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Traditions Worth Keeping

As we learn to trust in God’s finished work in the Holy Bible KJV, we should also place our trust in some of the traditions of the Church. The body may indeed know best.

As a former smoker, I would be first to mention the Bible doesn’t specifically label smoking as sin. Yet by church tradition it is considered a vice and you could certainly argue it has the appearance of evil. Perhaps even something as simple as not caring about your own health or temple. With the Lord’s help I quit smoking. Based on my own experiences, I believe it could be a gateway drug to other addictions like sex, porn, or even stronger drugs.

Church opinions or traditions can often be right, but they should be weighed and considered in conjunction with the Word. If we take a look at the Sabbath, we see the Jews faithfully keep the Sabbath from every Friday eve to Saturday eve. You can find evidence of this in scriptures. Seeing God in creation observing eve to eve in Genesis. And then in Leviticus 23:32 and Isaiah 58:13-14 we see the example of how to observe Sabbath.

Keep those things God moves you to keep. He will help. Keep a soft heart to write them on and practice discernment with which traditions are worthy of observing.

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I Think Therefore

The Church of Christ, at least where I attend, teaches it preachers to not say “in my opinion” or “I think”. However, these phrases may save a preachers soul. If you say something is the word of God and it isn’t or if you are just plain wrong these phrases could save you from God’s eternal judgement.

If you let the people know your thought isn’t necessarily the word of God you cover yourself and you give them a chance to consider the issue or thought on their own. You give them the opportunity to form their own opinion.

Opinions aren’t bad, but serving up doctrines of men as the word of God could prove deadly both to the preacher and the listeners.

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The Gap

I recently heard a preacher, Robert Morris, state that when we say the scripture is pure and inerrant we mean in their original languages. This creates a gap where millions of opinions emerge. If you have to go back to the original Greek or Hebrew, this leaves room for every single preacher to think themselves language scholars and offer their own opinion or translation of every single verse.

It’s much wiser and easier just to trust in the already completed work of God in the King James Version Holy Bible. Authorized by God to a King’s work. You can trust in the KJV and in the previous work of the Church which decided which books were to become the Holy Bible KJV.

If you are unable to discern and accept God’s previous works, you’re subject to the vain and prideful works of men and women not subject to God’s authority, but rather their own influences.

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