February
15
Some people are throwing
you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ (Galatians
1:7 NIV).
It does not require a
great deal of intelligence in order to recognize that, throughout the history
of God's work, the master-stroke of the great perverter has been confusion. God
is not the God of confusion, but of order. Satan is the god of confusion. To
get order out of chaos, God said: "Let there be light." To get chaos
out of order, Satan says "Let there be confusion." His it is to
confuse issues and elements. To do this, he must – as the word suggests – fuse
(or try to fuse) elements which are constitutionally different and do not
belong to each other. Thus there is a constitutional contradiction and
inconsistency. It is only when his master-method runs amok that we have utter
and unmitigated wickedness. His main work is deception by mixture.
It is just here that the
place, meaning, and sovereignty of the Holy Spirit in the life of the child of
God has its meaning and importance. He is "The Spirit of Truth." He
alone knows where truth ends and falsehood begins. Only as we truly "walk
in the Spirit" shall we know the truth and be made free from error. A walk
in the Spirit demands a "circumcised heart," a heart in which the
severance has been made between flesh and spirit, Christ and self. There has
never been a heresy that has not had in it sufficient truth to deceive very
good people. Likewise, there has never been anything wholly of God but the
strategy of the Evil One has been to fasten on to it some implication,
insinuation, interpretation, or suggestion that would make it questionable or
"dangerous." He even did this with the Lord Jesus Himself. He did it
with Paul all through his life.... A good thing can be made its own enemy, by
being either confused, or taken out of its true meaning.
By
T. Austin-Sparks from: The Danger of Coming
Short
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