Our Saviour, through the Apostle Paul, rebuked the brethren at Ephesus because they were "walking as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds." He writes in Ephesians 4:20 - "But ye have not so learned Christ." These brethren were believing or practicing something other than what the Word of God taught them - something which they had not "learned" of Christ. We should ever keep that thought in our minds as we "run the Christian race," and strive diligently to keep that rebuke from applying to us.

If Christ or any of the Apostles were present with us in this present dispensation of time, would they rebuke us as the Apostle Paul did those Ephesian brethren who were believing or practicing something not according to Holy Writ, not authorized by the Word of God, which was unscriptural? We cannot entertain practices or beliefs that are not by the authority of the Father since we cannot have faith (scripturally) in something which is not authorized by the Word of the Lord, for it is written: "So then Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." (Romans 10:17). If we can't "hear" what we believe or practice, we cannot have Faith in it; and if we have not faith in it, it is sin. "And whatsoever is not of Faith is sin." (Rom 14:23).

Brethren, let's be very careful of what we believe in the way of doctrine and what practice we engage in in our lives each day. Let's live a Christian Life - do, say and think those things which will harmonize with the way that we have "learned" Christ, and which will be "worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called." Let's compare our beliefs and practices with God's Holy Word, and if our lives do not "bear witness" with the Word of God, one is wrong and we know that it isn't the immutable Council of God. Let's take care of this, my brethren, lest on that great Judgment Day we should hear this rebuke, which will be a condemnation then, "But ye have not so learned Christ." Let's all be Christians in the full sense of the word. In I Timothy 4:12 we read: "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers in word, conversation, charity, spirit, faith, purity." Brethren, let's be that example.