"For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." Ephesians 5:30-32
Let’s start this study off with a couple of quick questions: what fellowship does light have with darkness and what communion is there between good and evil? “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 And can sweet and bitter water come from the same fountain? “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?” James 3:11 And can divided house stand? The answers are: there is no fellowship between light and darkness, for as soon as the light appears, the darkness flees. A house divided will fall every time. There is no communion between good and evil, the two have nothing in common; and finally a fountain either produces sweet water or it produces bitter water. These are plain and simple Truths, there is no gray area; they are absolute Truths of God! If there is any leaven at all in a lump of dough, the whole lump of dough is leavened!
So let me ask you this, if we are now Jesus’ body, His flesh, and His bones, how can we be darkness as well? If Jesus is Light and we are darkness, then the Temple of God would be a divided house, a house that Jesus says would not stand. So for what Jesus said to be true, the Truth has to be that through the power of Christ we are no longer evil! “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 We are no longer darkness because the Light now lives within us and through Christ we are one with it! “At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.” John 14:20 The power of Jesus’ sacrifice is absolute!
Let’s start this study off with a couple of quick questions: what fellowship does light have with darkness and what communion is there between good and evil? “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 And can sweet and bitter water come from the same fountain? “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?” James 3:11 And can divided house stand? The answers are: there is no fellowship between light and darkness, for as soon as the light appears, the darkness flees. A house divided will fall every time. There is no communion between good and evil, the two have nothing in common; and finally a fountain either produces sweet water or it produces bitter water. These are plain and simple Truths, there is no gray area; they are absolute Truths of God! If there is any leaven at all in a lump of dough, the whole lump of dough is leavened!
So let me ask you this, if we are now Jesus’ body, His flesh, and His bones, how can we be darkness as well? If Jesus is Light and we are darkness, then the Temple of God would be a divided house, a house that Jesus says would not stand. So for what Jesus said to be true, the Truth has to be that through the power of Christ we are no longer evil! “But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 We are no longer darkness because the Light now lives within us and through Christ we are one with it! “At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.” John 14:20 The power of Jesus’ sacrifice is absolute!
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Have you ever questioned Paul?
I seriously believe Paul was a false apostle as:
1. He wasn’t ordained an apostle by Christ (Mat 10)
2. He didn’t qualify to be an apostle (Acts 1:16-26)
3. Paul’s doctrine is proven false:
After Christ died and rose he appeared to his apostles. The gospels record him as appearing to the “eleven” (remember, Judas had died), but Paul’s doctrine is in clear error as he tells us that Christ appeared to the “twelve”:
Paul said twelve:
1 Corinthians 15:4-6
4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve
Mark said eleven:
Mark 16:14: Afterward he (Christ) appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat
Matthew said eleven:
Matt 28:16-18:
Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Luke’s mentions the “eleven”:
2And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 3And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 4And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 5And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 6He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. 8And they remembered his words, 9And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
Acts mentions eleven:
Acts 1:26:
26And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Paul is a liar, and a proven false witness. Christ, in Revelation 2:2 commends the church of Epheus for figuring out false aposles. He said, “…thou hast tried them which say they are apsostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. Remember, Paul preached at Epheus.
Fact 4:
The apostles did not believe Paul was a disciple:
Acts 9:26
26And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
After Barnabas told the apostles that Paul had “seen the Lord” and that he preached boldy in the name of Jesus, the Apostles didn’t tell him to join them, but they sent him home to Tarsus. Remember, Jesus told us (Mat 13:57) that a prophet is not without honour except in his own country and in his own house . The apostles sent Paul to a place that no one would believe him.
Paul's caught in a lie about his conversion:
There are 2 different stories. In one version he said that Christ told him to go to Damascus and that it would be there that Christ would reveal more to him. In the other version, Christ did the opposite. Compare Acts 22 with Acts 26
Jesus tells apostles to "heal", Paul blinded a man:
Acts 13:11, Paul said:
"11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
Jesus, confirms twelve apostles, not 13:
Revelation 21:14:
14And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Jesus told the church of Ephesus they knew who the false apostles were:
To the Church of Ephesus, Revelation 2:2:
2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Paul told Ephesus he was an apostle:
Ephesians 1:1
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus
Paul admits his doctrine had troubles being accepted in Ephesus:
Acts 19:8,9:
8And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. 9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
I have much, much more on my website going into faith works and law too. If you want to see more, just go to my site: www.returntorighteousness.blogspot.com
verse of the day:
Deuteronomy 13
1If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
Well, that is to say the least a posting! I believe you are wrong and here is why. First, you write that Paul wasn’t ordained by Christ, let me ask you this, there is a five fold ministry called an Apostle, 1 Corinthians 12:28, Paul wrote that but Jesus talked about God sending Apostles and Prophets in Luke 11:49. Did the ministry of an Apostle, or a sent one, end when the last of the 12 Apostles died? Or does God still send people to do His will?
You next write that Paul lied by saying 12 instead of 11. Jesus first showed Himself to Mary who went and told the 11 which would make 12. But I will be honest here, I don’t know about that one? But wait, Thomas wasn’t there originally, so Jesus only showed Himself to 10. So did all of the other Gospels lie as well? Jesus also showed Himself to the two on the road, how does that play here? Paul didn’t mention them, so did he lie? Were these two mentioned in all four of the Gospels? Did the ones that did not mention them lie?
Your reaching on the Ephesus thing in the Book Revelation, which by the way you misspelled Ephesus, does that error make you a false prophet, a liar, and have we just figured you out by it? Can we believe what you write now? You have been proven wrong here, fallible! Alright that was a cheap shot, and I am being sarcastic, I freely admit that! But the 12 not eleven thing is kind of the same thing isn’t it?
Next you write the Apostle didn’t believe that Paul was an Apostle. Acts 15 tells us that the Apostle sent men with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch and it pleased them. Luke wrote the Book of Acts, so I assume we can believe His account. An Apostle is one sent of God, Paul was sent????? Also Peter wrote in 2 Peter 3:15 that Paul was beloved. Doesn’t sound like the Apostles questioned that God had sent him. Also Luke wrote in Acts the first story of Paul, was Luke deceived? Obviously he was so then how can we believe the Gospel of Luke? Luke wrote in Acts 13:9 that Paul was filled with the Holy Ghost. Does God fill false liars with Himself?
There are 12 foundations of the City’s wall, not 13, we do agree there. I would assume it is named after Matthias. We will find out when we get there. But that in no way hinders God from sending Paul, or you, or I.
Next Acts 22:10 and Acts 26:19 both say Damascus?? I guess I don’t understand what you are writing here.
Finally Paul’s doctrine had trouble being accepted anywhere. So did Jesus’, John’s, Peters, Daniel’s. David’s, and Elijah’s, you get the point!
But thanks for the posting, it made me get in the Word and I love a good challenge! I believe that God did send Paul. I believe what the Holy Ghost had Paul write, and I thank God that my Father has given me His Holy Spirit to cause me to discern the Truth that has set us free! The people of Berea challenged what Paul wrote daily with the Word, and found it to be Truth, and since they did many believed! And I too have seen that what God had Paul write can be confirmed in the Gospels and by John, Peter, and Luke, as well as the Prophets of the Old Testament. Was Paul one of the twelve Apostles? No! But was he an Apostle, sure was! As any of us can be today, if God so chooses to send us! Be blessed and Jesus is Lord!
Love
Brad
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