Psalm 13:4
4 Lest mine enemy ['oyeb] say, ['amar] I have
prevailed [yakol] against him; and those that
trouble [tsar] me rejoice [giyl] when I am moved. [mowt] KJV-Interlinear
4 Lest
my enemy say, "I have overcome him," Lest my adversaries rejoice when
I am shaken. NASB
In this universe there are
only two opinions. The first is Gods
opinion which is truth and proclaimed by the scriptures.
Then the second opinion
encompasses everything else.
The second opinion
originates from Satan and is perpetuated by everyone who ignores a legitimate
relationship with God, through Christ.
And though you and
everyone else, want to believe that you are your own person. You are not.
You are guided only by that which already exists. You are either guided by Bible doctrine, or
you are guided by everything that is not supported by Bible doctrine.
And in so doing, you are
guided and influenced by either truth or lies.
There is no third option.
Knowledge of truth comes
only from a daily study of the scriptures.
You cannot know what you do not learn. And you have to study in order to
learn.
Anyone who pursues truth
is in effect the friend of God. Anyone
who rejects truth is an enemy of God.
Truth includes a vast
array of knowledge, including the existence of God, the Trinity, the plan of
God and salvation through faith in Christ and so forth. But it also includes the vast architecture of
this universe which we discover through the many sciences. It includes the fundamental principles of
economics, authority, nationalism, volition, freedom and liberty, the laws of
divine establishment, marriage, and many, many other subjects.
Truth excludes
philosophies, cults, religious beliefs, the many theories regarding history and
evolution, the dignity of man, the efforts of man to control his own destiny
(apart from God), lies, and so forth. All opposition to truth includes an equal
and opposite principle of lies. And that
makes up the entire realm of evil. Its
function is wickedness.
And in these cases the
many opinions of this world are in fact enemies of truth and therefore enemies
of God, and furthermore, if you pursue truth in your life, then they are your
enemy as well. The enemies of truth
attempt to remove truth and replace it with their own versions of life, either
by removing God from the picture or by manipulating God into beliefs of
convenience.
In any case, if you
pursue truth, which means that you pursue your daily studies in doctrine, then
you are in effect carving out your own completion and future, by means of Gods
strength and support.
If, on the other hand,
you are floating through life in your emotional views, or more or less rejecting
or ignoring a Bible study by any definition, then you are giving yourself over
to that which is the enemy of truth. You are allowing your life to be directed
by lies and therefore are allowing yourself to be guided by someone else,
namely the opinions of this world.
The origin of world
opinion, is Satan. His objective is the defeat of God. That means that truth must be defeated and
that means that lies must win out over truth.
If you give yourself over
to the lies of life, then you are in effect defeating yourself, or allowing
someone who wants to see your demise, to control you.
And when that happens,
you lose, and evil celebrates not only in your failure, but cheers and laughs
at your stupidity.
Evil is Satan’s trump
card. It is all designed to confuse and
make life ambiguous. It is designed to
make seemingly innocent things reasonable and therefore acceptable, which fools
by far, the masses of humanity around the world.
You have but one defense
against your own foolishness, but one defense against the wiles and tricks and
guises of evil. And that single defense
is knowledge of Bible doctrine, which identifies and makes clear all aspects of
evil by making all truth clear and perspicuous.
Without a daily study,
you cannot learn of your mistakes.
Without a daily study, you will not know just how fooled you really
are. Without a daily study of Bible
doctrine, your destiny is exactly what evil wants, total failure and loss for
all of eternity.
And instead of you
laughing at life due to your superior opinions, that you think you have, life
will laugh at you for being so easily fooled, by letting the world entice and
convince you by means of your own sin nature, as you walk away, by your choice,
from truth.
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