Most people do not delve deeply into the events of the world. They are too busy.
Or they just trust select sources to give them what the truth is. To tell them what is happening.
And what to think.
Others delve more deeply. They may care more and want to be sure of what is true.
Yet, they make the same mistakes as the first group. They trust a limited group of sources to tell them what is happening.
And what to believe.
If you observe those who reject the Bible, they often assume an “intellectual” posture while pretending to be smarter than the Bible believer.
In other words, they presume to stand on a position of authority high above that of those who believe in the literal record of the scriptures.
Whatever type or level of education they hold to is set forth as their basis of truth and their proof of intellectual superiority. Generally, because they have completed some course of study after which they were issued a certificate or title or plaque declaring how smart they are.
And therefore, they are superior to others. Superior in the form of science, technical training, formal education, degrees, status, or some selected facts they have memorized and regurgitated to please their college professors. Based upon the philosophical and religious biases of their professors and universities.
This presumption of intellectual and philosophical superiority accounts for much of biblical denial.
A simple question.
What is your Authority?
In other words, what is the reason, foundation, source for your spiritual choices?
For example, the atheist denies the existence of God. And, consequently, denies that he has any sin. Or has done any sin. And has nothing to confess.
In fact, he doesn’t even believe there is anyone he has to confess to!
He does this based upon whatever authority he has chosen to follow.
Every person that has ever lived has chosen some authority to follow. To believe in.
We each must choose. There is no escaping this reality.
A couple weeks ago, I had a very intense dream.
I was living in a city where everyone was crushed under a totalitarian system. No dissent or unapproved thoughts were allowed. It was a very frightening and stifling world.
I especially remember my mental state during it all. Including the person I was hiding with who was under great bondage in her mind. She would not dare to discuss anything. For fear that she would do something wrong. Or to even think something wrong.
I remember being on a wide street with many lanes going each way. But without any traffic anywhere.
When suddenly, at the far end of the street, some huge tank-like vehicles drove by from a side street. As they did so, they fired disk-like energy bolts. Like huge thin saucers that flew down the street toward us. Maybe 3 or 4 at a time.
They would rise and fall and change direction as if searching for a victim. And when a person was impacted by one of these bolts, he would be immediately vaporized. Both me and another person were able to duck behind a building just in time to avoid being detected.
And that’s when I woke up. With great relief.
And then I realized that I could have been praying all along.
That prayer was the solution to the problem in my dream. This was how I could go to the Lord and not simply be as any other fleeing person, imprisoned in his own mind.
If I had done that, I would have been free to think and pray and not suffer the fear of bondage.
What are people into today?
A short list includes Tarot, general “Meditation”, Spiritual Disciplines, Walking Labyrinths, Consulting Psychics, searching inwardly for one’s “higher power”, looking for a “spirit guide”, or engaging in some trendy Contemplative Spirituality technique.
Which even the Evangelicals are wanting to try out today.
Or maybe they’re praying to Mary, to “the saints”, to angels, or to whomever. Or maybe just praying to some other “dead guy”. Who, supposedly, is able to help them in this life and the next.
Instead of praying directly to and exclusively to Jesus Christ.
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” (I Timothy 2:5)
To pray to or seek help from someone other than the Lord Jesus is an incredibly great error.
Which is often the result of believing in some neutral spiritual world? As if there are only benign and good “spirits” out there. That only want to do good things for us.
However, Satan and his evil spirits continually watch and move around seeking whom they may deceive, oppress, possess, or devour. Even attacking those who call themselves “Christian”.
What this all adds up to is that most people today are basically serving themselves up as a full-course meal for whatever demonic entity has been sizing them up.
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” (I Peter 5:8)
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The specific words in the Bible and their specific meanings are absolutely critical to Salvation and to the life of faith that follows.
But this doesn’t seem to be a big concern for those Christians who tries to gauge the quality of their lives based upon their works, their performance, or their outward displays of “love”. Words just don’t carry as much weight in such lives.
In other words, a person can live a very “acceptable” life in the Evangelical church today. Acceptably moral, acceptably involved, acceptably generous, and acceptably loving.
And, at the same time, hold spiritual truth very loosely when it comes to doctrine and creeds.
So that, it is not uncommon today for a believer to profess a very generalized and vague faith in Who Jesus Christ is and What His salvation is really all about.
Continue reading “Specific Biblical Words Lead to a Specific Faith”
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:32)
There is a new kind of unity being promoted in our churches. A unity that is based on a common “salvation experience”.
As in those verses speaking of “the common salvation” or “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” or “the unity of the faith” (Jude 3:3; Ephesians 4:3-6, 13-14)
These verses are commonly misinterpreted by our church leadership. Even by those with Masters or Doctorates in Divinity.
This new unity is Not based on truth, but on a loosely accepted “experience” of salvation.
So that salvation has become something not based upon faith but on emotions or feelings or rituals or good works.
Continue reading “Unity is Based Upon Truth – Not Experience”
“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” (Hebrews 13:20.21)
There is such an amazing amount of truth in this one verse.
But, right at this moment, I want to focus on part of it: the blood of the everlasting covenant.
Because it is the blood of Christ that is the basis of our salvation. And it is His blood that allows us to have fellowship with Him and to walk with Him daily.
And yet, it is this same blood that is counted as an “unholy thing” by the vast majority of those groups that call themselves “Christian” (Hebrews 10:29). Even groups who actually talk about and preach about the value of the blood of Christ!!
Continue reading “The Total Sufficiency of the Blood of Christ”
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8,9)
There is a lot of talk about “grace” these days.
Lots of books with “grace” in their titles.
Lots of churches with “grace” in their names.
Lots of religious groups with doctrines talking about “grace”.
And a whole bunch of these same folks are lost in their sins while they talk about “grace”.
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