grace fellowship church gracedoctrine pastor/teacher jim rickard sunday january 20, 2008
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Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Sunday January 20, 2008. 1 John 4:4; "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.". - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org
Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard
Sunday
January 20, 2008
1 John 4:4;"You are from God, little
children, and have overcome them; because
greater is He who is in you than he who is in the
world."
1 John Series1 John 4:1
A Warning about False Teachers
Part II
Chapter 4 begins with a warning to recognize and
avoid false teachings.
“Beloved ones” is used to designate the Royal Family
of God, emphasizing the fact that Jesus Christ is the beloved and you and I are accepted in the beloved
(Eph 1:6).
We are Royal Family, and with the privilege comes
responsibility, the responsibility to advance to
maturity through discernment between true
and false teaching.
We are told to stop doing something we are currently
doing; “stop believing” falsehoods of
“influential speakers” or “eloquent speakers”.
Eloquence isn’t always true, eloquence is not a
sign of truthfulness, it's just a personality trait or
learned behavior.
With persuasive speech this constitutes thought testing on behalf of the
believer, a great momentum test in
advancing towards spiritual maturity.
Eloquence is often mistaken for spiritual
dynamics; it may or may not be. The issue is not
eloquence but the content of message.
Only the believer with maximum Bible doctrine resident in his soul and perceiving while inside GPS, can determine or discern the difference.
It is not the man but the message. Eloquent error is
still error. Eloquence cannot convert what is false into what is true.
Principle: Perception of Bible doctrine provides
discernment and common sense, which eliminates
naïve appreciation of talent.
“Into the World” KOSMOS =
Satan’s Cosmic System.
Satan’s system embraces false teaching and rejects
true doctrine.
John 15:18-20, “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I
chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates
you….
… Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not
greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also
persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.”
Offering
Grace Fellowship ChurchSunday, January 20, 2008
Tape # 08S-003
1 John Series Warning Against False Teachers, Pt 2
1 John 4:1-6; John 15:18-20
James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2008