This document expresses God's concern about liberal drifts from his commands. It lists 13 examples from the Bible where people took unauthorized liberties instead of following what God commanded, such as Cain offering what he wanted instead of what God wanted. The document warns that liberal drifts go against God's will and should be a concern for believers. It suggests the remedy is to understand how to establish God's will by following the specific commands and authority given in the Bible, with Jesus as the head over the church.

1. God’s Concern about Liberal
Drifts
Taking Liberty versus Having
Liberty

2. Concerns Expressed
• 1. When Cain took liberty to offer what he
wanted to instead of seeking to offer what God
wanted. Genesis 4
• 2. When Nadab and Abihu took liberty to offer
fire from a strange source, instead of being
content with what God said. Lev.10
• 3. When Korah was wanting to take liberty to
offer incense that only the sons of Aaron were
commissioned to Offer. Num.16
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3. Concerns Expressed
• 4. When Saul took liberty to offer the sacrifice
that only Levitical priests could offer by
scriptural authority. 1 Sam.13:9-13
• 5. When Saul took liberty to spare the best
sheep and king Agag. 1 Sam.15
• 6. When David and the Israelites took liberty to
set the ark on an ox cart. 2 Sam.6:3; 1
Chron.15:12-13
• 7. When Solomon took liberty to intermarry
with foreign women. 1 Kings 11:1-3
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4. Concerns Expressed
• 8. When Jeroboam took liberty to station new
places of worship and new objects of worship.
1 Kings 13:26-30
• 9. When Pharisees took liberty to separate into
a sect and then took liberty to impose the
doctrines and traditions of men. Matt.15:8ff
• 10. When Paul wept and prayed about elders in
the church drawing away from God’s way to
their own way. Acts 20:28ff
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5. Concerns Expressed
• 11. When Paul wrote about the spirit of
lawlessness already at work. 2 Thess.2:7
• 12. When Timothy was warned to preach the
word because ear-ticklers would seem more
appealing to some. 2 Tim.4:1-4
• 13. When Peter warned that false teachers
would “promise liberty” and allure people
through appeals to the flesh. 2 Peter 2:18-19
• Then we know that liberal drifts are a great
concern to God and should be to us as well.

6. The Remedy
• Understand HOW to establish the will of God
– Book, chapter, verse – rightly divided
• Generic authority and specific authority – Heb.7
• Honoring Jesus as “head over ALL things to the
church” – Eph.1:22
• Abide in the doctrine of Christ under the
authority of Christ -2 John 9-10; Matt.28:19-
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