Christians Who Submit Their Minds to Ungodly Counsel Lack Wisdom

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.

Many Christians almost worship the universities, the scholars, the many books, the magazines, the news papers, the many web sites, the entertainments in all their forms, plays, TV, comedies, music, etc. These molders of public opinion are not godly people. There is a program of message-control among them. Their message is that of the Secular Humanist, the Atheist. As they rise and give the same message from many outlets, they resemble the false prophet of the Book of Revelation. The ungodly attack businesses that are not open enough to ungodliness or who don't give enough money to promoting evil. They cover up for those corporations who are dedicated to ungodliness (abortion, sexual sin, covetousness, etc.). They attack high-profile Christians or anyone who will not promote evil. They promote end-of-the-world environmentalism to sway public opinion.

In what is called, "the news," over 99% of the news makers and processors are ungodly. Most of the remaining fraction of a percent are hardly godly people. There is little tolerance for true Christians in the newsroom. So, the entire process is turned over to the ungodly. Those who stand in the counsel of the ungodly will find their hearts growing hard toward God. They will not be able to hear the Holy Spirit gently guiding them. They will not bring forth the fruit of the Spirit of God.

Many Christians find it easier to sit in front of a TV, or listen to the radio, or go to a movie than to pray or read the Bible. They think nothing of spending time reading a secular newspaper, magazine, or book. In fact, some people think that they need the dis-information contained in these forms of media. This is because of the fleshly nature, the self. But we who are called to the first resurrection must deny self and live to Jesus. We have died to that nature since we were crucified with Christ. We have no debt to this nature that we should obey it and the lusts thereof. We need to yield ourselves to God as those who have been freed from sin.

So many Christians watch documentaries and don't realize how these documentaries are designed to persuade and to create false impressions. Most of these types of documentaries are created by Secular Humanists and Naturalists. Many of these documentaries try to create fear of such things as global warming, climate change, or a hole in the ozone layer. It is not the calling of the first-fruits company to be driven by those who prophesy out of their own minds. We know that the earth is the Lord's and He made it. He is in control, and He has a plan to redeem all things to Himself.

All of the above are what one would expect of the world. They are doing what they can to establish their world-wide utopia. On the other hand, the success with which they are able to cause Christians to get off the track is quite amazing. It's too bad when you hear Christians who are repeating untrue statements that they heard on the "news" instead of talking about the gospel of the Kingdom. Christians allow themselves to be brainwashed by many worldly, ungodly counselors.

This brainwashing is not something that happens consciously. When the anti-Christ, anti-God forces use Christians to convey their messages, the Christians are used without realizing that they are being used. It's impossible to sit in the presence of the evil one and come out un-burned. Because of the old Adam, it is easy to spend several hours receiving subtle messages of "human goodness," "the virtues of abortion," "self actualization," and many other such messages when those messages are disguised as either entertainment or else news. It is because of the old sin nature that Christians are so susceptible to carrying the political-religious messages of those who are anti-Christian.

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