Power for Abundant Living

The Bible is the Word of Godnot have the true Word. Naturally I will be sincere onboth salvation and the Holy Spirit; but sincerity isabsolutely no guarantee for truth. Sincerity is wonderful,but it is not synonymous with truth. I likesincere people, but I have also been hoodwinked bythem. The insincere people have never deceived me,but the sincere people have.Sincerity or insincerity is not the determiningfactor for truth. The Word of God is Truth. When werightly divide it, we have the true Word; when wewrongly divide it, we have error.In the matter of standing approved before God,people are again in disagreement. People say that westand approved before God if we pray a certain wayor if the flowers are on the altar at the right place. Itdoes not make a bit of difference to God where theflowers are on the altar. It may make a difference tous, but it does not make any difference at all to God.The Word of God says we study to show ourselvesapproved unto God by rightly dividing The Word. Tothe end we rightly divide The Word, we stand approved;to the end we wrongly divide it, we do notstand approved. We must come to the position ofusing The Word as our authority. Christian believerscan never be brought together On other extraneous,superficial, ritualistic matters. They can only bebrought together when they stand approved beforeGod by rightly dividing The Word.124