Did you know that there is such thing as a false revelation?
“Why do you say that?”You may ask. Let me answer with another question. Why are there so many denominations when there is only one God.
We need to consider the fact that denominations come from division and every time there is division somewhere, it is because somebody believed a lie. Therefore, division and strife are the offspring of deception.
We must be careful of what and who we follow. The father of deception, the devil (John 8:44), is crafty and comes with subtleties to lie to us. It is true of the saying that if we do not stand for something (in this case the foundation of Jesus Christ from which we build our lives), we will fall for anything.
Many people defend their stands as absolutes when in reality they are repeating like parrots what some one else said just because it sounded good and seemed like it could be true. But let me ask you, did it transform you in such a way that caused you to repent and turn from your wicked ways and draw closer to God? If it didn’t have that effect, you may have drank a Kool-aid that did not come from the unadulterated and pure word of God.
Not only that, but the one who introduced you to the deception or served and handed you the glass of Kool-aid that caused you to be deceived become proud, thinking more highly of yourself, and divided with other believers, especially if the division and strife caused you to turn from those God has called you to walk in unity with, this person is in danger of experiencing the consequences stated in verse 17 of the passage below which is destruction.
So in the end, was the outcome of division worth standing for a lie that caused everything you built on it become rubble?
In his time, the apostle Paul also struggled with people that were quick to strife and bring division, jealously, competition, and comparison due to their deception which comes from having things in common with the system of thinking of this world. But let me allow him to continue this post with his writings in 1 Corinthians 3:1-23,
1 “Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. 2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, 3 for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world? 4 When one of you says, ‘I a, a follower of Paul,’ and another says, ‘I follow Apolos,’ aren’t you acting just as people of the world?
5 “After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us. 6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. 7 It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work. 9 For we are both God’s worker. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building.
10 “Because of God’s grace to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ.
12 “Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. 13 But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. 14 If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. 15 But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.
16 “Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
18 “Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say,
‘He traps the wise
in the snare of their own
cleverness.’
20 “And again,
“The Lord knows the thoughts of the
wise;
he knows they are worthless.’
21 “So don’t boast about following a particular human leader. For everything belongs to you—22 whether Paul or Apollos or Peter, or the world, or life and death, or the present and the future. Everything belongs to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.” NLT
I pray this post opens your eyes and brings you to turn from your wicked ways as you seek with humility to be reconciled to the One who is beckoning you to return to Him as a worshipper who worships Him in Spirit and in truth. To God alone be all the glory.**
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