Mission Venture Ministries

“This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth. (Jeremiah 7:28) 

Does this verse sound familiar to what is going on in the world right now? 

We are living in a time when many people have lost their ability to identify truth or to discern truth from lies. And just as in Jeremiah’s time, by rejecting the truth of God, many have given themselves over to lies and falsehood and now call evil good and good evil, like Isaiah wrote (5:20). 

Therefore, the pursuit of truth has been taken over by a culture that esteems mistaken opinions hidden like facts, more important than the truth. 

People are witnessing how easily truth can be twisted, manipulated and suppressed by politicians, historians, scientists and the media and truth has literally disappeared and has been cut off from their mouth. 

When these entities mislead people by twisting and distorting the truth, their lies can produce temporal consequences. However, when religious leaders do the same thing, there are eternal consequences for themselves and for those who believe their lies. They better get right with God before it is too late. 

We can be misled about a lot of things in this life and still survive, but if we are misled about how to become a child of God, we will pay for that mistake for all eternity. Religious leaders who deceive people about their eternal destiny are to be exposed as enemies of God and agents of the devil; because there is only one Gospel that has the power to save those who are perishing. Scriptures tells us that “even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8-9). 

A few days ago, another homosexual preacher just stated that “Jesus was a racist, a liar, a fornicator, an adulterer and a homosexual.”  

He further stated that “Jesus Christ is not the Son of God or the Savior of sinful people.” Evidently he does not know the truth of the Word of God since the Bible strictly states “that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). 

The battle for truth is becoming more and more intense, because, Satan and his depraved demonic possessed followers with a seared conscience are becoming more vicious, deceitful and wicked by the minute. As 1 Timothy 4:1-2 states: “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.” Consequently, if the conscience is seared, literally cauterized, then it has been rendered insensitive, meaning that such a conscience does not work properly and cannot differentiate the truth from a lie. Just as the hide of an animal scarred with a branding iron becomes numb to further pain, so the heart of an individual with a seared conscience is desensitized to any moral warnings. 

Therefore, those who distort or pervert the Gospel of grace are propagating the most dangerous and deadly lie anyone could ever disseminate. These unstable people who twist the Word of God are doing so to their own destruction (2 Peter 3:16); and therefore, God will destroy those who propagate falsehood; because, the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man (Psalm 5:6). 

Truth is the only thing known that can both unite and divide people. Jesus, who is the personification of truth, came to divide believers against unbelievers, a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law… (Matthew 10:34-35). On the other hand, truth unites those who have been sanctified by the truth (John 17:17-21). God set them free by His Word of truth as Jesus told them, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). 

Sadly, those who tell the truth are often publicly shamed, labeled as intolerant, by those who reject the truth, and exchange the truth of God for a lie (Romans 1:25). Others are deprived of the truth and understand nothing because they have been blinded so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God (2 Corinthians 4:4); and then there those who are “always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7). 

Every person’s eternal destiny is confirmed by the divinely authoritative truth of Scripture and we know that the most trustworthy authority for discerning truth from error is the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the personification of truth, and His Word, which is the truth (John 14:6; 17:3). Christians know that it is impossible for God to lie (Hebrews 6:18); and we know that truth always has an absolute purpose; it is never biased, and it is not subjected to, or dependent upon anything else. We also know that truth is immutable, just as Jesus is; He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). 

Daniel in his prayer to the Lord prayed: “Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to Your truth. The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything He does; yet we have not obeyed Him” (Daniel 9:13-14). This is a warning that we must heed and is also demonstrated by a number of examples in the New Testament, here are but just a few of them: 

• “For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness” (2 Thessalonians 2:11–12). 

• “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them” (Romans 1:18). 

• “God ‘will repay each person according to what they have done.’ To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, He will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger” (Romans 2:6-8). 

And lastly, “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:6). Therefore, those who have been deceived will never know the truth until they are lovingly confronted with the truth. We must use the truth of Scripture to expose and destroy the lies of the devil. 

As truth-bearers, all true born again Christians have been given an awesome responsibility and a divine privilege. We are to guard, proclaim, uphold and defend the truth against any and all opposition and to expose the lies that undermine the truth of God’s Word (1 Timothy 6:20-21). 

May our passion for the truth cause us to have a greater compassion for those who are perishing by speaking the truth in love as a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15).

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