Don't Touch GOD's Anointed!

Don’t Touch GOD’s Anointed!

 

Today I sat in on an on-line service from a Church that I had visited several times when I first moved to the Rio Grande Valley in 2018. There was a good study from Jude and afterwards there was a good discussion over a range of topics that different ones brought up, the theme pretty much stayed around our need to know The Word. One of the participants said (this is how I heard it), he had been listening to a program where the speaker spoke about a certain ministry that was from the prosperity movement. That the minister in question had made a quote he attributed to The Bible that the program speaker said was not a Scripture. It was about JESUS going to hell and having the keys of hell. It seemed to me that the person sharing this believed the program speaker that the prosperity minister was saying things that are not in The Bible or was misquoting The Bible.

 

I was familiar with the scripture that was quoted so I looked it up and read it to the group and gave my opinion. Revelation 1:18 is the verse, “I AM He who lives and was dead and behold I Am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of hades and death.” NKJV In context JESUS is declaring to John who He is and to write down the things he has seem, the things that are and the things that are about to happen, Revelation 1:17-20 Context is very important in understanding and interpreting The Scriptures. I also spoke on the OT quote from Psalms that said that The MESSIAH would lead captivity captive, or lead those in judgment to life who had died before JESUS went to the cross.

 

All of that is the introduction to what I want to talk about.

 

In my short diatribe a also said that we have to be careful of those “ministries” who function is to put down other ministries. That our responsibility is to so know The Word that we recognize when it is misquoted or taken out of context to make a point. I used kings David and Saul as examples. Saul had become an evil king yet David would not strike him; even when he had the chance; because Saul was the anointed by GOD, king, even though David had later been anointed to be king. I also said that the Bible tells us to cover over other’s sins not expose them and that there was no Biblical example of a ministry that was to denigrate other ministries. Someone else said how we are to pray for our enemies and a couple of other things along that line were mentioned.

 

Tonight as my wife and I were laying down to sleep I was reminded by GOD’s SPIRIT that the writers of the epistles did mention some by name who had gone astray and some who were purposely deceiving others by their teachings. Study Romans 16:17-19; 1 Corinthians 15:33-34; Galatians 6:1-5; Ephesians 5:1-21; Colossians 2:8-9, 18-23, 3:12-17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12-15; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15; 1 Timothy 1:3-11, 4:1-11, 6:3-5; 2 Timothy 2:14-18, 23-26, 3:1-9; Titus 3:9-10; James 4:11-12; 2 Peter 2:1-3, 12-22; 1 John2:18-23, 4:20-21; 2 John :7-11; 3 John :9-12; Jude

 

So then, be careful what you say and who you say it about because GOD will hold us accountable for every word we speak. “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Matthew 12:36-37