Today I will only cover one verse. I am following the subject and the vaguarities of the update schedule that interrupts my work day.
Matthew 7:6King James Version (KJV)
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
King James Version (KJV)
There is a lot of deep meaning in this verse. I will bearly touch on it even if I write a book. Let’s get started. Jesus is commanding us in this sentence. Folks it’s not a suggestion. But to understand it we have to understand the culture and idiom of the mileage. “Do not give the Holies to the dogs...” He is telling us not to allow people who are not interested in our spiritual welfare to get control of our worship. Dogs often refers to the opportunists who hover around people of God looking for a way to scam them or fleece God’s sheep. Too often in the history of Christianity have these people gotten control of a local congregation or “cut the herd” by leading Christians out of the church and into their made up religion.
This is a danger today with so many different heresies trying to draw us away from the truth. The most insidious thing about these is that all of them contain a measure of truth. It is especially difficult for American Christians who believe that they are the only authority on faith they should follow. People who rely on their own discernment for the accurate truth wind up most often chasing whatever stimulates their itching ears. And there is a lot of spiritual ear stimulus out there right now, most of it demonic.
The Lord works all things, even lies based on partial truths, to the good of them who love Him and are the called according to His purpose. But there is no sense in giving them the chance to convince us to follow a strange Gospel not taught by the Apostles. In the early Church, the Apostles contended with those who wanted to make all converts to Christ become full converts to the Jewish religion before they could be members of the Church as well as those who were influenced by or adherents to pagan Gnosticism, which they dressed up in Christian language and peddled to the weak minded in the Church.
Today we have all of these and more. A resurgence of paganism brings the influence of the various pagan cults into the cultural agora, and there is a new synthetic religion that picks out parts of the others and builds it into a hodgepodge of mambo-jumbo that sounds good to the fallen soul, but leads away from God. One of the worst influences in American religion today is the incorporation of Eastern mysticism, in place of the Christian mystic practices that have been used in the Church from the first day, that add alien thoughts on Nervanna, karma and dharma to the Gospel of Christ.
For a Christian, I recommend learning the Christian faith, in its entirety, form a legitamate source. You must submit to the authority of another, older in the faith and well grounded. If no one can tell you anything, neither can God, for God uses the mouths of others to present His message. The body of Christian truth handed down from the Apostles to the Church is still available to us today. But we have so much other stuff padding the bookshelf that it is impossible to tell truth from fable without using the wisdom of one who has walked the road ahead of you.
The next clause about throwing your pearls in front of the pigs is really important. The term was used in the First century Judea to refer to people who are self-willed, greedy, and opinionated. I apologize if I stepped on your toes. I just report the facts. If you think I am talking about you it is time to examine yourself and change the paradigm of your thinking, in other words repent. If you find yourself in a debate with one of the people described above, get out of it. The valuable teaching of the Good News of Jesus Christ is not to be subject to their ridicule. They will turn on you and do all in their power to destroy you if you make them look bad. Of course it is their own actions that make them look bad. But you will get the blame in their eyes if you point this out.
The enemy of our souls is a member in good standing in most of our congregations. You can find his influence in the arguments that break up churches and bruise egos. Do not partake of this. It is a trap. The Satanic goal is to replace all Christians in every church with those followers of the devil who think they are the ones who define God for humanity. You know who they are. The fruit of their “ministry” is the demise of the community. Shun them.
All of the brother-better-than-you members of the church will either move on if they can’t engage in debates with victims or come to repentance as the Holy Spirit works in their hearts. Do not be snooty, that is joining the enemy. Treat them with love. But do not take part in the word-war, it is a tar pit that will trap you and make you sink into its depths.
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