We live in an age of tolerance where protecting
someone’s feelings is more valued than speaking the truth. The challenge facing
the church in the East is persecution; the challenge facing the church in the
West is seduction. This seduction is the subtle perversion of Scripture to accommodate
the feelings and ears of the hearer. What the West is facing is a deadly scheme
of Satan to stop the effectiveness of the church. I am not minimizing the
devastating pain and horror of persecution of our brothers and sisters in the
East, but Satan realizes if he can’t stop the voice of the church, then if he
perverts it, then the masses fall. Think about it, what is more effective:
removing a piece here and there or leavening the whole lump? Guard the Truth
with all your heart.
It was in the news recently that young
journalists are getting most of their information from such people as Jon
Stewart, MSN, MSNBC, CNN, and etc. Thus, these young minds are being poisoned by
disinformation and bias viewpoints. I wonder if most Christians are getting
their nourishment from the cotton candy stores of Christian Television? We
become what we repeatedly hear. IF the church returns to nourishing itself on
the unadulterated Word of God, then the fruit will reappear in the form of a
revival that will storm society with a vigor unlike anyone has ever seen.
If I’m honest and truly hungry for the Truth, then I
will be free.
John
8:32 (KJV)
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
However, if I do not love the truth,
then deception will fill the vacuum and I will devote myself to a lie.
2
Thessalonians 2:9-12 (KJV)
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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