The Devotional – Unchangeable Truth

The Devotional – Unchangeable Truth

Comment: All of the Living Word of God is UNCHANGEABLE. As easy as it is to agree with God on this immutable attribute of His, it is just as easy humanly to forget it when we allow ourselves to be influenced by the false teaching of altered doctrines in the spiritual battles of each day. The writer of Hebrews brings this point to the surface when he speaks of our moral obligations in daily living; Hebrews 13:1-17. We may not get through this section today, but it is interesting to me how we in Christendom have fallen away from our daily obligations. Many churches today are carried away from God by various and strange doctrines. These churches modify faith by mixing it with prosperity, or by including human effort. As one reads the epistle of Hebrews there is the under lying subject that the writer is seeking his readers to understand that the daily outworking of our conduct (faith) is founded on the grace of God as we respond to God.

Devotional: Hebrews 13:1-3 – Let brotherly love continue. A thought comes to mind; “could brotherly love cease in our congregational gatherings?” I think that most of us can answer this question very quickly with a resounding YES. There is no need to go into detail as each of us would be judged guilty before God and our fellow brother. Why because we humanly interfere with the spiritual command of the four words of verse 1. Now we look at leadership and call them responsible for bending truth, yet if you and I are not allowing brotherly love to continue I ask another question. “are we not resisting, even bending the authority of sound teaching and the ordinances God?” (Hebrews 12:3-4).

Our desire as saints of God is that God would protect us from false teaching, is this desire active while we are resisting the ordinances of God our self? (Romans 13) Only you and I know the answer! So we see a principle here of where all of this bending of truth begins. Rulers are not positioned in church or in government to bring terror. Yet if we willing fail to entertain God’s angels as reported (in context) by the apostle Peter in 1 Peter 1:3-12, then we are failing and we are falling into the spiritual imprisonment of doctrines of demons.

We might say, this can never happen in our church, Bah humbug! We are still in the flesh are we not? One of the first indicators of failure in the congregation of any church is that the marriage bed between one man and one woman becomes defiled. This does not happen on the spur of the moment, nor does it happen to anyone without first, agreeing to it. God will not judge the church in this matter, but He does judge those who have dishonored the sanctity of marriage. This is not a congregational sin, it is personal.

So I see a responsibility here for the children of God within a local assembly. We are mandated by God to have a conduct before God and our godly brother or sister. It is Do not covet, be content with what you have. God will NEVER leave us or FORSAKE us, so we can always say BOLDLY “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” It is by the grace of God that we are kept spiritually free from the dangers of false teaching, but it is also required of God’s children to walk responsibly and obediently by faith.