Do We Know More Than God Does?

Do We Know More Than God Does?

Have any one of you had the sense that you have pursued your children, your husband or your friends, when after a period of time you realized that they didn't really want you, but were being polite without a desire to be a true or close friend?

If you have lived this as many of us have, then you have an inkling of how God feels when we do the same to God. Often we claim to love Him, while ignoring His principles.  The saying "I love Him",  seems to be enough for us, the doing it is absent from our testimony.

Notice too, that these people mentioned claim to know more than God does in verse 5.  They are so arrogant that they believe they know more than God knows. When we encounter those who argue with us when we quote God, are of this sort.  They think they know more than God knows. Because of this rebellious mentality, they will not listen to those who walk with God, nor will they listen to Scripture when it is quoted to them.  They are arguers, fighters and non-listeners.  They have so much to say they have no time to listen to anyone else. 

It has been my experience that those who are intent on following the Law of the OT, often regularly negate the principles and commands for living given by Christ.  They desire to appear righteous through outward expressions that can be seen by men, without honoring the clearly stated principles of God in the New Covenant that was instituted by Christ.

Here is what God think of our futile and fruitless words.

We are seeing more and more of this stiff necked response than ever before, the generation of the 70's and beyond, have been trained to be this way through the self esteem teaching, they actually think they are born knowing all things without the need for godly teachers or correction from those who have lived longer than they.

Isaiah 65:1-5

A Rebellious People

65 “I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me;

I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.

I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’

To a nation which did not call on My name.

2 “I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,

Who walk in the way which is not good, [a]following their own thoughts,

3 A people who continually provoke Me to My face,

Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;

4 Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places;

Who eat swine’s flesh,

And the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.

5 “Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,

For I am holier than you!’

These are smoke in My [b]nostrils,

A fire that burns all the day.

Acts 7:51

""You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did."

Psalm 95:8-11

Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness, "When your fathers tested Me, They tried Me, though they had seen My work. "For forty years I loathed that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways. read more."Therefore I swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My rest."

Psalm 28:14

"How blessed is the man who fears always, But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity."

Hebrews 3:13-19

"But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end, while it is said, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME." read more.For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief."

If we are to grow in holiness, walk uprightly as the witness for Christ that we should be, then we must be willing to listen, confess, heed and follow the principles of Christ as brought to us by those who care enough to admonish us.  A stiff necked person cannot learn and will eventually regress in their walk.  Those who listen, ponder and pray when corrected, will grow in holiness.

Do we want to remain spiritual babies our entire life, or do we desire to grow more useful for God's kingdom?