X + Y = Z Danger [message #1109] |
Tue, 01 January 2008 18:45 |
JRS Messages: 36 Registered: December 2007 Location: Northern ILL. |
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The X + Y = Z Danger
I’m relatively new to the board. With reading some this morning over in FACTNet I just had to post something here. Just something the Lord has put on my heart.
I was never a member of Faith Assembly, though I was closely associated with the teaching in the body I was in. We experienced much the same as FA. Still today I hold the Faith Message as TRUTH.
I was reading how many are stating the FA was a cult. I remember during the mid 90’s reading some about cults. I would have to say there were some of these tendencies present and could see how many look on it that way. Not in the teachings but in the people. I can’t say it’s human nature – society – or what the roots are. But in many ways things had digressed into the denominational way of thinking – I call it the X+Y=Z mentality. Denominations differ, but basically they teach – live a good life, know that Jesus died for you and you will go to heaven. Much the same things had digressed to the point on formulas on how to receive, and if things did not come to pass = sin was involved in some way. I sat under the Word, I heard the Word so the result must be Faith. The denominational churches cater to the flesh. So it seems right.
This was a worldly way of thinking in an attempt to fulfill the spiritual.
Can someone here Please Please show me where we can do anything at all apart from the Grace of God? I think most of the members here heard the teachings that came forth from FA – or should I say the TRUTHS in the WORD of GOD. We did not find them at that time by our self. We did not open our own hearts. It was the Lord Jesus that led us, guided us, gave us the privilege to sit under the anointed teaching of the Word. We twisted it to formulas – and the written word and our understanding of it became more important than the one who graciously allowed us to hear it.
It’s in Him we live and move and have our very being. I am crucified with Christ never the less I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me.
I Praise God for the Grace and Mercy he has shown toward me.
I don’t understand how something like this can be held to:
There are no exceptions to the promises of God.
There are conditions.
If you will pay the cost to learn the conditions,
To me this sets the foundation for the worldly mind-set that one can aspire to receive the promises. The only condition should be is to Love the Lord God with all your heart.
Jim
The work that He has begun, He shall complete – line upon line and precept upon percept.
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