THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE - Part 3 By Daniel J. Musokwa

Daniel J. Musokwa

Here is the Third installment in this series on The Christian Doctrine by my dear brother and good friend Daniel J. Musokwa of The New Testament Ministries Tanzania. You might want to read the preceding installments here: Part 1 and Part 2

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Galatians 1:6-9 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel - which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert (mutate) the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel OTHER than the one we preached to you, let him be ETERNALLY CONDEMNED! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel OTHER than what you accepted, let him be ETERNALLY CONDEMNED!

Wow, it seems to me like the Apostle Paul means it! Here is the crux of the matter. The safety, integrity and purity of the doctrine of Christ lies in Galatians 1:6-9, right there! For something to be called the gospel it has to adhere to the message of Christ and His early apostles or IT IS NOT THE GOSPEL AT ALL!! Once the gospel has been perverted, then the ‘genetic’ composition or ‘genetic’ doctrine of the body that will be built on that doctrine will be alien or mutant or cancerous to the REAL body of Christ! This is rampant the world over! But not to worry; the Holy Spirit is going to put us (and indeed He has begun) under the knife to remove the cancer. It is going to be such a painful process to church and individual alike, but that’s the only way to heal us. Some of us are going to pay a painful price to bring you this message. But in our absence you will come to embrace it.

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Paul says “even if we or an angel FROM HEAVEN should preach a gospel OTHER than the one WE preached to you, let him be ETERNALLY CONDEMNED!” This is an unusually strong language for a very usual problem… that of the perversion of the gospel! He doesn’t care who; but if they are preaching a gospel that is not the same as what the early apostles preached, then he is wrong and ETERNALLY CONDEMNED even if he be a holy angel from heaven! Think about the enormity of that statement my friend! I know the Book of Revelation teaches that there will be a time in the very last days when even the angels from heaven would come down and preach the gospel here physically. But Paul has already used his authority to bind in heaven and on earth to delineate the parameters of what those angels can and cannot preach in the future. If any of them is to stray from Paul’s doctrine, that angel would perish! Now can you see how serious this is?

Paul repeated this anathema twice for good effect to act as a clear warning… we MUST heed this warning!

The problem is that we take things so lightly in today’s church! We are drunken on the gospel of perverted GRACE! We forget that the only thing that equals the LOVE of God is the WRATH of God, and both are valid to His eternal character and composition. None is bigger than the other. These things are so important and that’s why Paul said “study and show yourself approved, a worker who needs not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth” – 2Timothy 2:15 KJV. It is also why Jesus said “… be careful what you hear…” – Mark 4:24 Don’t just hear everything. You must discriminate what you hear with earnest studying and prayers. You need to be careful what you hear because words are seeds, they have a spiritual composition that can bear fruit in your life; positive or negative. A lot depends on not only what you believe but also what you hear! Jesus said “the words that I speak to you; they are spirit and they are life!” So it is that the words that Satan speaks are also spirit and they are death! Whom will you listen to? 

2Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when men will not put up with SOUND DOCTRINE. Instead, TO SUIT THEIR OWN DESIRES, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

These are those times I tell you, when men don’t want to put up with SOUND DOCTRINE! Why? Because sound doctrine requires discipline (being a disciple not just a Jesus follower), it requires sacrifice, it is about what you MUST do for God and NOT what He can do for you, it exposes selfishness and darkness. So in order to “suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of (false)teachers to say what their itching ear want to hear.” 

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These people are more loyal to a PERSON than they are to the DOCTRINE OF CHRIST! They are not Christ-like, they are respecters of persons, they are compromisers and they have transgressed from the true path because it is narrow and it has many thorns, trials, tribulations and persecutions. Their itching ears want to hear about prosperity, the blessing, favour, promotion, happiness, to be honoured, materialism and perverted hyper-grace! They don’t want to hear about martyrdom, sacrifice, suffering for Jesus, being discriminated against because of Jesus, letting go of your rights and privileges for the sake of Jesus.  

But bless God, we who are in the Doctrine of Christ, through the Spirit of Agape, “… must teach what is in accord with SOUND DOCTRINE” - Titus 2:1

TO BE CONTINUED>>>