Have you ever stopped and truthfully considered what CAN a created being as if an enemy of the Lord do here in the earth that could in ANY fashion somehow shrink or take away from "Who " God is?
Not only that, but in order for someone to consider themselves an enemy of God, they'd also need to know the specific details in order to know that "What" they were DOING also opposed His will?
It's one thing to operate with a lack of knowledge and I think the common sense counsel would label such things as a mistake. It's yet another to operate out of "Ignorance".
For the sake of the word masters who love to make words do the things they shouldn't, what does the essence of the word "Ignore" suggest?
The world I live in has accepted this word as if a verb is a cognitive action taken by someone who knew the truth of a mater yet they turned acted as if opposed to what they claimed they were at least made "Aware" of.
That should NOT conclude that such a person who saw or encountered the same things then interpreted those same things as did those who "Believe" differently.
How then have we arrived at such a place where the word "Ignorance" then suggest a "New" of different event took place as though it defines and then divides those who do know and those who don't know and that because of what they choose to believe to be "True"?
Here's where the word "Believe, Hypocrite and Ignore" stand in a face off.
A face off to mean, "Would the real Meaning reveal yourself by taking off the mask you're wearing"?
Not to frame God too tightly and in terms there only being ONE true God and creator of all mankind, you've either heard the truth and don't believe (Ignore) or you haven't heard the truth and as a result are now and have been operating from a place that is without knowledge of the truth?
Or is it possible you've believed a lie concerning the person of God and all that He has done?
The Apostle Paul suggested that He acted out of "Ignorance" when he did the things he did as if opposed to God, but he also included for clarity the word "Unbelief" in the same utterance.
Paul saw and heard but he chose to ignore what he saw and heard as IF the truth.
What Paul chose not to believe was the truth about a certain "Man" named Jesus who also turned out to be the son of the same God he once that he thought he knew.
1 Tim 1:13-14
Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief .
The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. NIV
1 Sam 17:47
All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."
NIV
2 Chron 20:15
This is what the LORD says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.
NIV
Notice the following does not state that we are to directly engage our enemy the devil because in a physical sense we can't, but instead because we are believers we then have been enabled to interpret the secrets to the kingdom of heaven which then reveal the "Schemes" of the devil.
Why? Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven reside in the "Truth"
Where are the "Keys" to the kingdom of heaven? You'll only find them when you truly "Believe" the words that have come from the mouth of God.
Who is ABLE to faithfully relay the words God has spoken if not One who is carried along by the same Holy spirit that is also of God?
Eph 6:11-12
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood , but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
NIV
There is however another battle, yet is it being interpreted and fought as if it's already been "Won"?
Fighting a loosing battle is never any fun and even less when those battles are against ourselves.
In terms of the knowledge that can only be found in the midst of the Alpha and Omega, only those who are willing to accept that the war has been won can then also lay down their carnal weapons they're attempting to use in a their otherwise "Not so obvious" spiritual battles.
The bad guy with a knife or gun are the easy ones to interpret as if those that have yielded their vessel and to whom? What about those that are not so "Obvious" in everything that they choose to do?
Those to mean, the vessels what may or may NOT fully know they've become a part of a wide sweeping "Scheme"?
Understanding the "Who" and coming to terms with the "Why" you're battling can sometimes cause a battle to be over much quicker and that because you've realized where the strength of your "Assumed" adversary comes from.
Have their been times when you've finally figured out that you were the one aiding the enemy and NOT someone else? Aiding your enemy by providing what some might term "Intel"? Specific details that end up harming you the way only a True enemy can?
Many sets of earth bound ears only hear what they've decided to selfishly interpret.
What many seem to forget is when the word "They and Them" gets used those words are not only speaking in terms of only the inhabitants of the earth but instead in general terms to the "Chosen" enemies of God?
Chosen? How are they chosen?
Through the exercising of their own "Will".
Until the soul (will) of a person realizes it is "Free" to choose, has that same same soul truly made a choice all it own?
When it is said of a child that "They have come of age", what does this statement suggest?
They've realized within their soul that they are "Free" to choose? This type of freedom can only present itself once the apparent cost have been weighed. It those NOT so obvious "Cost" that WILL always "EVENT-ually" catch us!
ALL of the those considered as the enemies of God can not interpret the parables uttered from the mouth of a savior sent to humanity (Sons of men).
Only those that CAN hear are also those that CAN see and understand and those that CAN are those who have "Believed".
Matt 13:11-13
He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
NIV
If earth bound thinking were to overcome the events found in the earth, do they not all require meeting with at least one death before the eternal reward is fully realized?
When you find yourself opposed to the hand of God at work, more often what you're fighting against is the very shaping of the image God had in mind for you before the battle even began.
An image though small as it may seem at the time is only part of the entire consideration of what God is doing in the earth.
As if a part of something He's created that can only be found on the other side of a particular set of circumstances or conditions.
Where's the bridge from here to there some might ask?
It's built from a unique rock God has termed "Faith" and you don't just happen upon this rock called faith. You might stumble over it, but that's only when it's attempting to introduce itself to you. That rock still requires you recognizing its unique significance.
If you don't "Know" the "Who" that also tells you what to "Believe" how can you ever come to "Know" what Faith truly is?
NOT knowing would be like looking for a particular type of rock in a field full of rocks not having ever seen one before?
What many can't seem to reconcile is a God that says "God is Love" to then associate that with the "Way" God then introduces you to the true essence of "Love" and that followed by enormity of how a love that is also "True" functions here in the earth.
Some of the worst battle's ever fought might have began in the name and for the sake of love, yet their ending has nothing to do with Love. Doubt what I suggest, then consider domestic violence in a household that claims God is present and sovereign in the mind of ALL the inhabitants of that same household?
Please join me in a better time and place that only God can provide where we can each be edified in His eternal purposes and intentions for those who choose to believe the truth. It truly is better to give than to receive once you've believed!
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