We Are To Stand Fast In The Truth

 Whether opposition to the gospel comes from moralists, religionists, legalists, or any other opposing body, all resistance to God's Word is designed to diminish the Person of Christ and His finished Work on the Cross, for salvation. Such apostate teachers with their heretical doctrines always insist that salvation requires something to be added to the Cross - that mankind must engage in some meritorious work other than simply believing in the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ, for their salvation.
 The problems Paul warned about in his letter to the Romans are no less a problem in the churches of today, and so we should all take to heart the warnings he gives and the exhortations he makes, to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.
 May we realize that the only way to honor the Lord Who bought us, is to be obedient to His Word and trust His promises. We Are To Stand Fast In The Truth, grow in grace, mature in the faith, walk in spirit and truth, and utterly abhor that which is evil, while clinging to all that is good.
Romans 16:19 Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, keep us vigilant and circumspect in our Christian walk, knowing that there are many false teachers and deceptive doctrines that have infiltrated the churches, and which have caused many innocent believers to be deceived and defeated in their Christian walk. We pray that You would give us wisdom and discernment, concerning all that is good and wholesome, while being alert to the schemes of evil people, and the dangers of adopting a perverted gospel, that strays from the truth of God’s Word. We pray that we may be wise that which is good and display an innocence concerning things that are evil, and in Your power, may we live only for Christ, in Whose name we Pray, AMEN.