How You Can Experience The Ultimate!

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.

God sent Jesus, who is both God and man, to live a perfect life. Jesus obeyed God and never obeyed Satan once, and His final act of obedience was to die on the cross to pay the price for the sins of the whole world. Jesus opened the door so that we may accept His free forgiveness and go from being enemy of God to being a friend of God. Of course, we have to give up being an enemy of God. When we accept Jesus as the one who saves us from our sins, we need to realize that He wants us to leave our sins behind. What actually happens is that God draws us to Jesus. God speaks to us through our consciences. If we are not deceived by the lies and if we are not afraid to walk in light rather than darkness, we hear God's voice and God puts faith into our hearts. We open up the door to Jesus, and He comes and lives in our hearts.

Perhaps you can hear God's voice right now, and you would like to open the door to Jesus. He hears your thoughts. Just ask Him to come into your heart, and He will.

If you have done this, you are born again. You are a new person. We all have spirits, minds, and bodies. The Bible calls our minds several things, mind, soul, heart, and life. When we are born again, our spirits are set free to a large extent. We are seated with Christ in heavenly places in the spirit. But our bodies and minds have not been redeemed. It may be hard to realize that, in our natural state, there is little difference between our own minds and the mind of Satan. Just because we are born again, that does not mean that our minds have been totally set free. We do have the ability now to use our will to focus on Jesus, listen to Him, and receive His Spirit, though. Then His Spirit does His work through us, which is called righteousness or the fruit of the Spirit. Again, we have to remember that the fruit is of the Spirit, not of ourselves. Self effort does not help. Walking in the Spirit is righteousness.

When we allow His Spirit to work through us, our minds are slowly changed to be like the mind of Christ Jesus. This happens in ever-increasing glory. If we listen to Satan, we stay under the control of Satan, and there is no change in our lying minds. It's important to realize that none of this is anything that we are doing. Our natural mind is such a liar that it may want to take credit for it. If anything is right, it is what the Holy Ghost is doing. We can stop it through wanting our own way, but if we lean on Jesus, He will lead us and give us power to do right things in the right way by the right Spirit. He actually does the work through us. When we allow that, the Holy Spirit makes our minds new a little bit at a time. Eventually, our bodies will be redeemed. They will be transformed. The Bible says it this way in Romans 12:2: don't be conformed to the world but be transformed by the renewing of your minds. The renewing of our minds is called holiness and only the Holy Spirit can renew our minds. Holiness is a progressive experience. It is maturity. No one becomes mature all at once. With maturity, even the desire to do sinful things gradually fades away. Bitterness fades. Our own desires fade and we want what God wants.

The ultimate is full maturity. The Bible says that God gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to get you and I ready for works of service to other members of the Body of Christ. As we build each other up in love and we each supply what the other needs, we will all come into total unity as if we were all one person in complete unity with Jesus who is the head of the body. We will come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That is the ultimate. Ephesians 4

How You Can Experience The Ultimate!

How can we know anything about anything

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