Only Jesus

March 12

Some religious groups presume to proclaim that their adherents become ‘gods.’ They believe that there is a place of ruler-ship awaiting those who live out their lives on this planet in a way that complies with the requirements set before them by the hierarchy of the organization.

This doctrine may be titillating to the gullible but it has no substantiation in God’s Holy, Infallible Word the Bible. In the final analysis, this assertion must be dismissed as the ‘doctrines of devils’ that the Word proclaims will be preached in the latter days, in the time just before Jesus returns when deception is rampant (I Timothy 4:1).

We see and hear much that believers who are anchored in the Word recognize as the very deception the Bible admonishes us to guard against. Whether it is the alluring assertion that men can rule planets, or reign as lords of heaven, or luxuriate in a sensual paradise of wine and eternal virgins, the source of the deception is the evil one.

The Bible makes very clear the fact that only One is worthy of dominion and power and glory (Revelation 1:6), and that One is Jesus. Paul says it well in Colossians 1:18: “Christ is the head of the body, the Church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from the dead, so in all things, He must reign supreme.”

JESUS must reign supreme. Only Jesus.