Question???

We had a question on our Knowledge is Useless post that I thought would be good to post…here it is:

Hello Brother Andrew and my fellow siblings in Christ! I am so blessed to know you, truly. This site is a blessing! One reason is it lets us ask questions instantaneously! So with that said, in humility, I have a question. When you ask:

“Are you more prone to preach in the boldness of the LORD rather than cower back in fear by your weakness, forgetting that in our weakness He is made strong? (2 Corinthians 12:9)”

Does the bible not also say to be bold in the LORD (Psalms 138 and Acts 4:29)? Because the verse in 2 Corinthians talks about him having a thorn in his side to remind him of his weakness…I suppose I am confusing this as physical weakness. Is it trying to say that this thorn in his side his inherent sin nature? The commands he naturally breaks remind him of his weakness and in turn reminds him of how perfect and holy our LORD is? Because he is constantly reminded of Christ’s perfection he is only able to boast in (or maybe about) Christ’s works and not his own?

A.W. Pink

Read this, Pink wrote this over 50 years ago. It is exactly the movement that is happening in America right now.

The gospel of Satan is not a system or revolutionary principles, nor yet a program of anarchy. It does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter nor the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great “brotherhood.” It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advocates education and cultivation and appeals to “the best that is within us.” It aims to make this world such a comfortable and congenial habitat that Christ’s absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed. It endeavors to occupy man so much with this world that he has no time or inclination to think of the world to come. It propagates the principles of self-sacrifice, charity and benevolence, and is popular with the masses, because it ignores the solemn facts that by nature man is a fallen creature, alienated from the life of God, and dead in trespasses and sins, and that his only hope lies in being born again.

1 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will accumulate teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new. They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.