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What's perturbing me today?
Mar. 17th, 2009 10:42 amThis verse stuck out at me this morning.
Ye shall not add or diminish.
This seems obviously to relate to the later years when the Jews set up their complex net of safeguard rules. They were, perhaps, of good intent at the time, but here it states clearly that nothing was to be added to the law of Jehovah any more than any part should be taken away. They were just to keep the commandments of God, as they were, in simplicity and truth.
But like anything else, it doesn't and shouldn't just apply to the Jewish nation. The journey of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan parallels our journey out of the worldly system to our own promised land, does it not? Therefore, it would seem that this should also be a warning to us.
How often do we add rules as Christians today that aren't of Biblical base? I know a lot of churches who have. I've been part of a few who not only added but took away truth. We need to be careful not to be misled. Every time we hear a teaching, we need to search the whole Bible and look at context to make certain that teaching is truth and not an adding to or subtracting from what is actually written.
I've been thinking a lot about David Wilkerson lately. I don't know a whole lot about him outside reading a few articles and hearing a sermon or two, but I've developed a definite instinct that he's not to be trusted. Anyone who makes predictions claiming that they come from God and then only being "generally accurate" in fulfillment is an instant red flag to me. And yet so many Christians are in support of him. In one sermon I listened to, he had a blatantly non-Scriptural concept he presented as being "shown him by the Spirit". He didn't say HOLY Spirit, incidentally.
We need to be careful not to just accept anything, especially in these days. We're going to be seeing more and more apparently respectable preachers and teachers weaving subtle errors into their doctrines that will draw us away from God rather than toward Him.
Ye shall not add or diminish.
This seems obviously to relate to the later years when the Jews set up their complex net of safeguard rules. They were, perhaps, of good intent at the time, but here it states clearly that nothing was to be added to the law of Jehovah any more than any part should be taken away. They were just to keep the commandments of God, as they were, in simplicity and truth.
But like anything else, it doesn't and shouldn't just apply to the Jewish nation. The journey of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan parallels our journey out of the worldly system to our own promised land, does it not? Therefore, it would seem that this should also be a warning to us.
How often do we add rules as Christians today that aren't of Biblical base? I know a lot of churches who have. I've been part of a few who not only added but took away truth. We need to be careful not to be misled. Every time we hear a teaching, we need to search the whole Bible and look at context to make certain that teaching is truth and not an adding to or subtracting from what is actually written.
I've been thinking a lot about David Wilkerson lately. I don't know a whole lot about him outside reading a few articles and hearing a sermon or two, but I've developed a definite instinct that he's not to be trusted. Anyone who makes predictions claiming that they come from God and then only being "generally accurate" in fulfillment is an instant red flag to me. And yet so many Christians are in support of him. In one sermon I listened to, he had a blatantly non-Scriptural concept he presented as being "shown him by the Spirit". He didn't say HOLY Spirit, incidentally.
We need to be careful not to just accept anything, especially in these days. We're going to be seeing more and more apparently respectable preachers and teachers weaving subtle errors into their doctrines that will draw us away from God rather than toward Him.
