SPAM

SPAM- SILLY PATHETIC ANNOYING MESSAGE

Almost everyday I recieve a tonne of garbage mail more popularly known to the on-line community as SPAM. The Apostle Paul during the first century encountered a lot of these garbage well messages and not electronic mail through the teachings and philosophies of men that he had to constantly dispute and disprove based on the Full Counsel Of Scriptures. For example the Lord used Paul to make a case against the ungodly philosophies and beliefs espoused by people belonging to the Epicurean and Stoic persuasions. These people invited Paul to the Council called the Areopagus that met in Mars Hill in the city of Athens to share with them this rather "new idea" that he was preaching about except that it was not a new idea at all but rather the "truth" excisting since the day the world was made by God (Acts 17:16-34). Now what these people do half the time is to sit down and converse about the latest ideas much like what postmodern individuals do over a cup of cofee nowadays.

But because Paul made such a strong case about the gospel, the good news of Jesus without compromising the scriptures, a few men became followers and believed. Dionysius for example was a member of the council who eventually became a convert (Acts 17:34). In the second book of Timothy, Paul warns his protege of a time when people will gather together for themselves teachers that may converse with them and bring up new ideas perhaps even mixing evangelical beliefs with other forms of worldly ideas that may very well suit their tastes.

I feel in my heart that the church today is under such a threat, where the gospel message has been distorted a little to pursue people of the current culture at the expense of the the message of the Full Counsel of Scriptures. May we all remain vigilant.

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

2 Timothy 4:3