THE
DISSENTERS IN THE CHURCH
Rom 16:17 Now I
exhort you, brothers, to mark those who make divisions and causes of stumbling contrary to
the teaching which you have learned, and turn away from them.
1Tim 1:3-4 Even as I exhorted you, when I was
going into Macedonia, to remain in Ephesus in order that you might charge certain ones not
to teach different things / Nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which
produce questionings rather than God's economy, which is in faith.
The
New Testament refers to the dissenters in the church. In Romans 16:17 Paul warns us to
keep a watchful eye over the dissenting ones. They hold dissenting teachings and make
divisions and causes of falling. They speak with flattering, enticing words and pretend to
be helpful. If they did not speak with smooth words, no one would listen to them. Paul
charged us to be watchful over the dissenting ones because they like to teach differently
and contend for contrary doctrines. However, the test we must apply to any dissenting talk
is not the standard of good or bad, right or wrong. Instead, we must ask, "Does this
build up or tear down? Does it maintain unity and oneness or cause division? Does it help
you to go on or does it cause you to fall?" Before you listened to the dissenting
talk you were alive, but after listening for an hour you were deadened, thus proving that
such dissension spreads death. Do not examine the dissenters according to the knowledge e
of right or wrong, for if you do this you will be tasting the tree of knowledge of good
and evil. You must test all dissenting opinions according to death or life. After you
listen to the dissenting talk, are you alive or dead? If you are truly alive, then listen
as much as possible. However, if you experience death, you must go to the Lord and ask Him
to cleanse you and to rescue you from that death. During the past decades we have seen
many dissenting ones. We need to realize that in no church is the situation always right.
However, the issue is not a matter of right or wrong; it is a matter of death or life.
Never test dissenting talk by the standard of right or wrong. Always measure it by death
or life. Anything that enlivens you and gives you life you may receive. Anything that
deadens and kills you, you must renounce.
Paul charged Timothy to remain at Ephesus to do one thing-to charge
the dissenters not to teach differently, but to take care of God's dispensation, the
dispensing of God as life(1 Tim. 1:3-4). Once again we see that the test is life. If a
man's talk dispenses God into you as life, that is fine. if it does not give you life but
kills you instead, it is certainly on the life of knowledge.
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