THE WORD OF GOD ACCURATE, RELIABLE & DEPENDABLE There is a developing trend in today’s Christian culture. Men’s words, vain promises and pronouncements seem to triumph over and above the Almighty, Absolute, Infallible, Ever-enduring Word of our Creator and Savior God. Perhaps, we’ve a large audience with prepared itching-ears to receive and applaud us for our personal and conceited pronouncements and promises that we utter but on behalf of our most fearful God. However, the Scripture forewarns us about such deliberate and puffed-up attitude in the book of Hebrews this way: “For we know Him who said, ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ and again, ‘The Lord will judge His people.’ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God’” (Heb.10:30-31 NLT). The reason why we flourish very well with our self-advertising and positioning business antics are that we perceive our day and age Christians not to be very informed or fervent with Scripture. Therefore, we’ve a huge advantage, in fact, we’re at liberty to bombard and throw anything that we want to at them and into their minds. We’ve figured out that our fans and believers so much adore and treasure whatever that we may say to them as of God or from Him. However, least do we realize the very destructive harm that we do to ourselves and to our believers and audience. When we take this deceitful approach, intentionally or otherwise, we position ourselves as God or act like Him. In a nutshell, we’ve taken the place and position of God. However, we’re by no means able to produce, cause about or fulfill provision for what we promise or pronounce them. The reason is that very simple. We only acted like God when we’re not. We only took the place of God and talked like Him when our words are not adequate and absolute enough to accomplish and fulfill whatever that we say. We may think that we can do this trickery business for our fame to become popular and easily get away with it. However, not so fast! How wrong we’ve imagined!! God shares His glory with no one else. He’s a jealous God because He alone is who He’s. In the biblical times when people uttered such that did not come from God they had the death penalty for their lies that they pronounced on behalf of Him. And there’s an even greater consequence for those who orchestrate such deliberate and deceitful schemes in our time. We’re almost about to turn Christianity into something else that will suit our desire purposes and taste. Yet we all acknowledge that Christianity did not originate from the mind and power of any exceptional human being. We also acknowledge that it (Christianity) did not start from us, our generation neither is it going to end up with us. Therefore, we in this modern era have no audacity and power to change or modify Christianity to suit our own brand or taste. The Scripture is very relevant and relational and ever-enduring to all generations to ever dwell on this planet earth until the second coming of our Creator and Lord Savior, Christ Jesus. Indeed, no matter how civilized, intellectual or scientific that mankind becomes or can become, she can never ever surpass the knowledge and wisdom of our Creator and Savior God, Christ Jesus our Lord. Christ Jesus Himself, the Word God alone is that who is that powerful, infallible, absolute, ever-enduring, reliable and dependable. Concerning the Word of God, Scripture affirms how credible, reliable and dependable it’s in the book of Colossians in this way: I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ Himself. In Him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I am telling you this so no one will deceive you with well-crafted arguments (Col. 2:2-4 NLT). If there’s anything at all that man can ever achieve in her civilization or development, she will only catch up with what the infallible Scripture states or informs and reveals about her generation. No generation will ever outgrow pass the knowledge and wisdom of God and that which Scripture states and reveals. In all the biblical accounts, true prophecies have always been credited to God. So Scripture attaches this phrase to true prophecies: ‘That says the Lord.’ Scripture prophecies were of God and from Him. Therefore, they were sharp, pointed and precise to their cause and course. They were not so broad and wide as that which we intentionally predict and prophesy on people now. In what we now call as prophecies, we fabricate our own predictions, utterances instead, on behalf of God. I believe our weather forecasters do a far better job than what we do now. At least they refrain to say that their predictions are of God or from Him. Our predictions come from our own imagination and instincts. We’re not moved or carried by the Holy Spirit yet we’ve the audacity to attribute what we say and promise to our fellow men as that of God or from Him. I am here in no way demeaning or denouncing true prophecy. No, not at all! However, I am making difference between a true divine, Scripture prophecy and that of our modern day false prophecy. In the book of 2Pt. 1:19-21, it sates about the origin of prophecies in this way: “We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2Pt. 1:19-21 NIV). The Scripture is timely fulfiled in our day and age when it states and instructs that we: “Preach the Word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching. For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths” (2 Tm. 4:2-4 NLT). The Prophet Isaiah prophesied long ago concerning our generation in this way: “They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions” (Is. 30:10 NLT). In 2 Timothy, Paul admonishes that we instruct from the Scripture pattern of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ Jesus: “What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus” (2 Tm. 1:13 NLT). And in the book of Jude it rightly conclude what we should anticipate in the last days: “They said to you, ‘In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires’” (Jude 1:18 NLT). This is what the Lord says in the book of Jeremiah. It says to those that may put their trust in another human and rely on the strength of her fellow man in order to turn away her heart and focus from the Lord God in this way: “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.” “But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.” “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. At midlife they will lose their riches; in the end, they will become poor old fools. But we worship at Your throne—Eternal, High, and Glorious O Lord, the hope of Israel, (I add: the hope of the world) all who turn away from You will be disgraced. They will be buried in the dust of the earth, for they have abandoned the Lord, the Fountain of living water (Jere. 17:5-13). Rev. Kwame Ankoma-Amoa.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:21:41 +0000
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