As we are taught in 2 Timothy 4 “A time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.” The results of this weak teaching are before us today and evident in our society through the lack of morals in the people and the lack of obedience to God’s Word.
Men have forgotten how to be men and this has allowed Satan to spiritually misguide many children due to the lack of standing on the Truth of God in our homes and in our nation. No where in the Holy Bible does God permit homosexuality! In fact God’s Word plainly teaches us that it is an abomination to the Lord. The world likes to tell us different due to seeking the acceptance of the people but shouldn’t we be more concerned with the acceptance of God instead of man?
The Holy Bible teaches us how to develop our inner spiritual being and how to develop our senses between good and evil to maintain the integrity within the body. Without this teaching from the Word of God our children and our nation will be lost in a downward spiral of sin that is guaranteed to take us down in a pit of no return. The Holy Bible helps us to develop the spiritual seed of God that we have as children of the light and it also exposes the spiritual seed of the enemy in the darkness of this fallen world. This is why the world hates the gospel and the world rejects the Truth.
Unfortunately, many pastors and leaders have taken the side of the world in not speaking out against sin due to their fears of the people and not wanting to take a stand. This has in turn re-channeled their focus on what the people want to hear instead of what they need to hear for our children’s future. By catering to the itching ears of the people it is easy to develop a following and to build an empire that is destined to fall. The Kingdom of Heaven is not about the acceptance of sin nor is it about financial prosperity. It is about truly discovering who we are and how to maintain what we have been given for God’s glory and not our own.
Don’t be fooled with false teachers that try to mislead you in the acceptance of sin or in God’s promise of financial prosperity! God’s Word promises us that if we will be true to His instruction that He will give us just what we need to succeed. Anything more than our needs is just a blessing for being obedient to His Word and is given to us so we can bless others.
The Kingdom of Heaven is about peace in the family of God that is held together in the love of Jesus Christ! This life is about learning how to stand and how to walk on the road while helping those in the ditch to see the Way. For it is better to hear the whole Truth than to miss the door in the End…amen
James A. Harrison
False teachers avoid reality because it is uncomfortable. They preach solace and prosperity while failing to equip in the Truth. The Bible leads us back to reality. Adam lived in reality. He knew reality. He knew that disobeying would lead to death. Yet, Adam and Eve believed some lies rather the the Truth, reality.
Another reality is that infants are born ignorant. They learn from their parents. Adam and Eve loved their children and taught them reality, however, their children had a freewill, too. They could choose to believe lies, just as Adam and Eve did. Just as Adam and Eve did, mankind sins. Our reality today is that all men sin and die. But God promised a redeemer to Adam and Eve. Now we can return to the Truth and when this age of free choice and sin is over, we will be raised to eternal life or to judgement.
Simple reality is as our Creator said, “In that day (of disobedience) you will surely die.” Would you expect God to change reality every time someone sinned? God has provided the way back to knowing and loving the Truth, Jn 8:31,32. That is why Jesus said, “Seek first His kingdom…”
As for our kids, we could give them life by loving them and teaching them the Truth. What is insane about that? What is insane about teaching love and reality and avoiding nonsense and imaginations of men?
Boy! What if we all taught our children to love God and our neighbors? How many pedophiles would there be? How many corrupt politicians would there be? How about fathers providing an alternative school in churches to avoid the atrocious government schools and unchurched peer pressure into drugs and sex?
Reality once again is we are all born ignorant of the Truth. We all have sinned. Sin leads to death. BUT WE LOVE GOD BECAUSE HE PROVIDED A WAY OUT OF OUR SIN AND IGNORANCE. If we choose to return the love that Jesus demonstrated for us, then we can learn to obey all His commands (reality) and be raised to eternal life when this age is over. That is love, not fear. God doesn’t want robots. He did not create robots because that is not love. God is like a husband who wants a bride. He wants a bride who wants to be His bride. He loves her and she loves Him. BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO! No fear and force involved. It is freedom built on trust and wisdom about God’s (reality) definitions of virtue and justice and honesty and liberty and goodness.
Start with a clean heart. We do not want to mislead people or cause people to sin. We do not want to steal, bear false witness, murder, commit adultery, or covet other people. We want to help people because we love our family, friends, and neighbors. The problem is, fallen mankind misleads each other. The Truth becomes lost. Innocence is lost. People die in ignorance. They fail to find the Truth, until they return the love Jesus showed us, Jn 15:13.
Since today’s churches fail to teach and live the Truth, we must seek it with all our heart, mind, and strength. Few find it, but it can be found. Don’t stop where others stop, Ro 2:24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the unbelievers because of you.” I do understand why so many people scoff at modern Christianity.
False teachers will avoid reality because reality confronts us with the Truth. People don’t like to be confronted, but that is what all of the True prophets of God did. They confronted with the Truth. They stood up for Truth, because you can’t teach Truth unless you are willing to stand on what you teach.
But the Gospel is good news. It leads us into the Truth. Why stay deceived? If we loved our family, friends, and neighbors, we would …. we would stand and teach the Truth. Then God would bless us according to his promises in Deut. 28. Are the curses in Deut. 28 applying today? Can you answer that according to reality?
Blessings, He is the way. 2Ch 7:14