Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.
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… If we don't abide in his teachings, John says, we do not have God. But if we hold to Christ, we have both the Father and the Son. The great deceiver, Satan, his allies, and those that would deceive through his lies, They know where to go. They know where to strike. They know how to turn down the music for the Christian. They know how to starve the feasting, stamp out the joy, turn sick the healthy, poison the root, target the true source of our life. And that source is the good news that we're not left in sin and darkness, but that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him would not perish, but would have life everlasting. Deceivers go after the gospel. They go after Christ because they want to take away that life, that life that you and I have, and if you don't have it, you can have by repenting of your sins and putting your faith in Jesus Christ, the eternal son of God. …
so let God be God and every man a liar What a privilege to be shepherds of God's people! What a challenge! Be strong in the strength that is ours in Christ Jesus. Father, thank you for the day. Thank you for the privilege of being in each other's company. thank you for your Word, which shines a light on our path and is food for our souls and establishes our coming and going. We do pray that you will help us to process these things, that the forcefulness with which I may have said things is only significant insofar as it reinforces your word. Lord, we, on our best day, are unprofitable servants, and we acknowledge this freely, that we don't stand in judgment on Abram's deceitful approach when he had such a beautiful wife and was trying to figure out what to do. We recognize how deceitful our own hearts are. And so we thank you that we can pray as Nehemiah prayed. Remember us, O Lord, according to your steadfast love, which has been made, provided for us fully, finally, savingly, in the death and resurrection of your dearly beloved Son, in whose name we pray.
1. Now, first, let us consider how plainly we are taught in Scripture that perfect obedience is the standard of Gospel holiness. By St. Paul: "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." "Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God." "Whatsoever things are true . . . honest . . . just . . . pure . . . lovely . . . of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." By St. James: "Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." By St. Peter: "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue . . . knowledge . . . temperance . . . patience . . . godliness . . . brotherly kindness . . . charity." By St. John: "Hereby do we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments." Lastly, by our Lord Himself: "He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me, shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him." And, above all, the following clear declaration in the Sermon on the Mount: "Whosoever . . . shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." …