960. What Men Have Done, and Will Do with the Scriptures<\/p>\n
We are told what men have done in the past with the Scriptures, and what they will do in the last days.<\/p>\n
1. \u201cDepart from the Faith\u201d (1Ti_4:1; R.V., \u201cfall away\u201d). The word for \u201cdepart\u201d is rendered \u201cfall away\u201d (Luk_8:13), \u201crefrain\u201d (Act_5:38), \u201cwithdraw\u201d (1Ti_6:5). It means a deliberate act, a falling away from a previous position, hence, a departure from the truth of God.<\/p>\n
2. Erring is a Straying away from the Scriptures. Christ charged some with being ignorant of the Scriptures; hence, He said, \u201cYe do err.\u201d To \u201cerr\u201d signifies to roam from safety, to go astray; hence, to be under a delusion. The word \u201cerr\u201d is rendered \u201cbe deceived\u201d (Luk_21:8), \u201cout of the way\u201d (Heb_5:2), \u201cwandered\u201d (Heb_11:38), \u201cgone astray\u201d (2Pe_2:15), and \u201cseduce\u201d (1Jn_2:26).<\/p>\n
3. \u201cMissed the mark, concerning the faith\u201d (1Ti_6:21, R.V., margin). The word \u201cerr\u201d is given \u201cmissed the mark,\u201d and means to deviate from the truth, by swerving on one side, and thus to miss it. The word is given \u201cswerved\u201d in 1Ti_1:6, in calling attention to those who have \u201cmissed the mark\u201d (margin R.V.) of holiness of heart and life, as products of the doctrine of grace.<\/p>\n
4. Corrupting the Word of God. The Apostle speaks of those who \u201ccorrupt the Word of God\u201d (2Co_2:17). To \u201ccorrupt\u201d as the margin gives, means, \u201cTo deal deceitfully with,\u201d or, as the margin of the Revised Version, \u201cTo make merchandise of the Word of God.\u201d The reference is to retailers of goods, who were notorious for adultering their merchandise, and thus handling their commodities in such a way as to deceive the purchaser.<\/p>\n
5. \u201cHandling the Word of God Deceitfully.\u201d To handle the Word after such a fashion is to falsify it, and make it to be what it is not, as a conjurer, by sleight, deceives an audience, or, as an angler baits the hook by a bait, and thus ensnares\u20142Co_4:2.<\/p>\n
6. Wresting the Scriptures. Peter speaks of those who \u201cwrest the Scriptures\u201d (2Pe_3:16). \u201cWrest\u201d comes from a word which means to twist, that is, to reverse and turn right round; hence, to torture, to wrench, and by this means to pervert and make the word to mean the opposite to what was intended.<\/p>\n
7. Some \u201cmake shipwreck of the faith\u201d (1Ti_1:19, R.V.), that is, allow themselves to run aground on the rocks with \u201cthe faith\u201d of God\u2019s truth, for the word means, \u201cto suffer shipwreck,\u201d and implies it might have been prevented.<\/p>\n
By: DR. F. E. MARSH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
960. What Men Have Done, and Will Do with the Scriptures We are told what men have done in the past with the Scriptures, and what they will do in the last days. 1. \u201cDepart from the Faith\u201d (1Ti_4:1; R.V., \u201cfall away\u201d). The word for \u201cdepart\u201d is rendered \u201cfall away\u201d (Luk_8:13), \u201crefrain\u201d (Act_5:38), \u201cwithdraw\u201d (1Ti_6:5). … Continue reading “0981. 960. What Men Have Done, and Will Do with the Scriptures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}