Bringing Clarity to Confusion

Hosea 4 : 6, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. -NKJV

2 Corinthians 10 : 3 – 5, For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ… -NKJV

If you are a believer in Christ, it is imperative that you become a disciple of His teachings. As we learn from the verses above, the enemy will try to pull us away from the life that is contained in God’s word that he might destroy our lives. Jesus tells us in John 17 : 3, eternal life is to know the true God and Jesus Christ, whom God sent into the world.

The only we can know God, and Jesus is through His written word. One of the functions of the Holy Spirit is to reveal and confirm the truth to us from scripture. As we come to know the truth, we will be able to recognize the distortion of truth.

Paul writes in 1 Timothy 2 : 14 that Adam was not deceived, but Eve was. How was Satan able to deceive Eve with the lies that the serpent spoke to her and not deceive Adam? The Word states that Adam walked with God, and the Lord told him many things as His son. It does not say that Eve walked with God. When Eve answered the accusations of the serpent that he had spoken about God and the forbidden fruit, she added that she wasn’t supposed to touch it. Eve didn’t know the truth as Adam knew it.

Consequently, she gave into the seductive lie of the serpent. She believed the promise he spoke that she wouldn’t die, but she would be like God by committing the sin. The serpent distorted or misrepresented the truth to someone who didn’t know the truth.  When truth is taken out of context or distorted, and we do not know the truth, it opens our heart to confusion.

Once confusion takes root in a person’s or nation’s heart like we read about in Hosea 4, they will stray from the truth and be consumed their sins. If we receive a lie as truth and are taken over by confusion, we will allow Satan to erect strongholds in our hearts and minds. This is how individuals and nations become entrapped by the lies of Satan as we read in 2 Corinthians 10.

I am so thankful to God for giving us His Son, Jesus to die for our sins. However, I am also grateful that Jesus gave us the truth before He returned to heaven. Now, we can know the truth which dispels the enemy's lies which can distort the truth and cause believers to fall prey to confusion.

Not only should we know what is written in the Bible, but we should obey it every day, as God’s children. As we obey the truth, it will begin to reveal strongholds that have been in our hearts from the past that we might be made free of them. According to Jeremiah 17, we do not know what is in our heart. Even so, the word of God and His Spirit will reveal any sin that may be hidden in our heart that we’re not aware of. There is a so much confusion in the world, but we can be free from it.

Pastor Asa Dockery

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