A Never-Changing Message in an Ever-Changing World
The word “message” means “a communication in writing” In 2 Timothy 3:16, the Bible says this. The word “messenger” simple means “someone who is sent to someone else with a message”.
In the world in which we live today, much is being said about what the will and purpose of God is for people. All over the world, there are so many different faiths and religions. So many people are saying: “God said this or God said that”. There is so much confusion everywhere.
Who is right and who is wrong?
There is only one answer to this dilemma. We must go to the source of the message, the Word of God. The Bible says in Psalm 119:89 that God’s Word is finished and is settled forever in Heaven.
Malachi 3:6 tells us that God changes NOT. Jesus said that His Word will never pass away. (Matthew 24:35) The Scripture also says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)
The Scripture makes a very bold statement in Romans 3:4. This Scripture tells us that any man who teaches something other than what the Word of God says is a liar.
Herein lies the problem; a problem that has been ongoing since the Garden of Eden. It is and has always been the output of partial Truth. What God says and what men say becomes a war of words.
All through the Old Testament of the Bible, we find God using men called prophets. They were the voice of God to His people. Throughout the Old Testament, there were many of these prophets that arose saying that God gave them a message for the people.
At times, these messages were falsehoods. A falsehood is a distortion of Truth. God said in Deuteronomy 18:20 that these whom He did not send were to die. One of the first ten commandments is “Thou shalt not bear false witness”.
We read in Jeremiah 5:31 that the prophets along with the priests were leading the people wrongly. The Lord was against them and plainly said this in Jeremiah 29:9 and in Jeremiah 23:32.
Jesus said that one of the end-time signs was many false prophets coming on the scene. In the first-century generation that Jesus was addressing, He proclaimed that many false prophets shall rise and deceive many people.
Paul calls them deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:13) The Apostle Peter said there were false prophets among them along with false teachers from AD 30 to AD 70. (2 Peter 2:1)
There have always been those who through the centuries have spoken about the traditions that have been handed down in many Churches about God.
Many of these traditions contradict the Word of God in the Bible. The Scriptures can only mean what they mean. They cannot mean something that they never meant.
In Luke 24:47, God’s message of salvation was first given by the Apostle Peter beginning at Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost almost 2,000 years ago. The message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ cannot and will not change ever. What was required then is still required today and will be required throughout eternity.
There are many voices of deceivers speaking in Churches all over the world today. They are as Jesus said in John 10:5. They are the voice of strangers.
The problem here is that so many Church people today don’t know the voice of Truth because they don’t know the voice of God. which is His Word. (Psalms 103:20)
They don’t read or study their Bible. They simply believe whatever they are told. Jesus said His sheep know His voice and would not follow another. (John 10:4) The old saying: “If you do what has always been done, you will get what you always got.” is so true. The results will always be the same.
Confusion will always occur when the original meaning of the Scriptures is altered. Without understanding audience relevance, many things the Scriptures say will always be misinterpreted.
Audience relevance is understanding what a passage of Scripture meant to its original audience. The Bible was not written to us, but to living people alive at the time of its occurrence. It was written for us that we might know the will and purpose of God in our lives.
Conclusion
Today there are over 28,000 existing kinds of faiths and ideologies in the world about God and the worship of God. The Bible says in the Ephesians 4:5 that there is one Lord, one Faith, one baptism.
The Bible tells us that God is seeking true worshippers who choose to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. (John 4:23-24) The only solution to all the division in Churches today is to teach and preach the very same message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that was first preached at the beginning on the Day of Pentecost. (1 Corinthians 1:10, 14:33, John 3:3,5,7, Acts 2:37-39, 41) The Message of the Gospel will never change in this world that is always changing.