was full of power. [ref Act 19:19]

 

[Coconut]

The Crisis Facing The Church Today

"Today, Christians of all persuasions and coming from different denominations, are denying the rich heritage of standing solely and consistently on the Bible, and the Bible alone. This spells trouble, for without biblical authority and discipline, we are not only like a ship without a rudder but we are exposed to every imagination that the human mind is capable of bringing up and conceiving.

The church at large today is facing a crisis of immense proportions, because this issue strikes at the very grassroots of our holy faith. Abandoning the moorings of Scripture can and will in due course spell catastrophe for the faith. For faith is always to be grounded and nourished upon the revealed Word of God, not upon human wisdom which with God is accounted to be foolishness. The warrant of faith is found in Scripture. Other than that faith degenerates into subjectivism, mysticism or some other aberration that cannot maintain the soul in communion with the Creator.

In fighting the fight before us, we are and should be constantly reminded of the promise of our Lord, that the gates of Hades shall not prevail against His true disciples.

But this does not necessarily mean that they cannot be deceived or led astray by the spirit of the age. The Christian and the church as a corporate body is exhorted and warned against error, and is to hold fast to the written Word, for only therein is the truth to be found. Pastors and teachers in the church are held responsible to pass on to their generation and the next the undiluted and unadulterated truth of God.

In the past the struggle was mainly against a corrupt form of Christianity, that is, Romanism; today such a struggle continues (for Rome has since then degenerated all the more doctrinally), but added to that is the struggle against new forms of eclecticism: for instance, psychology mixed with the Bible, or charismatic dreams and so-called prophecies being held up to the Christian’s attention together with the Bible. Then it was church tradition, now it is of a more subjective nature, but the danger is there, and it is even more insidious.

A sure foundation

The great objective of the church today is to get back on the right rails, the rails that her Lord has appointed for her, that is, the Holy Scripture, to be faithful to the rich deposit of faith therein revealed (Jude 3). But this is not what is being done. On the agenda of many denominations the first item is that of unity and ecumenism. By this is meant a superficial unity of getting together at the neglect or even denial of the truth of God.

But the kingdom of Christ is not one of darkness. It is a kingdom where truth must prevail. “To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth” (John 18:37). Such was the good confession that Christ bore before Pilate. And we, as his disciples, must maintain that cause, not water it down.

“Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.”

The crisis facing the church today

 

[stephen]

Rom 3:2 To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."

Rom 15:4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

1Co 10:11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

Amen to His word which gives light and understanding to all who read