Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 63 - Psalm 119:63

Hello! Welcome back to Daily Bites of God's Word. This is Andy Cain, and it is a joy to be back with you once again.

Today we're looking at Psalm 119 verse 63. It says, We need to stop a lot of this fighting that goes on where, you know, someone has a different eschatological view than you.

Heretic! You're going... Like, I mean, it's insane, yes.

I mean, trollish people that are just, you know, attacking you and, you know, being sinful and unkind and mean and denigrating.

Yeah, you don't need to be dealing with that. Especially if it's unsafe people. But saved

Christians, we need to treat each other better. Christians are not your enemies. A Christian with a differing view than yours is not your enemy.

And we need to more narrowly define when we use and throw around the term heresy and heretic, because what you're saying when you call somebody a heretic is that they're unsaved.

See, if I'm going to say someone's a heretic, I'm saying they're definitionally not

Christian. You need to be careful before you go throwing that out. Our full Preterist friends are not heretics.

Their eschatology is very different in some aspects compared to some, but, my friends, every

Christian's a Preterist to some degree. It's just a matter of how much you put in the past. And so we've got to stop this stuff.

We really do. And that's why he says, I'm a friend, a companion of those who fear you.

That's the test. The reverence for God. The love for God. I mean, I had somebody tell me that, you know,

I'm deceived because I'm reformed. I'm like, no, I just, I'm thinking differently than you.

And they say, you know, we hope you get saved and all this stuff. I'm just like, okay, that's not the litmus test, but okay.

You know, it didn't say in 1 John, when he talks about, you know, those who believe in the Son of God are saved and those who aren't are not. It didn't say, well, and if you have a pre -male or a -male disposition in eschatology.

So it's just, we need to stop. Okay. And he says, and of those who keep your precepts.

Those that are living by the word of God. They may have a different philosophy of history. They may have a better, different understanding of soteriology.

But if they love the Lord Jesus, if they're saved, and they understand the Trinity, the core definitional doctrines, we need to be a companion of them.

We need to be helping them. We don't need to be categorizing other Christians as enemies and someone to be defeated.

This stuff really, really needs to stop. And, you know,

I used to be like that a lot. I've grown out of a lot of that. I still see a lot of it. I think it is getting better.

But look, we need to really work on this. We need to really tighten up on this, my friends. Amen? Well, I want to thank you for joining me on this daily bite of God's Word.