THE LIFE OF FAITH AND THE GLORIOUS CHURCH - 2009
FEBRUARY 16th
THE TEACHING OF CHRIST
...."And now I ask you, lady, not as writing to you a new commandment, but
the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. And
this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the
commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in
it. For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not
acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the
antichrist. Watch yourselves, that you might not lose what we have
accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. Anyone who goes too far
and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who
abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son"....
2 John 1:5-9 NASB
The "teaching of
Christ" is defined as the principles of Christ [the Kingdom of Heaven] -
as revealed by the Holy Spirit. All the deceptions, all the lies, indeed, all
those things that are designed to draw us away from God are found in the
"world". Therefore, when a believer "maintains" a fear of
being deceived, it is because they have, in some way, remained in
heart-fellowship with the world. Because of these things, it is certain that
they need to begin to humble themselves before God on a daily basis - thus, allowing
the Holy Spirit to both expose and remove the "idols" that they,
themselves, have raised up in their lives. An idol is defined as being anything
or anyone that we place ahead of our love of God - anything or anyone that is
given pre-eminence over [occupies] the place due only to Him. We must see [gain
a revelation of] in this most critical hour the importance of removing
ourselves from any fellowship with the world and its ways [fear, pride,
rebellion, inbelief etc.]. For it is certain that as we begin to
"abide" in the Word [and allow the Word to abide in us], God will be
enabled to reveal to our heart an abundance of truth and revelation so that we
might "walk above" ALL the darkness of this present "world
system" - with both feet planted firmly in the Kingdom.
Related Scriptures: 1 Peter 5:5b-8; James
4:4; Ephesians 1:17-23;
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