2nd.Corinthians 11:1-3 "Would to GOD ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to CHRIST. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in CHRIST."
We live in as day of great confusion. "Scholars" disdain the simple truths of the Bible and speculate about what GOD intended to say when they should be seeking to understand what HE did say. The world and even compromising fellow believers who think they have discovered the "deeper things of GOD" belittle those who are faithful, Bible-believing Christians. But if we are to walk in purity before CHRIST (v.2), then we must reject whatever new teaching, whatever "another. . ." (v.4 pictured above) comes along. The charismatics, liberals, cults, and even new evangelicals on every hand speak of JESUS, but what they proclaim does not agree with the teaching of Scripture.
Verse three of our text provides a very important corrective. The concern of the Apostle Paul and his admonition to the Corinthian believers, given by inspiration of the HOLY SPIRIT, was to warn of the subtle way in which Satan seeks to "[corrupt]" our minds "from the simplicity that is in CHRIST." Paul feared that some of the Corinthian believers might be carried away with -- or would "bear with" -- the error of the false religionist (v.4 pictured above). And, if the first century believers needed that warning, surely it is doubly important in our day ! The humble, faithful believer often feels that he cannot challenge modern scholarship because he does not possess the academic credentials that are supposedly necessary to successfully refute the unbiblical "findings" of the scholars. But true believers must not be intimidated by modern academia that seeks to beguile and corrupt the child of GOD's mind away "from the simplicity that is in CHRIST" (v.3). "Through [GOD's] precepts [we] get understanding" (Psalm 119:104 pictured above). MHR
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie
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