The G.E.P.C Study – GALATIANS 5 – PT. 3 of 3

Going Through Paul’s epistles to Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, and Colossi

Introduction: We are all gardens of human souls, planting in the soils of our life different seeds, cultivating different kinds of crop. Some are sowing to their flesh and reaping corruption. Others are sowing to the Spirit and reaping everlasting life.

We ought always to take care of what sort of seed we are allowing into our lives. Every spoken word heard, every paragraph read – even song lyrics and film quotes will plant words into our minds, words that lead to ideas, ideas that lead to beliefs, beliefs that lead to action, action that leads to consequences.

We now complete the fifth chapter of GALATIANS and examine the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit:

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A PLOT OF THE NEFARIOUS KIND – Examining Satan’s Strategic Psychological Warfare Program – Part Two

INTRODUCTION: Satan as the master deceiver will play the part of any role, parading around on the stage of the mind of the one he intends to deceive.

So if one believes in ghosts and spiritual planes of higher existence, Satan will accommodate this and appear as their dearly departed at the foot of their bed, or at the table of a séance and speak comforting lies of a world without judgment and hell; only blissful planes of higher, heavenly realities.

If one holds the belief of aliens from another world, he will certainly appear as an otherworldly, hi-tech saucer type of craft, complete with aliens in order to draw a person into deeper deceptions and New Age dogmas. He will convey the appearance of benevolent alien races so advanced that they appear as gods, who will (and have, supposedly) guide our own human evolution into godhood.

If one has the conviction that the human spirit is powerful with all sorts of psychic abilities, then Satan will furnish such things through demonic agencies. The victim will believe that they possess these powers but will eventually find out that it’s the powers (and “spiritual wickedness in high places”; see EPH 6:12) that possesses them!

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CONTINUED ADMONITIONS From APOSTLE To PASTOR – 2 TIMOTHY 2:11-18

(Excepted and modified from the TTUF study in 2 TIMOTHY)

INTRODUCTION: In this second chapter of Apostle Paul’s epistle to his protégé and son in the faith, Timothy, pastor of the church at Ephesus.
In this portion of this chapter we’ll venture into Paul’s admonition to Timothy regarding the elders and church leadership, that he will “…remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.”

He encourages Timothy to be diligent in the study of the Word, to shun babblings that are born of and encourages strife and contention among the church. The apostle addresses how the LORD will operate through those of His that are sanctified and usable and will refrain from using those not sanctified, that is those who don’t belong to GOD and further, pursue holiness.

He ends this section of his epistle with the manner and conduct of the servant of the LORD (vs. 24-25). So without any further delay, let’s get into these instructions and admonitions found in verses 11-18.

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HOW TO “BIBLE STUDY” - T. A. McMahon - The BEREAN CALL

November 1, 2022

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We are clearly in a day that majors in fulfilling the prophecy of 2 Timothy:4:3-4 
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 

Examples abound. Many churches that profess to be Bible-believing fellowships do not live up to their claims. They say they believe in the inerrancy, the authority, and the sufficiency of the Word of God. However, in practice they have mixed what God has said with the so-called wisdom of mankind. Here’s how that plays out, starting with the sufficiency of the Scriptures.

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PROVERBS 23:27-32: D.U.I. DECEIVED and UNDER the INFLUENCE

PROVERBS 23:27-32: D.U.I. DECEIVED and UNDER the INFLUENCE

INTRODUCTION: The enemies of our souls that includes Satan and his kingdom of darkness, the world and its vain philosophies and enticements along with our own sin nature will do all they can to draw us away from the LORD. These enemies of ours hate the LORD and want nothing to do with Him! They draw us away primarily by seduction, temptation, leading to sin.

1 JOHN 2:26
These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive [seduce] you.

The Greek word for deceive or seduce is planao, and it means “to roam from safety, truth or virtue, to be seduced with the effect of wandering out of the way”.

REVELATION 2:20 the LORD Jesus Christ says to the church in Thyatira:
"Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach [false doctrine] and seduce [leading to sin] My servants to commit sexual immorality [adultery] and eat things sacrificed to idols [idolatry].

The word “seduce” here is the same Greek word planao.

An adulteress seduces someone and INFLUENCES them to wander from virtue; a false teacher seduces and INFLUENCES a person to wander from truth; Satan as a roaring lion seduces and INFLUENCES the undiscerning to wander from safety.
Wine, or alcohol or any mind altering drug will seduce and INFLUENCE one to wander from good judgment.

Another thing about a false teacher is that they not only cause people to wander from the truth, but they replace truth with their own false doctrine, and this in a very real sense is a form of idolatry. Rather than worship JESUS Who is the Truth, and esteem the Word of GOD highly (Remember, GOD esteems His Word higher than His Most Holy Name!) they will essentially worship “give themselves over to, submit to, venerate”) their own teachings and exalt them above the holy revelation of GOD!

This is why leaven (yeast) in the Scripture is symbolic not only of false teaching that would exalt such lies over GOD’s truth but also of pride (and sin). At the heart of every sin is pride.

We’ll see some correlations between adultery and idolatry; between wine, and the world in these verses examined!

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STUDY In The Book of NEHEMIAH TRIUMPH by TRANSFORMATION – Chapter ELEVEN

INTRODUCTION: The LORD told us to be as “wise as serpents and gentle as doves” – I take that to mean that we as heralders of the Gospel and Christ’s ambassadorial representatives should avoid trouble where we can, but when cornered and escape is apparently impossible, that our conduct should be inoffensive, and non-hostile.

Jerusalem lay in waste for several decades at this point, and the enemies of Israel were delighted to have it so. When Nehemiah was ordained of GOD to go and restore the city of Jerusalem, according to the prophecy given to Daniel (DAN 9:25) the opposers of GOD were outraged.

So was Satan their master and for two reasons: he realizes that as long as Jerusalem exists the prophecies concerning Messiah stand ready to be fulfilled – so the reality of Jerusalem is an open threat to him and his kingdom which will come to an abrupt end once the Messiah returns and sets up His government over the world from its Messianic capital (ISA 9:6-7; PSA 110:1-2).

The second reason is that GOD has placed the highest degree of importance in the city of Jerusalem aka Zion and the land of Israel as distinctly His own (MATT 5:35; JOEL 3:2; PSA 78:67-68). As we are well aware, Satan hates and despises everything – and everyone – that GOD loves:

PSALM 87:2-3
2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God! Selah.

It’s both tragic and fascinating to watch the unbridled hostility of the world that’s determined to wrest Jerusalem from the Jewish people (for the reasons stated above, though the nations are likely unaware of who’s inspiring them with such hatred. Can someone say “Hamas”?).

The desire to destroy Jerusalem was no less vehement in the days of Nehemiah. So by certain of the Jewish people electing to live within the walls of the City of Peace, they were essentially painting a target on their backs… and on their fronts… and on their heads.

Yet they dwelled there and in doing so, they were declaring that they were there to stay! And so they did: at least for nearly 530 years – in 70 AD, when the nation was dispersed, Jerusalem and the Temple destroyed, one million Jews crucified by the Roman armies about 40 years because of Israel’s wholesale rejection of their Messiah (33 AD; LUKE 21:12,20-22).

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