Like many people out there we have cable TV. This past weekend, we were deciding what to watch for primetime and decided on “Dr. Jeff, Rocky mountain vet”. The recording was a hour combination of two episodes and was labeled “new”. This identification was false; only one was new, the other one was a re-run. So, we watched the new one and deleted the recording afterward.
I don’t know about you, but I have grown very tired of being lied to. It seems that virtually everyone “spins” truth into anything they want it to be. This is especially true of the news: The right wing party distorts to the right view and the left modifies everything through the lens of “progressive-ism”. Oh, for the days of “Dragnet”, where Joe Friday used to say… “just the facts…”
I remember that in 1980 we were staying with Walt and Lillian Hewitt and I came across the “fact” that there were over 400 hundred denominations in the United States of America; today, that figure has mushroomed into the thousands. How did this come to pass?
The Bible says…
1 Timothy 4 ( World English Bible )
1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
6 If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
1 John 4 ( WEB )
1 Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
3 and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
There is TRUTH and then there is a LIE. To mix the two together makes the outcome a LIE. In other words, if you speak a half truth your words are really A WHOLE LIE. This is true for everything. If you twist the truth into an ideology or mix the truth with falsehood- YOU LIE. The picture at the top does it (The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor) , the cable company does it (with program identifications) and so do the religious denominations (by accepting creeds and doctrines apart from the Bible). Let God’s word speak for itself, do not change it or add to it for in doing so, YOU LIE. Today, lying has become normal in our culture, this is WRONG! With this in mind, I remember these words from the book of Jeremiah, which say…
Jeremiah 6 ( WEB )
16 Thus says Yahweh, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. ...
I pray to God that everyone who reads these words will listen to God and not someone or something else. May our country condemn falsehood in any form once again. God bless America! (with Truth, Justice and the American Way).