Let No Man Put Asunder His Precious Word of God - Part 1082

What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder. (Mark 10:9)

"Let no man put asunder ..." Have you ever considered just how many endeavour to asunder the Word of God on a daily basis -- expressing through their actions, or conversely, the message in their sermons that God must have been mistaken in what He said? Fortunately, the one foundation that believers in Jesus by faith recognize is that God said what He meant and meant what He said. How do we know this?

For two reasons. First, God confirmed His Word with signs and wonders, thereby establishing confirmation. Second, after being taken up, He -- Jesus -- "through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom also He showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, and being assembled together with [them] commanded them ..." (Acts 1:1-5)

Through the Holy Ghost, giving His commandments. It is in this context that we know that the Church started in Jerusalem as recorded in Acts chapter 2. This was where the outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon believers occurred. It was in the Upper Room on the day of Pentecost where the first message was delivered by men who were anointed by the Holy Ghost. This historical event is recorded in the Bible so that we too could give earnest heed to the Word that God that was delivered personally to us by Him that knew no sin. (Acts 2:1-47)

The establishing of the early church was also recorded here so that we as believers could discern between the teachings that are scripturally accurate and those that are not. Remember, God is not the author of confusion. Every scripture aligns in perfect accordance to those who seek Jesus and His righteousness by faith.

The question we need to ask ourselves (and the religious culture of the day that promotes false doctrines that are not consistent with His Word)  is whether the Word of God is coming out from them OR as the Word states -- to them.

"What? Came the Word of God out from you? Or, came it unto you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you ARE the commandments of the Lord." (I Corinthians 14:36-38)

Recall that it was the ordinary folks in Jesus time that heard Him gladly. The reason for this? Jesus did not speak as the scribes and Pharisees did -- even though some believed because He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. (Matthew 7:29)

All this to say that the intellectual church fathers of Rome (who proclaim that they knew what Jesus really meant to say) still take mountains of footnotes spun in ecclesiastical language to say what God said to us in a few words.

That is, the Spirit of Truth which is the holy Spirit of God will lead and guide believers in Him into all truth. This is why it is critical to study your Bible, as a workman doeth, so that we cannot be misled by false dogma presented by the modern day church. Whey you do, God will give you  all the understanding needed. In fact, it is written that we have no need that any man teach us because all believers will be taught of God.

"But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU, but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him." (I John 2:27)

This is why the authors of this blog consider it so important to constantly present that believers ought to be baptized according to the practice of the early church in Acts chapter 2:37-42 because very few religions teach this. Indeed, some churches stop at Acts 2:37, while others skip to the end of the second chapter of Acts. Few preach (or follow through) with the response by Peter, standing with the eleven apostles when it comes to water baptism.

"Now when they heard [this] they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"

Then Peter said unto them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:37-38)

On that day, the first 3000 to believe in Jesus were baptized into His precious name -- the name of the Lord Jesus the Christ -- and likewise, every other believer baptized in the new testament.

Note however that the false church originating in Rome (and the numerous other religions that have blindly followed their lead) falsified the scripture and ordered that believers be baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Admittedly, they substituted another practice into the congregation. Their form is found in the re-written version of Matthew 28:19.

But as we also know, Father, Son and Spirit are not names. These are descriptive titles. And when the Apostles actually baptized people in the scriptures, they did so recognizing that in Jesus dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Read your Bible and obey the scriptures as the first 3000 believers did. They were not mislead. They did not add to the scriptures. Neither did the apostles create additional teachings over and above the scriptures. Instead, they let God be true and everyone who taught contrary to the scriptures a liar.

When asked what one had to do to be saved, Peter standing with the eleven said, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2:38)

This scripture is equally relevant for believers today. Let him that hath ears to hear, hear. Stand in the offering plate.