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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
3 If any man [eitis] teach otherwise, [heterodidaskaleo] and [kai] consent [proserchomai] not [me] to wholesome [hugiaino] words, [logos] even the words of our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous] Christ, [Christos] and [kai] to the doctrine [didaskalia] which is according [kata] to godliness; [eusebeia]KJV-Interlinear
3 If anyone advocates a different
doctrine, and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, NASB
The first
responsibility of any Bible instructor, or Christian, is to know and understand
Bible doctrine.Bible doctrine is truth
and to know truth means that you must study it, in order to be able to discern
it from everything that is false.
There are many opinions
out there in the world, and in order to make any sense out of any of them, the
only mechanism that exists in the entire world is the teaching discernment
service offered by the Holy Spirit.The
Holy Spirit reveals truth to those who are in fellowship and to those who
really want to learn.
This is not some
supernatural or weird event which will make you euphoric or such things.The Holy Spirit teaches by means which we
cannot feel, experience or detect in any way, shape or form.Those who are having some sort of ecstatic moment, are phony.
And to know any of
this, you must engage in a daily study, and in that format, you will be able to
discern between that which is true and that which is false.
In history, many
diseases come and go and scientists study them in order to learn their
characteristics, and then develop some sort of defense or inoculation against
them.
Pathology is the study
of the nature, origin, progress and cause of something.
The pathology that leads
to the discernment of truth, is the study of truth,
which reveals the false.And therefore
when the false is known, then it can be prevented or avoided.
In anything that
attacks society, there are symptoms that mark it as harmful.
Here Paul spells out
several general symptoms that identify false doctrine.
First there is the
different doctrine that does not agree with the Bible (the Word of Christ), and
the second symptom is doctrine that does not conform to godliness.
Now these are very
broad symptoms, but when one studies the Bible, objectively, and not from
emotion or preconceived ideas or beliefs, and not from subjective motives
(making truth what you want it to be, interpreting the Bible to agree with you),
then you will be able to figure out what is right and what is not.
Some false teaching is
obvious and some is obscure denying God, denying the afterlife, denying
Jesus, contradicting something that the Bible teaches, misstating Bible
details, debating interpretations, applications to society and the norms of society,
and so forth.
For every principle of
truth, there is a counter principle from Satan and the world, to confuse or
water down truth.
And the second broad
principle for determining truth from the false, is
whether or not it teaches or produces godliness.Godliness means likeness to God.And it is another way of describing the
spiritual life and your advancement to spiritual maturity.
Any teaching that looks
to man for mans advancement, is false.Any teaching that looks to God, for mans advancement, through Christ, by
means of the Holy Spirit, is truth.
The fellowship concept
verses the carnal concept of life contrasts these two approaches or views.
But, the only way you
can know the truth, is to study it, and as we have already discovered, in this
book, your study must come through a qualified instructor. You cannot learn
truth on your own.At least not until you
have had many years of study and have in your possession a solid foundation of
truth already under your belt, so to speak.
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Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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