Knowing Too Much

After healing a blind man, and after the Pharisees were much displeased by it, Jesus told them a hard saying: "Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth" (Jn. 9:41). Nothing has changed one bit since that day. Not a single thing. I see it continually in the body of Christ today. Everyone knows everything. Trouble is nobody knows anything at all. Many people are firmly established in the "knowledge" of their particular affiliation's view of the Gospel, and they are ALL completely wrong. Again last night I had a man try to impose his affiliation's Gospel on me, and it is a view that I am very familiar with. When I tried to show him the truth solidly from the scriptures, in a spirit of peace, he could not as much as listen to anything being said. And I've been in that exact same position more times than I can remember, with the same result almost every time. People come across as knowledgeable, and they are, in their own Gospel. But of the one true Gospel of Christ God's people are sadly destitute. And because everyone is so full of the [mis]understanding of their affiliation's Gospel, they CANNOT "hear what the Spirit is saying to the [congregations]" (Rev. 2:11). Everyone "sees," and therefore everyone remains blind to the truth. That my friend, is NOT the right way to be blind, as yesterday's post showed.

There is no true Gospel apart from the power of God's Spirit in the lives of those who believe: "But ye shall receive POWER, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." And again, "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the POWER of God unto salvation to every one that believeth" (Acts 1:8; Rom. 1:16). John the Baptist, Jesus, and Jesus' apostles all preached the same message: "Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand" (Mat. 3:2; Mk. 1:15; Mat. 10:7). So what is the kingdom of God, or the kingdom of heaven? "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost" (Rom. 14:17). So as Jesus noted in Acts 1:8, the baptism of the holy Ghost brings the power of God into one's life, and as Paul stated in Rom. 1:16, GOD'S Gospel IS the power of God. And make no mistake friend, that power is for deliverance from sin. And the allowance of sin is the common denominator for every Christian tradition, doctrine and sect apart from the pure simplicity of the truth. I know this because I see it all the time up close and personal. And my experience is that those who have the most to lose are the one's who won't let go of their erroneous Gospel in order to lay hold on the real word of God. And so those who will not suffer loss in order to gain the truth continue in blindness and the spiritual immaturity that bares witness of that blindness. And therefore the body of Christ remains weak, divided, and astray of the one guide that God has furnished to lead us in his ways (Jn. 16:13; Rom. 8:14). And all that remains is to graciously and actively pursue the deliverance and healing of God's people that is so desperately needed. Amen.