Dangers Of Deliberately Believing Lies. Part [7] 04/19/2024 (Evening thought)

Numbers 14: 40 And they rose early in the morning and got them up to the top of the mountain saying Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned. 41 And Moses said, wherefore now do you transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.

The same thing pertaining to persons choosing their own alternative set of facts to believe, occurred when the children of Israel were warned not to go up to fight against their foes, the Canaanites, because The Lord would not be with them. This truth was related to them in the clearest terms, but they deliberately chose to believe the lie, and because God honors our freedom of choice, He did not prevent them from going.

The rest is history, for they dug in their heals against the truth, believing with all of their hearts that they would win, when God said they would lose, and so said so done. They could believe whatsoever they want but the facts are the facts, and the truth is the truth. Thus, the natural results of their decision will be coming due regardless of what they choose to believe.

Numbers 14:42 Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that yo be not smitten before your enemies. 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you. 44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!

Dangers Of Deliberately Believing Lies. Part [6] 04/18/2024 (Morning thought)

2nd Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.

There is real danger in choosing to believe what you want to believe, regardless of the truth or the facts, for with each deliberate disregard of truth, the mind is being gradually programmed to interpret truth as falsehood. Thus, over a period of time, when in one instance a person may really need to heed the truth, the mind would have become so blinded by crying wolf, that it is impossible for it to respond in the positive.

This is what took place on the Titanic, as the captain was warned on numerous occasions of the icebergs. But he deliberately chose to believe the lie, that the Titanic was indestructible, and therefore, he plowed ahead with his own version of the facts, until he had sunk the ship, and in doing so he took a whole lot of people down with him.

Operator on La Bretagne Tells How Messages Were Sent in All Directions from Near Cape Race. New York, April 17 Captain Smith of the Titanic had warning of the danger ahead of him, in the giant iceberg that sent his vessel to the bottom of the North Atlantic. As a matter of fact, the Titanic relayed the warning to the shore.

2nd Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!