Thursday, April 15, 2021
Willful Ignorance Has its Consequences
I was once in a Bible study in which the teacher would go around the room and say silly things like; "and what does this verse mean to you."
I challenged it and said, it doesn't matter what anyone wants it to mean, what matters is what God meant!
The group ignored me and continued along the same way as before I said anything. The ignorance is sometimes beyond belief.
I stopped attending these women's gatherings because they were often silly like this, focusing on feelings and emotions far more than truth. When someone attempts to bring truth the ladies are agitated and shun the one who wants pure Bible truth.
When we are faced with willful ignorance there is nothing we can do but walk away.
Matthew 13:15
"15 For the heart of this people has become dull,
With their ears they scarcely hear,
And they have closed their eyes,
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
Hear with their ears,
Understand with their heart, and return,
And I would heal them.’"
Job 21:14
"14 Yet they say to God, ‘Go away from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways."
When someone rejects the truth, spurns the wisdom from God's Word, and rejects us that is the time to remove ourselves. We waste our time with those who are stubborn, any more time spent with them does not soften their stony hearts. Pray that God will work on them His own way, leaving all the results to Him.
The Bible and the Holy Spirit is All We Need!
There were many dreams and visions in the bible before we had the New Testament which is a new dispensation for the church age.
After we had the completed scriptures we walk by its direction and by faith, not by dreams and vision.
Many people today are thinking that every thought and every dream has meaning, this is not true. I need no dream or vision to obey Christ and His Word. Each day I live by His Word. There is no new revelation since the Word of God has been completed.
Desiring to know the future is lack of faith and divination.
The dreams and visions for the future in the Bible were promises to the Jews during the tribulation. They will be under a special dispensation specifically for them. Gentiles cannot claim the promises to the Jews for themselves. They belong only to the Jews.
Matthew 16:4 " 4 A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away. "
The reason God said this in Matthew was that those who lack faith need dreams and visions to bolster a weak faith. Those who walk by faith need no new revelation or knowledge of the future. We walk each day by His written word and trust Him for all the future.
Constantly attempting to trust in dreams will only bring on demonic activity. These devils place dreams in the minds of people to confuse, frustrate and cause fear. Ignore the dreams, do not attempt to interpret them in a way that you wish to, just let them go and walk resolutely by the Holy Word of God and the Holy Spirit.
Because we are living in the last days there are going to be many presumptuous people who l love the attention they gain by claiming to have a meaningful dream. Anyone can make a dream say anything they like to appear spiritual.
The Holy Spirit lives in all born-again believers He speaks to each one as they trust Him. No need for a dream about the future, in fact, these things are distracting rather than helpful.
1 John 4:1 "1Beloved, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world."
Beware of Changing God's Word!
Even worse than not knowing Scripture is to know it, treat it disrespectfully and change God's meaning to fit our culture.
Do Not Live in the Past, it is Gone!
We all have a past we are not proud of, if anyone says they do not then they need to become born again.
Romans 3:23
"23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"
No one can claim to be better than anyone else. It is only Christ Who is perfect!
Since we are all sinners saved only by God's grace, we ought to have compassion for those who have not yet found Him. Rather than looking down our noses at those who are unsaved, we ought to weep over and pray for them.
In these last days, I am more likely to sharply rebuke a pretender who wants to believe they are saved without desiring to be changed by Christ on the inside. Those who know the truth but resist obedience are the ones in greater danger. It is harder to repent when someone thinks they don't need to do so.
Matthew 7:21-23
I Never Knew You
"21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
If you are a pretender thinking very highly of yourself, boasting about your own goodness, then you are in danger of hellfire. Repent today to become born again to escape that horrid fate.
Believers don't warn you to make you afraid, but to cause your fear to lead you to a place of safety.
Romans 2:3-5 "…3 So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.…"
2 Corinthians 7:9-10 "…9 And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us. 10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. "
When we are made to feel bad through the realization that we are sinners in need of changing, this is a blessing, it brings eternal salvation. Believing on Christ is the only thing necessary, when we did that He changed us. We do not have the burden of changing ourselves, He does it all.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
Ephesians 2:10
"10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Let Him change you, then the change will be real and it will be permanent.
Psalm 51:10
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."
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