"Precept-Driven"
Daniel Valles

READ Isaiah 29:13

Does it grieve you that so many Christians honestly believe that talking Christian talk and singing 'christian' songs makes them spiritual? Dressing all proper on Sunday, singing better than everyone else, and giving regularly does not make you a great Christian spiritually. In the verse we read, God is reprimanding His children. He tells them that everything they do and say has the appearance of fearing God. He laments that the critical difference is that their heart is "far from me."

Christianity is not a set of motions or regimens that makes one spiritual.
God points out that on of the reasons people think the way they do is because they are taught by so-called religious men what than man's definition or concept of serving God is. Back then the religious leaders added hundreds of laws, regimens, and taboos to what the Jewish person was to do in order to be 'spiritual'. It made the leaders look smart, the people were kept active in the synagogue and temple, and the whole time they thought they were doing what was required of them. The problem was nobody checked it out for themselves, and they wanted to listen to men more than listen to the Scriptures. As Jesus later described, it created a whited sepulcher.

They looked good on the outside, but were cold, dark, and dead on the inside. Their heart, also, was far from God. We have the same condition proliferated across our land today. Many people have been duped into thinking that Rick Warren with all of his marketing firm contacts and public relation consultation has the true definition of what serving God is. The -purpose-driven life is a fear of God taught by the precepts of men. In order to support his drive to apostasy, he needs to assemble an eclectic hodge-podge jigsaw collection of verses from over thirteen different 'bible translations.'

He barely quotes the King James Version, instead relying heavily on the extreme vague and contradictory 'Message.' This translation even contradicts some of the worst translations such as the NIV. His purpose-driven blasphemy is not a means to bring your heart closer to God, but a crafted deception of getting you involved in good-sounding precepts to honour Him with your lips instead of developing a true relationship with Him based on the true study of His word, and a proper fear of God, desirous to obey what He has given in His Word. Listen and hearken to Him, not Warren.
 

 

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