The Truth Remains The Truth

My mind is spinning over an article I read. The article is called “Growing Pain: In Defense Of Contemporary Christian Music by Contemporary Christian Magazine. I will add the article at the end of the blog. I don’t know when this article was written; but it can be found in the 35th Anniversary edition. There is much about this article that I find disturbing. The problem is man trying to interpret the bible without the Holy Spirit. What happens is you get an opinion or twisting of what the bible really meant to say. This shows someone trying to justify something that cannot be justified. One cannot change the scriptures to suit one’s fancy. The scriptures say what the scriptures mean; no matter how someone interprets them. If you lack wisdom, ask of God. (Jame 1:5)

1 John 2:15-17Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 15 Do not love the world or the things of the world. If someone loves the world, then love for the Father is not in him; 16 because all the things of the world — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life — are not from the Father but from the world. 17 And the world is passing away, along with its desires. But whoever does God’s will remains forever.

Romans 12:1-2Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 12 I exhort you, therefore, brothers, in view of God’s mercies, to offer yourselves as a sacrifice, living and set apart for God. This will please him; it is the logical “Temple worship” for you. 2 In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards of the ‘olam hazeh. Instead, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of your minds; so that you will know what God wants and will agree that what he wants is good, satisfying and able to succeed.

1 John 2:26-28New Living Translation (NLT)26 I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. 27 But you have received the Holy Spirit,[a] and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit[b]teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.

We are told not to love the world. It means exactly that. We are told not to conform to this world. We are told if we don’t know to ask God. No matter how Greek words are used to dance around it. The Bible says what it means, and it means what it says. It amazes me how people try to find loopholes to get around what God said. When they do that the enemy is working in them. The first occurrence of questioning what God said is from the serpent. (Genesis 3:1)

Now the serpent was more crafty than any wild animal which Adonai, God, had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You are not to eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Either we will love God and detest the world, or love the world and detest God. This is why we are told we can’t serve two masters. (Matt 6:24) It is the corrupt flesh that seeks loopholes. It is the Holy Spirit that reveals God’s will and helps us fulfill it. This is why we must see to it that the light in us isn’t actually darkness. (Matt 6:23) Anything done apart from the Holy Spirit is the world! A misinterpretation by any means is still misinterpreted. Fresh water and salt water don’t flow from the same spring. (James 3:11) What relationship does light have with darkness? (2 Cor 6:14) and finally Rev 22:11 11 “Whoever keeps acting wickedly, let him go on acting wickedly; whoever is filthy, let him go on being made filthy. “Also, whoever is righteous, let him go on doing what is righteous; and whoever is holy, let him go on being made holy.”

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