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”BE DILIGENT TO PRESENT YOURSELF APPROVED TO GOD, A WORKER WHO DOES NOT NEED TO BE ASHAMED,                                                                                                                                                                                       87
                                                RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH” 2 Tim. 2:15

GOD’S PROPHETS PROCLAIM                                                                                                                          GOD’S APOSTLES PROCLAIM

GOD’S NOW WORD TO          PROPHETS                                                                                                       APOSTLES  GOD’S NOW WORD TO
PREPARE GOD’S PEOPLE                                                                                                                                PREPARE GOD’S PEOPLE

     FOR THE FUTURE                                                                                                                                     FOR THE PRESENT

          Understanding that prophecy given by the prophets, and doctrine given by the apostles,

          constitute a means by which we can properly “rightly divide the Word of truth,”

                         let us look now at an important prophecy ABOUT doctrine:

I believe we all can     AN IMPORTANT                                                                                                     ABOUT                                                                                                                   Much of God’s
recognize that the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          church has indeed
time in which God’s        “S…OBTTNCBUUHHOEOTTNEECHMIATIADRTETECIUYCEOMCWDSHNWWOEEOHIDINRNTWELCDUHGNLIDTILERNEERLYAESGIIHRNRTSAEEO,VS,,E  TFAOHNTFERHRDTYOETEWTBIWHAMROIEATCELILELTMHTNHFLAUHAEDTESRHRYEBERUSNLELSRTVA;EAENRSE2PDWU…STTAAi”mHYS.,I4D:E3-4
people are not                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         heaped for
enduring sound                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        themselves
doctrine HAS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  teachers who are
already come upon                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              presently turning
the church.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      the people who
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           listen to them away
It is important to note                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    from the truth. Such
that this warning                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   a scenario is
states that it is the
people themselves                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       described
that are responsible                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       throughout the New

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Testament as the

for what is coming                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         passages below

forth from today’s                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         confirm:

pulpits.

“…CERTAIN MEN HAVE CREPT IN … WHO TURN THE GRACE OF OUR GOD INTO LICENTIOUSNESS…”
                                                                            Jude 4

 “…FALSE TEACHERS AMONG YOU…BRING IN DESTRUCTIVE HERESIES…MANY WILL FOLLOW THEIR
           DESTRUCTIVE WAYS, BECAUSE OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH WILL BE BLASPHEMED…
                      BY COVETOUSNESS THEY WILL EXPLOIT YOU WITH DECEPTIVE WORDS…”
                                                                       2 Pet. 2:1-3
           “…CARRIED ABOUT WITH EVERY WIND OF DOCTRINE BY THE TRICKERY OF MEN,
                 IN THE CUNNING CRAFTINESS BY WHICH THEY LIE IN WAIT TO DECEIVE…”
                                                                      Eph. 4:14

          “…LIKE SO MANY, PEDDLING (“ADULTERATING FOR GAIN”) THE WORD OF GOD…
                                  …HANDLING THE WORD OF GOD DECEITFULLY…”
                                                           2 Cor. 2:17 and 4:2

The antidote to this doctrinal poison being administered by those who teach false doctrine and
 unsound doctrine (“doctrine that sounds good”) is Paul’s principles found in our opening text:

“…ACCORDING TO             DOCTRINAL KEYS TO                                                                                                                                                                                                               “…YOU ARE GOD’S
                           RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH
THE GRACE OF GOD…                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          BUILDING...
AS A WISE MASTER BUILDER,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  EACH ONE’S WORK
I HAVE LAID THE                                                                                                                                     WILL BECOME MANIFEST…
FOUNDATION… NO OTHER                                                                                                                                IF ANYONE’S WORK WHICH HE
FOUNDATION CAN ANYONE                                                                                                                               HAS BUILT ON IT ENDURES,
LAY THAN THAT WHICH IS                                                                                                                              HE WILL RECEIVE A REWARD.
LAID, WHICH IS JESUS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       IF ANYONE’S WORK IS
CHRIST… IF ANYONE BUILDS                                                                                                                            BURNED, HE WILL SUFFER
ON THIS FOUNDATION…LET                                                                                                                              LOSS, BUT HE HIMSELF WILL
EACH ONE TAKE HEED                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         BE SAVED, YET SO AS
HOW HE BUILDS ON IT…                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       THROUGH FIRE.”
                           1 Cor. 3:9-15 excerpts

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