Today’s Confusion: The Truth is Rejected!

Today’s Confusion: Truth is Shunned & Heresy Accepted!             By Capt. Kelly Durant 10-13

2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

2.As I have mentioned in the past in my personal testimony, that I drifted away from the Lord after age 14 until age 21, and the main reason I got conviction to Jesus was because my idea of truth was challenged and exposed to be erroneous by Christians my age who knew my mind that it was ‘conformed to the world’. I was under full deception, shaped into the Hindu spirituality mold and the philosophies of the early 70s. 

I would share with people my ideas something like this: matter and energy are eternal equivalents of God and neither is created nor destroyed, just transformed; therefore the souls of men, being energy, must be recycled within the cosmic dust so reincarnation must exist. First of all, do you see how I was confining the idea of God’s systems within a false context?

But patient Christian friends I met back then would open their Bibles and show me verses like…Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.  And Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.      I felt embarrassed and exposed. My pride would not let me say on the outside you are right, but within, the truth of the gospel was convicting me. Do you know that feeling, the one of getting your idea of truth shattered? John 3:21 But he that does truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are done in God.      Today is the time to examine yourself, what false filters do you have regarding your faith, and everything? God is calling you to His truth and He needs you prepared to help others in their errors of ideas!

3.Lies, false ideas and errant logic has been around ever since the serpent being contradicted God and said that if you eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil you surely will not die. So actually one of woman’s and man’s original sins is that of not remaining in the truth of God but disobeying accepting the lie. As humans we are weak and out of pride  we often want more than what was intended to be, wanting to be like God when this was obviously not possible since each of us were created by God. Why didn’t they think of that?! And people today? They live, they die, and they thought they knew more than God?!

Due to this inherited sin damage left by Adam our ego and pride will always tell us we know more than God and more than the rest of our ignorant fellow human beings sitting or walking beside us. Here is a truth about you: anyone of us is susceptible to allowing non-truths to govern with in the battlefield of our minds, and later these produce actions which provoke the reaping of grave consequences.

4.Today we have a problem with a vast majority of people not perceiving, understanding, nor accepting the truth, they just follow their own selfish closed mind with limited information conforming to the opinions of the world. So… What is truth? (The greatest question of all history!) Truth has many facets. Truth, everyone agrees, is an established absolute. A truth is a forever constant. Conclusively, God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit are truth. John 14:6 Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. The foremost spiritual truth that exists is that Jesus is the son of God and there is evidence that He lived and died and millions of martyrs and converts prove He does change lives taking away sin and giving us eternal life! He wants whosever will to accept Him to have a blessed life on earth living in freedom and in truth! Not everyone gets such a blessed life though due to the evil people around them!

Persecution always arises from proclaiming truth! Truth is powerful, but truth is the enemy of those who want you and others under their deception! Even the demons tremble at the name of Jesus because they know He frees souls from deception! Jesus exposed the false teachers of his day, in John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”  All worship originates from the truth of God and  Jesus or from the evil liar!

5.Notice this, people cannot survive in any society without truth! Truth also is a standard. Truth is applied to mathematics, physical measurements, logical deductions, and like it or not, moral ethical laws as well. Truth is not relative (Einstein even said it) to culture, or each person’s individual’s belief system as many so called open liberal minds in formerly prestigious universities would have you believe. For example, if truths and standards can be different according to the individual then if a doctor feels you need 500ccs of morphine for pain (which would kill you) instead of 100, who is to say that his choice of truth is wrong? Relative is cool?

The law would accuse him, right? So conclusively the law can monitor the truth? Yes, but not always. Laws are standards for truths, to execute consequences for violations. Here is another truth, if laws are not established in God’s frame of truth from the Holy Scriptures, then the laws of the land become self-serving falsehoods to legitimatize evil acts for the manipulation of the privileged. Violating morals and the values of God will always bring guilt, pain and death!

6.Today we have ever increasing new laws that violate the sanctity and respect for human life, sanction perversions of the flesh, and sterilize all things spiritual prohibiting they be mentioned in public everyday places. Truth, conclusively then, has everything to do with judgment in discerning righteousness. Laws cannot be truth if they are just applied as a blanket standard to consolidate the establishment’s values subjugating the masses by intimidation.  

Today media sources (all of them biased), educational designers, and governments with agendas have worked overtime in their psychological trickery to contradict, out-date, and ridicule the truth and wisdom of the Holy Scriptures in the Bible! The design is to get you to think within a false dichotomy. Sadly the majority of people today have lost their ability to think correctly, logically, and abstractly discerning truth enabling them to cognitively recognize erroneously glamorized concepts that deceive souls into bad choices, which produce destructive behaviors. Remember choices offered us are not just between A,B, & C, you have to observe that maybe the choice is  none of the above to be correct one.

