Have you ever read the story of Christ in the wilderness? He was tempted of the Devil for 40 days and one of the things the Devil tried to get Christ to do was turn stones into bread. Have you ever wondered why Jesus didn't simply do it? Would Satan have then been convinced? There is much more going on in this encounter than first meets the eye. In fact, Satan still uses this same trick on us today.
So why didn't Christ turn the stones into bread? It's because He knew that He would have been doing the will of Lucifer. Have you ever thought of this? It often seems to us that he could have simply turned the stones into bread and proved Lucifer wrong. I can see it now. Christ picks up the stones and miraculously turns them into bread and then the Devil is amazed and becomes a Christian because he is now convinced of the truth.
How many times have we attempted to "prove" the Gospel to someone who doesn't really want it but instead just wants to prove us wrong or just doesn't want to hear it? You can give them proof after proof and never convince them. Luke 16:31 tells us "And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
The unfortunate reality is missed when we do this. We are the ones converted rather than them, even though we are trying to do right and trying to prove something good. We have fallen into Satan's trap of dialoging to consensus and we don't even know it.
Let's go back to Christ and the Devil. Again, why didn't Christ turn the stones into bread? He could have but he knew as soon as he tried to prove himself in that fashion he was not proving himself at all. He would simply have been dialoging with the Devil, he would be doing the Devil's will by doing what the Devil asked of him.
This is deep stuff. We think talking to people about Christ and trying to convince them is a good thing but it is only if they are accepting the truth. If they are arguing or saying things like "we can agree to disagree" or some other cliché they are manifesting the spirit of antichrist and in a sense they are giving you your spiritual Miranda warning. It's our fault if we don't recognize it.
We often come away feeling like we have proven our point and stuck to our guns and done a good work for Christ but look at it this way. If Christ had turned the stones into bread the Devil would have become the master. He would have had Christ doing his will, even though it seems to us that Christ would have been doing it to prove him wrong. It really doesn't matter what He would have been trying to do. It only matters that He would have done it.
Thank God he didn't but instead He tells Satan "it is written, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God."
So when you tell someone the truth and they begin to argue or say something like "we should agree to disagree" you are in the presence of the same spirit the Devil used against Christ. They are speaking the Language of Lucifer.
If you have the truth then why should you have to agree to disagree with anyone? Now if you don't have the truth then perhaps you should find it. In fact, if you don't know the answer then perhaps it is you that should quietly listen and receive the truth. Perhaps the person talking to you is trying to help you but you should never agree with a non-truth.
If you know the truth you should not compromise it whether it is about eternal salvation doctrine or the timing of the resurrection or even where did Cain get his wife? Would you compromise 2+2=4? That is also truth.
If you met someone who believed that 2+2=5 and you said "no, I'm sorry but 2+2=4" and they began to argue and give reasons for why they believed 2+2=5, why would you stay and argue? They have already proven that they do not love the truth. You could jump through all sorts of hoops trying to prove it but this person has demonstrated that they have larger problems than simply realizing that they are bad at math. Never realizing that he is an idiot keeps him from the love of the truth. Because to love the truth means to realize that we are all idiots, and we don't enjoy being idiots do we?
No, we would rather remain blissfully ignorant rather than have to admit that we were wrong and how sad if we walk away from that conversation saying that we "agree to disagree" you just agreed with an idiot which makes you perhaps a "nice idiot" at best and a liar at worst because you just agreed with a lie.
If you have the truth you stand on that truth and do not reach a consensus against it by agreeing to disagree. No instead it is better to just walk away, DO NOT ARGUE, it is a trap of the Devil. Not only does it waste time but it involves you in watering down the truth even if only a little bit.
If you think of it 99% of the truth is really just a lie and that is all it takes to water the truth down. Actually it even takes less than that. Consider that 99.99999% of the truth is also not the truth but only 100% can be considered truth. This is why we need the Holy Ghost to guide us. We must not compromise our 100%.
Now what I am telling you here goes against everything our society stands for. In fact that is all we hear now days. "Let's agree to disagree Brother." or "We can agree on the central doctrine of Christ" or "We don't see eye to eye on that but we agree that Jesus died for our sins" These are all things we hear among believers. The Christians are some of the worst lot that speaks the Language of Lucifer.
For instance, we know that Joe Blow down the street doesn't believe in the Millennial Reign even though the Bible plainly teaches it so what do we tell him? We usually say "let's agree to disagree".
There is one truth and it doesn't split itself up by denomination or doctrine or even in the belief that Jesus died for our sins. Hear me out!
It begins with Jesus dying for our sins but that is not all there is. If you believe that Jesus died for your sins then you do become saved but if 10 years later you are still sucking on that bottle then what are you trying to prove?
You sicken me, sucking on the milk when you have been offered such glory and in the presence of such glory! And there you are sucking on the spiritual milk while your stinking flesh is pursuing all sorts of lusts and gains and appetites to fill your belly. You don't love God, you are a liar.
Now to someone deep in a jungle somewhere who comes to the knowledge that Christ died for his sins and receives the love of the truth and gets saved that is the greatest gift ever known unto man, but YOU! You have taken that gift and turned it into a mockery! Then you claim to be saved!
It is not that you make mistakes. You are a dog just like we all are.
In your flesh is NO good thing your flesh cannot be saved. It is your spirit that gets saved, hence you are born again, not of the flesh but of the spirit. Christ died just like your stinking flesh does when you accept the news that He died for you. Your flesh dies and your spirit is born. You are a spirit. You don't HAVE a spirit, you ARE a spirit if you are in Christ.
So, we see the deception all around us. Many have rejected what I have told you here, proving that what I am saying is true. The thought that we can believe whatever we want and simply agree to disagree is such a terrible trap that we think we are deep in God's will while practicing it. We feel like God is looking on us with pleasure when we do these things and an article on a blogsite is no match for our deep seated beliefs unless we love the truth because this is truth.
You have a lifeline.
It doesn't mean you have to get mad at everyone who talks to you this way. Most people don't realize it, they think they are serving God and we tell ourselves "if we could only get through to them" but we can't because the truth is that they don't really love the truth.
They only love what they think the truth is and that is a far cry from the real truth. The real truth requires humbleness and it requires that you deny yourself and it requires you to be wrong. Most people do not believe they are wrong so there is no way to reach them. It does seem a shame but only to the extent that we ourselves are deceived. Because we look to these people as someone who loves the truth but they don't. Can you see that? They don't love the truth, they love their own bellies.
The realization of this is staggering to me. To think that keeping the peace by allowing one guy to believe one thing and someone else to believe another is hard to accept. It seems to allow us to get along together and fellowship and grow and all sorts of so-called "good things" but if 3 people who each have 99% of the truth all get together and put all their doctrine in a pot and stir it up what is the result? 99% times 99% times 99% equals 97%. If someone with 100% truth shows up and tosses his doctrine into the pot what happens? 97% times 100% equals 97% so the guy who enters into fellowship even though he has 100% truth when he gets there, leaves with only 97% and 97% is a worthless lie.
So we see how futile it is to fellowship with or even dialog with someone who does not have a love for the truth. You wind up losing in the end when you speak the Language of Lucifer.
So, do not dialog with the Devil, he is smarter than you are.
Do not dialog with those who have not the love of the truth.
Just walk away.
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