The Consequence

 

 

Gentle Reader,

 I'm back! My book is going slowly... writers block!  I jumped in the middle of the work Perhaps I should back up and explain.  I have lost 3 copies of my first draft. trying to walk the line between being something worthwhile reading and a book that is readable. The working title is "Which church" A study of all the "Christian churches and why we seemingly cannot get together on the very differences that keep us apart and why? So here is what you get today... Read only if you want me to feel like I'm doing something worthwhile... It's about your church or the one you just left or the one you just now joined

I call this 

THE CONSEQUENCE

"Take it, or leave it alone" is expressive of an indifferent attitude. One might well ask the question: "What will be the consequence if it is, or is not, taken?" In reading The Book of books it ought to prove profitable for one to ask: What will be the consequence if The Word of God is not believed? Can one dis-regard, disrespect, or dis revere The Holy Scriptures and avoid the corresponding consequence?

God presents no meaningless or unnecessary precepts. Our Lord says exactly what He means, and means just exactly what He says. Compromise is absolutely out of the question with God. His Word is sure. He has exalted His Word above His name. Cp. Psa. 138:2. God's Word is forever settled in Heaven. Cp. Psa. 119:89, Isa. 40:8. His Word shall accomplish His Purposes. Cp. Isa. 55:11. His Word shall not pass away. Cp. Matt 24:35.

When one turns to Heb. 4:12 he reads that The Word of God is QUICK, POWERFUL, SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND SPIRIT, AND OF THE JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A DISCERNER (critic) OF THE THOUGHTS AND INTENTS of the HEART.

What will be the consequence of disregarding The Word of God?

One cannot play fast and loose with The Bible. Dire consequences are inevitable when The Infallible Word of God is in any sense questioned, disbelieved, or gainsayed. Cp. Jude 11.

While much might be written on this subject as it concerns the unbeliever, yet our purpose now is to set forth an urgent appeal to all believers. There are many professed believers who consider themselves Fundamentalists. I have this class particularly in mind as I write.

The Modernists are growing in numbers, and in purely human reasoning strength. This, however, is only temporary. The Word of God meets the reasoning of the Modernist with 1 Cor. 2:1-16.

The sad fact facing us in this present time is that some Fundamentalists of by-gone days are now full-fledged Modernists; and, also, some who are now considered Fundamentalists are evidently leaning very decidedly toward Modernism. Doubtless, many of our readers are able to call to mind some quite outstanding Fundamentalist of yesterday, now banking in the delusive favor of Modernism.

What is the explanation for this tragic trend; what is the solution to this perplexing problem?

We are living in a time when it is becoming more and more difficult for one to hold faithfully to the Fundamental position; yea, without adhering to a certain exhortation of God's Word it is becoming more and more IMPOSSIBLE to be Fundamental."STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORKMAN THAT NEEDETH NOT TO BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH."

2 Tim. 2:15. There you have an exhortation that has been either disregarded or misinterpreted by the majority of Fundamentalists. The consequence is very evident.

REMEMBER: The Bible is divided against itself unless rightly divided.

The Holy Scriptures are made to be self-contradictory, in disagreement, and the subject of blatant ridicule because God's perfectly constructed Word has been jumbled and scrambled by many of its earnest supporters.

When Bible Teachers, Preachers, Evangelists repeatedly throw all portions of the Bible together, and mix up, and stir up, and put things here that belong there, and make the NOWS read THENS, and the THENS read NOWS, and the AFTERWARDS read BEFOREWARDS, etc., etc., Modernism will continue to grin and grow.

The SOLUTION? 0h, yes! Here it is: "Distinguish the things that differ." Keep separate what God has separated; keep united what God has united. RIGHTLY DIVIDE! Cp. Phil. 1:9, 10; Col. 2:16-23.

DISPENSATION DISCERNMENT is the need of the hour. To mix Kingdom and Church Truth, Law and Grace, Jews and Gentiles and Church of God, the various Churches, Gospels, Judgments, Resurrections, Spheres, Dispensations, etc., of Scripture is to suffer consequential confusion.

A Fundamentalist who is in confusion may soon be in delusion.

When all Fundamentalists get together on the basis of RIGHTLY DIVIDED TRUTH (the only ground of unity Cp. Eph. 4:1-6) then they will form a powerful, uncompromising, unyielding company with Scriptural intelligence sufficient to stop the mouth of the gainsayer.

Otherwise: THE CONSEQUENCE.

 Love, Denis