Episcopal Leader Suggests Jesus Isn't Only Way to God

1 Timothy 4: 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;


I. The Separation


The word depart in this verse means to "desist" or to "desert". It gives the idea of a soldier who has deserted from the military. Many people today who claim to be of the Christian faith are in fact departing from the very thing in which they claim to be a part of. Katherine Schori a pseudo-Bishop with the Episcopal church has told the people of the same that Jesus is the only way for Christians but not for others. This is a clear departure from the faith taught in the Word of God by everyone including Jesus Himself. In John 14:6 Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh to the Father but by Me."

The assault on Christ is ever increasing and the departure from the faith is more clear. When you install a pseudo, female, homosexual supporting, apostate like Katherine Schori we should expect nothing more.


II. The Source


1 Timothy 4: 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. 7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.


If you are asking where does such teaching come from, Paul can help us out. He gave clear command not to be willing to set aside what we have been taught but to keep them in our remembrance. And he goes on to say that we are to avoid human sentiment as a source for defining doctrine. Pseudo-Bishop Katerhine Schori states " "to assume that God may not act in other ways is to put God in a very small box." This is the new buzz phrase in the liberal arena. I hear it most often used in the Emerging Church heresy. When we have "taken God out of the box" then what they are really saying is, that this view is to narrow and limits mans options. The "box" they are referring to is the clear and dogmatic lines of biblical doctrine that are not open for negotiation.


III. The Subjection



1 Timothy4: 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.



Those of us who will stand flat footed and unequivocally say that the way to God is narrow, precise and has clear and definite boundaries are under fire and have become a reproach in the eyes of those who are within the four walls of the Christian Evangelical church. Jesus told us that we would be hated for preaching in His name. We are called hateful, narrow, bigoted, and a plethora of other pejoratives. I consider it an honor to receive such condemnation for those who are condemned by God.



IV. The Solution



1 Timothy 4: 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. ^F6 16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.


We must be willing to be students of the Word of God. We must be willing to meditate on clear lines of Doctrine. We must be willing to stay in the doctrines of scripture and apply them to out lives. We must be willing to give our whole lives to scripture. We must be willing to be lead by biblical Holy Ghost preaching (Hebrews 13:17). We must be willing to "take heed unto ourselves" to give careful consideration of what we are hearing and learning and to not be lead by ungodly humans sentiment.

A. W. Tozer once wrote:

We have gotten accustomed to the blurred puffs of gray fog that pass for doctrine in churches and expect nothing better. From some previously unimpeachable sources are now coming vague statements consisting of a milky admixture of scripture, science, and human sentiment that is true to none of its ingredients because each works to cancel the others out.

Little by little Christians these days are being brainwashed. One evidence is that increasing numbers of them are becoming ashamed to be found unequivocally on the side of truth. They say they believe, but their beliefs have been so diluted as to be impossible of clear definition. Moral power has always accompanied definite beliefs. Great saints have always been dogmatic. We need a return to a gentle dogmatism that smiles while it stands stubborn and firm on the Word of God that lives and abides forever.