Colossians
1:12-13
"Giving
thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (prepared us,
declared us fit) to be partakers of the inheritance of the
saints in light: Who (the Father) hath delivered us
from the power of darkness (where all these things take place
constantly), and hath (already)
translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:"
Come
back and compare that with Ephesians chapter 5.
Ephesians
5:5
"For
this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous
man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God."
There
is no way they can, because the Scripture says they can not. We don’t
care how they shake it out, they will not be there. Not now or ever,
they are black cows. Many of them are become wolves, jackals and birds of prey because they eat the flesh of man. This is what Matthew 8:11-12 is saying about the
sons of the kingdom who are cast out into utter darkness. They are
the ones who have forced their way into the kingdom but are not
properly attired (suffered as Christ suffered being clothed in
Christ and neither did they gain entry as a child) and are therefore removed, as tares by the angles. They remained clothed in the old
wine skins of a dead religion. God's New Wine is alive and Living and
is Life within our soul/spirit when understood by faith's receptivity
as a child with a clear eye restored. Like the blind man in the synoptic gospels, for this is why this metaphor was used in actual illustration in compliance to prophesy, in Matthew 11:5, 20:30-34, Mark 10:46-52.
Ephesians
5:6
"Let
no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things
cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."
Remember
God is not pouring out His wrath today, the whole world is under His
Grace, but His wrath is coming again. His wrath is coming and it is
sure! For a moment let’s turn to 2Timothy chapter 2, and we will
read verses 16 and 23. Here again within a matter of a few pages in
your New Testament we have three times where we are to look out for
deceitful, false teachings. And this false teaching is abounding. My
goodness like we have told folks just the other day, "You ought
to hear some of the things people are saying, and they’ve been to
Church the same day or the day before. It’s ridiculous what teachings are going
on."
2Timothy
2:16a
"But
shun (turn your back on) profane and vain
babblings:..."
When
we see the word babbling, do you remember back in the book of Acts
when Paul came down to Athens and the big intellectual philosophers
called what he had said- what? Babbling! Let’s hear what this old
babbler has to say. You know a few days ago we heard that said of
us, and you know we couldn’t help but smile, inwardly and well as
outwardly. For we are to heavenly minded that we are no earthly good
were the words spoken to me. So Paul was not the babbler, but rather
they were. Well anyway, we are to shun profane and vain babblings of
the false religionists.
2Timothy
2:16
"But
shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more
ungodliness."
It will
not bring us into more godliness. Skip all the verses in
between and come down to verse 23. This verse is along that same
line of thinking.
2Timothy
2:23
"But
foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender
strifes."
In
other words do not ask foolish questions over and over. We have told
people umpteen times when they have a question, not to ask us who is
the third son of the second wife of King so and so back in the Old
Testament. Because to me that is vain. There is no need to get all
hung up on some of those little details that are way back there in
the Old Testament, they have nothing to do with us today. And yet
some people can get so hung up on these things, when actually all
they need to do is get down and see what Paul really teaches. As I
told some one, we must see the tree and not remain under its shadow.
If we are not grafted into Him then we are of all men a most wrecked
and wretched person and remain bond by sin, the Religion of self.
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