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Greetings in Jesus' Name. Let's talk about

credibility for a moment. If we who have

truth are going to persuade and reach those

who do not have truth, we need to make sure

that everything that we are preaching comes

from the scripture. We should not take away,

but we also should not add. Many good people,

seeing through the traditions of the Catholic church,

will turn right around and add their traditions and

claim that they came for God. Jesus does not like

this.

Mat 23:2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees

sit in Moses' seat:

Mat 23:3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you

observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after

their works: for they say, and do not.

Mat 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and

grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's

shoulders; but they themselves will not move

them with one of their fingers.

Mat 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,

hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and

cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of

the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye

to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Mat 23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat,

and swallow a camel.

Now the Pharisees did teach what the law of Moses

commanded. Indeed, Jesus told the people to do

what the Pharisees said to do because they sat in Moses'

seat. However, they had created for themselves

traditions and held them in higher esteem that the true law

of God.

I was recently in service with some Apostolic

Commandment keepers. During the service most of the

preachers got up and belittled the Commandments and

then proceeded to talk about what they considered to be

weightier matters, like church yard sales. We shouldn't

have them.... apparently the Bible say's they're wrong

although no scripture was sighted. The scripture was

very seldom sighted during the whole night and there

was no message given. Instead the preacher of the

evening paced up and down the church talking about

yards sales, how he had a 2005 model car and new

house on the hill, and that it's wrong for a woman to

wear a skirt with a split in it... even if she sows the

seem up and there is no longer a split... because there

once was one there.

This man has known the truth of keeping all of the

Ten Commandments for years. But his children are

not in them, because he has not been credible. He will not

convince many of the truth in the Commandments,

because he regularly shouts things from the pulpit

that he has no Bible for. Where could anyone discern

where traditions and his ideas end and the way of God

begins?

Heb 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be

teachers, ye have need that one teach you again

which be the first principles of the oracles of God;

and are become such as have need of milk, and

not of strong meat.

Heb 5:13 For every one that useth milk is

unskillfull in the word of righteousness: for he is

a babe.

Heb 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are

of full age, even those who by reason of use have

their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

My dear friends, I care very much for the people

that were present at that service. I hope very much that

that preacher's ministry would be effectual and I care for

his family and church greatly. But I don't care for confusion.

Everything that we believe, we should be able to back up

with the scripture. Man is not perfect, and if we try to add

to the Word ourselves, we are no better that a child

scribbling on a master piece.

Let us then walk with understanding and be skillful in

the Word that we may be credible. It's really worth the

effort. Furthermore I believe that we all have this ability

as long as we follow the leading of the Holy Ghost and

lean not onto our own understanding.

God bless!