FRIDAY, February 20th, 2009

IT IS FRIDAY!!!! YAY!!!!!

I love Fridays! What are your plans for the weekend?

12 But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,
13 and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,
14 having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.
15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

Deceptions of False Teachers
18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

This is something new to me. If I am understanding this correctly it is telling us that false doctrine is SUCH A DANGEROUS thing! And FALSE TEACHERS are just as dangerous! It says that these teachers will teach things that sound like freedom and epace, but the truth is that if it is through anything but Jesus Christ, there will be no freedom, but only bondage!!

Not only are they dangerous when you are involved in them, but if you have allowed false doctrines and false teachers to form any part of your mind, there is a good change you are more vulnerable to falacies!

Let me explain... Peter shares the old proverb: As a Dog returns to his vomit, so a man returneth to his folly!! In other words, we must guard our hearts and guard our mind, because the consequences and the danger of taking part in false doctrine...

So you may be asking yourself... HOW DO WE KNOW THAT PASTOR LEE IS NOT GIVING US FALSE DOCTRINE?? Well, check what I am saying what what the word of God says. We should always use discernment by comparing peoples words to Gods word!!

That is another reason why it is so important to BE IN GODS WORD!!!.... so DO YOUR DEVOTIONS!!!! :)

Love you guys!