Psalm 31:18
18 Let the lying [sheqer] lips [saphah] be put to
silence ['alam]; which speak [dabar] grievous [`athaq] things
proudly [ga`avah] and contemptuously [buwz] against the righteous [tsaddiyq]. KJV-Interlinear
18 Let
the lying lips be dumb, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With pride
and contempt. NASB
Wouldn’t it be terrible
if others go to heaven as mature believers and you do not, especially when you
have the opportunity to advance, but choose against a study that is so easy to
follow. Continuing from the previous
verse, death stops all evil activities.
There are only two viewpoints in existence. Gods view, which is truth, and all others. The learning process of bible doctrine, opens
the mind to all that is reality. Lack of
that learning process subjects the mind to all that is false and distracting.
When the believer is in
fellowship, then the Holy Spirit controls the soul. When the believer is out of fellowship, then
the sin nature controls the soul.
Needless to say, the unbeliever is always controlled by the sin nature.
Everything that comes out
of the mind, while out of fellowship, comes from there energy of the flesh, which
is the sin nature. That is the source of all lies. Non-spiritual activity of any kind, thoughts
or otherwise, is the production of the flesh and therefore lies. This is the principle that all fleshy
activity is from the individual and not from God.
Everything that comes out
of the mind, while in fellowship, comes from the energy of the spirit, which is
from the source of God. This is the
source of all truth and all good.
So, lies are not
restricted to only telling false things, it is also the promotion of right
things but in the wrong environment, namely the out of fellowship environment.
Then death comes along
and all lies come to a stop.
The temporal thoughts,
the temporal speech, the temporal activities all cease.
Grievous, ‘athaq,’ means
bold, impudent, wicked, reckless, and describes everything that comes out of
your life, when you are not in fellowship.
Fellowship is achieved
from confession. Sin causes one to lose
that fellowship status.
To not confess, to be
apathetic toward that process, to procrastinate, to be too busy and forget or
not care, or not even believe in the process, all of these things are assuming that
you do not need to confess. This
presumes that you do not need Gods process, or perhaps do not need God. This presumes that you have or believe in
something else.
And that is all from the
source of the sin nature and therefore evil. Evil is grievous and reckless and
careless and irrational and all that is false.
All evil is against God,
who is truth and righteous, and therefore all evil is against all that are
righteous, namely Gods people.
If you are a believer and
continually out of fellowship, then you are against yourself, making you, your
own worst enemy and your own biggest barrier to success.
But, death ends all of
that.
As an unbeliever, death
removes you from this world and sends you to Torments where you await the Great
White Throne. Your earthly activities
have ended.
As a believer, death
takes you to Heaven where you will be with the Lord and all earthly beliefs and
opinions will quickly be replaced by an overwhelming truth, which by the way,
will be staring you right in the face.
Overwhelming and most
probably embarrassing.
Something that you can certainly
avoid, but only if you have been pursuing your daily study, like so many others
are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if others
go to heaven as mature believers and you do not, especially when you have the opportunity
to advance, but choose against a study that is so easy to follow?
