Pastor John,
I thought about what we read this morning about the development of Christianity, and the discussion that followed. Many men strove in earnest about 1800 years ago to draft a single awe-inspiring version of Christianity (out of many submitted christianities) that would eventually be chosen by earthly-minded men as the only approved, “Orthodox” Christianity to represent Christ for all the earth.
It seems that men on earth have been given temporary liberty from God to concoct all kinds of religions and ways of worship – especially in the name of Jesus. But for all of men’s doings, their efforts are fruitless if they have no hungry hearts into which they can feed their bewitching inventions.
Men (and demons) can manufacture endless doctrines and theologies, but they cannot create even one hungry heart inside a man so that he will digest them.
False religion is nothing without a man to beguile!
This means (I would think) a man with a heart that has heard the call of God and is seeking God is the most precious thing on earth to the spirits and men that concoct false doctrine and religions.
The scriptures say the devil goes back and forth in the earth looking for men that he may devour. I wonder if that is the equivalent of countless unholy men having carried every brand and version of Christian slop from one edge of the earth to the other, looking for hungry souls to eat it?
This is a spiritual world. The truth is being sent out into it for all those who have felt the call of God in their heart and are hungering for His way.
But the lies and the liars about God are seeking the same hungry people!
Never has laying down a tract confessing the truth about Christ, so that others may find it, ever felt so important.
Thank you,
Jerry