God has a perfect plan for the life of everyone who has become a Christian by believing in Christ alone by faith alone ... adding nothing! If you have believed in Christ as your Savior and you desire to find God's plan for your life, you may do so by having a daily intake of His Word. God will provide a man who has the gift of pastor-teacher and a working knowledge of the origin languages of scripture to teach you so that you may grow up spiritually.
God has given every member of the human race a free-will by which he may make a decision regarding Jesus the Christ during his brief lifetime on earth. Our brain is like a computer that is being programmed every day by one of the two greatest computer programmers in the universe ... it is either being fed God's thoughts which are found only in the infallible Word of God, or human viewpoint which is the thinking of Satan's cosmic system. God's Word is foolishness to the unbeliever, so he cannot understand the scriptures, and unless he desires to know the Lord, he will live his life in ignorance of why he has been placed on earth, which is to glorify the Lord.
In Proverbs 8:33-36, wisdom cries out:
"Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors;
For whoever finds me finds life and shall obtain the Lord's favor,
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All they that hate me love death (temporal death, which is to have no fellowship with the Lord)."
An enticing but evil woman is often used in the Bible to illustrate false teaching, and there are many warnings against listening to her words. One example is found in Proverbs 7:1-5 where God first of all instructs believers how we must be careful to guard His Word so that we may gain wisdom and instruction and not be a 'sucker' for false doctrine, which He refers to as 'a strange woman'. Then in verses 6-27, God presents His view of an ignorant believer ... one who lacks true Biblical doctrine in the thinking part of his brain because he has no desire for truth:
God has given every member of the human race a free-will by which he may make a decision regarding Jesus the Christ during his brief lifetime on earth. Our brain is like a computer that is being programmed every day by one of the two greatest computer programmers in the universe ... it is either being fed God's thoughts which are found only in the infallible Word of God, or human viewpoint which is the thinking of Satan's cosmic system. God's Word is foolishness to the unbeliever, so he cannot understand the scriptures, and unless he desires to know the Lord, he will live his life in ignorance of why he has been placed on earth, which is to glorify the Lord.
In Proverbs 8:33-36, wisdom cries out:
"Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors;
For whoever finds me finds life and shall obtain the Lord's favor,
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All they that hate me love death (temporal death, which is to have no fellowship with the Lord)."
An enticing but evil woman is often used in the Bible to illustrate false teaching, and there are many warnings against listening to her words. One example is found in Proverbs 7:1-5 where God first of all instructs believers how we must be careful to guard His Word so that we may gain wisdom and instruction and not be a 'sucker' for false doctrine, which He refers to as 'a strange woman'. Then in verses 6-27, God presents His view of an ignorant believer ... one who lacks true Biblical doctrine in the thinking part of his brain because he has no desire for truth:
Then in verses 7:6-27, God presents His view of an ignorant believer ... one who lacks true Biblical doctrine residing in his brain:
"I looked through My window and observed among the youths, a young man who was void of understanding. He walked down the street on which lived a stranger who flatters with her, lips, and he deliberately walked toward her house. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black of night, a strange woman, dressed as a harlot and having a deceitful heart, met him and kissed him. She is loud and stubborn and refuses to stay in her house. She has a habit of waiting at every comer for someone to lure into her web of deceit. She caught the young man, and with an impudent face looked up and said to him: 'I have come here with gifts for you and to tell you that I have adorned my bed with a beautiful covering of fine Egyptian linen, and I have perfumed it with various sweet-smelling scents. Come with me, and we will have our fill of love until the morning, because the owner of the house is not at home. He took a bag of money and went away on a long journey, and he won't return until a certain day which he has appointed.' With her pretty speech and flattering words, this woman forced the young man to go to her house ... in fact, he followed her just like an ox that was being taken to the slaughter, or as a fool who would follow someone leading him to the stockade. He didn't know what was happening to him until it was too late, and then he realized how his spiritual life had been damaged because of his own foolishness." (following false teaching may well be the path of least resistance, but it will surely take the believer along a dead end street on which he will lose heavenly rewards)
Then the Lord said, "Therefore, listen to me, My children, and consider what I say ... do not let your heart go the way of false teaching, because many believers have been deceived by it. Her house is the way to destruction, and you will not have fellowship with Me."
Learning, metabolizing and applying Bible Doctrine on a daily basis must be a way of life for every believer. Without Biblical truth to guide and sustain us, we will not be able to live a life that will honor and glorify the Lord. A believer who rejects Bible Doctrine may live a very moral life and may produce many good works that are acceptable to other people, but those works cannot please the Lord, because they are produced from his sinful nature, (sin and human good are both part of man's sin nature) Isaiah 64:6a states God's attitude toward human good: "But we are all as an unclean thing, and our righteousnesses (good deeds) are as filthy rags in His sight." Acceptable works that please the Lord are performed by a believer only after he has named his known sin to God the Father and is filled with the Holy Spirit. (1 John 1:9)
What happens to a careless, slothful believer is colorfully illustrated in Proverbs 24:30-34:
"I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:
And lo, it was all overgrown with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and the stone wall around it was broken down.
