Lyndle
Member
When Paul served the early church, threats of deception abounded.
Gnosticism worked to pollute the pure gospel with a faith that originated
from, and focused on 'self'. We see the same today in much of
Christendom... a 'form' of godliness, without the power of true godliness
(which comes with genuine faith generated by the Spirit of God).
When Eleazar was sent to find a bride for Issac, Abraham told him not to
look in the land of the Canaanites (where he lived at the time), but to return
to the land of his people and bring her back. If the girl was not willing to
leave her family and return with Eleazar, then he was free from the
obligation. He was not allowed to take Isaac to the land of the woman, she
had to leave all and come to the land of her new husband. (see Gen. 24)
Psalm 45 eludes to a bride for the king. We read this in vs 10-11:
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine
ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for He is
thy Lord; and worship thou Him.
The young woman was to 'forget her own people' and 'her
father's house.' Her focus was to be her new life with her new
husband, the king.
So it is with the regenerated believer. Nothing of the 'natural' life
is to influence or strengthen us in our walk with the Lord (our king).
We read of a time in 2 Thessalonians 2 that some will fall away
from a genuine faith. The reason is summed up in verses 10-
12:
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them
that perish; because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.
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.
Those who do not love truth (leaving the 'natural' to embrace it)
will come under a delusion sent by God. As they were then, we
are called today to come away...out of 'self' to the life of God...
or risk falling away from it.
The Lord, our King, has given all that we need to live by His life.
May we all, by His life, forsake self to be found in Jesus (and
the righteousness that is of Him, by Him and for Him).
Gnosticism worked to pollute the pure gospel with a faith that originated
from, and focused on 'self'. We see the same today in much of
Christendom... a 'form' of godliness, without the power of true godliness
(which comes with genuine faith generated by the Spirit of God).
When Eleazar was sent to find a bride for Issac, Abraham told him not to
look in the land of the Canaanites (where he lived at the time), but to return
to the land of his people and bring her back. If the girl was not willing to
leave her family and return with Eleazar, then he was free from the
obligation. He was not allowed to take Isaac to the land of the woman, she
had to leave all and come to the land of her new husband. (see Gen. 24)
Psalm 45 eludes to a bride for the king. We read this in vs 10-11:
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine
ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for He is
thy Lord; and worship thou Him.
The young woman was to 'forget her own people' and 'her
father's house.' Her focus was to be her new life with her new
husband, the king.
So it is with the regenerated believer. Nothing of the 'natural' life
is to influence or strengthen us in our walk with the Lord (our king).
We read of a time in 2 Thessalonians 2 that some will fall away
from a genuine faith. The reason is summed up in verses 10-
12:
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them
that perish; because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.
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.
Those who do not love truth (leaving the 'natural' to embrace it)
will come under a delusion sent by God. As they were then, we
are called today to come away...out of 'self' to the life of God...
or risk falling away from it.
The Lord, our King, has given all that we need to live by His life.
May we all, by His life, forsake self to be found in Jesus (and
the righteousness that is of Him, by Him and for Him).