An introduction to a DVD project we are currently undertaking to stimulate and challenge what we believe.

As pastors, elders and bishops we have been ordained to the care of God’s flock to lead them in the right way to ensure that not one runs the race of life in vain. Therefore vital that we as ministers consider what we believe and why we believe what we believe and how our belief compares to the Scriptures.

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Contrary to what some believe, the Word does not teach that God has a forked or double tongue. God meant it exactly as He spoke it and it is up to us through the indwelling Holy Spirit to search the Scriptures and be led into the revelation of the truth.

We are living in the day in which the will of God is for us to know all the mysteries of His kingdom.

We as ministers above all must study to show ourselves approved as the apostle Paul instructed Timothy in…

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My thought this week goes back to having the courage to study and preach the Word of God.

The apostle Paul urged Timothy to preach the Word in season and out of season.

In many places today and across all denominations the message preached is one of ecumenism, tolerance and that which is socially acceptable at the expense of true doctrine as revealed by the Word of God.

One of the reasons for this is that many who claim to be ministers have no knowledge or understanding of the mysteries of God.

For far too many the ministry is only a vocation, a job, a position or the means to an income or financial reward.

Much of what they preach is gleaned from the writings, teachings and thoughts of men. They follow the party line!

My brothers and sisters, this is the enemy that we face in these last days.

We face a conglomerate of sects and denominations who operate under the guise of Christianity and push their doctrines of men at the expense of the Word.

I believe that the way forward for both our congregation in Australia, those in Africa and other parts of the world this year is to commit to the study and understanding of the great doctrines of the Bible.

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Please pray for the brethren in Kenya. There is much violence and many lives are being lost.

I had planned to be in Kenya in April, which I have postponed to June in the hope that the public unrest will have abated by then.

Here are a couple of emails I have just received from Kenya in reply to my personal email we send out each week to our mailing list.

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Did you know that many of us have or will spend around 12 years of full-time study just to make it in this world? That is an average of 8 hours a day, 1600 hours a year, which totals almost 20,000 hours of study just to make a perceived success of living in this earth realm.

However many of us expect to make in the heavenly realm, the Kingdom of God, with next to no study at all.

I am not talking about simply reading your Bible or listening to a message, but actually studying the Bible as we read in…

2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

How can we defend what we believe if we do not study? How do we hold our position if the revelation of God’s Word is not in our hearts?

Will we become like the charismatics and define truth on the basis of our experience irrespective of what the Bible might say?

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I believe one of the reasons why there is so much confusion in the understanding and the knowing of the Word of God is that too many listen with the wrong ears.

Many determine what they believe by following the belief of the others that they may have gleaned from the hearing of preaching tapes, the reading of the books of men or what they are fed from the pulpit.

Although I am sure that ministers in the Church of God would never purposefully try to mislead, however the truth is that not one is inerrant or infallible.

What further causes this confusion and the subsequent schisms and divisions within the body is that very few have the courage to study and seek the heart of God concerning the revelation of His Word.

Although we call ourselves the Church of God, in practice many of us still belong to man-made groups. Our position on various pionts of doctrine from divorce and remarriage, sanctification, what we should wear, interpretation of Revelations, etc, is based upon the words of the leader or leaders of each group.

The Church in Corinth thought they could still be the Church although they had split up in to various sects or followings: I am of Apollos, I am of Paul, I am of Peter, etc. They were saying that they followed the teaching or reasonings of men.

Paul labelled them as being carnal because they were hearing and understanding with the wrong ears.

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We all love some forms of tradition. Things handed down through the family, grandmother’s special recipe, a way of doing things, to iconic national emblems and celebrations that identify us as groups of people.

But be warned, because some traditions for us as Christians can also be a trap in that they can be a strong hindrance shaping our thoughts and actions in such a way to allow religious bias to be formed in both our minds and reasoning.

Tradition can form a bias in your mind which prevents you from seeing God’s word clearly with the mind of Christ.

Jesus said this about tradition

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If we could choose the time period to be brought into this world it is my belief that this is that time all we would select. A time when the Church of God is restored and truly going from grace to grace in an ever increasing understanding and knowledge of the Word of God.

I believe that we will see a time off great revival; a time when souls will be saved in ever increasing numbers as the day of the coming of the Lord draws closer.

It is my understanding that the Evening Light began in 1880 and refers to the period of time when the truth would be fully restored to the church as in the Morning Time.

A glorious time with the church in her rightful place again.

It appears that some of the brethren believe that in 1880 all the truth was restored and that anything beyond that is to be regarded as false and those who promote truth beyond the sixth seal  writers are to be classified as heretics.

Or put more plainly, those who are at variance with the teachings of brother Warner or brother Riggle are to be automatically classified as heretics and bound for hellfire.

But then why sing songs that contain lines like “pure light is coming fast”.

I understand that many brethren get this idea from…

Revelation 14:5
5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

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Mark 12:24
And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

We all realise that in this portion of scripture Jesus was rebuking the Sadducees on their interpretation of scripture concerning the resurrection.Both the Sadducees and the Pharisees no doubt had great head knowledge concerning the scriptures. They would have known passages, even whole books of the Old Testament from memory.You may well have seen the Rabbis at the Wailing Wall and the way they treat the scrolls with reverence and great care.So Jesus was not condemning them for not knowing the scriptures in the realm of the mind but rather that they lacked the spiritual understanding or application of the scriptures.When you look at the issue whether the blood of Jesus Christ is all-powerful to cleanse in one operation, or as many teach, not so powerful and therefore a need for two applications. The problem is not the knowing the scriptures in our minds, but rather knowing the spiritual understanding and application of the scriptures.

It would appear to me that many simply follow a belief because it is something that has been handed down through the generations. We in the church of God have fallen for a bad habit of simply accepting what the sixth seal writers wrote almost without question. And by that I mean that it seems most who claim to be church of God in reality see it as beginning in 1880.

Those who hold that view have simply joined another sect!

I for one do not hold to that view but believe that God has had his people throughout each time period of the Gospel Day.

If it comes to believing what brother Warner, brother Riggle or brother Paul taught, I will choose Paul.

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When are we going to understand that God wants unity in the body and not division or group-ism?

When are we going to accept that each congregation in a given locality may have differences of expression concerning worship and order of service, etc; even more light! It is rather obvious to me that congregations in Africa, the Philippines or even here in Australia may do things differently to Americans.

Nowhere is the scripture is the revelation and understanding of God’s Word in the New Testament limited to a given earthy location, in-fact Jesus warned against those who taught or thought that when He said

Matthew 24:23
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

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Many in both the Holiness movement and the Church of God will find the title to this article most “challenging”, but I believe it to be true.

Let me pose a couple questions to show you how unbiblical the doctrine of entire sanctification or two works of grace is.

If we say that we need a second cleansing to eradicate the Adamic or Sin nature so that our heart is made pure and holy , what happens when a sanctified person falls into sin again?

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