DISCIPLE

"There are several possible sources of a religious message. The devil may send messages to confuse men. Men may band together and send men who do not know the truth and who preach error. Men may decide within themselves that they are going out with a religious message. Finally, there are those who are chosen by God and sent forth by Him...     "First, the Bible teaches plainly that there are religious messengers who are sent out by the devil. The Lord Jesus Christ flatly told the religious leaders of His day that they were not from the God and Father of the Lord Jesus but that they were sent by Satan. Remember that these words are the words of our Lord Jesus. "I speak of what I have seen with my Father and you do what you have heard from your father...Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil and your will is to do your father's desire..." (John 8:38-44)...      "In the...

commenting on Romans 2:17-29, and 3:1-8 William Newell wrote:    ...So much for the Jew who was the "religious" man, when Paul wrote Romans. But the "religious" man today is the "professing Christian," and "church-membership" as they call it, has taken the place, in the thought of Christendom, of the Jew's consciousness of belonging to the favored Israelitish race.      If we should thus apply this passage (17-29), must it not read something like this?      "If thou bearest the name of a Christian, and restest on having the gospel, and gloriest in God, and knowest His will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the gospel; and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, having in the gospel the form of knowledge and of the truth" – Then would follow the searching questions of verses 21 and 22; for do we not know teachers that teach others, but refuse to follow their own teac...