Brothers and sisters, please turn away from the ear tickling preachers of our day and get into the scriptures. The God who sent his son to redeem us warns us over and over in the New Testament. For the most part, the preachers and teachers have abandoned the warnings and tickle our ears and sell us their own words in books, cd's, dvd's, etc. There is a war for your soul. Do not trust man. Preachers are building big churches and getting rich off of tickling the listener's ears. Have no part with such teachers. They are blind leaders of the blind. Study the New Testament.
I show the warnings of Jesus and his disciples throughout my blog posts. Paul gives us very serious warnings. Starting with the last verses in 1 Corinthians 9, we read:
1 Corinthians 9 ISV
24You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don’t you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious. 25Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize thatj never fades. 26That is the way I run, with a clear goal in mind. That is the way I fight, not like someone shadow boxing. 27No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 10 ISV
1Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the fact that all of our ancestors who left Egypta were under the cloud.
- They all went through the sea,
- 2and they all were immersed into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
- 3They all ate the same spiritual food
- 4and drank the same spiritual drink,
- for they drank from the spiritual rock that went with them.
- That rock was the Messiah.b
- 5But God wasn’t pleased with most of those people,c and so they were struck down in the wilderness.
6Now their experiences serve as examples for us so that we won’t set our hearts on evil as they did. 7Let’s stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play.”d 8Let’s stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead. 9Let’s stop putting the Lorde to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes. 10You must stop complaining, as some of them were doing, and were annihilated by the destroyer.
11These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down as a warning for us in whom the culmination of the ages has been attained. 12Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing securely should watch out so he doesn’t fall. 13No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.
14And so, my dear friends, keep on running away from idolatry. 15I am talking to sensible people. Apply what I am saying to yourselves. 16The cup of blessing that we bless is our fellowship in the blood of the Messiah,f isn’t it? The bread that we break is our fellowship in the body of the Messiah,g isn’t it? 17Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us eat from the same loaf.
18Look at the Israelis from a human point of view.h Those who eat the sacrifices share in what is on the altar, don’t they? 19Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything? 20Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons. 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot dine with the Lord and dine with demons, 22or you’ll provoke the Lord to jealousy, won’t you? Are we stronger than he is?
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