Posted on 02/03/2022 10:08:24 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law” (Proverbs 4:1-2 KJV).
Notice that doctrines are laws. The doctrines of salvation are absolute laws—they cannot be broken. If you get saved in this church age, you can’t get unsaved. That is an absolute law, the doctrine of salvation is the law of God. The doctrines of the second coming of Jesus Christ are absolute laws that God has instituted and established they cannot be broken. “I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Mat 16:18 KJV). That’s a law—that’s an absolute law. The Church, the body and bride of the Lord Jesus Christ is going up in glory.
It doesn’t matter what the local church might do, it might go down into apostasy, which is likely will, but the church of Jesus Christ is going up in glory. When we are resurrected, we get a glorified body—and the Saviour comes back to lead us into glory, I guarantee you, it will be a glorious entering into heaven. There won’t be any failure or fault of any kind, it will be a glorious thing. It will prevail, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it at all. Those are laws.
We could consider physical laws. We have gravity. There is condensation, there is evaporation, physical laws in the physical universe. Those laws are fixed laws. Now, they can be overcome temporarily. Obviously, gravity, as a force, can be overcome by a different force in the other direction can overcome it for a while, but sooner or later gravity will prevail.
Some people believe that the laws of God are not working. There are the laws of sin. The Bible warns us that “the wages of sin is death,” and people sin but don’t die. Temporarily they overcome it, but eventually it will overcome them. The laws of God are fixed. It may take some time for it to work out, but the law is fixed. “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” A man might not reap is this year, or next year, or this decade, or that decade, it may be until 30 or 40 or 50 or 60 years later, but it’ll catch up to them. Some things might not even catch up to them in this life, but it will in the next. Those are laws, and they cannot be broken.
Paul told Timothy that the doctrines are important. “Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine” (1Ti 4:13 KJV). Verse on in today’s chapter tells us to “addend to know understanding.” Paul was writing to a young person when he wrote to Timothy, so young people out to learn doctrine while they are still young. What good will knowing all the batting averages of baseball players do you down the road? Learn something practical that will suit you for the rest of your life. The heroes of today are forgotten tomorrow, but the doctrines of God are eternal—they won’t be forgotten tomorrow or through eternity. In verse 16 he says, “Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine.” We have a hard time keeping ourselves straight without knowing doctrine. People say, “Well, you know, we just want to love everybody, and win the world through love and peace.” I’m glad people have compassion, but know they need some good understanding of God and His Word. It’s called balance.
All love and little doctrine is Pentecostalism—just looking for an experience in the flesh. All doctrine and no love is dead orthodoxy. One is just as bad as the other.
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