For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

False prophets were tolerated in ancient Israel and are in our own day because they teach the smooth things which people in rebellion against God what to hear. Through His true prophet Jeremiah, God asked the question ‘but what will you do in the end thereof?’ A smooth talking false teacher may say that which makes life more comfortable now but what about in the end when we will stand before God who is Truth itself?

Take heed, too, you who love these false teachers that you follow, for your end shall be as like theirs — when one blind man leads another, both shall fall into the ditch (Luke 6:39).

Delivered by pastor Lamar Martin of Grace Church of North Atlanta.

You can also access the sermon directly at SermonAudio.

Soli deo Gloria!

Matthew Henry, in his commentary, writes:

“This psalm has in it as much of warmth and lively devotion as any of David’s psalms in so little a compass. As the sweetest of Paul’s epistles were those that bore date out of a prison, so some of the sweetest of David’s psalms were those that were penned, as this was, in a wilderness.

That which grieved him most in his banishment was the want of public ordinances; these he here longs to be restored to the enjoyment of; and the present want did but whet his appetite. Yet it is not the ordinances, but the God of the ordinances, that his heart is upon. And here we have,

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This thought has been running through my mind a few hours now, so I thought I’d share and see what you think.

While I know that at its fundamentals, legalism is defined as an adherence to laws and works versus grace for salvation, there’s a loose definition that defines it thus: “if I do this for God, God will do that for me”.

In which case, I’ve been thinking, in light of accusations by those who subscribe to new-fangled Christianity that includes the accursed prosperity message of being a legalistic fundamental — aren’t these folks themselves practising a perverted form of legalism?

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I have been debating some proponents of the prosperity “gospel” on a local forum and got to know about this particular piece on popular culture written by Kong Hee, the senior pastor at City Harvest Church (a mega church in Singapore) in the church’s quarterly newsletter Harvest Times.

To say that I am saddened and very much worried by what I read in the article would be an understatement, so I’m going to do a rebuttal of the article in response, in the hope that the same young people who have read and taken the advice within to heart will look at the article again, this time with the Bible as the final authority and not the words of a man.

Text referenced from the article will be in italics and in blockquotes.
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Since your most serene majesty and your high mightinesses require of me a simple, clear and direct answer, I will give one, and it is this: I can not submit my faith either to the pope or to the council, because it is as clear as noonday that they have fallen into error and even into glaring inconsistency with themselves. If, then, I am not convinced by proof from Holy Scripture, or by cogent reasons, if I am not satisfied by the very text I have cited, and if my judgment is not in this way brought into subjection to God’s word, I neither can nor will retract anything; for it can not be right for a Christian to speak against his country. I stand here and can say no more. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther (Nov 10, 1483 - Feb 18, 1546), before the Diet of Worms.

Have a blessed Reformation Day, my dear brethren and sisters!

A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing;
Our helper he, amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great;
And, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.

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