Although Pastor Eugene Pienaar and I have known of each other for many years we have never relly met. We met at the last two summits in Welkom.
Pastor Eugene and his wife used to be the late Pastor Ed Roebert's Second In Charge (2IC) for many years before they felt led to start their own ministry. They have purchased the old Sanlam sports arena outside Voortrekkerhoogte as a church auditorium. God really gave it to them for a bargain.
He felt that he did not want to attend conferences anymore until he was sure what he wanted to do in the church. When he attended the summit in Welkom he felt that I should come and teach them about the apostolic reformation.
We spent a lot of time talking and sharing and on Saturday night I spoke to the leadership explaining the operation of the body of Christ – particuarly in the gifts of healings.
On the Sunday I ministered on Godly Sincerity and even sang a blues song: Man of Sorrows!
Here are some of my sermon notes.Godly sincerity
Heartfelt Church Pretoria
Thabo Tswane
03/10/05

Jesus Christ was sincere: he straight-lined it. His thoughts lined up with his words and his words with his actions. What he thought he spoke and what he spoke he did. That is why his words had authority and why his life was so powerful. We think one thing and speak something else and end up doing something entirely different. That is why most Christians live powerless lives and are not able to overcome the enemy.
By desiring the sincere milk of the word we become sincere. The word of God needs to be unadulterated and pure before it can produce sincerity in the lives of believers. There is natural sincerity and godly sincerity: the one is fake and the other real.

I Peter 2

1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

SINCERE was a new word in the sixteenth century, and was applied to things as well as to persons and motives. ?As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby? (1 Peter 2:2) is a KJ rendering which is now seen to be defective at several points. It is not as newborn babes, but like newborn babes who long for the mother?s breast, that Peter exhorts the exiles to long for the milk of the gospel. The verb has a correlative adjective which KJ translates ?my brethren dearly beloved and longed for? (Philippians 4:1). And the aim is not simply to grow, but to ?grow up to salvation??the last phrase appears in the ancient Greek manuscripts, but had been lost from the medieval manuscripts upon which KJ was based. The adjective adolos, which modifies the word for ?milk,? means without deceit, unadulterated, pure, and frequently occurs in the last of these senses in the Greek papyri. RSV accordingly translates, ?Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation.?
In his second epistle Peter says, ?I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance? (3:1). The adjective for ?pure? here is eilikrineµs, which KJ translates by ?sincere,? and RSV by ?pure,? in Philippians 1:10. Both versions translate eilikrineia by ?sincerity? (1 Corinthians 5:8; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2:17). RSV has in 2 Peter 3:1, ?This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder.?

I Peter 2:2

II Peter 3:1

Eillikrine ? sincere

Eilikrineia ? sincerity

I Cortinthians 5:8

II Corinthians 1:12

12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward

II Corinthians 2:17

17For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Chapter 3
1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3Forasmuch 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. 4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

3. eilikrines (1506) signifies ?unalloyed, pure?; (a) it was used of unmixed substances; (b) in the NT it is used of moral and ethical ?purity,? Phil. 1:10, ?sincere?; so the RV in 2 Pet. 3:1 (KJV, ?pure?). Some regard the etymological meaning as ?tested by the sunlight? (Cremer). See CHASTE, Note, SINCERE.
The old Greek merchants used to put the marble statues in the strong midday sun in Greece before they purchased any. Statues had to pass the sunlight test. In those days the cheap sculptors imitated the great masters but their marble sculpture would have several flaws and gaps which they covered up with white candle wax. But if those statues were left out in the open the strong sulight would melt the wax and the gaps would appear. The merchants would offer them a lesser price or refuse to purchase the statue.

God wants to erase all our human wax that cover up our flaws before him so that He can make us sincere in all respects. When the world c