Living Epistles to the World

(2 Corinthians 3:2) Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
(2 Corinthians 3:3) Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

A mature Christian, a real Follower of Christ will be a living Epistle to the world. They will live their life by the faith of Christ.

(Galatians 2:20) I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Hebrews 10:38) Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

They will not add man’s wisdom, advice, talents or doctrines to this epistle of Christ.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness (1Cor 1:20-23)

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1Cor 2:14)

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (1Cor 2:2)


(Proverbs 30:5) Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (Proverbs 30:6) Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

All the so called "good" that is done by the “wisdom” and doctrines men will be uprooted and will not be able to stand in the Day of Judgment.

(Matthew 15:9) But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:12) Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
(Matthew 15:13) But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

Let us not add to or take away from the Word of God. But live our life as the Epistle of Christ. (Matthew 4:4)…Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

(John 1:14) And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

(1 John 2:6) he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
(1 John 4:17) Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.