Dec 11
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Isaiah 43: 27: Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
It is much the same as the apostle Pauls’ word
2 Thessalonians 2: 3: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
The teachers in the temple transgressed against God just as they did in Paul’s day, just as they do in churches all over this nation. How so? Not openly saying the words “I am God” but boasting that they have done the things which God declares that God alone is able to perform.
- Offense of ascribing to sinners the glory and power which belongs to God only.
- Boast that a sinner can make himself born again. Christ said, John 6: 63: It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life…65: And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
- Boasting that Christ laid down his life for all and sinners make his blood effectual. But Christ said, John 10: 15:…I lay down my life for the sheep.
- Boasting that the sinner makes himself God’s elect by his choice for God. Christ said:John 10: 26: But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
- Glorying in self-abasement, cunningly devised fables of conversions, boasting ofincreasing themselves in godliness,…Colossians 2: 19: And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Exalting man—man’s worth, man’s will, man’s works—above all that is called God or that is worshipped, sitting in God’s house and showing himself that he is God.
2 Thessalonians 2: 11: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Clay Curtis (extract from saved from the bartenders of Babylon.)