“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
“My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.
If they say, ‘Come with us,
Let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
We will find all kinds of precious wealth,
We will fill our houses with spoil;
Throw in your lot with us,
We shall all have one purse,’
My son, do not walk in the way with them.
Keep your feet from their path,
For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.
Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net
In the sight of any bird;
But they lie in wait for their own blood;
They ambush their own lives.
So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence;
It takes away the life of its possessors.” (Proverbs 1:7,10-19 NASB1995)
This passage of Scripture is from the Old Testament, and it
teaches us that we are not to give into the enticement of sinners, for whom sin
is their practice, and not righteousness. The same is taught in the New Testament.
But let me add a word of caution here. In the day and age we
live in, not every sinner who entices is going to be as obvious as what is stated
here. Many liars, manipulators, tricksters, and deceivers exist who will put on
a show of righteousness and of moral character and good purpose, but whose goal
it is to trick us to accepting the lies as the truth, and into rejecting the
truth, as though the truth is a lie. And many of them are preachers and
teachers of the Scriptures in the gatherings of what are called “churches.”
And let me set some background here. I am 75 years old, born
the last day of 1949, so I have lived through many transitions and changes in
my nation, the USA, within the government, and within the gatherings of the
church (or the false church), so many of which have been manipulative maneuvers
to get us, the people, to transition to accepting the lies as truth, and the
truth as the lies. And this falls largely under the category of mind control
and brainwashing via subliminal messaging and marketing propaganda.
So, if in our history classes in public school, and within
the gatherings of “the church,” and at home via television, and in books and
other literature, and in song lyrics, etc., we have certain messages drilled
into our minds, that is most likely what we are going to end up believing as
adults. And we did get indoctrinated through all these sources into what we
should believe and not believe in all of these areas of government, our nation’s
history, the news, and who we should regard as the “good guys” and the “bad
guys.”
And a good portion of what we had drilled into our minds as
children, which has continued into our adult years, are lies, and not the truth.
And we who were trusting of what we were taught didn’t consider that we were
being lied to and that so many things we were taught were flip-flopped from
what they really are. So even though sinners were enticing us to believe the
lies, and not the truth, we would not have known that was happening, because we
were brainwashed from childhood that some bad guys were the good guys.
So, what I am saying here is that not all enticement is
obvious and blatant to where we know to resist it. The Lord had to take me
through a process, beginning 21 years ago, of unlearning so many things I had
wrong, and of learning what the truth was behind so many of the lies which I
grew up believing. So, he had to retrain my mind through showing me the truth,
and not just through the Scriptures, but through all kinds of internet articles,
some of which were of history, science, government, and about evil empires.
And what I am getting at here is that much of what we were
taught in the church, and in our public school education, led so many patriots
to believe their governments and their news media, and thus to join in with
them in the murdering of innocents, all in the name of God and of country and
of loyalty to our nation and/or to a particular other nation outside the USA.
But we are not to listen to them. We are not to believe them. We are not to
walk in the way with them and join in with them in the murdering of innocents!
And they don’t just murder innocents in other nations, but
they murder innocents within their own nations for their own evil purposes. And
so they have shed innocent blood in nation after nation, all in the name of
lies coming from the mouths of liars, and for the end purpose to conquer the
world and to bring us all under the rule of “the beast” and its New World
Order. And Christians are turning against other Christians in order to support
godless nations and rulers who deny Jesus as Lord, in practice and in deed.
So, please pray about what I just shared with you, and
inquire of God as to what lies you are believing. And ask the Lord to open your
eyes, and your minds, and your hearts to what is truth, so that you don’t end
up believing the lies, and rejecting the truth, and participating along with “the
beast” in the murdering of innocents, while condemning the righteous to their
deaths. For believe me, not everything is obvious. And many of us were
deceived. So just pray, seek God’s face, and just make sure you are following the
truth.
Testing the spirits: [Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-14; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2
Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1
Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1
John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]
Seek the Lord
Based off Isaiah 55
Musical Instrumentation by Mark
Bradley
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“Come to Me all you
who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and
eat what’s good today,
And your soul will
delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and
you will live.
I have made an
eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of
the Lamb.”
Seek the Lord while
He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked
forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the
Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons
him.
“For My thoughts are
not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My
ways,”
declares the Lord,
our God.
“My word that goes
out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return
to Me unfulfilled.
My word will
accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal
I intend.
You will go in joy
and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will
burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees
clap their hands.”
If They Say, “Come
With Us”
