It is nothing but scandalous if we remain content about our own ignorance of the Bible and are unconcerned about the lack of knowledge of the Bible among Christians today. The Bible warns us about such scandal.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge , I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Ignorance of the scripture is ignorance of God period! This is heavy on my mind and my main reason for writing about this is it has to do with the new law that was passed in New York. Now homosexuals can marry. It makes me sick to my stomach to think about what has happened. Because of lack of leadership and obedience, we have let this happen.
Ministers in the media are caught doing unspeakable things and than we have people who say they are Christians who are living and practicing sin. The unsaved no longer trust the words of the Christians because we have become hypocrites to the world.
We are the examples of Christ. The world, who do not pick up the Bible, will only know who Christ is through us! It is the Holy Spirit, having the spirit of Christ, that lives in us that gives us all the power, guidance, strength, and knowledge we need and along with the word of God, that we are able to put this into action. That is the mystery that was spoken of in the Bible. Isaiah 2:11 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD
And we now have that same spirit through the Holy Spirit:
1cr 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
But now we have the blind leading the blind and the results of the scandal of ignorance is...gays can get married. Let me tell you what has just happened to America. New York being one of the example states of America have spread lies about who God is and now want the rest of the states to follow suit.
Anyone who says from their mouth that they were born that way, by God, is calling God a liar. Anyone who say that they were born with the wrong gender is calling God fallible. Anyone who says that God does not care if you are gay because he loves everyone the same is in darkness and the Truth is not in you. That's like saying that God does not care if you sin. You clearly do not know the word of God or God Himself. Anyone who is confused about the issues concerning homosexuality do not (Oida) Him. Oida is a Greek word meaning to know by personal relationship. Example Hebrews 8:11, They shall not teach...saying, Know (ginosko) the Lord; because all shall know (oida) me.'
Ginosko means to know him by what others say about God and the books you have read about God having the human basic knowledge of Him and Oida means to have a marriage type of relationship and walk type of knowledge of Him. A deeper know becoming one with the other. I will speak on that on a different day.
This is the cause of why people who say they are of God is confused:
Romans 1: 21- Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.28And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Paul gives us the examples of what happens to those who are ignorant and how God deals with them and now we have gay churches who preach that God condones homosexual acts. We truly do parish for lack of knowledge.
It is so important for us to start now, if we are not doing it, to read His word daily. Make it your daily bread for you can not live without the substance of God's word!!! Make it your number one priority and put God first above all things. And along with that you must develop a personal relationship with God because if you don't, you could end up like the example Paul gave, ignorant and foolish.
God bless you.
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