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Monday, August 24, 2009

False Doctrines

One of the greatest tools of the enemy is to inject false doctrine into the spiritual diet of believers. If we were to begin to replace healthy goods in our diet with fast food, one might not think this could affect their health very much. Over the course of a month of eating three square meals a day of only fast food, instead of healthy home cooked meals, one would see a vast difference in their body mass, functions, mood and personality. We would probably even find that although our body still functions while eating this food, it is not functioning in the manner in which God created it to. When we eat what God has created, it’s easy to see that the Creator knows what works best for what He has made. The reason that we use this analogy is not to invoke our opinions about eating well or having a healthy lifestyle, but rather to explain something that we naturally understand to present a spiritual though.

God knew what we would spiritually need to eat in our daily life, that we might be able to function in Christ’s Body in the manner He designed. Instead, what man has done has created spiritual fast food and it is being fed to God’s children through the airwaves on a consistent basis. That’s why Satan is called the “Prince of the powers of the air” (Eph 2:2). He is skilled at getting preachers to mess up scriptures, evoking false ways to God by any means other than the Finished Work of Christ. We’re aware that we are using terminology that some might not be accustomed to, (the Finished Work of Christ), but we say that to prove a point. What we need to have in our spiritual diet, is preaching that explains the transaction that took place at Calvary, what it means, what it purchased us not only for the next life, but this life as well! Instead the food folks are devouring may appear to be keeping them spiritually alive, but in reality, Christians are suffering spiritual heart attacks, and some are malnourished.

In this day and age, many people put way more trust in a doctor than they do in God for their physical healing. As though that is not bad enough, we do the same thing spiritually. Instead of relying totally on Christ and what He has done for us, we’re looking for the fast food version to get the outward results that only the Holy Spirit can do inwardly in our hearts.

Christ died to give us everything back that we lost in the garden after the Fall of Man. Our goal is to expose the ways that we are always trying to earn what God has freely given us, and how we don’t have to earn what is a free gift.

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