How They’ll Know Jesus is Risen
Scripture: Romans 1:28-32Devotional Series: Conflict with the Whore
Teaching: Conflict With The Whore pt. 5 (SUN_AM 2021-02-14) by Pastor Star R Scott
Romans 1:28-32 speaks of the world not wanting to retain God in their knowledge, they will be given up to reprobate minds. “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,” this whole list as it goes down. These will be “Backbiters, haters of God, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” That’s the environment we’re coming into, and our righteousness is the opposing force.
Don’t think for a moment that our existence is what’s opposing this spirit of antichrist. It’s not that we are here; it’s that we are keeping His commandments, that we are walking in the light, that we are a people who are kept from that deception of this last hour because we’re doers of the Word. He that hears it—there’s going to be a lot of Bible being preached at this time, but they’re hearers and not doers. There’s a form of godliness but no power to live righteously, no power to dominate this old flesh, this old man that dwells within each and every one of us. They deny the Lord that bought them, and believe in a redemption that does not really bring about a change in man, that man is still subject to sin’s power. Therefore, eat, drink, and be merry; tomorrow you’re going to die. But there is a true righteousness that’s been afforded us. We are a new creation. Old things have passed away, and all things are new, praise God! This message of this hour will say, “You won’t really experience change. You’re just not going to be able to overcome sin.” That’s the whole message of Gnosticism. “And besides that, you can be right with God in your heart. It doesn’t really matter what this flesh does. It’s going to have recreation at the glorification of Jesus Christ.” False teachers will tell you, “You can retain your independence and still be right with God.” That’s a summation of what this message is going to be. Listen for it. Don’t be deceived. Don’t come to that place where you hear, “Lo, Christ is here and working in this area” or “Lo, there.” People running to and fro trying to have some religious experience.
In these last hours men will not endure sound doctrine; they’ll heap teachers to themselves. One thing that we’re going to see is the distinction between the true church and the whore, and we see some of that spirit in the church of Ephesus in the Book of Revelation. Beloved, the church and the soundness of the church is not in having proper liturgy, it’s not in systematic theology and dogmas that we can lay out and know more about God. As you begin to look in the Scriptures, you’re going to find out that sound doctrine is just as much about revealing through our recreation, through our obedience to the commandments of God, through our love for one another, that Jesus is truly risen from the dead. Isn’t that what the Scriptures teach us? Here’s how they’ll know that Jesus has risen, when you have love one for another, when you’re living lives of obedience and holiness.
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First John is so clear about tearing down that particular premise of the Gnostics of that day who were talking about being right and spiritually illuminated in the inner man and the outer man being matter, being temporal, having no consequence for what it would involve itself in. The Scripture’s clear. Paul speaks to it clearly. To whom you yield your members instruments to obey, his servant you are. Amen? And if you’re going to yield to the flesh and to sin, that’s who your lord is. John says it this way, “It’s he that doeth righteousness that is righteous.”
Don’t think for a moment that our existence is what’s opposing this spirit of antichrist. It’s not that we are here; it’s that we are keeping His commandments, that we are walking in the light, that we are a people who are kept from that deception of this last hour because we’re doers of the Word. He that hears it—there’s going to be a lot of Bible being preached at this time, but they’re hearers and not doers. There’s a form of godliness but no power to live righteously, no power to dominate this old flesh, this old man that dwells within each and every one of us. They deny the Lord that bought them, and believe in a redemption that does not really bring about a change in man, that man is still subject to sin’s power. Therefore, eat, drink, and be merry; tomorrow you’re going to die. But there is a true righteousness that’s been afforded us. We are a new creation. Old things have passed away, and all things are new, praise God! This message of this hour will say, “You won’t really experience change. You’re just not going to be able to overcome sin.” That’s the whole message of Gnosticism. “And besides that, you can be right with God in your heart. It doesn’t really matter what this flesh does. It’s going to have recreation at the glorification of Jesus Christ.” False teachers will tell you, “You can retain your independence and still be right with God.” That’s a summation of what this message is going to be. Listen for it. Don’t be deceived. Don’t come to that place where you hear, “Lo, Christ is here and working in this area” or “Lo, there.” People running to and fro trying to have some religious experience.
In these last hours men will not endure sound doctrine; they’ll heap teachers to themselves. One thing that we’re going to see is the distinction between the true church and the whore, and we see some of that spirit in the church of Ephesus in the Book of Revelation. Beloved, the church and the soundness of the church is not in having proper liturgy, it’s not in systematic theology and dogmas that we can lay out and know more about God. As you begin to look in the Scriptures, you’re going to find out that sound doctrine is just as much about revealing through our recreation, through our obedience to the commandments of God, through our love for one another, that Jesus is truly risen from the dead. Isn’t that what the Scriptures teach us? Here’s how they’ll know that Jesus has risen, when you have love one for another, when you’re living lives of obedience and holiness.
.
First John is so clear about tearing down that particular premise of the Gnostics of that day who were talking about being right and spiritually illuminated in the inner man and the outer man being matter, being temporal, having no consequence for what it would involve itself in. The Scripture’s clear. Paul speaks to it clearly. To whom you yield your members instruments to obey, his servant you are. Amen? And if you’re going to yield to the flesh and to sin, that’s who your lord is. John says it this way, “It’s he that doeth righteousness that is righteous.”