The results of programing people to decide within false choices in their box cause them to live manipulated and motivated by false pretenses and the people without God do not discern it! People under the influence of lies make their decisions and choose their objectives and goals under illusions and false concepts. Confiding in media and erroneous influences, many people today can repeat verbatim what their leaders in the society speak, but usually they become tools of Satan, or as the communist leader Lenin phrased it, “useful idiots” in the scheme of bad agendas. Ideas always have consequences and most people never analyze what fruit will come out of seeds they are sewing! And some people cognitively want destruction!

7.However, the voice of conscious deep inside each of us does make a majority of people feel very uncomfortable when standing up for false systems, defending “politically correct” illogical ideals. Out of pride, in order to be accepted and in par with the powerful, people without the power of Christ cave to embrace illogical and immoral principles which inevitably produce the destruction of their own souls as well as that of others. If you run with wolves, you will learn to howl like them! (You, and most people are not a wolf though! I am referring to non-believers)

Proverbs 16:25  There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.  Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

The deceivers of this world are as wolves in sheep’s clothing and they are loud and aggressive and more than ever being vocal in prestigious and heretical universities, in politics, in corrupt corporations, and sadly in religions. The truth of God contradicted is heresy and this is even in Christian churches as well! Always compare the speaker’s words to the truth in the Scriptures! Run away if heretical!

8.Let me give you an example of how a lack of the full truth alters people’s perceptions and opinions. Look at the tax situation: it is repeated often how unfair it is that the rich have so much so the government should just take it from them in taxes so the poor will get rich. Many people voice this thinking others owe them something just because they have more than them. But how much do governments share wealth effectively? When in history did the poor ever get anything but basic survival food and survival support from the government? Some Cubans here can tell just how bad that is! The rich are only 1%, remember? Once you take from them, who is left to tax? It is the middle class money that they must tax to get any real substance!

To begin with, the lawmakers and politicians who are anxious to increase taxes do not seem to be volunteering their own wealth or reforming laws against loopholes they participate in. They always want the money for their own agendas. The message is the rich need to be taxed more to give to the poor?! What an old scheme resurfacing! Consider this age old argument being coined today, "Either the nobles of this country appear wealthy, in which case they can be taxed for good; or they appear poor, in which case they are living frugally and must have immense savings, which can be taxed for good." All governments misuse multi-billions of dollars annually, and why is their solution to always borrow more, and tax more?

It is a false dilemma, a false pretense, or a false dichotomy to work within the mindset that the taxes of the rich will make the poor rich. This idea fails to allow for the possibility that many members of the rich class may in fact lack liquid assets and actually may be poor only appearing rich (being in deep debt!), and this pretense as well negates the possibility that those who appear poor actually are poor! Historically there is no evidence that more taxes does anything but create rebellions and revolutions. Even the people of this country preferred starting the Revolutionary War than to bow down to the high tax increases of the English.

Do you see how more facts are needed to discover truth? Many people do not!  Also, subliminally this mindset presumes that only the government knows best how to distribute tax wealth, and it denies the evidence that most wealthy people have historically proven to be very generous doing great things with their money for others. American philanthropists are proof of this but oh how people hate and envy the rich and scheme to get their assets by influence, propaganda, and new laws! The poor will always be around because it is in God’s word   John 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

9.Americans give a whole lot more billions to charity (295 Billion per year) than any other nation, but these facts are mostly ignored and hidden. The Salvation Army gets about 2.6 billion per year so we are blessed to give back 85% to the public (others charities apply only 10% to the cause and 90% to administration, the legal limit!?) This is helping 30 million per year in the U.S. and 100’s of millions more abroad. This is with less than 1 % of all U.S. charity money combined and we are the number 1 charity due to our faithfulness to help the needy!

The first Christians in the book of Acts helped the needy and sold their goods and shared their wealth voluntarily. See Acts 2:44, 45! This is what real people of faith do: they help their brothers and the community! Did you ever notice almost all charity it done by Christians?

Getting back to the truth of measurable recorded realities of man’s abuse of man, abuse of wealth, abuse of people and power, we conclude these were just as much a part of those in Jesus era as they are today. So according to the scripture we are commanded to preach the gospel to liberate people from these corrupting and enslaving worldly systems ruining their lives and souls. It is our job as Christians to save minds and souls with sound teaching and preaching of doctrine being aware of the enemies devises. Just being a human being free from vices will grant you more wealth!

