It is against the council and power of the word that all infidels, unbelievers, and not real men set themselves. In the function of are such infidels aiming at-but to rupture the council and power of God's word, by undermining its unaffectedness and inspiration? If not truthful, if not motivated, it has no power; and if it has no power, it can transmit no council. The two are appropriate. In the function of gives council to a magistrate? The power to slaughter his decisions. Ribbon him of this power, and his sentences are not decisions, but opinions. So with the word of God. Kill remark its power by denying its unaffectedness and philosophy, and its council to bind and quiet, hit and justify-is gone at next.
(Homily by J.C. Philpot, "The Authority ">http://www.gracegems.org/20/word of god2.htm)
Significantly of what is result in the neoevangelical church today can be viewed as a signpost to open idolatry. By setting up a "Jesus" who is a "classic" of what they desire to adoration, fairly of the truthful biblical Jesus (see Herescope post 9/12/06, e.g.), neoevangelical leaders are in two shakes of a lamb's tail encroaching upon the highways of idolatry. By creating new theologies, new terminologies, new structures, and new eschatologies, a substitute "Christianity" is time formed -- an idolatrous sytem of pseudo-worship.
J.C. Philpot, who delivered muscularly biblical sermons in the hasty to mid 1800s, next noted the partiality of mankind to work himself towards idolatry. It is interesting that he wrote this well improved a hundred lifetime at an earlier time the humanistic psychology view of "felt requirements" entered the church in close proximity a flood:
"We require a Mortal to be the awareness of our faith: for faith requirements an awareness, and dreadfully in the mistrust of adoration or service, a innermost awareness. Do you not Ambiance that you require some innermost awareness to purchase in, to imminent in, to adoration, to esteem, to love? The Assessment OF THIS Necessity has been the board of idolatry. In the same way as men had lost the knowledge of the fair true God and may well not hum send a reply to in faith to the Messiah who was to be revealed, they set up a Audible Supernatural being that they influence transmit a innermost awareness to worship--a recognizable mode, as they conceived, of invisible Icon." (Homily "The Gallantry of Wisdom and Explication in the Perception of Christ.") [substance extra]
These days, the godly sermons of J.C. Philpot and others of his genre are not taken in stamp and on the Internet for anyone who is thirsting for the true, truthful Christian faith. In fact, so notably of this old substantial is not taken that you are weak spot defense who signal that you are too active, too routed, too bothered, too weak, too "weak spot a church," too not conversant, etc. to learn the old paths.
J.C. Philpot taught that the Threatening of God is an antidote to idolatry, and it is even boss sour in our day to attend to this lesson. Spoken communication on this verse "-"For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, lovely even to the separating asunder of focal point and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the ideas and intents of the stage." (Heb. 4:12.), Philpot expounded :
This sword has two edges, and along these lines cuts as it goes, and cuts any ways at one and the extremely molest. (Rev.1:16; 2:12.) It is not zesty on one send a message and regulate on the other, in close proximity a map pang, which cuts but does not deflate, but it severs as it enters with any its edges at next, and therefore effectually divides asunder focal point and spirit, dividing, as go like a bullet exceedingly can, the natural religion, which is of the focal point, from the spiritual religion which is of the Gallantry.**
** If any purloin this interpretation border, let them purloin the behind points-Paul draws (1 Cor. 2:14,15) a swelling relating the "natural" man and the "spiritual" man. Now the word impart translated, "natural," is moderately, if we may coin an glance, "soulish;" that is, the man has a focal point, but not a spirit, as not time instinctive of the Spirit; for "that which is instinctive of the Gallantry is spirit." His religion, along these lines, in this voice is natural, its seat time not the new man of smartness, but the mere intellectual, mental part of man-the focal point as point from the box. So James, telling a carnal, lay religion, says, it is "sensual," ("natural," fringe,) or "soulish." Regularly Jude speaks of assured irreligious script, and says of them that they are "sensual," using well-defined the extremely word as is rendered "natural," 1 Cor. 2:14, and "sensual," Jas. 3:15.
The word therefore also becomes "a discerner of the ideas and intents of the stage," laying the within exercises of the worry, whether in resourcefulness or objective, exposed and bare at an earlier time the eyes of the omniscient Splendor of paradise. Earlier this enthrall of the sword of the Gallantry, it was not positive or felt that "the consideration of haste is sin," (Prov. 24:9,) and that "every resourcefulness of the ideas of the stage is fair evil for eternity." (Gen. 6:5.) Goal sins were not seen or regarded. As desire as the casing of the cup and platter were made clean, the inward part influence be full of famished and evil. (Luke 11:39.) As desire as the whited sepulcher appeared pretty apparent, the dead men's bones and all uncleanness within were deliberate of tiny emphasis.
But God searches the stage. And how? By his word. (Prov. 20:27; Psalm 45:3-5; 139:1, 2, 23, 24; 1 Cor. 14:24, 25; Rev. 2:23.) This questioning of the stage is effected by the enthrall of the law inside the conscience, for "by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Rom. 3:20.) This is the coming of the commandment in its spirituality and power, armed with all the council of God, and discovering to the awakened conscience that to lust is to sin, given that God has theoretical, "You shall not aim." (Rom. 7:7-9.) The light which attends this enthrall of the word (Psalm 119:130; Eph. 5:13) reveals his person's name as a rational and holy, honest and inflexible Judge; the life which accompanies it makes the conscience bow and bend in close proximity a up in arms reed, or a offer develop beneath the stroke; the power which clothes it awes and impresses the worry with gloomy and deep-rooted convictions that it is the express of the violent God who speaks, for his express is now upon the waters of a disturbed stage, and as such is powerful and full of majesty; (Isa. 29, 3, 4;) and the knowledge of the fair true God which it communicates (John 17:3) fills the focal point with godly uneasiness at an earlier time him. (Hab. 3:16.)
It is in this way that the council and power of the word become established as the lord of conscience. This is the grand victim of the Spirit's crown work-to make the word master of the stage. Earlier, it was modestly the servant than the master, a book in close proximity other books, which we may well let go or hate or slate at will; air it, in all probability, on the Sunday, and lay it on the stop or lock it up in a drawer for the rest of the week. But no boss let go, no boss glacial elder exhaust, no boss secret if not open ridicule, no boss Pharisaical reading of it now. If we let go it, it decision not let go us; if we bash against the convictions it produces, and chase to deadlock remark focal point and spirit from the word, impart it is sharply fixed; and the boss we cut, the boss thoroughly it penetrates and rapid it cuts. (http://www.gracegems.org/20/word of god2.htm)
Kill the time today. Bless yourself and others. Entrance the rest of this reason, at an earlier time and at the back this estimate, and be stirred to pilfer firm to the Reality.
THE TRUTH:
"Survey, You desire truth in the inward parts: and in the obscured part You shall make me to know wisdom. Abridge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: delete me, and I shall be whiter than snowstorm." (Psalms 516-7)
