The Abandonment of Loyalty: The Book for Thinkers

By Dan L. Coyle

The abandonment of loyalty may be applied to many different issues in life. Here are four abandonments of many:
The abandonment of the living God
The abandonment of marriage between husband and wife
The abandonment of raising ones children in the ways of Jesus Word
The abandonment of Jesus and the Holy Spirit for the American lifestyle and culture

Gods Word says in Hosea 6:4 and 6, What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning cloud And like the dew which goes away early, and, For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings (NASB).

God destroyed disobedient people in the Old Testament, some of whom were His chosen people.

Jesus says in the New Testament, in Luke 6:46, Why do you call Me, Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? (NASB). Hebrews 13:8 says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever (NASB).

Jesus will destroy disobedient Christians in the end. Who are His chosen people? Do not kid yourself into thinking that because you are a Christian, you are secure, if you are disobeying Jesus commands.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490828510

Dan L. Coyle

Dan Coyle graduated from High School in 1964 and was drafted into the army almost a year later. He became a chaplain assistant in Vietnam with the 11th armored Calvary. Upon returning home, he married, went into construction, and spent some of his time as a youth pastor. Dan donated and enjoyed this time working with the youth. Coyle was a plumber/pipefitter by trade and did help many church members and pastors with their household plumbing problems, along with fixing church buildings themselves. Dan has spent many years talking with and listening to pastors while reading and studying the Bible. Dan is the retired owner and instructor of the Special Issue Seminar. With the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit, he has made the seminar available to everyone in book form. The basic seminar is The Loyalty of a ChristianEstablishing a Measure of Faith. The advanced seminar is The Abandonment of Loyaltythe Book for Thinkers. One comment made about the author was, I believe you are a missionary to the churches in the United States. Dans words are simple about Gods Word. Just accept and obey Jesus Word and you will abide in Jesus humble love toward others, no matter what. Dan L. Coyles picture is on the back of the book. Dan and His wife, Luane, live in Medford, Oregon near their son and family.

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1    The Listening Thinkers

Chapter 2    Realizing The Importance Of God’s Covenants, Old And New

Chapter 3    Questions With Controversial Answers

Chapter 4    Christians Who Have Ears, Let Them Hear

Chapter 5    Analyzing Behaviors And Attitudes

Chapter 6    Understanding Spiritual Happiness

Chapter 7    Christians’ Egos, Pride, And Arrogance In Today’s Church

Chapter 8    Church Doctrine Or Bible Doctrine: Your Choice

Chapter 9    A Christian’s Journey In Overcoming Spiritual Objections

Chapter 10    Young Christians’ Confusion And Delusion

Chapter 11    No Spiritual Freedom Without Obedience

Chapter 12    Belief Or Disbelief— Obedience Or Disobedience

Chapter 13    Conclusion: Fear God, Love Jesus, Listen To The Holy Spirit

Scripture References

About The Author

FOREWORD

P erhaps some of you have noticed that the author and I have the same last name. Dan has known me all his life, I am his older brother. Just as Dan and I are different people, his book and mine are different. Although my book is considered religious, it is more or less entertainment with some encouragement thrown in. On the other hand, The Abandonment of Loyalty may not be so entertaining. It is hard hitting and challenging to the Christian who is less than committed to God’s Word.

The Abandonment of Loyalty is not for entertainment. It is written to encourage the intentional and thoughtful studying of God’s Word with the goal of obeying God’s Word. This book is truly for the serious Bible student. That does not mean you read about the Bible or you read about the writers or you read about the history of the Bible. It means you read and study the Bible!

The Abandonment of Loyalty is for the person wanting to serve the Most High God. The last sentence in the first paragraph in chapter 6 sums up the crux of the matter in this book. It reads, The real proof of connection to and belief of God’s Word remains in how you allow it to affect your life.

Rich Coyle

Author, And These Signs Will Follow

PREFACE

T he Abandonment of Loyalty—The Book for Thinkers started as a seminar. However, Jesus, through the Holy Spirit had it changed into book form. I want to thank my wife for her time and patience, as well as her part on the computer. She was a big help in putting everything together.

The Abandonment of Loyalty is not filled with fancy speeches. What it explains to the reader is If you want to be a true disciple of Jesus, then you will learn to humbly and lovingly obey Jesus’ Word throughout the New Testament. You will then become a vessel sanctified, holy, and set apart ready for the Master’s use.

