The Way Some Call Heresy
\n\u201cBut this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call
\nheresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which
\nare written in the law and in the prophets\u2026\u201d (Acts. 24:14)<\/p>\n
Someone recently referred to our congregation as a cult saying, \u201cThey
\ndon\u2019t believe like most churches. They have this weird view of God as
\nsovereign in everything, even to the point of saying that He doesn\u2019t
\nactually want to save everyone, and that Christ didn\u2019t die for everyone.\u201d
\nIsn\u2019t it a shame that the state of affairs is such today that people
\nactually consider what we believe as heresy? Yet, we can take heart in
\nknowing that natural men have always considered the truth of God\u2019s
\nsovereignty in all things as heretical. That is because the flesh is at
\nenmity with God. That is why they said of Christ, \u201cHe has a demon,\u201d
\n(John 10:20). Look at the context! It was because He said that He came
\nto redeem those sheep that the Father had given Him and not everyone.
\nOur Lord concluded with these words, \u201cBut ye believe not, because ye are
\nnot of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know
\nthem (from all eternity), and they follow me.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you are the Lord\u2019s, why would men say anything less of you than they
\nsaid of Him? As the Apostle Paul testified, \u201cThat after the way which
\nthey call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all
\nthings which are written in the law and in the prophets.\u201d
\nIs anything but a sovereign God taught in Scripture? (Psalm 115:3) Then
\nI confess Him as He is! Do the Scriptures teach that my salvation is
\nbecause of His choosing me, not me choosing Him? (Psalm 65:4) Then I
\ngive Him all the glory! Does the Bible say that I am dead in my sin and
\nthat God must give me life in order to know the Lord Jesus and believe
\non Him? (John 6:63-65) Then I bow to Him and agree with God.<\/p>\n
Because the Bible teaches that God loves only those He has chosen in
\nChrist, will I then try to alter His Word to make His saving love
\napplicable to all? No! That is to pervert the Scriptures to my own
\ndestruction, (2 Peter 3:17) I confess that the only way I or anyone else
\ncan worship God is if He accepts me and receives me as His own. How does
\nHe do that? By His sovereign electing grace, through the blood and
\nrighteousness of Jesus Christ alone, whereby all that He has chosen are
\nmade accepted in Him (Ephesians 1:3-7). Is this your confession of faith?
\nDon Bell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Way Some Call Heresy \u201cBut this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets\u2026\u201d (Acts. 24:14) Someone recently referred to our congregation as a cult saying, \u201cThey don\u2019t believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,112,36,110,67,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-don-bell","category-gospel-separation","category-redemption","category-sovereignty-of-god","category-taught-of-god","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}