Trade In Tradition And Teach Others The Truth
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When we become sealed we teach others about the Seal. Our students need to unlea
traditional Christian teachings having nothing to do with what God is saying. Then we teach the anadidactic teaching of the Seal.
Many of the disciples of Jesus were fisherman and one day He was teaching from one of their boats. He had just fed thousands of people with just a few loaves of bread and fishes, magically multiplying the amount to be enough for so many.
When all of His disciples found Him some of them had forgotten to bring bread with them. Jesus had just finished feeding the multitude but they still didn’t understand. They were worried that they lacked bread.
They were arguing among themselves about the bread when Jesus warned them about another kind of leaven. He told them to watch and take heed against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
The Pharisees and Sadducees were two different groups of religious authorities in the days of Jesus. The Pharisees and Sadducees were strict enough to observe the Law of Moses only.
These two groups were considered the authorities of the day. They were supposed to be those who were devoted to God. And their teachings were supposed to be the teachings of God Himself.
But their teachings were usually not what God said. They couldn’t compare to the teachings of Jesus. He fulfilled the Law of Moses and the Prophets of God. And they couldn’t see that.
Jesus scolded His disciples. When He told them to take heed conce
ing the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees they thought He meant bread they might have bought from them.
But Jesus didn’t mean their bread. He meant their teachings. The "leaven" of the Pharisees and Sadducees was what they taught people. It was how they influenced the whole community.
And Jesus had to remind His disciples of the miracle He had just done. He had fed several thousand people with a handful of loaves and fishes! So they thought He taught them more about that kind of bread.
Just as Jesus taught His disciples to take heed considering the teachings of the religious authorities in His day, so we take heed today. We believe the teaching of the sealed yet we watch for oppositions to it.
The Jewish religion was the religion of Jesus--he fulfilled it. They were His people and it was His inheritance. So Christianity is the religion of the sealed person who fulfills the commandment of Jesus as His heir.
The sealed person warns his fellow believers against the teachings or leaven of the Christian authorities of his day. They may seem devout in appearance but when they deny the doctrine of the Seal they deny Jesus also.
When we have unlea
ed traditional Christian teachings opposing the doctrine of the Seal and learned about the Seal we are able to teach. When we are sealed each of us has a calling to teach others about the Seal. This is the anadidactic teaching.
There is much truth in traditional Christian teaching. The Holy Bible is the true Word of God and the correct teaching. But many Christian teachers do not teach what God is saying. The anadidactic correction of their errors is the teaching of the Seal.
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