The Abandonment of Loyalty is a lot more than just talking about having the love of Jesus in you; it is about living His humble love through your obedient actions, in real human life. You must be committed to Jesus as His true disciple, accepting, believing, and obeying His entire Word in the New Testament.

It is important to note that the author of The Abandonment of Loyalty does not claim to be or to have all the answers in God’s Word, as if he is God’s only spokesman of the truth. However, he does claim to use the spiritual gift that Jesus has given him, through the Holy Spirit. That is the gift of a prophet as explained in 1 Corinthians 14:3: But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.

CHAPTER 1

THE LISTENING THINKERS

T o start, there is important information that must be shared: this book is not an ordinary Christian book; it is for the Christian thinker. This book is about God’s Word, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and you in reference to what you believe and how you arrived at your individual belief in God’s Word. This book is not about your church, pastor, or church congregation, even though a lot of things are shared about our American churches and synagogues, their pastors, priests, rabbis, and congregations.

What will be mentioned is intended to help you see and understand clearly and completely Jesus’ plan for His bride, the church, starting from His baptism. The New Testament church is where all Christians live, starting when Jesus breathed on His disciples in the gospel of John and told them to receive the Holy Spirit and continuing through the meeting in the upper room in the book of Acts. This is where the apostles received the Holy Spirit’s power from on high to begin their spiritual lives in the body of Christ Jesus with boldness and loving compassion.

The New Testament covenant law is about selfless, disciplined love and your acceptance of it and humble obedience to it, doing what Jesus has ordered you to do through His apostles. If you have accepted God’s loving gift—Jesus’ love and forgiveness—then you need to accept and discipline yourself to obey what the Holy Spirit teaches throughout the New Testament and not just through specific sections of God’s Word that have been taught by today’s church.

This information is being shared with uncompromising love for God’s holy and inspired written Word, and it is Bible based. Therefore, these chapters are bold and straightforward, with real, loving concern for all brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus across this nation.

You must not take God’s Word lightly. The Lord Jesus Christ is serious about your obedience in following God’s Word for your salvation, growth, and protection in spiritual warfare. As a Christian, you must be ready to endure to the end of your life, no matter how severe your persecution may be.

I hope you will read this book with an attitude of wanting to learn, understand, analyze, and examine Scripture carefully, because the Holy Spirit has prepared something special for you; it’s called unity of love through self-discipline in humble obedience.

Reading this will no doubt prove to be a curious yet interesting experience for some, whereas for Christians it will be shocking and sobering because of how many of us have been trained in our churches. However, for a few Christians who believe in and live the New Testament, it will be stimulating and encouraging.

The Holy Bible is the inspired Word of the Almighty God. For those who believe, it is our foundation and authority. In fact, every Christian bases his or her eternal life on the words in the Holy Bible.

Please read this book carefully and listen for what the Holy Spirit has prepared specifically for you to understand at this time in your Christian life.

Unless a Christian actually makes a true, loving, humble, dedicated, obedient, and disciplined commitment to Jesus Christ as a believer and disciple, spiritual life is worth nothing to them, absolutely nothing! And it shows in their life through their lack of commitment in disciplining themselves in Jesus’ Word throughout the New Testament. The words in the New Testament are from Jesus and the Holy Spirit and are meant to be obeyed by all Christians, in every God-fearing, Jesus-loving Christian church. That includes using the gifts of the Spirit in every Protestant and Catholic church and every Messianic Jewish group, fellowship, assembly, and synagogue. Therein dwells your loving unity and one body.

Reading this book will help make you aware of just how easy it is to lose sight of Jesus, to fall into man’s idea of Christianity and be misled by it, to obey man’s education and doctrines. It’s easy to drift away from the gospel truth by listening to others’ opinions rather than to the Holy Spirit and to do that instead of believing and following only God’s holy, inspired written Word.

The two main issues covered in this book are Christian obedience and spiritual freedom.

Commandments are rules to help Christians discipline themselves to follow and obey Jesus, especially because they came from Jesus and the Holy Spirit through Jesus’ apostles.

Again, this is about God’s Word, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and you in reference to what you believe and how you arrived at your individual belief in God’s Word.

