THE SOURCE OF TRUTH You probably have seen pictures of the statue The Thinker. A man sitting alone, leaning forward, elbows on his knees, His hand supporting his head. There, supposedly, he sits in deep thought, hour after hour, day after day just thinking! Supposedly that statue depicts the manner in which some of the religions of the world came into being. But the Thinker had noting to think from! No foundation for his thinking. No facts on which to base his conjectures. The human mind is not equipped to manufacture truth with no basis that truth! However, few, it seems, really think! Most people accept carelessly what they are taught from childhood. And, coming into maturity, they accept that which they have repeatedly heard, read or been taught. They continuous go along, usually without question, with their peers. Most people do not realize it, but they have carelessly assumed what they believe without question or proof. Yet they will defend vigorously and emotionally their convictions. It has become human nature for people to flow with the stream to go along with the crowd to believe and perform like their peers around them. Further, most people stubbornly refuse to believe what they are unwilling to believe. There's an old saying, He who is convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. I was no different. Of myself, and of my own volition, I would never have discovered these GREAT TRUTHS. But then, the prophet Moses never would have discovered truths he wrote the first five. Books of the Bible. It required a miraculous act of GOD, in the incident of the burning bush, to open his mind and to reveal to him the things of GOD. Moses did not seek GOD. God called and drafted Moses. Even on being confronted by the very voice of God, Moses protested. He stuttered! He felt he could not qualify for the task. GOD said he would have Moses' brother Aaron be his spokesman and brought Moses to acquiescence. God's commandments was irresistible. Moses yielded. The Apostle Paul, centuries later, never would have come to know or reveal for us God's TRUTHS of his own will. He was breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord Acts 9:1. But the living Jesus struck him down blind, brought him to his senses and instructed him both in knowledge and in what Christ determined he should do. Christ in person revealed to him many OF THE TRUTHS YOU WILL READ HERE. How, then, did I come to understand the precious knowledge of THE TRUTH? Certainly not on my own, or because I sought it or because of any virtues of my own. But Jesus Christ struck me down in a manner quite different from the Apostle Paul's experience, yet nonetheless painfully and effectively. Such basic TRUTHS arecrevealed, not thought out in any human mind. They come from God, not man! And in all biblically recorded cases the initiative was God's! Jeremiah por tested that he was too young. But God said: DO not say , I am only a youth; for to all to whom I send you you shall go, and whatever I command you you shall speak Jeremiah 1:7, revised standard version. Isaiah protested that he was a of unclean lips, but God cause him to accept the appointed mission. Jonah tried tried to run away on a ship but God compelled him to deliver his commanded message. Peter and Andrew wanted to be fisherman but Jesus called on them to forsake all and to follow him. Similarly, I wanted to be an advertising man, but God brought me by circumstances not to my choosing to the mission HE had in store for me. I repentance this point, this is the crux of the whole matter: the initiative is God's His purpose shall stand. The world is full of religions that originated in the imagination, reasoning and speculation of certain humans but they had no true basis to reason from the TRUTH IS REVEALED FROM GOD! But, does not everybody have access to Biblical truth? Yes, people suppose the churches teach what is revealed in the Bible. So I give you, now, a brief synopsis of the experience by which Jesus Christ struck me down, do to speak, and revealed ASTOUNDING TRUTHS! BIBLICAL TRUTHS NOT BELIEVED OR TAUGHT BY THE CHURCHES.
GOD BLESS AND SHARE THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION BY JESUS CHRIST
First Corinthians 15:1-11
No comments:
Post a Comment