John 8:31,32  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. The Jews then, as some Christians today, had a false idea that they had a secure spot in heaven. They were God’s chosen, God’s favorite children due to race, fanaticism, and birth right, so why did Jesus insult them and say they needed the truth to set them free when they thought they were free?

10.The great challenge we have today is that of persuading others into the truth of Jesus that gives them a renovated mind and a pure spirit (the pretense is they are in darkness). Even though we do our part to convince them with the Bible, it is the Holy Spirit in the end that that person must allow to work in their life.    John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.

In the past in my enthusiasm as a new Christian convert, I would talk to everyone everywhere I went about Jesus. I would just meet someone and then talk until midnight with them about God, until I was blue in the face, assuming they will convert to Jesus if I can just speak enough truth to them. But the truth of the matter is, if they want to keep on sinning and not acknowledge the gift of God to forgive, Jesus Christ, then all my words become useless and I am just doing what it says in …Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

11.There is the lack of truth in the world, but what about the lack of the truth in the church? A lot of present day people in certain churches are not preaching the truth and the people do not know it because they do not read the Bible! Why is the truth so shrouded and rejected? Because preaching the truth and living it implies repentance, a study of God’s word, hard work, a transformation of the mind, and in the end a persecution for proclaiming this truth. With that process in mind it means you will not have so many followers …Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

People not sincerely converted who go to churches, want to keep private personal secrets and they want a bargain religion. The cheap way out is to pay off God with an offering, avoiding obedience to the Word, exposing their selves to a minimum of truth so as not to be held accountable to it nor to anyone. Truth to them is not truth at all but a counterfeit, being mixed and adulterated with their personal ideas and behavior. This is the great confusion in our times: truth is getting integrated with lies.

12.Purity is truth. Partial truth is no truth.  You don’t want a gold ring mixed with clay dirt; it makes it breakable and worthless. In Daniel Chapter 2 the prophecy is that iron and clay governments mixed together are what contribute to the downfall of the 10 nations controlling the world in the final end of time. Jesus, the solid rock, will break them and they will become powder! Daniel 2: 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

Today if you want a church that will preach not a sound or truthful doctrine but a corrupted one mixed with today’s philosophies to enchant and soothe itching ears you can find plenty of them! Some churches today accommodate all types of lust and perversions, with aberrant doctrines and they claim they have more anointing than all the rest, or only they have salvation. They abuse their wealth for selfish motives, they misuse God’s gifts for prophesying and do it for power and personal gain, and they cater to what people want to hear feeding their spiritual pride. They also mock those suffering or in poverty as not blessed as they are! The main false pretense today is you may sin all you want, but you are still saved and will still go to heaven if you give generously to their church: but this is not how hundreds of scriptures tell it! The outcome is people of power do not just want more wealth but they also want absolute control of people’s minds and ultimately their souls as well! How Satanic!

13. Do not stagnate spiritually for being lazy intellectually and spiritually lacking in truth! Don’t run to some church because the people say the preacher preaches good; he may be preaching a doctrine of deceit but you have not discerned it yet, he may be living a very unholy life, and your soul will pay for not judging with the discernment of the Holy Spirit! Starts making all things you hear through all sources everywhere in all media pass through the sieve of truth to decipher out out the impure from the pure. Don’t be naïve and ignorant! Don’t accept one opinion, investigate thoroughly! Investigate all sides by pray intensely to discern with the H. S.!

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.         Right now, ask God for more of the Holy Spirit of truth in your life.      You and I need more truth!

14. Don’t be like those in 2 Timothy 3: 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.   Don’t ever be proud of how much you know, or be proud of how good you think you do or have, having a spiritual pride, this is the foundation of false works religions and these heretics misrepresent God and follow their own self negating the Bible. Honestly, the world is very tired of Christians with strange habits and doctrines, who judge others, and who condemn and criticize people who are suffering. Ask yourself, God how do you and others see me? As pure in the truth, or as just another mixed up Joe?

Luke 18: 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.      Here is the victory, with God’s truth about yourself to correct yourself, with His Word as truth in your heart you can overcome deceptions, traps, and self-defeating lies from misconceptions.

15.I  John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

It is clear what is of truth and what is of error!

Come, pray…Ask for the gift of wisdom, discernment, and more of God’s truth in your life and humble yourself to have less of your own opinions in your life through the Holy Spirit.