A friend of mine just posted an article with this quote from C.S. Lewis. I am reposting it on my page because it so excited me to be reminded of its truth.
"And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies' plan. By mixing a little truth with it, they had made their lie far stronger."
Oh my goodness!
How can we help our brothers and sisters to see this? And yet, because they 'know' of the truths they hold, they refuse to listen when told of the lies they have begun to live by.
Proof is in the fruit manifested in their lives. Though their reactions and words and inner retaliations may not look like Christ, they will gladly blame another or even the devil himself rather than see the lies they themselves have succumbed to. Without an obedience to the Scripture concerning hearing rebuke, seeking criticism, seeing others as better than oneself, not forsaking the assembly, forsaking pride, etc., ...without a humble and regular and frequent immersion in God's Word... one is in grave danger of being deceived by lies mixed with truth. In the last days it was to be with cunning speech that anti-christ took control... so that even the elect could be deceived. Why don't people see it hitting them up the side of the head? It is because they have put their flesh on the throne of their lives (and they do not even see that this is so) and, as a result, it is their flesh and passions and feelings that discern right teaching from wrong (while they claim that it is God's Spirit in them giving them discernment). They invest countless hours in pointless mind-numbing pursuits... and their minds have truly become numb. They claim the new covenant indwelling of the Holy Spirit while they themselves are dwelling in the things the world has offered to entertain and distract them. It is an oxymoron and cannot be and is not. Those who are IN Christ have set aside old pursuits. They are new and different in every way. They do those things Christ Himself would be found doing. Why was WWJD turned into a fad and abandoned? Because it was an effective rule to live by and so the enemy had to seek to render it lifeless. .. and so it has become.
Here are two more amazing quotes from C.S. Lewis ...
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values, have in the background, values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
Wow! I truly believe that those who have set aside or reinterpreted Scripture in the name of 'love' and 'freedom from law', will not see the error of their ways until it is too late as they watch their children follow the example they themselves have set in their apathy to God's law, by an apathy in their children toward even the values their parents worked so hard to instill in them apart from what they considered 'dead religion'.
"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike... Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish."
The brain has been shut down in those who have chosen to consider their own passions and afflictions rather than carry their cross... to forsake God's law in favor of law-LESS-ness in the name of 'freedom'... and embrace those who choose to remain in a life of sin in the name of 'love'. Only true humility can save such a one. And I believe this humility will need to be smacked into some erring one's with severe sorrow or trial in the same way that a thrashing drowning man must be knocked out with punch from the rescuer in order to be rescued. Only... even as the one being rescued comes to on shore, he must choose whether to acknowledge his previous madness and thank the one who gave him the headache or choose anger and maintain that he would have been fine if only he had been left alone.
"And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies' plan. By mixing a little truth with it, they had made their lie far stronger."
-The Last Battle
How can we help our brothers and sisters to see this? And yet, because they 'know' of the truths they hold, they refuse to listen when told of the lies they have begun to live by.
Proof is in the fruit manifested in their lives. Though their reactions and words and inner retaliations may not look like Christ, they will gladly blame another or even the devil himself rather than see the lies they themselves have succumbed to. Without an obedience to the Scripture concerning hearing rebuke, seeking criticism, seeing others as better than oneself, not forsaking the assembly, forsaking pride, etc., ...without a humble and regular and frequent immersion in God's Word... one is in grave danger of being deceived by lies mixed with truth. In the last days it was to be with cunning speech that anti-christ took control... so that even the elect could be deceived. Why don't people see it hitting them up the side of the head? It is because they have put their flesh on the throne of their lives (and they do not even see that this is so) and, as a result, it is their flesh and passions and feelings that discern right teaching from wrong (while they claim that it is God's Spirit in them giving them discernment). They invest countless hours in pointless mind-numbing pursuits... and their minds have truly become numb. They claim the new covenant indwelling of the Holy Spirit while they themselves are dwelling in the things the world has offered to entertain and distract them. It is an oxymoron and cannot be and is not. Those who are IN Christ have set aside old pursuits. They are new and different in every way. They do those things Christ Himself would be found doing. Why was WWJD turned into a fad and abandoned? Because it was an effective rule to live by and so the enemy had to seek to render it lifeless. .. and so it has become.
Here are two more amazing quotes from C.S. Lewis ...
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values, have in the background, values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
-The Abolition of Man
"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike... Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish."
-Christian Reflections
The brain has been shut down in those who have chosen to consider their own passions and afflictions rather than carry their cross... to forsake God's law in favor of law-LESS-ness in the name of 'freedom'... and embrace those who choose to remain in a life of sin in the name of 'love'. Only true humility can save such a one. And I believe this humility will need to be smacked into some erring one's with severe sorrow or trial in the same way that a thrashing drowning man must be knocked out with punch from the rescuer in order to be rescued. Only... even as the one being rescued comes to on shore, he must choose whether to acknowledge his previous madness and thank the one who gave him the headache or choose anger and maintain that he would have been fine if only he had been left alone.
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