Upholding Biblical Truth in a Changing Society

The Bible is perfectly clear on these three points it condemns the three so that they don't hesitate to contradict the Biblical teaching the where does the Biblical teaching come from it comes from God all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine and reproof and instruction in righteousness says the Apostle Paul to Timothy in 2 Timothy 3:16. [00:25:26]

They've arrived in this position for this one reason, that they are going on what they call the inner light only and not checking it by the word they're putting all the emphasis on one and not keeping the balance and putting the equal emphasis upon the other so you see you trust your own feeling your own understanding your own Enlightenment more than you do the the objective word of God. [00:26:56]

The Bible talks about three kinds of love if you like putting love in inverted commers one of them it calls AOS which is animal physical it's in all of us of course God's put it there there's nothing wrong in it in and of itself but then there's another one which Rises to a higher level the kind of love which we normally denote as friendship. [00:30:01]

The New Testament goes on and it invents a new word to describe love in terms of God's love to men and the love that men becomes capable of in return to God agap and this is something that's in a different realm all together this isn't physical this is the love of God himself full of benignity full of Purity full of Holiness God's holy love to men. [00:31:07]

The church has emphasized Chastity why well for this reason that it is a test of love you tell the difference between OS and Agape ultimately by the test of Chastity but you see These Foolish people put them as opposites they contrast law and love they say they're opposit I mustn't go back over this. [00:33:42]

The New Testament says is this that if the love that you talk about is not chased well then It Isn't Love it's AOS now let me give you my Authority for saying this the Apostle Paul has put it in the epistle to the Romans in Chapter 13 and in verse 10 where he deals with this whole matter. [00:34:50]

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the Fulfillment of the law and yet these people will come up and say oh you mustn't put Chastity in the supreme position love must go there love and Chastity are opposites you see love and law have become opposites by now the answer is that love is the fulfilling of the law. [00:36:16]

There is nothing which is more fatal than to separate the spirit from the word that's been the whole tragedy of the Quakers from beginning to end it led to certain excesses at the very beginning it has continued to do so and now we've got it in this most refined intellectual sophisticated manner but it's revealed the cloven hoof. [00:39:39]

The word where has the word come from it is the spirit who has indicted it prophecy says Peter in his Second Epistle in chapter one no word of Prophecy in ancient time came by the will of men it's not of any private interpretation it isn't what a man thinks that's his whole definition of scripture. [00:41:14]

The scriptures are able to make thee wise and to Salvation all scripture is given by inspiration of God God breathed profitable for Doctrine for reprove you won't know your Doctrine anywhere else you can't work out your Doctrine it isn't what you and I think about the Lord Jesus Christ that matters it's what's been revealed about him. [00:40:29]

The whole of church history is stwn with the tragedies which have followed when men have divided the word from the spirit and have ignored the word and said it doesn't matter I've had this light I've had this illumination I think I have referred before from this Pulpit to a book written back about 25 years ago on this whole theme. [00:41:43]

If you keep true to the word you can't follow Cults like that all the Cults do the same thing but you can't if you keep true to the word the word will pull you up it'll condemn you it'll say look here the word says Thou shalt not this Thou shalt not that therefore whatever light you claim to have it's not of God it's of the devil. [00:44:48]