Endure Sound Doctrine
Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:3Devotional Series: Rendered Innocent
Teaching: Rendered Innocent pt. 2 (SUN_AM 2024-06-23) by Pastor Star R Scott
You’ve heard it many times, especially in this hour, that doctrine is so important. Not unity. We shouldn’t, with other denominations, other beliefs, we shouldn’t get in conflict with them. We need to be at peace among ourselves in the church. Let me remind us, the church is in peace. We are to endeavor “to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3); amen? The church is in unity. Those that are keeping this gospel. Paul went on to say, “I don’t care who it is. I don’t care if it’s me. I don’t care if it comes by letter from other apostles. I don’t care if you have angelic visitations. This is the gospel”; amen? And Chapter 15 of this first letter of 1 Corinthians, is the pure gospel. It doesn’t get any purer than this. And he goes on and he says, “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures” (verse 3). Don’t you love that Paul is referring to Scripture? Scripture didn’t begin with Paul. “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21); amen?
These are men like Moses and David. These prophets that prior had spoken of that promise that was coming. Moses said, “There’s one coming after me that was like me” (Acts 3:22). Now listen, “And He is greater than I, hear Him…” And basically, what Moses was saying is this: “He is the fulfillment of everything that I’ve shared with you, that I received on Mount Sinai. Here’s the fulfillment of it, in Christ.”
So, here Paul is speaking back and making reference to the Scriptures, having spoken of this One that was coming that was the fulfillment of all the promises of the law and the prophets. “And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day” (1 Corinthians 15:4). What’s so important about that? “According to the scriptures”; amen? Specifically spoken. Little details like that, that have to be right. Sound doctrine. In the last days men “will not endure sound doctrine; but…shall they heap to themselves teachers” (2 Timothy 4:3); amen?
Be careful on the Internet. Don’t get on there and just listen to any preacher that happens to have a YouTube thing. You know, some guy sitting in his bedroom and his venetian blinds are all wrinkled, broken and hanging down, and you know the guy hadn’t taken a bath for weeks, and he’s the expert on—he’s in momma’s basement. He could be a prophet; prophets, you know, are strange people. But be careful, we don’t know who these people are. Paul admonishes us to beware. He talks to his young protégé, and he says, “You know me, you know my ways, you know my doctrine, they’re one”; amen? Our lives and our doctrine are one. And we get to know people’s doctrine more by how they live and by their fruit, and even their words.
These are men like Moses and David. These prophets that prior had spoken of that promise that was coming. Moses said, “There’s one coming after me that was like me” (Acts 3:22). Now listen, “And He is greater than I, hear Him…” And basically, what Moses was saying is this: “He is the fulfillment of everything that I’ve shared with you, that I received on Mount Sinai. Here’s the fulfillment of it, in Christ.”
So, here Paul is speaking back and making reference to the Scriptures, having spoken of this One that was coming that was the fulfillment of all the promises of the law and the prophets. “And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day” (1 Corinthians 15:4). What’s so important about that? “According to the scriptures”; amen? Specifically spoken. Little details like that, that have to be right. Sound doctrine. In the last days men “will not endure sound doctrine; but…shall they heap to themselves teachers” (2 Timothy 4:3); amen?
Be careful on the Internet. Don’t get on there and just listen to any preacher that happens to have a YouTube thing. You know, some guy sitting in his bedroom and his venetian blinds are all wrinkled, broken and hanging down, and you know the guy hadn’t taken a bath for weeks, and he’s the expert on—he’s in momma’s basement. He could be a prophet; prophets, you know, are strange people. But be careful, we don’t know who these people are. Paul admonishes us to beware. He talks to his young protégé, and he says, “You know me, you know my ways, you know my doctrine, they’re one”; amen? Our lives and our doctrine are one. And we get to know people’s doctrine more by how they live and by their fruit, and even their words.