Modern Day False Teaching and Legalism
Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them,
Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the
Sadducees.
1Corinthins 5:6b . . . Know ye not that a
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Beware of the modern day pharisees.
There is currently a rising tide of so called ministries that are
strongly pushing the law and legalism, all in the name of “ministry”.
I call these false ministries or pseudo ministries which aren't
ministries at all but rather individuals and/or organizations who
have allowed the enemy to bring them back under the law. As a result
what they minister is nothing more than law and legalism which is the
leaven which Jesus warned about.
You see, the enemy knows if he can get
us back under the law or a form of the law, he can strip us of our
authority, power, joy and freedom as born again Christians. He has
stepped up the sowing of seeds of legalism as of late and many are
falling for the old lie in the name of holiness and “correcting”
an abuse of the message of grace. Jumping out of one ditch into
another ditch is not the answer, neither is it the proper way to
correct doctrinal error, but instead it only promotes doctrinal
confusion.
Those that labor under the law are
unwittingly caught up in a web of works and works mentality which
Paul addresses in the book of Romans and Ephesians. Jesus walked this
earth setting mankind free, not trying to bring us back into bondage
of the old covenant, but establishing a new and better covenant which
takes the works out of coming into right standing with God because He
was, is and forever will be the Supreme Sacrifice that the law
required.
This doctrinal error is being
propagated through books as much as anything. When you get a book,
look at it first to see how well it actually lines up with the Word,
but more importantly how it lines up with what Jesus actually taught.
Don't just swallow books and teachings hook line and sinker just
because they're full of scripture references. Anyone can take
scripture out of context and make it say what they want it to say. If
you don't know what the main thrust of Jesus' teaching was, get in
the Word and find out. Pay attention to the epistles of Paul as they
mainly deal with the true doctrine of Jesus and his teachings.
There's even a false teaching circulating that the name “Jesus” is
synonymous with the name of “Zeus”! This could not be further
from the truth, but people believe this stuff because they don’t
bother to scrutinize what they're told or read! For an excellent
rebuttal on this claim, click on the following link
I won't address it here because the
article (by Dr. Michael Brown) does and excellent job of addressing
the issue (why reinvent the wheel).
We are in a time like no other where
unprecedented revelation from Heaven is being released, but also
unprecedented false teaching is being released. The scripture
holds true, when the wheat is sown, the enemy comes and sows tares
(weeds) with it (Matthew 13).
