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No Response: The Seed that Falls by the Way Side, the Trampled Path
How can we know anything about anythingTo 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.
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. This particular response happens more often in those who have been born again than it does in those who have not been born again. The seed, the gospel of the Kingdom of the Heavens, lands on the trampled path of the heart in a Christian. How did that path get trampled and hardened? Isn't a Christian's heart supposed to be soft toward God? The heart becomes hardened by repeatedly missing the mark. There are three major types of sin: slipping across the line, stepping across the line, and missing the mark. This hardening of the heart comes mainly from missing the mark. It can also happen from repeatedly stepping across the line, but most Christian sin is the act of missing the mark. Missing the Mark The mark is very exact and easy to miss. The way is very narrow and constricted, that is, strait. How narrow and strait? Whatever is not of faith is sin. That faith must be God's faith, not human faith. Faith only comes by hearing and hearing only comes by a word of God. God speaks and directs in our lives. We listen and obey or we don't. Not only that, we may listen and allow God to place His faith into our hearts, and then not allow faith to give us access into God's grace. Going even further, we can have access to God's grace and then not yield the members of our bodies to God's grace so that God's grace can do the work of God through us. We may even try, at that point, to help God reason or help God to do the work. When we miss the mark, we sow bad seed into our hearts.
What kind of bad seed tramples the soil of our hearts and makes it hard? Failure to discern the Body of Christ tops the list. Ungodly Counsel is a form of failure to discern the Body of Christ. Ungodly counselors focus on church problems and on things like the hypocrites in the church. Ungodly counselors are always willing to tell lies about the Bible. False ministries, false prophets, and false apostles are also a form of ungodly counsel and an inability to discern the Body of Christ. Those who listen to the ungodly end up with hardened hearts against God. When Christians accept philosophies such as Agnosticism, Socialism, Evolutionism, and Liberalism, these Christians become hard-hearted toward God. The wrong type of involvement in politics is a similar problem. These Christians become lukewarm--Christians who are at ease in Zion, the church. Some Christians who don't discern the Body of Christ become disconnected and independent of the church. There are some Christians who are best called Evanjellyfish rather than Evangelical. Some put evil for good. Some want to redefine Christianity in contradiction to Scripture. Some of these want to turn the church into a democracy or a dictatorship or Oligarchy. Another attitude that results in a very hard heart is the lack of honor and respect for God. Honor and respect for God is the beginning of wisdom, and God's wisdom is the only source of righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
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