Page 25 - Prophetic Word Newsletters Archive 2006 by Pastor Randy Shupe

“LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU WITH EMPTY WORDS…” Eph. 5:6

“STUDY AND BE EAGER AND DO YOUR UTMOST TO PRESENT YOURSELF TO GOD APPROVED…
A WORKMAN WHO HAS NO CAUSE TO BE ASHAMED, CORRECTLY ANALYZING AND ACCURATELY DIVIDING –

RIGHTLY HANDLING AND SKILLFULLY TEACHING –THE WORD OF TRUTH.” 2 Tim. 2:15 Amp.
“PREACH THE WORD! BE READY IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON. CONVINCE, REBUKE, EXHORT,

WITH ALL LONGSUFFERING AND TEACHING. FOR THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THEY
WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE…AND THEY WILL TURN THEIR EARS AWAY
FROM THE TRUTH, AND BE TURNED ASIDE UNTO FABLES.
BUT YOU BE WATCHFUL IN ALL THINGS…” 2 Timothy 4:2-5

“THESE WERE MORE FAIR-MINDED THAN THOSE IN THESSALONICA,
IN THAT THEY RECEIVED THE WORD WITH ALL READINESS,

AND SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY TO FIND OUT WHETHER THESE THINGS WERE SO.
THEREFORE MANY OF THEM BELIEVED…” Acts 17:11-12

“APPLICATION OF THE MIND TO THE ACQUIREMENT OF
KNOWLEDGE..A STATE OF ABSORBED CONCENTRATION...GIVEN

TO STUDY, SCRUTINIZE, ANALYZE…DETAILED STUDY OF A
SUBJECT WITH THE INTENT TO MASTER, ABLE TO ARTICULATE,

MASTERFUL, SKILLFUL” Webster

The truth is that we all diligently apply ourselves to whatever is important
to us. We navigate the internet with acquired skill, but get easily lost in the
Scriptures. We master the immense technological lingo of cell phones, I-pod’s
and computers and at the same time complain about the complexity of the
Bible as being “too difficult, too hard, and too deep.” Listen to Charles Finney:

“LET NO ONE DESPAIR IN COMMENCING THIS BOOK, NOR
STUMBLE AT THE DEFINITIONS, THINKING HE CAN NEVER
UNDERSTAND SO ABSTRUSE A SUBJECT...MY BROTHER,
SISTER FRIEND- READ, STUDY, THINK; TO DEVELOP YOUR
POWERS BY STUDY. GOD DESIGNED THAT RELIGION SHOULD

REQUIRE THOUGHT, INTENSE THOUGHT, AND SHOULD
THOROUGHLY DEVELOP OUR POWERS OF THOUGHT. THE
BIBLE ITSELF IS WRITTEN IN A STYLE SO CONDENSED AS TO
REQUIRE MUCH INTENSE STUDY. MANY KNOW NOTHING OF
THE BIBLE OR OF RELIGION, BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT THINK
AND STUDY. I DO NOT PRETEND TO SO EXPLAIN THEOLOGY AS

TO DISPENSE WITH THE LABOR OF THINKING.”

(SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY- PREFACE, PAGE 9- CHARLES FINNEY)

If you name the name of Christ, you are a “…TOSSED TO AND FRO AND CARRIED
prime target of the deceivers. Look again at ABOUT WITH EVERY WIND OF
the Scriptural depiction of those who who will
make you their target: DOCTRINE, BY THE TRICKERY OF MEN,
IN THE CUNNING CRAFTINESS BY
There is only one way to avoid the cunning WHICH THEY LIE IN WAIT TO
craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive. DECEIVE.” Eph. 4:14
There is only one way for you not to be “…AS SO MANY, PEDDLING
exploited by their covetous, deceptive words. (“ADULTERATING FOR GAIN”)
You are going to have to diligently apply THE WORD OF GOD…” 2 Cor. 2:17
yourself to become a believer who is “able to
teach, patient, in humility correcting those who “…FALSE TEACHERS AMONG YOU… BRING
are in opposition” (2 Tim. 2:24-25). Simply put, IN DESTRUCTIVE HERESIES…AND MANY
you are going to have to become skilled in the
Word of God in order that no one deceives WILL FOLLOW THEIR DESTRUCTIVE WAYS,
you! BECAUSE OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH
WILL BE BLASPHEMED. BY COVETOUSNESS
THEY WILL EXPLOIT YOU WITH DECEPTIVE

WORDS...” 2 Pet. 2:1-3

“…THE HIDDEN THINGS OF SHAME…
WALKING IN CRAFTINESS… HANDLING
THE WORD OF GOD DECEITFULLY...”

2 Cor. 4:4