⚖️ ABOMINATION TO GOD vs ACCEPTABLE TO GOD
📖 Key Text: 2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV) — “Rightly dividing the word of truth.”
🔰 INTRODUCTION
In every age, people seek spiritual power—but not all spirituality is from God. Scripture sharply contrasts what God abhors with what God accepts.
In this Dispensation of the Grace of God (Eph. 3:1–2), God is not found through rituals, signs, or mystical experiences, but through His written Word rightly divided and faith in Christ alone.
👉 The issue is not sp... more⚖️ ABOMINATION TO GOD vs ACCEPTABLE TO GOD
📖 Key Text: 2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV) — “Rightly dividing the word of truth.”
🔰 INTRODUCTION
In every age, people seek spiritual power—but not all spirituality is from God. Scripture sharply contrasts what God abhors with what God accepts.
In this Dispensation of the Grace of God (Eph. 3:1–2), God is not found through rituals, signs, or mystical experiences, but through His written Word rightly divided and faith in Christ alone.
👉 The issue is not spirituality vs. unbelief, but truth vs. deception.
🟡 1️⃣ FORBIDDEN FELLOWSHIP ☠️
📖 Deuteronomy 18:10–12
Theme: God rejects occult contact.
Occult Communion — Seeking spirits apart from God.
📖 Leviticus 19:31
Otherworldly Curiosity — Fascination with hidden powers.
📖 Isaiah 8:19
Open Rebellion — Direct disobedience to God’s command.
📖 1 Samuel 15:23
🟡 2️⃣ DIVINATORY DECEPTION 🔮
📖 Acts 16:16–18
Theme: Fortune-telling mimics truth but serves demons.
Predictive Pretension — Claims secret knowledge.
📖 Ecclesiastes 8:7
Powerless Promises — Cannot bring salvation.
📖 Jeremiah 10:23
Perverse Influence — Leads away from Christ.
📖 2 Corinthians 11:14
🟡 3️⃣ DEADLY DIALOGUE ⚰️
📖 Luke 16:26
Theme: Communication with the dead is impossible and forbidden.
Severed Separation — Death fixes eternal destiny.
📖 Hebrews 9:27
Satanic Substitute — Familiar spirits impersonate the dead.
📖 Isaiah 29:4
Scriptural Silence — God forbids such contact.
📖 1 Chronicles 10:13
🟡 4️⃣ MYSTICAL MISDIRECTION 🌫️
📖 Colossians 2:18
Theme: Visions and trances bypass Scripture.
Experience Exalted — Feelings over faith.
📖 Proverbs 28:26
Emotion Exploited — Sensations mistaken for truth.
📖 Jeremiah 17:9
Error Entrenched — No doctrinal anchor.
📖 Ephesians 4:14
🟡 5️⃣ RITUALISTIC RELIANCE 🕯️
📖 Galatians 4:9
Theme: Rituals replace relationship.
Ceremonial Confidence — Trusting acts, not Christ.
📖 Colossians 2:20–22
Spellbound Service — Form without faith.
📖 2 Timothy 3:5
Symbolic Salvation — False hope in objects.
📖 Jeremiah 7:4
🟡 6️⃣ SIGN-SEEKING SEDUCTION 👁️
📖 1 Corinthians 1:22
Theme: God’s grace age does not operate by signs.
Sign Demand — Refusal to rest in the Word.
📖 Matthew 12:39
Sight Supremacy — Walking by sight, not faith.
📖 2 Corinthians 5:7
Subtle Snare — Signs can deceive.
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:9
🟡 7️⃣ EXPERIENCE EXALTED ⚠️
📖 2 Timothy 4:3
Theme: Experience over doctrine leads to apostasy.
Personal Preference — Truth tailored to taste.
📖 Judges 21:25
Pleasure-Driven Teaching — Itching ears satisfied.
📖 Isaiah 30:10
Principle Discarded — Doctrine abandoned.
📖 Titus 1:9
🟡 8️⃣ SCRIPTURAL STANDARD 📖
📖 2 Timothy 3:16–17
Theme: God accepts faith grounded in His Word.
Bible Believed — Scripture is sufficient.
📖 Psalm 119:105
Truth Taught — Rightly divided doctrine.
📖 2 Timothy 2:15
Authority Acknowledged — God’s Word final.
📖 1 Thessalonians 2:13
🟡 9️⃣ CHRIST-CENTERED COMMUNION ✝️
📖 1 Timothy 2:5
Theme: God is approached only through Christ.
Sole Mediator — No other access to God.
📖 John 14:6
Simple Faith — Trust in Christ’s finished work.
📖 1 Corinthians 15:1–4
Secure Hope — Eyes on heavenly glory.
📖 Titus 2:13
🟦 CONCLUSION
God does not accept mysticism, ritualism, or experience-based spirituality.
He accepts faith in Christ, prayer through Christ, and truth from His Word—rightly divided.
📖 Romans 12:1
🔔 CALL TO ACTION
❌ Reject occult substitutes
❌ Refuse experience over doctrine
✅ Rest in Scripture alone
✅ Walk by faith, not sight
✅ Glory in Christ alone
📖 Colossians 2:6–7
⭐ FINAL THOUGHTS
1️⃣ Not all spirituality is from God
2️⃣ Experience can deceive
3️⃣ Signs belong to Israel, not the Church
4️⃣ Doctrine anchors the soul
5️⃣ Grace replaces rituals
6️⃣ Christ replaces mediators
7️⃣ Scripture replaces visions
8️⃣ Faith replaces fear
9️⃣ Heavenly hope replaces earthly mysticism
✝️ Rightly Divided • Grace-Centered • Christ-Exalted
✠ Sir John Scivoletti ✠
✠ Turco Joan of Arc Priory ✠
✠✠Act and God will Act (Actus et Deus Act)✠✠
