Believing is Following

Just like the constitution of our country, many people say they believe in the Bible but very few actually follow God's teachings in it.

We live in a time when people think words are facts, feelings are facts and whatever we hear in the ear are facts no matter how little evidence we may have to prove any of it.

We live in a time of great deception and many lies. It takes the discernment of God to detect this trickery.

Proverbs 26:28 "A lying tongue hates those it crushes, And a flattering mouth works ruin."

Proverbs 14:5

"5 An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies."

Proverbs 19:9

"9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will perish."

There are many ways to lie by; insecurity, craftiness and disinformation. May the people of God refuse to believe anything that is not Biblical and which has no real evidence behind it.

Many Christians are believing statements by other Christians or Christian news that have not been proven and that they cannot vet. We ought not to repeat anything we have not been able to prove ourselves. Just because a Christian makes a statement about what they think is going on does not qualify as evidence.

We are better off resisting the pull of the conservative media while keeping our eyes in the Bible for our wisdom and learning.

Every time we repeat something we cannot prove we have told a lie. It is good to only speak about things we have personally experienced and not what others have told us.

Recently I have noticed a lot of people reading articles by people they don't know and have never met and calling it research. This is not research it is likely that it is more indoctrination than fact.

Zechariah 8:16

"These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates."

Psalm 15:2

"He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness,

And speaks truth in his heart."

Reading the Bible far more than we listen to the media, if we listen to the media at all, is the best thing to do. The world is full of lies and deception, but the Bible is completely true, we need the help of the Holy Spirit to guide our thoughts as we read, then we will know truth from error.

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Shared from Larry Jones

Ragingly Insane Times are Coming!

In 2 Timothy 3 God said there would be "perilous" times, some translations say "dangerous" times but these words do not adequately describe what God said in the original language. In the Greek God said there would be "ragingly insane" times. This is far worse than perilous or dangerous.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult (ragingly insane) Times Will Come

3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult (ragingly insane) times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

What is raging insanity? When people believe there are more than two genders, many more and everyone chooses which gender to the point of making laws against those who tell the truth, that there are only two genders, man and woman.

Calling men and women "male and female", which are terms reserved for the genders of animals, we are not animals.

Declaring it should be a right to kill unborn babies is ragingly insane.

Calling "self-esteem" a good thing when it flies in the face of God's principles to deny ourselves and count others better than ourselves.

Adult children who treat their aging parents with contempt merely because they offer sound rational advice about something. Even denying the wisdom of those who have walked with Christ for many years.

A culture that elevates feelings above reasonable rational thinking .

Those who place their trust in their own cleverness without regard to God or anyone else.

Many who place playing and pleasure above family, duty, and community dominate the culture.

Anger at the slightest correction or disapproval rather than learning. Anger at all those who would encourage someone to spiritually and emotionally stretch themselves to mature are common responses in our last days of insanity.

This list could be very long, but these last days mentalities dominate the culture, ruining families and all other relationships..

We have been moving into very difficult times for a few generations now, but things have progressed exponentially in the last couple of years.

2 Thessalonians 2:10–12

"10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

The strong delusion is here now and increasing with each passing day.

Our hope is not in this nation or this world, but in Christ alone. As born-again believers we are not frightened or perplexed, we know exactly what is happening and what comes next.

We are preparing our hearts to be more heavenly-minded as we wait for our blessed hope and homegoing. Hallelujah!

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