Tell it not
Hush it up. Keep your mouth shut. Brush it under the
carpet.
Tell it not in Gath,
publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines
rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 2
Sam.1: 20
It was the death of Saul that was not to be reported in Gath, one of the five
chief cities of the Philistines. Neither must it be reported in Askelon,
another of the five cities.
The fall of the Lord’s anointed would give much cause for
rejoicing among the enemies of Israel.
Saul did much that was wrong in his life and had sought to kill David through
whom Christ would come. But he was the Lord’s anointed so David lamented his
death and confessed how are the
mighty fallen.
It was a tragic end indeed and not a matter to be spoken of
before the ungodly.
God’s people would need to know of Saul’s death, for David
must take the throne. They would need reminders of Saul’s treachery. Ps. 52: 1
tells us: ....A psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told
Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest
thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
When a group or circle of churches collude with each other
to suppress news of disorder in their midst, cultism is established.
“Whistle-blowers” are to be regarded as enemies of God, even when they are doing
no more than drawing attention to a wrong so that it might be put right. When
the “whistle-blower” himself is ostracized,or threatened, wrong is allowed to
continue and it may be assumed this is the preferred way.
Waymarks has sought to expose disorder among
assemblies not for opportunity to crow over it but that recovery might take
place. We therefore tell it forth, but not in Gath. We look not for the support of the
ungodly. Neither is Waymarks published on the streets of Askelon. We do not want to hear the cheers and sneers
of Philistinish women.
We tell our brethren that an
assembly or certain men commit treachery in their handling of Scripture.
Continuing with them is participation in their wickedness.
We tell our brethren of a church in cahoots with the
whoredom of Christendom when they allow women preachers in. Or worse; when
divorced and remarried people are given fellowship. And now Ecumenism rears its
ugly head among us.
Paul named names. John named churches where disorder had
entered and had been tolerated. This is the disciple whom Jesus loved!
The following comments are from D Cloud’s Friday Church
News Notes; April 24, 20009, vol.10 Issue 17. They apply equally well in my
circle of fellowship. I have therefore modified it within the square brackets.
If ever there was a time to
sound forth godly warnings it is today, yet there is a growing resistance to
this within the [ “Brethren”] movement. There is a neglect of clear warning
about issues. Some say that it is O.K. to warn about such things as liberalism
and charismaticism and ecumenism, things “out there,” but we should not
criticize fellow [brethren], but where does the Bible say that [brethren]
preachers are above reproof? Many would like to place such things as music and
dress standards and the Bible version issue into a “peripheral” category that
is off limits for warnings. The [“Brethren”] movement is a hodge-podge that
envelopes much error. Within this movement there is Calvinism, Ruckmanism,
modern textual criticism, Purpose Drivenism, Christian rockism, Quick
Prayerism, and many other errors. The fact is that we need to pull weeds and
sow seed, not one or the other, but both, and that is what we are doing. We are
pulling weeds through our warning ministry and sowing seed through our
missionary church planting ministry, and we intend to continue doing both by
God’s grace.
For reasons outlined above, Waymarks now changes its
name to The Waymarks Contender. this is the second change in its
history. The first edition, in August 1993, was simply called Newsletter and
continued for seven issues until a suitanle name was chosen. Numbering then
started afresh.
There are those who object to any but an elite company of
teachers contending for the truth. We reply with a quote we gave several years
ago to one who objected to his Calvinistic views being challenged.
I quote the words of a 19th
century writer, F W Grant:
[Satan] says to one person, be humble,
don’t imagine that your opinion is better than anyone else’s, and to another,
be charitable: good men differ about these things, and to another, don’t
contend for this: you will make enemies, you will lose your friends, and to
another, you are not learned: don’t occupy yourself with what requires a
theologian to decide, ...and to another, surely there are mistakes in the
Bible: you do not mean to contend for verbal inspiration?
The
easy-going apathy of Christians is amazing, that will allow their best
blessings to be stolen from under their eyes.—
Taken from the STEM CD Rom;
various\DIVMOV.DOC
We therefore contend with the
authors of the Church Street Gospel Hall, Coventry,
for a very misleading entry. On this website we read under “What we believe”, :-
The unity of
the Godhead and
the divine co-equality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; the sovereignty of God in
creation, providence, and redemption.
With this we heartily agree. But
then at bottom of the article we find “Explanations of some difficult words”
and listed is
Godhead: The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit as
the three personalities of God. The Trinity.
The personality of a person is the visible aspect of his character. Those suffering from Schizophrenia are
described as Bipolar and this is witnessed in their split personality.
The Church Street GH website describes God as Tripolar! One Person;
three personalities. This is UNITARIANISM.
Now we hope these folk do not really mean this, but a large part of
Christendom is Unitarian. A Unitarian was on the committee of the Revised
Version production.
Are they at Coventry
fearful of referring to the three PERSONS of the Godhead? They will need to
make themselves clear. Their doctrinal statement appears very similar to that
recorded by the Luton
Central Baptist
Church, mentioned above
in the Open Air Report.
We are not surprised to read this on their website. We read in the same
place their belief that God is incompetent to preserve His own word:-
“as originally
given” The Bible was perfect when it came from God. As we do not now have the
original manuscripts, copying errors have crept in. These variations do not affect
any basic teaching.
The statement that these variations
do not affect any basic teaching is a lie. Enough evidence has been shown over
the last 100 years to show it to be so. There is no excuse for such ignorance.
One “basic teaching” affected is the
doctrine of the Trinity. There are numerous verses which testify to the persons
of the Godhead; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The strongest passage is found in 1
John 5: 7,8 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that
bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the: water, and the blood and these
three agree in one.
The words underlined are missing
from modern bibles. The evidence for their retention is considerable.
When men rely on perverted bibles,
their theology will inevitably be defective.