Since God has anointed us with his Holy Spirit, we must remain obedient to the instruction of the Holy Spirit, as he leads us with the unchanging gospel, so that we’re not deceived by error. Earlier this year, a leader in a progressive, theologically liberal so-called church denomination was speaking at an event for their group. And she made headlines because in her speech, she paused and said, this is a very dangerous thing I’m about to say now, which is helpful, because what she was about to say is near the top of the list of the most heretical things that can be said. It was dangerous. It’s nice when heretics give heresy a trigger warning, right? So it’s nice when the wolf doesn’t even attempt to put on the sheep costume. She lists off some things that she doesn’t like in the Bible and then says, “first, I’m of the opinion that we need a third Testament because the Bible has become problematic”. Yeah, that was her announcement. And then after that, after saying some things that are in the Bible that she doesn’t like, she says, “and people will say, well, it’s in the book. And I said, then we need to pull that page out”. Yeah. She then goes on to state plainly that the Bible is words about God, not the Word of God. She says, “no, it is not the Word of God”. Now, to clarify what she’s saying, there is that the Bible is not God’s word in essence, because, in the sense that it is breathed out by God as is described in second Timothy chapter three. She’s saying that what the Bible is, is just dated words full of errors, in need of an update to suit the palate of the world today, which is why she’s calling for a third Testament, which I’m sure she would be happy to write. Now, I am firmly convinced that here this morning that the vast majority of us here at Calvary can hear how utterly ridiculous that all sounds. You probably aren’t here this morning at Calvary if you thought that sounded like a good idea. I mean to use her logic, if you wrote a Third Testament, wouldn’t that also just be words about God that would have no authority on what came before it, the first two Testaments, right? Just using her logic. I’m repulsed by false anti-gospel teaching coming from so-called leaders in the church. But this one rises almost to the level of parody in my mind. I laughed out loud when I heard this. Wouldn’t that be strange if I said, you know, those blank pages that always come in the back of your Bible? What if I had you turn there right now and just say, hey, everybody, we’re going to write another Bible this morning. The third Testament to add on. Right. You’d rightly leave. Even her own audience did not clap when she said this. They just stood there in stunned silence. These were her people. And they hadn’t even heard something like this before. That’s what happens when leaders start down the road of twisting the Bible and introducing errors into it. People will follow for a time, but what happens is the cognitive dissonance that they feel in their hearts eventually becomes overwhelming. And so they either return to truth or they leave the church altogether, which is why the progressive churches are dying today. Let me say, if you do feel drawn to that sort of thinking, maybe not quite as shocking as that, but you are somewhat drawn to that sort of thinking. I’d be happy to talk with you about it. I would like to speak with you because there are really good answers to these sorts of thoughts. But since you’re here at Calvary this morning, I’m going to guess that you’re not tempted to write your own Bible. I bring it up, though, because of what I found to be the most intriguing part of the speech. Right in the middle, right before she says that the Bible isn’t God’s word, she says this. She says, quote, now I’m a believer. My whole heart. I trust God with my whole heart. I wake up in the morning talking to God and God talking to me. This is the one time in the whole speech that she tries to put on the sheep costume. See, look, I’m one of you. I’m with you guys. It’s far too late for that, of course. If you’re going to rob a bank, you got to put the mask on before you enter the bank, not after you’re already in the vault. Right. We’ve already seen you. But she tries, and I want you to hear her argument, because there’s a very subtle deception within it that our passage today corrects. And while I don’t think that you’ll be writing your own Bible, this argument could be a bit persuasive. She says she wakes up talking to God and then God speaks back to her. What does she mean by that? Well, the truth is, I don’t know exactly what she means by it. But I do know what she doesn’t mean. She doesn’t mean that she hears God from the Bible. Because, as you’ve already heard, she doesn’t think that the Bible is God’s word. So what she’s saying is that fresh revelation from God, who speaks to her directly, comes each...
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