161 BELIEVE OR NOT BELIEVE
161 BELIEVE OR NOT BELIEVE
Act 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
It is commanded by God that men only speak the truth and those of us that love Him and serve Him are under penalty if we don’t obey Him in this matter. He wants us to only speak the truth so when we tell people the truth of the gospel, they know that we only speak truth and will believe us.
Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
God does not want to send anyone to hell, He wants every single person for all times to know and believe the truth.
1Ti 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
It was God’s enemy that started lying and it is His enemy that causes lies today. Anyone that thinks or speaks a lie has been influenced by God’s enemy. With God, there is no such thing as a ‘white lie’ or a ‘half truth’; it is either the truth or it is not.
[One point that I thought that I should put in here is that there ARE honest mistakes. An honest person can believe something that they heard and that was not true and speak about it as if it were true. Mistakes are not failures but are part of the learning curve and need to be corrected by those that know the truth.]
With God, we may not hear all that we want to and start assuming that what we want is what God said. This is especially true if God does not finish telling us everything that is to be said about our subject. Our minds then fill in the unknowns and it is usually in our favour even though God did not say it.
He is God and does not have to tell us everything or, even, anything; that is His choice and His right. However we do have the right to know the truth and God will send it to us through His word, His people and, even, His creation.
It is then our responsibility to believe the truth. God’s enemy has so many people working for him that there are more lies than truth being spoken today and we must be careful to test everything that we do not know is true.
God’s word is absolutely true and can be depended on to correct any lie that we hear. If we are still unsure about the truth of anything, we can also go to God and ask Him about truth and to show us the correctness of anything that we hear or encounter.
Finding out the truth about anything can involve a lot of time and many questions; some that are hard for the honest person to answer but finding the truth is worth all the effort that it takes and helping someone to understand the truth is worth whatever it takes to accomplish it.
Joh 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Free from doubt, free from worry, free from mental chains, free from fear and free from death; isn’t knowing and believing the truth worth all that?
