by Mike Ratliff
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; (1 Timothy 4:1 KJV)
Being Reformed in my theology, I adhere to the Sovereignty of God in all things. He keeps remnants of believers even in the most apostate of times. He always has pockets of genuine believers who know their Lord by His grace through the faith He gives no matter what darkness is attacking the Church. In last night’s post we looked at 1 Timothy 4:1 from the aspect of what is the source of the false doctrines propagated by apostate “Christian” leaders. That source, of course, is that they have been seduced by evil spirits and now they are following and teaching the doctrines of demons or devils. In this post we will look at the different epochs or eras that have not only come to attack the Church down through the ages, but have remained and are still with us now. They have accumulated now so that there is much overlap between them and this complicates the task of explaining these things to you my brethren. However, it it vital at this time that we take the covers off of what is hidden behind religiosity in order to direct our devotion to the Lord alone, not a local church or a pastor or a denomination or a certain set of religious rules or any other thing that are in actuality only distractions sent from the enemy to muddy the waters and draw believers into a from of Christianity that neither edifies us or glorifies God.
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Great post on Mike blog – thanks for bringing it over here. I thank the Lord for opening my eyes to several of the dangers Mike points out. In my case, it was the rapid mania of Rick Warren’s “40 Days of Purpose” campaign and his wretched book that caused me to see that the Brownsville revival wasn’t the main danger.
I wrote about my journey from a bench-warming spectator in typical SBC semi-Arminian dispensational churches to a passionate, uncompromising, treasured wretch of the Lord Jesus – holding to what is called Calvinism. http://menofhonorministry.org/Testimony/Awamkening.htm
I thank God for my awakening and for growing a solid church at http://www.gracefamilybaptist.net/ for my wife and me to grow in our love and knowledge of the Lord.
Great post thank you!