Text for Saturday 1st March

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    Saturday, March 1




    Become imitators of God.​—Eph. 5:1.



    One way to imitate Jehovah is to adopt his viewpoint regarding matters. Jehovah hates sin, and so should we. Indeed, we ought to move as far away from wrongdoing as possible and not see how close we can get to it without being overcome by sin.

    For instance, we need to guard against succumbing to apostasy, a sin that would make us unfit to glorify God.
    (Deut. 13:6-9) Let us therefore have nothing to do with apostates or anyone who claims to be a brother but who is dishonoring God.

    This should be the case even if he is a family member.
    (1 Cor. 5:11)

    We are not benefited by trying to refute the arguments of apostates or those who are critical of Jehovah’s organization. In fact, it is spiritually dangerous and improper to peruse their information, whether it appears in written form or it is found on the Internet.​

    —Isa. 5:20; Matt. 7:6.

    w12 5/15 4:12, 13

     
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    That's sad to say, but I'd tend to agree as most of the teachings heralded by the so-called apostates are nonsensical, as most of the latter ones don't know the Bible in depth either and as many rank and file JWs who would be tempted to read such teachings don't have the knowledge and discerment required to sort the wheat from the weeds. Most of the R&F JWs are like babes on spiritual grounds.

    Out of countless others, only a few so-called "apostates" are reliable and trustworthy.

    I'm talking about teaching here, not about the disclosure of the WT's blunders for which no biblical knowledge is required.
     
  3. Hi All:

    The council contained in today's text is no doubt similar to the council that was given to the Israelite's in answer to the Prophets of Jehovah calling to them in olden times. If you are a true child of God you will hear his voice and the voice of the true shepherd no matter what it's source.

    If we take this council seriously then Charles Russell and all the early "Bible students" were Apostate to their former faith and everything that they said was nothing but apostate filth.

    The only true apostasy is apostasy from God, not from a religious group.

    frank
     

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