THE WORDS OF CHRIST

 

Colossians
3:16 (NET) 

Let the
word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all
wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your
hearts to God.

What
grieved Zara most was the time she wasted in that fellowship. She reckoned that
she would have been a spiritual giant if she had not wasted that time believing
empty and powerless doctrines based on human logic and not the word of Christ.
Oh, she wept!

We saw
yesterday that one attribute of false teachers is that they downplay the words
of Christ (1 Tim 6:3). One place you will find the words of Christ is in the
New Testament part of your Bible. Many Bibles have the words of Christ written
in red. These words were what the apostles taught those who first believed.

Today, the
devil is trying very hard to make Christians depart from these words. I have
heard that some churches even now say that the words of Christ in the book of
Revelation cannot be applied to the Christian because it is too metaphorical.
They are not comfortable with the words of Christ because Christ warned his
disciples about going to hell if they keep on sinning (Matt 5:22, 29), and it
is clear that Christ does not believe their ‘once saved always saved’ doctrine.
He said He would spill some believers out of His mouth because they were
lukewarm (Rev 3:16), and He kept warning erring believers to repent (Rev 3:3,
Rev 2:5, 16). They do not like the words of Christ because it does not fit into
their false narrative of the gospel.

As you go
into today, pray for the Church in your territory. Ask the Lord to deliver His
people from delusion. Pray for yourself also.