Hosea 4:6 KJV
I can't count the number of times I've heard "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" quoted from the pulpit over the years. And truer words were never spoken. The church at large is ignorant of God's Word, for lack of spending time in study!
But I can't think of many sermons I've heard on her rejecting knowledge, and today that is true in great abundance around the world.
I love the old saying, "the devil tried to destroy the church, and when he couldn't, he joined it." His twisting of God's Word began in the garden and continues this day. And everyday I see evidence of people who believe they are following Jesus going down a path that becomes wider with every step! (Matthew 7:13)
The Truth is being preached, but people prefer a softer gentler message. They are rejecting knowledge and following a "different Jesus". (2 Corinthians 11:4)
The Truth is hard! The walk is full of persecution and rejection often by people we love or respect. The Truth is lonely because it requires separation from idols that others refuse to lay down. The Truth is painful because it requires obedience to God's Word and laying aside pride in humility and transparency! The Truth means dying daily on our cross, not just wearing it around our neck.
(1 Corinthians 15:31)
Why would God send His Son to die for our sins, admonish us to repent up until the very last book in The Bible and then let us live like kings and queens here and give us our every desire for a cushy life? Isn't that what is being preached? The nonsensical Gobleygook that is being embraced in the name of Jesus is plain rejection of The Truth that has the only power to set us free? The counterfeit message entraps and enslaves and is accomplishing its goal of sending people to hell!
The sugar coated gospel twisting mercy and grace into a salvation that guarantees ones admission into a glorious eternity, bears no resemblance to the walk that Jesus Himself said we must walk!
“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Matthew 16:24 KJV
The uncompromised Truth, brings freedom through obedience! No more fear. No more worry. No more anger. No more rejection. (Worry, fear, rejection are all torments from the devil; a result of the sin! They are unbelief!)
Freedom from fear and worry is available and can't be bought through a pharmacy nor is it bestowed by a benevolent god that nods at our sin. Their god's very acceptance of our sins would not have required Jesus' death for our salvation.
Freedom from the consequences of the sin, we harbor in our heart, IS available through obedience (repentance and confessing our sins one to another as commanded in James 5:16). THAT freedom (from past sins that are brought into The Light) and deliverance is received when we come to the end of ourself and willingly give up all rights to our will for His will! It's a "whatever it takes God" moment that changes a life!
"It's so simple, but simple is the hardest thing you will ever do!" (Chet Murrell)
Jesus came to set the captives free, and He still IS!
Repent before it gets worse! "Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children."
Even so - MARANATHA!
From 5/24/15
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