Gal 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Gal 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
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.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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