Psalm 35:11
11 False [chamac] witnesses [`ed] did rise up [quwm]; they
laid to my charge [sha'al] things that I knew [yada`] not. KJV-Interlinear
11
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know. ESV
This psalm speaks of wrongs
that are directed toward believers in Christ, but the real target is Jesus
Himself.
Anything spoken in
violence, in negative connotations, in opposition toward truth and so forth, is
against God.
The Word of God is the written
word of Christ, the mind of Christ, the living word in us, which is Christ in
us.
That is, when we learn
it.
And throughout history
since the time of Adam, to Noah, to the time of Jesus, to our time today, the
world has produced a saturation of negative and evil directives against truth
in many forms.
Whether by the idle
gossip of some to the legislative arrogance of leaders, to criminals, to
anything in society that you can think of, there is no shortage of false
witnesses, which is to say false opinions, false religions, false philosophies,
to even the poplar attempt to accept as truth, the many false ideas of life.
The false is just that,
false.
To accept or to even
promote the false, is to lead people away from Christ, to lead people away from
heaven, to lead people right into the fires of damnation. How honorable is that?
And while we have to
tolerate the opinions of others, which simply means that we let them have their
way without our coercion. That does not mean
that we promote their false ideas. We
simply stick to our guns and let the chips fall where they may.
In the end, people have
to make up their own minds and then, of course, live with their decisions.
The ultimate events of
history, is when Jesus, fulfilled so many prophecies, and yet society, did not recognize
Him for who He was and is. Instead
society condemned Him, for no real reason other than an apostate society is
unable to see truth even when it stands right in front.
And even now, Bible study
is readily available to nearly everyone on the planet, and yet the vast
majority of humanity ignores it, preferring to pursue life as though there is nothing
beyond that which we can see or touch.
It is a sad statement for
the inability to see the unseen, especially when there are so many examples of
the unseen in this universe, proving that there is far, far more to life.
Things that I do not
know, refers to evil. Jesus does not
participate in evil and therefore is not known for evil.
Jesus knows truth, lives
by truth, and is truth.
To ask Him to compromise
truth would be the epitome of arrogance and stupidity.
