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Even with common sense, one can be compelled by the Holy Spirit to heed the counsel of those who speak the truth for God. And anyone who teaches God’s Word is held to a higher standard. Scripture must be handled correctly. We should never make the mistake of dependence on a teacher as our sole means of knowledge about God. God’s Word is the only perfect source of godly things. Any who claim to teach the word of God must sit under the authority of scripture. God gifts people to teach, to clarify the meaning and application of His Word, however, none can take the place of scripture.
We appreciate joy. We’re thankful for times of laughter. But if we’re studying the bible for truth, discernment teaches us that the time demands that we be more reverent, more solemn, and more serious in our experience. We might ought to stop acting, jesting of things we know are not comical, agreeing to things we don’t want to, saying things we regret and don’t even mean, just to be. We must be sure of who we really are to stop shifting ourselves. What if our thoughts were mindful of Christ not only in our individual time but also when we are with others. What if we did not make asumptions about the people we are with. Are we gaining Christ. What if we loved one another to be truthful. Think about the drain on our minds, body, and soul in pretending. If we are to teach the word of God, if we are to have the mind of Christ, then should not our life be lived with the purpose approved by God. Understanding truths is only the first step and that we need to apply the principles of truths to our lives and act on the basis of that understanding.
It is clear that God’s ultimate plan is that in the time of the end, when a knowledge of His word shall increase, such knowledge shall draw, impress, convict, cleanse, and purify human hearts from sin, selfishness, and falsehood. Multitudes today are missing life’s true purpose, blessings, and opportunities. But let’s open the eyes of our heart. The evidence is overwhelming that silently, stealthily, and mostly unnoticed, the return of Jesus is getting closer. We are in the season of wonderful expectations. We are in the hour in history where chaotic events are unfolding and when God is revealing what is to come. Everything written in the bible impacts God’s last day people not just in future tense, but right now in the present. The bible indicts those who are evil and willingly ignorant, choosing to avoid becoming informed about something, so as to avoid having to make decisions that might prompt their giving up pride to see God’s truth. This willful ignorance is a deception that they impose upon themselves, but it is not an isolated lie they consciously tell themselves, it’s a belief they know not how to defend but insist on its validity. This willful ignorance is a systematic process of self- deception, a willful embrace of ignorance that infects those who are stupid enough to relinguish the privilege of learning, it’s an active ignoring of the oppression of others and their role in manipulating relations.
There is generally found the reason behind any biblical disagreement to be of willful ignorance, especially where there is a social influence. God’s people must so completely know truth as to not lack spiritual stamina to resist any attempt to introduce discursive strategies that seek to prevent authentic engagement with epistemic truth. There is a deliberate effort among those who will not engage reasoning with the word of God to sway the ability of some having a critical consciousness, wokeness, with regard to the “realities” of God’s revelations. This effort is to mislead people to conclude that the components of truth are finite. And it is this limitation put upon the eternalness of the word of God that condones religious complicity. This is characterized as a way of knowing with the explicit purpose of not knowing, or, rather, knowing other false things that stand in place of learning or otherwise prevent learning what reasoning can teach. It is therefore considered a way of marginalizing knowledge. Allow me to assay the nature of this oppression as it burdens the movement of God’s truth in the last days. It is an offense of which I accuse any brother or sister, for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying lives and do not know it and do not want to know it by refusing to come to God to reason. God has a grievance in regard to our ignoring the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Hosea 4:1
And herein does the word of God speak oh so plainly... Daniel 12:10
There appear only two portrayals of consideration in the last day. And we must count upon no other than that. There will be this mixture of good and bad. This truth closes out that mixture as does this truth.
Revelation 22:11
There is no remedy but that the evil and the stupid will be the wicked people that will do wickedly; and such people there are and will be in the world. Wicked practices are the natural products of evil principles and temperaments. They will not understand; they shut their eyes against the light. Therefore, they are wicked because they will not understand. If they did but rightly know the truths of God, they would readily obey the word of God. It is the effect of wilful ignorance. And wilful ignorance is decisioning in bad faith to avoid becoming informed about something so as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might prompt. This refusal, to reasonably acknowledge every word of God is a matter of choice. And refusal to attend to provided knowledge from God is to exit from His will. This intentional ignorance is blatant, having disregard for what is revealed. This must be called for what it is...it is stupidity that one imposes upon him or herself. Ignoring the revelation of God disestablishes the relation with God. You become deprived of His presence. The hard truth is that stupidity is a moral fault, not an intellectual deficiency; it is the result of a willful ignorance and cynical idleness. Please do not first attribute to malice what is perfectly explained by stupidity. Evil is more than just incomplete knowledge. Evil is a position that one takes onward from stupidity and becomes entrenched in it. It is following a narrow, mentally toxic path of self-deception and self- reinforcement that leads to being wicked. I challenge us to map out what happened in heaven, what happened in the Garden, and what is happening in the last days. Our findings will conclude with the truths in Daniel and the Revelation.
God will secure to Himself a remnant of wise people to whom the principles, the providences, and the ordinances of God shall be a savour of life unto life. They will be tried by the same troubles that stir up the corruptions of the wicked. These are trials designed so that grace might be made brighter in this ensemble of stars. The wise will sanctify every event for judgment and for eternity under the instruction of the Holy Spirit. The terrains of truth and revelation must be constantly and vigilantly guarded and defended by the followers of Christ who are settled in his word. There will be some among us who put up barriers made of opinions and prejudices, which are fortified by anger, shame, guilt, indifference, arrogance, jealousy, pride, and sometimes silence. Truth declares the essence of humanity is our individuality. Because of this, we each have unique viewpoints. Often, we have emotions attached to them. Emotions overwhelm conversation, and often overpowers understanding. Perception is challenged and the willingness to reason is suppressed. Many fear what they don’t know. These are not to leave our hearts, our minds. We are to desire that they rest in our love and that we all move forward. We are to offer good prayers in asking and recommending to God, to confer upon them personal and anecdotal evidence of His sharing His experience of truth that results in a deliberate and conscious decision, to well-reason conclusively the powerful tide of truth, whereby they embrace this commitment...“God said it, I believe it, that settles it.
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