The World Teaches Us to Despise God's Goodness

Consider Psalm 21:8-13. It's very interesting how the World keeps harping on about what we shouldn't say or think, and those things are directly related to God's praise in this Bible passage. It threatens direct harm. It speaks of the children of God's enemies in ways that we have been taught is wrong. So, think about it and wonder what you have believed from the World's teaching which seemed good but is actually opposed to right thinking as revealed in God's Word to us.

Our enemies are not our friends, like the World is trying to coerce us into believing. And that coercion is very persuasive, because our Master Jesus told us to love our enemies. But His love burns their heads like hot coals. It's straightforward love to us, though. If we cross the line from doing truly kind things to the World and begin to think of them as our friends or as people we have to win to Christ by compromising the slightest goodness, then we've misunderstood Paul's method of winning people to Christ and we've misunderstood Jesus' method of speaking to His enemies. He began to eat at the house of the religious leader up until He perceived that those leaders had treachery against God in them at that meal, so, what did He do, and what should we do? He openly told them off and then He left! He didn't stick around to the end to be polite. As soon as they were open against God, He was open against them! Get it? Get it.

The World is subverting Christians, and we let them do it because we are not well versed in God's Word. We've been taught sometimes in churches to go beyond the Bible as God's Spirit leads us into all truth, but we are wrong to think that He would ever lead us somewhere the Bible doesn't establish some general framework for. The World makes us think it's unloving to judge things, but Jesus said in John 7:24b, "Practice righteous judgement". Think about that. How many times has a sermon quoted Jesus to "Judge not, lest ye be judged" and has not counter balanced it with Jesus' other statement about judgement, so that we were left with the idea that judgements about people in general were sinful? I thought it for a long time, and it was damnable lies from pulpits that subverted young Jeremy in that way. Was that a Christian, misguided as much as I was subverted by the same thing? Was it a Worldling? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, and for many lies as we are all subverted together!

Consider Psalm 21:8-13. Then look for other places in Scripture that seem to promote things that our culture has told us are evil. When you find those things, think about the basis of why God promotes the thing and the reason why the World blasts it. You might find that there has been a semantic trick that changes the definition or that relies on a homonym but treats it like it has the same definition in both cases. You might begin to find several subtle tricks that change the truth into a lie. The truth lines up throughout in every last detail, even when we use different words or the same word in unexpected ways. It's the meaning and not the words we use which are so very important. That's another lesson I learned which helped me overcome tricky subversions from Satan. Whether Christians repeat falsehood or it comes from the studied Worldling professor of anthropology, we must always capture every thought to make it obey Christ's truth.