Musick-al Note # 138
Are you a truth-seeker? We are speaking of religious truth. Most people feel that they do want truth and many think they are actually seeking it. Do you really seek truth in religious matters? With religious division as it is in the world, many people do not believe there is a base of absolute truth in religious matters. “One church is as good as another, join the church of your choice, all are going to the same place anyway” and similar phrases only prove this position. But is this position true? Does the thought never cross your mind that since there are many groups seeking to follow Jesus and that each of these groups oppose the other, that somewhere, sometime, someone has departed from the original teaching, and whether knowingly or not they are now teaching error? Read Paul’s statements in 1 Corinthians 1:11-13 and 1 Corinthians 3:1-13 where he declares that such division is of the flesh and wrong.. The same is true of division today. But one may say that divisions cause competition which only results in bringing more people to Christ. If this position is true, then Jesus prayed earnestly that something good and profitable would never happen (John 17:20-23). Jesus, the Son of God, prayed that all believers would be one – to prove to the world that He was sent from the Father. One of these views is incorrect. Which will you choose?
Are you seeking Truth? When you read an article that expresses a view opposing the one you now hold or that your mother or father held before you, what do you do? Lay it aside and forget it? Get angry and violently disagree? Say that anything is alright if you see it that way, with no thought of investigation? Jesus said of the Pharisees in Matthew 15:1-14 that in setting aside the Word of God and teaching other things made their worship vain. Let me earnestly urge you to be as noble as the Bereans in Acts 17:11 – to search the Scriptures for religious truth and follow the teaching you will find there for it is the foundation, the absolute truth in religion. Matthew 28:18-20, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:3.
Gordon Musick
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