that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. -Colossians 2:2-4 ESV
Warrior;
It has been over 500 years since the REFORMATION. On October 31, 1517 Martin Luther pinned his 95 theses on the Catholic Church in Wittenberg Germany. In studying the books of Galatians and Romans Luther realized THE CHURCH had moved away from the AUTHORITY of SCRIPTURE SOLELY. He called for a HOMECOMING to THE Biblical standard of faith and practice that had been obscured under centuries of tradition. On the same day that people put on costumes and go door-to-door, Luther, demanded that the MASK of the CHURCH be removed and the CHURCH return to the TRUTH, what they called the FIVE SOLAS.
Leader, the FIVE SOLAS were the REFORMERS attempt to summarize biblical teaching on salvation. That God makes us ALIVE and is FOR US: By God’s grace ALONE, on the basis of Christ ALONE, received through faith ALONE, to the glory of God ALONE, with Scripture ALONE as the only, final, decisive, authority on truth. Today the church is no longer the dominant cultural voice in Western society. It has been displaced by secularists who view the Bible as a dusty tome full of outmoded ideas no longer palatable to the modern mind. At best, they’ll allow that it contains some useful ethical teachings: do unto others, love your neighbor, don’t judge. Beyond that, the TRUTH claims of Scripture about history, nature, miracles and the person of God are dismissed as ancient mythology.
Conduit, MANY within the church have succumbed to this cultural pressure. They claim they want to follow Jesus as their example, while rejecting whole swaths of Scripture that don’t sit well with current fashionable beliefs. And yet, Jesus Himself taught that the Scripture could not be broken (John 10:35). He claimed that the entire scope of Holy Writ was ultimately about Him and His Gospel (Matthew 5:17-20; Luke 24:27, 44-48; John 5:46-47). We need to know the WORD of GOD and NOT THE WISDOM of MAN. Instead of seeking, “Your Best Life Now”, by reading Joel Olsteen or “The Wisdom of Sundays”, by Oprah Winfrey – you should read HIS WORD, HIS WAY, HIS introduction and LOVE STORY-the BIBLE. Then you will know SALVATION is by GRACE ALONE, through FAITH ALONE, in CHRIST ALONE!
