FOUNDED ON THE WORD OF GOD

Every Christian starts out at the same place, as a new believer in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and their personal Savior and Lord, repenting of themselves as self-lordship and sin. Jesus said that we must come to Him as little children. And when we become born-again, that is the beginning of the process. We become baby Christians and we grow in our new life in Christ. For some today, they are not even sure if they were ever born-again, or if they were, they never grew in their faith. But one must have a turning point. Even if a person is not sure of the date and time, there had to be one. A person must go from darkness into the light. From self-lordship to God as Lord. And as we grow in Christ, from their very beginning, our new life is now being built on the Rock and no longer sand. Jesus is the firm foundation for every true believer. My question is about another type of foundation. How firm is the foundation of our faith? Is the Word of God (the Bible) operating in us? As we go through the day and challenges of life, is the Word of God in us enough to be a light for our paths?
 
It is not enough to just choose Jesus as Lord and Savior. We must grow in Him, and in His Word. Recently, I learned of a new doctrine going around. As an older believer, I have seen a lot of this in my lifetime. Sometimes, people do make wonderful discoveries in God’s Word and it is so refreshing and edifying. But sadly, this one is another one of those that does not line up with the rest of God’s Word. This belief tries to say that there was a heavenly council that ruled over the Garden of Eden, which they also say was a temple. And Satan who was a member of the council, either he or one of the others, they cannot say, was responsible for the deception and disobedience of Adam and Eve. Which then leads to when God said, let us make man in our own image, that it was God and the council, not the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And if you go down this path, it only gets more off-course.
 
If I did not have the firm foundation in God’s Word about the Trinity, which is that there is one God who is also God in Three Persons, it would have made it easier to fall prey to such a false belief. Jesus said the devil is the father of lies. It was Satan telling those lies that fateful day to Eve. They also go on to say in the false doctrine, that the people who Cain was afraid of being killed by, were not family, that there were “other people” outside of the Garden. Once again, just trust God’s Word. In Genesis 3, Adam named Eve, “the mother of all living.” There were no other humans on earth (and never will be) where Eve was not the progenitor. She was, and still is, the mother of all living human beings. And furthermore, Adam and Eve had already been cast outside of the Garden. They did not even start their family, until they were outside of it.
 
It is so important that the Bible is our plumb-line. This is an old-fashioned saying, and some may wonder what a plumb-line is. A plumb-line is what people used before some of our modern tools, to make sure something was straight. A plumb-line is a string with a weight on the end of it. It will always hang straight and if your wall, does not line up with it, be prepared for a crooked room as everything else involved with that wall will be crooked, including the ceiling and other walls that cannot match straightly with it. How can the Bible help us, if it is not received and taught to us by the Holy Spirit, and then used as the filter of our lives? There may come a day in your country or mine, that the Word of God may not even be allowed. It is illegal in many countries already. We desperately need the Bible to face the enemy daily and be victorious, and we truly need to have it in us, in case the day comes that we could be separated from it. And whether it is for good times or severe trials, the Bible is not only our plumb-line, but it is our lifeline.

• 2 Timothy 3:14-17 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 
 
Some of the reference verses for this blog.
 
Matthew 7:24-27 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."
 
Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
 
John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”
 
Luke 18:16-17 But Jesus called them to Him and said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it."
 
Genesis 3:14-15 So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel."
 
Revelation 12:9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.