False doctrines DO the following things:
1) False doctrines always feed our godless human (carnal) nature. Carnal preaching and teaching usually either lifts man to God’s level or brings God down to man’s level. This is why it’s so important to know the difference between the soulical and the spiritual. Soulical is of the mind, will, intellect, emotions. That’s where the world lives! Spiritual is our conscience, the center of our being and where Jesus dwells when we ask Him into our hearts. It’s where we hear His voice and it must come alive only through our submission to the authority of Jesus. Romans 8 teaches us that the war between the spirit and carnal natures is within us. Remember Jesus said, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Satan likes to use our emotions to lead us astray. He uses the circumstances to incite our emotional response because if we’re carnal and can be led by our souls, then he can lead us away from God.
One example is the doctrine of inclusion which teaches that at judgment day, God is going to forgive everyone in hell and only the devil, or some say, even the devil will be forgiven and everyone all goes to heaven. Sounds good. Not true! Why? Because then God would be a liar. But that’s the devil’s lie and he is the father of lies. This doctrine is what I call the King of False Doctrines.
God tells us in Isaiah 55:8: My thoughts are NOT your thoughts; my ways are NOT your ways. His thoughts and ways are not natural to us and cannot be arrived upon by natural means. It takes the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us to His thoughts and His ways. It takes putting aside the flesh which wars against the Holy Spirit. That’s how we find His thoughts and His ways. Even in the Old Testament it was blasphemy to bring God down to man’s level. It’s still blasphemy today. No good thing comes from our carnal nature. To assume that it does is self-deception. In the end, God will just us by HIS standards, not ours. God will ensure that heaven is sterile from sin.
Another example once saved always saved. The one’s supporting this false idea never take a look at the end result of what this doctrine produces – a backslider. Where you find a backslider, you can usually find a person who still thinks he’s saved, but living for the devil.
Those supporting this false doctrine always use the scripture that no one can pluck you out of my hand, but they don’t take in account all the scriptures that refute the reliance on that one scripture. Those scriptures are:
Matthew 24:48: But if that evil servant says in his heart, “My master is delaying his coming,” and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is no looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
And if the Bible isn’t clear enough about this issue for us, it also shows us by the Lord’s example of the ‘worker’s of iniquity.’ These are preachers who actually carried an anointing but fell away. Folks if the Pharisees of Jesus’ day weren’t a clear example that we can just as easily go to hell from the pulpit and the pew as we can from the barstools and brothels, then we’re asleep at the wheel.
Furthermore, in its foundation this false doctrine accepts 3 lies:
(i) the first lie is that we can take God’s grace for granted which is clearly refuted in the aforementioned scripture, along with Jesus saying he will blot out some names in the Lamb’s Book of Life. One can’t be blotted out without first being written in.
(ii) b) the second lie is that our carnal nature is good, which is in direct conflict with Romans 8 wherein is written: “In me there dwelleth NO GOOD THING!” Both lies are clearly exposed here in Matthew 24. To say that we can’t backslide is to say that our own carnal nature is good; and
(iii) the third lie is that there is no such thing as freewill given to man by God and no such thing as good faith and bad faith. The Bible is filled with examples of people who did not obey God’s commands and their final result. Our relationship with God is supposed to be walked out in Godly fear and we learn His thoughts and His ways through line upon line, precept upon precept.
Jesus said, by their fruits you shall know them. Just because a preacher has an anointing does not mean they’re going to heaven. Many will fall by the wayside because they’ve allowed life and the enemy to eat them up and become bitter and bearing no fruit. No love walk in them. Jesus expects our fruit to remain regardless of our level in the church. No one is exempt from the standards the Lord expects of us, including and especially the leaders within the church. And that alone should be a warning to all of us.
2) It sears the conscience. The conscience is a part of our spirit man that is the center of our being, our spirit man. It’s the place within us that we asked Jesus to come in and live inside us. It is where we get instruction. But if we do not have Jesus, then our center is off and misguided into evil things.
The Bible makes it clear in that we are living in a dominion filled with the conflict of good and evil. We must discern the difference between good from the evil. We can’t avoid it. That includes good and evil in all things. Fear, truth, faith, love -everything! It’s the meaning of life as we know it here on earth. This searing of the conscience is the goal of Satan for everyone. Saints and Sinners alike. He just goes about it differently with the Saints. He takes the knowledge we have and twists it in a manner that is so subtle like he did in the garden with Eve.
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