WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE?

1. WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE in a world awash with VOICES, all calling for attention? “There are, it may be, so MANY KINDS OF VOICES IN THE WORLD, and none of them is without signification” [ 1 Corinthians 14:10] Some are subtle others not so quiet, loud and brash aiming for your mind. Here is the gritty part and you may not know it, your MIND is your true IDENTITY and you are servant or worse, a SLAVE to the VOICE you BELIEVE, “Know ye not, that TO WHOM YE YIELD yourselves servants to obey, HIS SERVANTS YE ARE to whom ye obey; whether of SUN UNTO DEATH, or of OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS?”[Romans 6:16] Every step, indeed every decision we take is a battle to suppress or succumb to VOICES. So, it was in the beginning and ever since; Eve had the option of submission to God’s VOICE but chose to BELIEVE the Serpent and the rest as they say is history, “… GOD HATH SAID, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, LEST YE DIE. And the SERPENT SAID unto the woman, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE: … she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, …” [Genesis 3:3-6] You and I know better, the Serpent LIED and God is VINDICATED, Adam and Eve DIED as God said. Gird your mind, fight for your LIFE, “KEEP THY HEART WITH ALL DILIGENCE; for out of it are the ISSUES OF LIFE” [Proverbs 4:23]

2. WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE, when what seems TRUE contradicts TRUTH? TRUTH is GOD PERSONIFIED, what men account to be TRUE is existential KNOWLEDGE, “Jesus saith unto him, I AM the WAY, THE TRUTH, and the LIFE: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” [John 14:6] What is TRUE always fall short of TRUTH because one is DIVINE and the other is not; taking what we deem TRUE for TRUTH was the ERROR we inherited from Adam and Eve, “But of the TREE of the KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD and EVIL, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof THOU SHALY SURELY DIE” [Genesis 2:17] All human civilizations grew on SCIENCE of GOOD and EVIL, each age surpassing the other in establishing global standards of GOOD and EVIL. This generation succeeded where others failed in increasing and processing KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL into universal franchise, “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the TIME OF THE END: MANY SHALL RUN TO and FROM, and KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED” [Daniel 12:4] Friend, as end of time loom, WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE? Take care not to be deceived by SOCIAL MEDIA, do noy place your hopes on INTERNET search engines; they may be factually TRUE, they are not the TRUTH, “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” [Matthew 24:24]

3. WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE, when all hell is let loose on earth? Your salvation is in coming to terms with the TRUTH, “Then said Jesus, … And ye shall KNOW THE TRUTH, and THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE” [John 8:31-32] TRUTH is the WORD which was God, depicted by the TREE of LIFE in Eden, shunned by Eve now made FLESH, “In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD WAS GOD. … And the WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) FULL OF GRACE and TRUTH” [John 1:1-14] The WORD made FLESH was Jesus Christ, God was manifest in FLESH and BLOOD; the FATHER whose VOICE was rejected in Eden was revealed in the SON. It is a MYSTERY, far beyond the scope of REASON, made accessible to us in total SUBMISSION to God by GRACE through FAITH, “And without controversy great is the MYSTERY of godliness: GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, BELIEVED on in the world, received up into glory” [1 Timothy 3:16] Adam and Eve had the option of  choosing the TRUTH but BELIEVED what they thought was TRUE and by so doing brought SUFFERING and DEATH into the world. WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE? All glory to God, in Jesus Christ the curse of DEATH is erased in those who RECEIVE Him as Lord and Saviour, “But as many as RECEIVED HIM, to them gave he POWER TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD, even to them that BELIEVE ON HIS NAME” [John 1:12]

4. WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE, the choice is solely yours. On one side a plethora of oracles, man-made and fallen angels, on the other side Almighty God, “DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” [Isaiah 46:10] God who formed us of the soil of the earth and put His Breathe in us also created Satan and foreknowing his shenanigans made WAY of escape for us in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world and “… hath begotten us again unto a LIVELY HOPE by the RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST from the dead, … Who verily was FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, but was manifest in these last times for you” [1 Peter 1:3-20] God made us in His own IMAGE and LIKENESS but through SIN we made of ourselves drug addicts, armed robbers, rapists, cultists, scammers, etc. [Genesis 1:26-28] In returning to God through Jesus Christ there is LIVING HOPE for the worst OFFENDER to have a New LIFE in the IMAGE and LIKENESS of God, “Therefore IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATURE: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” [2 Corinthians 5:17] Friend, you can become a NEW MAN or WOMAN today, if you will BELIEVE God was manifest in Jesus Christ to pay your DEBT of SIN on the Cross and accept Him as your Lord and Saviour, amen