Friday, September 18, 2015

Beware of false teachers. 9/18/15


Day 259- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/2Cor.11

2 Corinthians 11:1-15

Paul and the False Apostles

I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! 2 For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. 5 Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. 6 Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.

7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge? 8 I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. 9 And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. 11 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

12 And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.


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Our state of perfection September 18th

“I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.” JOHN 17:23

In our relationships with one another, we are handling a state of perfection. You might ask, “What do you mean? We are not perfect. We have a long way to go.” However, we must see from the divine point of view that we are in a state of perfection. In John 17:21 the Lord Jesus prayed for the believers: “That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You.” His prayer is that we would be brought into Their oneness, Their love. There is only one love in this universe. It is not a matter of your love or my love. Even as Christians, we ourselves have no love. No, there is only one love. It is the love of the Triune God that has been deposited right within us. We just need to recognize it. The love of God is in me for you. The love of God is in you for me. We have been brought into the Triune God, and Their relationship has been brought into us.

In verses 22-23 the Lord continues to pray, 22 “And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be perfected into one.” The word “perfected” could unsettle us. It seems as though we must labor and struggle to arrive at a state of perfected oneness. But actually this is not the case at all. “That they may be perfected” is in the perfect tense in Greek. Thus, it could literally be translated “that they may be brought into a state of perfection.” Kenneth Wuest’s translation of the New Testament captures the full meaning of the perfect tense: 23 “I in them and You in Me, in order that they, having been brought to the state of completeness with respect to oneness, may persist in that state of completeness, to the end that the world might be understanding.” We have been brought into a state of perfection, or completeness. The oneness that we have been brought into is the perfect oneness between the Father and the Son.WhentheLordsays,“Iinthem,andYouinMe,”thisisthestate of perfection. We have been brought into Them to participate in this perfect state of oneness.


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