This book may create intense personal conflicts between churchgoers, but it is important to try to keep these conflicts under control and to listen intently to the Holy Spirit as you read. Do not let any of your past training or prejudices allow you to become defensive, angry, or bitter. Try to stay focused and not think about how and what you have been taught in the churches you have attended or are attending. It is important that you learn to think for yourself with the Holy Spirit’s help so that He can correctly educate you through the New Testament.

There are different ways to study God’s Word. You can do a book study where you go through a book of the Bible verse by verse. You can do a topic study, searching through all the books of the Bible to find the verses that relate to a particular topic. Both ways are excellent for sharing in Bible studies when the Holy Spirit is the guide. The Holy Spirit can and does work through both study methods to teach and educate Christians, if they are willing to listen and learn.

It is also important to recognize that some people take verses out of context in both types of Bible studies, sometimes out of ignorance and other times to try to damage God’s Word through distortion and corruption. These people need to be confronted and reasoned with.

However, Christians who are honestly trying to know Jesus as they read God’s Word must listen to and believe the Holy Spirit’s teaching. They will, in fact, grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ Jesus to discern between good and evil because they believe Jesus’ Word and humbly and lovingly desire to obey it.

Later in this book, you will read about the different commands in the New Testament that the majority of today’s Christian leaders have rejected. They have been saying for many decades that these issues in certain verses are not important for your Christian life or modern-day church worship. Some Christian leaders call these issues or verses a second doctrine; they think they’re not that important in terms of people’s salvation or enduring until everyone gets to heaven.

However, Jesus says, Narrow is the way to life and few there be that find it. He goes even further and says, Depart from me you who practice lawlessness, I never knew you. Lawlessness is sin. Jesus is talking to people who say they believe.

Remember, the Bible was written for believers to discipline themselves to accept, believe, and humbly and lovingly obey God without excuses. Every Christian I’ve ever met believes that he or she has found the narrow way to eternal life, which is believing in Jesus and accepting Him as their Lord and Savior. Rarely do they mention water baptism at the point of conversion, which is another important point of believing in Jesus in order to complete the spiritual birthing process.

And so it is from this point on that Bible deception begins through misguided training. Just because you believe in Jesus and have accepted Him as your Savior doesn’t mean that you have come to know Him in a personal way to the point that you understand what He expects of you as a true believer or as His disciple. You must believe all of God’s Word and allow the Holy Spirit to teach you as you go through it.

During this time in a new Christian’s life, it is true that he or she does want to know and understand God’s Word. However, the problem is that he or she is listening to other Christians who have been taught to reject sections in God’s Word, and the new Christian learns to do the same through fallible man’s opinion. They too convince themselves not to obey Jesus’ Word.

When Christians are trained correctly in Jesus’ Word through the Holy Spirit’s teaching, they learn to follow correctly and obey what is written in the New Testament without argument. However, the more Christians listen to fallible men in their church society, the more hardhearted they become through stiffness of ego and hardness of attitude. Jesus says, If you abide in my love, you will know the truth. So if you stay in His love, endure in His love, and live in His love, you will learn to know Jesus. His love is humble and obedient, and your love must be humble and obedient also.

Jesus learned to do everything He was told, and you must do the same. Jesus didn’t like to do everything that was commanded of Him; however, He humbled Himself before God and obeyed in love. You as a Christian may not like to do everything you’re instructed and commanded to do either. However, as you begin to learn about Jesus’ humble and obedient love in your own life, you will begin to know the truth (Jesus Himself) and what He expects of you in obeying not only His commandments but also those He has given to you through His apostles, whether you like them or not. You must learn to obey them with a humble, disciplined love. Humble, loving obedience is surrendering to Jesus, who is the author and perfecter of faith. The apostle Paul says you must study to handle accurately the word of truth. As you remember, the gospel of John tells you that Jesus is the living Word. He is the way, the truth, and the life. You have been living in a time—and still are—when the majority of Christians allow information from today’s commentaries, along with other information, such as extra comments printed into today’s Bibles, to explain things and information from outside of God’s Word, which has influenced Christians to such degrees that they do not accept all the commands in the New Testament. You have been deceived through fallible man’s teaching and have gladly accepted it. It is not to say that all their teaching is incorrect. However, today’s Christians in the United States are doing what seems to be right in their own eyes by rejecting parts of God’s Word.

