Truth and False Doctrine Will Never Walk Together.

2 John 1:9 - 11 “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. (10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: (11) For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

Christians, we all need to take these scriptures as a warning. We are not our own, no, not at all, we belong to God because before the foundation of the world God chose us as His own, and in time Jesus Christ redeemed us to be God’s once again. We were all born into sin, this means we came from our mother’s womb sinners and in doing so we left the fold of Gods chosen and became sinners and separated from God wondering in a lost and dying world. When God said in this parable of the lost sheep, “What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.” Luke 15:4 We all came into this world lost sheep of God whom He gave to Jesus before the foundation of the world. However, in this world we were lost, sinful, and wondering in a dark world not knowing we truly belonged to Jesus. We are blessed because we had a Saviour, a Sheperd who left heaven and came to this world to seek and to find His lost sheep. He found us, because we could never find Him, because we were never looking for Him. Jesus brought us back to His fold and put us with the other ninety and nine. What a glorious gift to us who were elected before the world as God’s children and gifted to Jesus. While we still dwell in this dark and sinful world we are no longer bounded to sin because Jesus has set us free from Satan’s power and sin. God sent His Holy Spirit to us to teach us, and we learned the doctrine of God’s word day by day as we studied to rightly divide the word of Truth. God was also gracious to us to set us into a church where our Pastors and Teachers could feed us the truth of God’s Word. This doctrine of the bible, this word of truth, should be the most precious thing in our life. We need to continually feed on it and nourish our spiritual hearts and causing spiritual growth. Our most closet time with our God and our Saviour is when we meet with them in study, but it is more precious when we meet in our churches to study and worship together. God warned us to never sell the truth Pro. 23:23 but to surrender all, even our lives to protect it. God said, “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ…” and if you surrender the true doctrine you, “hath not God.” What a horrible thought, to understand that if we surrender the truth of the doctrine we have once again separated ourselves from fellowship with God. God warned in Amos 3:3 “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” and the answer is no they cannot, especially with God. Therefore, it is our responsibility to God and to Jesus our churches Head to hold the line on bible doctrine. We are to protect our church from false doctrine and always “rightly dividing the word of truth.” So that we are never ashamed before our Lord and Master. God said if anyone comes among us who has a different doctrine we are not to, “receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.” Because there is nothing more damaging to a house of sheep than a wolf in sheep clothing. We need to send that wolf and his false doctrine on his way, “neither bid him God speed:” This is because helping him in anyway is partaking of his evil deeds, and getting caught up in his lies and false doctrine. Pray for his soul, pray for his coming to truth, but never pray to our God of Truth to help him spread his false doctrine. Never give him a place in your church to pray, sing, or to speak in any way, just ask him to go, before there is damage in the Lord’s church. “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” Remember that two cannot walk together unless we agree and Truth never will agree with false doctrine, ever! Many of Christians and even church have committed apostasy with the truth and God because they have failed to heed God’s warning and in Judgment they will pay for their apostasy. Please watch whom you listen to, and if it is not Truth, please turn your ears from it.   

Buy the Truth and sell it not!

Proverbs 23:23 “Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.”

What does God mean by “buy the Truth,” He means to own it, no matter the cost. As children of God, we are to be like our Father, and that means to search for and believe His Truth. He also means to possess it, make His truth your life, never sell it for the world because the world and all that is in it is only temporary. Matt. 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” The Truth of God’s word is not popular, it will cost you much to believe it, it could cost you friendships, relationships, and even family, to believe it and it could also cost you to testify of it because of the hate of it. The world by nature hates Gods Truth and a lot of Christians either refuse to believe the Truth or hide from it. Many of Christians lose it for just the reason I have already spoke of. People by nature care about the cost of the Truth, they care about what their family, co-workers, or friends think about them believing the Truth of God’s word. However, remember this, you cannot serve God and the world, one will cause you to hate or despise of the other. The Lord not only told us to buy it, but He also told us not to sell it out. Your family, friends, and coworkers are not worth selling out God’s word of Truth. Do not allow Satan, this evil world and their demonization of the Truth cause you to lose what God has graciously given. Believing Truth is a gift, like salvation is a gift from God. While you cannot lose your salvation, you can lose or sell out the Truth of God’s word. Carefully walk my friends, what we do in this life will affect our reward status in heaven. The believer’s judgment will be before Jesus Christ and our judgment will be harsh. Our judgment will not be for our sins because Jesus Christ has already paid dearly for them at Calvery. The Christians judgment will be our believing and obeying of the word of God. Our judgment will be harsh, it will hurt to stand before our glorious Saviour and realize that we failed our Lord. The realization that we failed to “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 Or that we failed to obey the word of God, sometimes even acting as though we did not hear it, see it, or simply chose to ignore it, or making excuses for it. We will stand before Jesus WITHOUT EXCUSS and very pitiful because He is the very one who wrote the bible and commanded us. We will be ashamed of our action on this earth of not being a good Christian, or a good soldier for the Lord. We will no longer be able to lie to ourselves and believe even though we told ourselves we were good soldiers we lied to ourselves and convinced ourselves that we were. Beloved, what we personally believe, and think is irrelevant because the word of God overrides what we think or believe. God warned and even commanded that we study His word of Truth, but He also commanded that we believe it and use it to “rightly dividing the word of truth.” The writer of the Proverbs wrote these words of wisdom, “My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.” Proverbs 2:1 -5 The greatest blessing for a believer is not within this world, it is within the pages of God’s word of Truth. As the recipients of God’s grace and love, not only in salvation but also in being taught by the Holy Spirit of Truth, it is ours to study, learn, believe, and to walk within. However, if we fail, if we sell the Truth, then it is our fault and in judgment we will suffer much greater loss. I know some things are hard in life, however, there are no excuses for failure. We are not alone, seek and you shall find, as and it shall be given to you, but you must want the truth to find it. “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” Matthew 7:7 - 8