ZECHARIAH
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Chugley
December 15, 2023
Dear Heritage Family,
There are many things in this life about which we can be indifferent, and well we should, for as Ignatius said, “Christians should detach themselves from all things that do not help us to praise, reverence, and serve God.” In other words, we need to let go of anything that doesn’t help us to love God or others, so we can stay engaged with what does.
However, there are a few things in life about which we must not be indifferent, beginning with the voice of the Holy Spirit, whether He is appealing for us to draw closer to the Lord, convicting us of our sins, or calling us to that specific ministry for which He equipped us. At first, those calls get louder and louder, but seeing that we are too focused on our own interests to hear Him, the calls get weaker and weaker. In fact, we can become so insensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit, we cannot hear His voice at all. What a dangerous situation to live in!!
Unless that is corrected through confession and repentance, we can become indifferent to the pain and suffering around us. In fact, we deliberately avoid it because we don’t want the cries of those who are suffering to rob us of the joys of our personal happiness. Not that we don’t “care,” but we are just too busy with our own needs that we cannot take time to help others in their time of need.
Beloved, while Christians are not required to celebrate the birth of Christ, much less “observe” the Christmas traditions, this does seem to be one of those times when WE can become so focused on our own plans and agendas that we don’t hear the cries of the needy. Please ask the Holy Spirit to give you sensitive ears, so you can hear what the Spirit is saying.
In our text for this next sermon from Zechariah, God referred to that as spiritual indifference, for rather than helping the Israelites with their task of repairing their homes, restoring the walls around the City of Jerusalem, and rebuilding the Temple, Israel’s neighboring nations were doing all they could to keep them from succeeding. In a very dramatic way, God assured His people of their victory, and their insensitive neighbors of their defeat.
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Wayne J. Edwards
December 16, 2023
Dear Fellow Watchmen,
On January 4, 2024, I plan to start a new Bible study on the subject of “Building a Biblical Worldview.” After a few weeks of establishing the authenticity, inerrancy, and the sufficiency of the Bible as the only source of “truth with no mixture of error,” I plan to go back to the first six chapters of Genesis, and re-establish the Biblical view of Creation, the Fall, and the Flood, including the original design of the earth as recorded by Moses, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Quite frankly, I’m preparing for some major rebuttal from those who have been brainwashed by the secular view of these events.
However, here is the issue: To have a pure Biblical Worldview, we can’t trust the Bible with religious or spiritual issues, but turn to the secularist to explain the five most important questions of life:
· How did this world come into existence?
· Who am I?
· Where did I come from?
· What is my purpose for living?
· What happens after death?
Somewhere around 200 years ago, most of the major seminaries around the world rejected the Bible as the final authority on all matters of faith, and the practice of our faith, and that apostasy included God’s beautiful account of creation as recorded in the Book of Genesis. Therefore, having established credible doubts about the Genesis account of man’s origin, other major issues began to be questioned as well. Perhaps those seminary professors forgot who it was that asked Adam and Eve, “Hath God really said?”
Fast forward to the issue we are facing today, which is the nation of Israel’s ownership of the land God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The headline of one article read, “The Israel of the Bible is not the Israel of today!” Really? On what basis can you prove that? Another writer proclaimed, “We can’t use the Bible to verify that the Jews own the land called Palestine. There is no record of their ownership of the land according to world history!” So, biblical history cannot be trusted, but secular history can? Then how can we know that Jesus was the Savior sent from God to redeem us from our sins?
I can accept that from those who have a secular worldview of history, but it is hard to believe such nonsense would be coming from those who SAY they believe the Bible to be the Word of God. But according to an article by Jim Fletcher, over 70 professing Christian leaders around the world are calling for Israel to cease fire, and to work with other world leaders in establishing a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian problem.
Beloved, I agree with Fletcher, “A sure sign of the apostasy of our age is the wrong-headed theology that leads Christian ministries, denominations, and individual pastors to take the Arab side in the age-old Arab-Israeli conflict.” If your pastor has not verbalized his unconditional support for Israel’s right to defend itself against the invasion of these demon possessed terrorists, perhaps it is time you asked him. If he does not believe the Bible confirms Israel’s right to the land, perhaps you need to ask him if there is anything else in the Bible with which he disagrees or questions. Was Jesus really born of a virgin girl? Did He really rise from the grave? Did He really ascend into heaven? Is He really coming to earth again?
Apostasy is a defection from the truth, and the only source of absolute truth in the world today is God’s Holy Word. Therefore, to question God’s Word is our privilege – but to doubt it is apostasy!
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