As you read through this, you will begin to understand how Satan has deceived and infiltrated our American churches in your time period, through your own Christian education, because of how intelligent Christian leaders think they have become, through their Hebrew, Greek, and proper English studies. Now please understand, it is good to know the Hebrew, Greek, and proper English. However, it is important that you realize who is in control of God’s holy inspired Word and the writing and understanding of it. It is the Holy Spirit. It is not nor has it ever been Christian officials, leaders, or writers of today. No matter how much Hebrew, Greek, or proper English a person may know, or how many Christian books or commentaries a person has written, or how famous a Christian person has become in your time period, or how much of man’s Christian education or how many doctorates a person has, God, the Father, has never given any man dominion or power or rule over His holy inspired written Word. Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, is the master shepherd in control, through the power of God—the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit worked through men to write and translate God’s Word. They translated exactly what they were instructed to translate by the Holy Spirit.

It is also important to know that Jesus did not come in human form to start churches. Jesus came to be the final sacrifice for sin, all sin ever after, and to establish under the law of Christ a new church body for both Jews and Gentiles by fulfilling and abolishing the old covenant and establishing a new covenant with new commandments and instructions for every believer to humbly and lovingly obey.

Jesus said to Peter, Upon this rock I will build My church (Matthew 16:18).

Jesus had the apostle Peter begin the church with some of the Jewish people in Jerusalem. Jesus also had to make Peter realize that no food or person was unclean. All food is okay to eat in moderation, and any person, Jew or Gentile, is welcome to believe in Jesus and be baptized, therefore becoming a new creation.

Jesus sent Peter to see Cornelius and his family and some of Cornelius’ friends, all of them Gentiles. Peter saw the Holy Spirit work in the Gentiles just like He did in the Jewish people (Acts 10).

It is also important to realize that the men Jesus picked to send to the Gentiles outside Jerusalem, as well as some Jewish people, to start churches all over the known world were, in fact, the apostle Paul and Barnabas. They were full of the Holy Spirit. Acts 13:48 says, As many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

You will see that the commands and instructions in Jesus’ New Testament covenant law are the same in our time for both Jews and Gentiles. Jesus did not make two or three separate New Testament covenants, for Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, just one for all of us, forever. Jesus did it by making every person who believes in Him a new creation. By circumcision of the heart, He has made them Jewish inwardly, both male and female. They are His people now who believe in Him and obey Him, through His Word in the New Testament.

Jesus also had Stephen preach a sermon, recorded in Acts 6 and 7, to show us what could happen to every Christian who believes in Jesus and obeys His Word down through history, including today. Remember, Jesus empowered the apostle Paul with the Holy Spirit in starting new churches. In fact, here is what Paul said for you to understand and accept in Galatians 1:11–12: For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

The definition for the word revelation is a striking disclosure, as of something not previously known or realized; communication, by divinity, God’s disclosure or manifestation to humanity of Himself or His will. An instance of this is a writing or communication.

This revelation is what the apostle Paul received from Jesus to give to you, a revelation for all the New Testament churches, new traditions, doctrines, and commandments through the new covenant.

Believing in Jesus is more than just realizing how much Jesus loves you/us. It is disciplining yourself to live in obedience to what Jesus has instructed through Himself and His apostles, manifested in your flesh and spirit all through the New Testament. If as a Christian you are going to believe and follow the revelation that Jesus has given to Paul, then it is going to be a life-changing experience for you, both in your personal life and in your church worship.

The Scripture references you will be reading are from the New American Standard Bible. I strongly suggest that when you finish reading this book, you reread every verse in the Bible of your choice. It is important that in doing this, you look to God’s Word alone with the help of the Holy Spirit and not to man’s fleshly educated opinions or history outside of God’s Word or the extra comments that are printed in many Bibles. Please listen to the Holy Spirit and let Him teach you as you read some very important verses from the New and Old Testaments.

Revelation 22:7, 18–19 says, "And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book. … I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

These are strong and harsh words from Jesus and not to be taken lightly. It is important to realize that Jesus is referring to the complete Bible, not just Revelation here.

Now look at 2 Peter 1:20–21: But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

These two verses alone provide enough evidence for every Christian to believe and obey all of God’s holy inspired Word, if they choose to.

Look at Proverbs 30:5–6: "Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. Do not add to His words