The
fourth obvious lie believers tell themselves, even with all the evidence to the
contrary, is that they can twist God’s arm into doing, accepting, or condoning
something which is not in His nature to do, accept, or condone.
God
will not be pressured, threatened, browbeaten, or extorted into doing something
He would not otherwise do, even if it means disappointing some self-important cleric
or clergyman. God does not change for the whims of men, nor does He change with
the changing world of men.
To
insinuate that if we hold our breaths and puff our cheeks long enough God will
not call sin something He currently does, is juvenile, childish, and foolhardy.
Isaiah 55:8-9, “For
My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For
as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”
Numbers 23:19, “God
is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has
He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”
Because
some men put in so much effort into trying to change the mind of God on certain
things, eventually they talk themselves into believing that God has in fact
changed, when in reality it is their own mind trying to salvage some remnant of
self-importance.
If
God has said a thing, and I come along and say something opposite of what God
has said passing it off as the will of God, then not only am I a liar and a
fool, I am at enmity with God Himself.
Shocking
as it might seem to some, there are pastors a plenty today, at enmity with God.
There is no other way of interpreting it or otherwise framing it to make it
seem less heinous and tragic than what it is. Spiritual leaders today, by the
boatload, are at enmity with God, and wouldn’t you know it, it’s the selfsame
ones who lie about what God has said, condoned, or accepted that seem to be the
most popular in our day and age.
The
devil has no problems promoting those of like mind with him. The enemy has no
problems promoting the lukewarm, duplicitous, and heretical because he knows
the more people listen to them and follow after their teaching the easier it
will be to shake the faith of the selfsame people to the point of nonexistence.
At
the risk of repeating myself, the devil has always been a big picture sort of
guy, while the self-centeredness being preached from the pulpits is making the
church a smaller and smaller picture sort of entity.
We’ve
gone from ‘go into all the world, preach the gospel to all men’ to ‘if we can
get the loan, we’ll just build a bigger building’.
Hedonism
has made even something as all-encompassing as the need for salvation and for
God through Christ Jesus, a selfish, self-absorbed thing, wherein if we’re
doing fine, if we’re paying the bills, if our church gets full on Sundays, we
don’t care about anything or anyone else.
Our
selfishness has caused us to compromise our principles, our compromised
principles have caused us to compromise the truth, and the compromised truth has
caused us to teach a lie, because we know that if we can forcibly widen the
path, more people will join our little clique, and we’ll be able to keep our
doors open longer than the guys preaching the truth. It’s all interconnected,
and it all leads to the same desperate state wherein men become nothing more
than clanging cymbals, making lots of noise, but really not much else.
We
reject the notion of obedience toward God outright nowadays because it implies
we will have to submit ourselves to His authority, and that is something we are
simply unwilling to do.
We
want to believe it when we are told we are little gods and therefore can
establish our own level of morality, level of faithfulness, and level of
worshipfulness, because it would mean we are in control, and that is what men
today can’t live without. Even if it’s just an illusion, a figment of their
imagination, they are content to continue believing they have control over
their lives, and as such need not submit to a higher power or authority.
God
demands to be worshipped on His terms, and any man who takes one of His
commandments for a suggestion will reap the whirlwind in the end.
With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.
2 comments:
Excellent!!
God will let you have your way, but it is the wrong way. He let people have multiple wives, look what it did for Solomon and David. Their lusts for women ended up destroying them. He let people eat meat, and look what that did, people are fat and lazy and dying of diseases.
It is better to do things his way, but he will work with you if you won't. You will just make things harder though. You will suffer the consequences and then say, wow, I should have just done what he wanted to begin with.
He used to let people divorce. Look at all the mayhem divorce causes. There might as well not even be marriage with all the divorce and remarrying. Loyalty means nothing any more.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but the way thereof is death. Maybe you won't die if you compromise, but you won't get the best there was for you either.
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