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Mark 12:24,27 - "And Jesus answering
said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not
the scriptures, neither the power of God?
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye
therefore do greatly err."
To Err means: 1. To wander from the right way; to deviate
from the true course or
purpose. 2. To miss the right way, in morals or religion; to
deviate from the
path or line of duty; to stray by design or mistake. 3. To
mistake; to commit error; to do wrong from ignorance or
inattention. 4. To wander; to ramble.
The Lord Jesus Christ was talking to the Sadducees in the above text; the
Sadducees did not believe in a resurrection. He told them
that they erred because they didn't know the scriptures.
There are many things and people
which can cause a person to err; 1. Strong drink. (Isaiah
28:7 - "But they also have erred through wine, and through
strong drink are out of
the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of
the way through strong drink;
they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.") 2. The Love
of Money. (I
Timothy 6:10 - "For the love of money is the root of all
evil: whichwhile some coveted after, they have erred from
the faith, and pierced themselves through with many
sorrow.") 3. Science falsely so called. (I Timothy 6:20-21 -
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust,
avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of
science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred
concerning the faith.") 4.
False Instruction. (Proverbs 19:27 - "Cease, my son, to hear
the instruction that causeth to err from the words of
knowledge.") 5.
Leaders. (Isaiah 3:12 - "As for my people, children are
their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people,
they which lead thee cause thee to
err, and destroy the way of thy paths." I'll put in a little
side note here: it was never meant for a woman to lead.
Woman was created to
follow. Isaiah 9:16 - "For the leaders of this people
cause them to err; and they
that are led of them are destroyed.") Another side note:
leaders make people to err by lying and by taking the things
of God lighly. Look at
Jeremiah 23:32 - "Behold, I am against them that prophesy
false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my
people to err by their
lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor
commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people
at all, saith the LORD." 6.
Evil Spirits. (Isaiah 19:14 says, "The LORD hath mingled a
perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused
Egypt to err in every
work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit." And
Hosea 4:12 says, "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and
their staff declareth
unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to
err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.")
Also, if you will look in I
Kings 22, the Lord sent a lying spirit to deceive Ahab and
to make him err. 7. The Lord can because of the hardening of
your heart. (Isaiah
63:17 - "O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways,
and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy
servants' sake, the tribes of
thine inheritance.") Pharoah is a prime example of this, if
you study him, the Bible says that he hardened his heart
first, then the Lord
started hardening his heart. So, there are many
different things that can cause a person to err (and I am
sure this is not a definitive list), but it all starts with
not knowing the Scriptures. I John 4:6 says, "We are
of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of
God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and
the spirit of error." And how are we supposed to deal with
those who are in error? James 5:16-20 says that we should
pray because the effectual ferven prayer of a righteous man
availeth much and we can convert those that are in error.
When we do it will cover a
multitude of sins. I'll leave you with this warning in
James 1:16, "Do not err, my beloved brethren."
Until next time, may the Lord bless you.
Sis. Tanya |
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