Then I saw, and considered it well; I looked upon it and received instruction-
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
So shall your poverty come as one in travail, and your want as an armed man."
The believer spoken about in those verses is careless and void of understanding Biblical truth. Because of his apparent negative attitude toward Bible Doctrine, he will be frantic under adverse conditions that he will be facing.
"I looked through My window and observed among the youths, a young man who was void of understanding. He walked down the street on which lived a stranger who flatters with her, lips, and he deliberately walked toward her house. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black of night, a strange woman, dressed as a harlot and having a deceitful heart, met him and kissed him. She is loud and stubborn and refuses to stay in her house. She has a habit of waiting at every comer for someone to lure into her web of deceit. She caught the young man, and with an impudent face looked up and said to him: 'I have come here with gifts for you and to tell you that I have adorned my bed with a beautiful covering of fine Egyptian linen, and I have perfumed it with various sweet-smelling scents. Come with me, and we will have our fill of love until the morning, because the owner of the house is not at home. He took a bag of money and went away on a long journey, and he won't return until a certain day which he has appointed.' With her pretty speech and flattering words, this woman forced the young man to go to her house ... in fact, he followed her just like an ox that was being taken to the slaughter, or as a fool who would follow someone leading him to the stockade. He didn't know what was happening to him until it was too late, and then he realized how his spiritual life had been damaged because of his own foolishness." (following false teaching may well be the path of least resistance, but it will surely take the believer along a dead end street on which he will lose heavenly rewards)
Then the Lord said, "Therefore, listen to me, My children, and consider what I say ... do not let your heart go the way of false teaching, because many believers have been deceived by it. Her house is the way to destruction, and you will not have fellowship with Me."
Learning, metabolizing and applying Bible Doctrine on a daily basis must be a way of life for every believer. Without Biblical truth to guide and sustain us, we will not be able to live a life that will honor and glorify the Lord. A believer who rejects Bible Doctrine may live a very moral life and may produce many good works that are acceptable to other people, but those works cannot please the Lord, because they are produced from his sinful nature, (sin and human good are both part of man's sin nature) Isaiah 64:6a states God's attitude toward human good: "But we are all as an unclean thing, and our righteousnesses (good deeds) are as filthy rags in His sight." Acceptable works that please the Lord are performed by a believer only after he has named his known sin to God the Father and is filled with the Holy Spirit. (1 John 1:9)
What happens to a careless, slothful believer is colorfully illustrated in Proverbs 24:30-34:
"I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:
And lo, it was all overgrown with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and the stone wall around it was broken down.
Then I saw, and considered it well; I looked upon it and received instruction-
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
So shall your poverty come as one in travail, and your want as an armed man."
The believer spoken about in those verses is careless and void of understanding Biblical truth. Because of his apparent negative attitude toward Bible Doctrine, he will be frantic under adverse conditions that he will be facing.
An ignorant person is one who lacks knowledge. To lack discernment means to have no understanding of a particular subject. To be void of understanding means to have a mind that is lacking in knowledge ... in particular. God's Word or Bible Doctrine. It is vital that we realize we are living in the Church Age, and we must not live with one foot in the Old Testament Law and the other in the New Testament mystery doctrines as taught to us in Paul's epistles and are for us. The Law', including the 10 Commandments given to Moses, was given to the Jews to follow during the age in which they lived. In this present dispensation there are hundreds of commandments given by which we should live, such as: "pray without ceasing," found in 1 Thessalonians 5:17. And in verse 18 we are commanded: "In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." Then, regarding spiritual giving, Paul said in 2 Corinthians 9:7: "Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly nor of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver." Many pastors insist upon tithing for their people, but tithing was a form of taxation in the Jewish Age... it is not for Church-Age believers.
In the New Testament, the apostle John warns about the results of neglecting God's Word:
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
If any man loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world and the lust for the things of the world are passing away, but he who does the will of God will live forever." (1 John 2:15-17)
In Romans 8:38 & 39, the apostle Paul tells us how we may be 'winner believers'... that is to say 'conquerors' through Him who loved us and died on the cross so that we might have eternal life by faith alone in Christ alone and an abundant life while we are alive on this earth:
"I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other created being shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
"NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER: FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED." (Acts 4:12)
Written by Lois Delnay
Layout and web work Wesley Miller
Books for sale by L. Delnay
In the New Testament, the apostle John warns about the results of neglecting God's Word:
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
If any man loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world and the lust for the things of the world are passing away, but he who does the will of God will live forever." (1 John 2:15-17)
In Romans 8:38 & 39, the apostle Paul tells us how we may be 'winner believers'... that is to say 'conquerors' through Him who loved us and died on the cross so that we might have eternal life by faith alone in Christ alone and an abundant life while we are alive on this earth:
"I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other created being shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
"NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER: FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED." (Acts 4:12)
Written by Lois Delnay
Layout and web work Wesley Miller
Books for sale by L. Delnay
links to Lois Delnay's Children's Bible Study
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