God’s Only
Provided Place of Worship # 59
Brian Kocourek, June 25, 1995
Falling
Away from Doctrine
Deuteronomy
Wednesday night we focused our attention on
Paragraph 202 again, where brother Branham said, "nothing in the Bible types the
denominations but
Matthew 24: 8 => 13 offended =
skandalizo to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one that he ought
to trust and obey; to cause to fall away.
John 6: 63 => 7:1 esp (6:66) (read) note 666
John 6:66 From that [time] many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with
him.
Hebrews 3: 7 => 4: 2 esp 3: 12 (read)
Hebrews 10: 35 - 39 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has
great recompense of reward.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye
might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and He that shall come will
come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we
are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul.
Hebrews 12: 25 See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For
if they escaped not who refused Him that Spoke on earth, much more shall not we
escape, if we turn away from Him Who speaketh from Heaven.
Acts
2 Peter 3: 17 Ye
therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also,
being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
1 John 3: 11 - 12 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning,
that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked ( poneros) one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he
him? Because his own works were evil [wicked] (
same word poneros) and his brothers
righteous.
2 Thes 2: 3 Let
no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there be a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition. 10 - 11 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of
the Truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe the lie. That they might be damned who believed not the Truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 4: 1 => 4 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; speaking lies in hypocrisy,; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron;
2 Timothy 3: 1 => 9 (read)
2 Timothy 4: 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but
after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching
ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the Truth, and shall be turned
unto fables.
Hebrews 6: 4 For it is
impossible for those who have been once for all enlightened, and have
tasted of the heavenly Gift, and
were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
and have tasted the Good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if
they shall deviate from the truth, it is impossible for them to once again come
to repentance ( which is a change of the mind) seeing that they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh,
or as brother Branham put it, they crucify themselves by rejecting This Word.
Hebrews
2 Peter 2: 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there
shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring I damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon them swift
destruction...15 which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,
following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness; 17 these are wells without water, clouds that are carried with
a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollution's of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled therein, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it
had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than,
after they have known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment delivered unto
them. But it is happened unto them according to the True proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that
was washed to her own wallowing in the mire.
1 Timothy 6: 3 => 8 If any man teach otherwise and consent no to wholesome
words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the Doctrine which is
according to Godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about
questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil
surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the
Truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But
godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this
world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
2 Timothy
Luke 9: 62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to
the plough, and looking back, is fit for the
Acts 7: 39 Whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust
Him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt saying unto
Aaron, make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us
out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Punishment of renegades.
1 Chronicles 28:9 if thou forsake Him He will cast thee off for ever.
Isaiah 1: 28 The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be
together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
Jeremiah 17:5
Cursed be the man whose heart
departeth from the Lord.
Ezekiel 3: 20
When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity,
and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die:
Ezekiel 18: 24 But when the
righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and commiteth iniquity, and doth
according to all the abominations that wicked man doeth, shall he live?
Ezekiel 18: 26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and commiteth
iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Matthew 13: 20 But
he that receiveth the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the
Word, and anon with joy receiveth it. Yet hath no root in himself,
but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of
the Word, by and by he is (offended). skandalizo
John 15: 6 If a man abideth not in me, he is cast forth as a
branch, and is withered: and men gather them into the fire, and they are
burned.
Brother Branham said Christ is the Doctrine.
And he also said, any church without doctrine is not a
church at all. So a church must have
doctrine and that is what these men have turned away from.
2 Timothy 4: 1 - 4 They shall turn away from strong
doctrine.
I ) So what then
is Doctrine?
John 7: 14 - 18 It is instruction and teaching.
2 Timothy 3: 16
Titus 2: 1 - 15
Deut 32: 1- 2 Notice God’s Doctrine is the Rain
Acts
II) What
does doctrine do for you?
Brother Branham said in His message "ISRAEL AND
THE CHURCH" Now we have to come to full doctrine.... Then he said, I like
good old meetings where the people are shouting and having a good time and the
power of God is moving , but wait until the showdown
comes and you don't know where you are standing. That is why the doctrine is so
important. From ENTICING SPIRITS he
said "We preach doctrine to keep the people lined
up.'
From " 3 KINDS OF
BELIEVERS" he said, As long as he was healing the sick, everything was OK,
but when he began to preach his doctrine, well...the doctrine is what separated
the chaff from the wheat.
And finally he said, men who have the scriptures and
know the teachings and doctrine but only know it by a mental conception rather
than by revelation, that is the doctrine of Cain.
1 Timothy 4: 1 - 6
nourishes you 1
Timothy 4: 13 - 16
Saves you
Romans 6: 17 - 18 Sets you
free 1 Corinthians 14: 6 it
is to profit you
III ) Not just any
doctrine will do. It must be God's own doctrine, His own teaching.
John 6: 44 - 45
2 John 9 - 10
Hebrews 13: 1- 9
Ephesians 4: 14
1 Timothy 1: 1 - 7
Romans 16: 17
Matthew 16: 6 - 12
2 Timothy 4: 1 - 4
IV) That is why it is so
important to mark those who are preaching true doctrine and those who are not.
Martin Luther's "BONDAGE OF THE WILL" PAGE
43 Erasmus vs Martin Luther's
understanding of free will.
Erasmus was a humanist and contemporary of Martin
Luther. He was considered the greatest intellect in Europe in his day. And yet
listen to what he said in his article against Luther called "the
Diatribe". "The churchman should be wise not to bother his
head about problems of doctrinal definition, but to concern himself simply with
guiding his life by the moral law of Christ." He
sounds to me like so many of the ministers in this message. But that is only a
humanist's thinking and not that of a Holy Ghost filled man.
On the other hand, Martin Luther's attitude was very
different. To him, Christianity was a matter of doctrine first and foremost,
because true religion was first and foremost a matter of faith ( which we know to be revelation); and Faith is correlative
to Truth. In other words, it is dependent on Truth. Faith is trust in God
through Jesus Christ as He stands revealed in the Gospel... Luther's first
concern as theologian and reformer was with doctrine. He said, " I am not
concerned with the life, but with the doctrines. And he distinguished himself
as different from the other reformers because they focused only on the evil of
the pope's scandalous life while he focused on the evil of the popes doctrine. Luther felt Revelation is not a mere hit or
miss rationalization but a definitive knowledge and understanding about the God
we serve.
2 Timothy 3: 10
1 Timothy 5: 17
Titus 1: 6 - 11
Isaiah 28: 8 - 13
Matthew 7: 15 - 28
Luke 4: 31 - 32
Job 11: 1 =>.