Because the Home Is the Basic Unit Of the Church, Everyone Submits Including Dad

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

"Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known" Deuteronomy 11:26-28. Keep in mind that the only way to obey the commandments of God is by the power of the Spirit of God by grace through faith. A father and a mother and the children must all be careful not to bring anything into the home that is wicked. This includes many things that appear, on the surface, to be good. There are friends that we cannot afford to have because bad friends ruin good morals. Even some things that are called religious are not good. Many youth groups, for instance, do not teach righteousness and holiness. These are dangerous places for parents to send their children. There are even some Churches that teach false doctrines or teach as doctrine the precepts of men that you do not want to bring your family into. "Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God, And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you" Leviticus 20:7, 8.

A father may be having trouble understanding how this can be since he has a child who is rebellious and throws tantrums, etc. Children do go through phases of life where they just seem to be overwhelmed or they want to control. These times call for wisdom on the part of the father. The fact that a father is walking in submission does not take away his responsibility to discipline his children or to lead his wife. If a father or husband is concerned with showing who is boss, he is not walking in the Spirit. Discipline must never be administered in anger or the father will impart the spirit of anger to his children. The father has the responsibility to lead his family into a rich and fulfilling relationship with Jesus Christ. God's will is the only will that matters. When there is disagreement, especially between the husband and his wife, it is time to seek God until everyone has the same leading. There may be times when the husband and father will have to say, "This is the way it is going to be." However, those times should be extremely rare. If they come up frequently, something is missing in the flow of the Holy Spirit in the home. God is not a God of confusion but of order. Everyone in the home should be seeing the same revelation of the will of God for the family. Perhaps the family alter, that daily time of devotion, Bible reading, testimony, song, and prayer, has become stale. Perhaps it is non-existent. The father must always be willing to admit that he may be wrong. Otherwise, how will the children learn humility?

Remember that you are dealing with the basic unit of the Church. You are dealing with Christ manifested in His Body. There is flesh there, but you are dealing with the Spirit. We all need to discern and see the Body of Christ. We see all the gifts, ministries, offices, and orders of the Church. We also can discern and recognize the false. When we see Him as He is, we become like Him. He is a many-membered Body on Earth walking in submission the the Head in Heaven.

A husband listens to his wife. God gave her to him as a suitable helper. She is the correct helper for him. She will have insights that he does not have. A man who ignores those insights is a fool. He must live his life in service to her, even as she lives her life in service to him. A marriage is not a 50%-50% proposition. It can only be fulfilling when it is a 100%-100% proposition, each giving themselves for each other. That is also true for the entire Church. We are set into the Body of Christ to serve each other. We each are a ministry. The word ministry is equivalent to servant. The ministry in you is actually Christ in you. He is the only one Who can serve in this way. Remember that Jesus came not to be served but to serve.

Because the Home Is the Basic Unit Of the Church, Everyone Submits Including Dad

How can we know anything about anything

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