“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 CJB
Early this morning the Lord started showing me why there are arguments, building upon what he showed me yesterday, and how crazy people are getting with their ideas or thoughts of how they see things. And the simple answer is this. Every argument happens because everyone has their own truth. And instead of seeking the TRUTH which is in Yeshua. Seeing what he says and knowing because it is truth and there is no lie in him. Where when we see things in this world and the people of the world, they follow their god satan who cannot tell the truth.
Now satan does not tell 100% flat out lies, there is always a certain amount of truth in it sprinkled with lies. But his lies grow on themselves and get deeper as the man accepts the initial lie as truth.
As I listened to the Lord I remembered many of the discussions or arguments I had over the years, and it always comes back to this point about truth. One woman I spent 6 years with used to tell me all the time “well that is my truth.” The problem was her truth was never the truth and caused a lot of problems for a lot of people. Many times I caught her in lies, and eventually she cheated on me and that was it between us. She really could not handle the truth and did not want to live in it.
The reason we spent 6 years together was the first years we were very similar, we both liked to drink and party and spend money. We did not live in the same town so we both had a lot of free time away from each other to do what we wanted to do. So arguing was not really happening much until we started to spend more time together. But frankly the main problem was I was moving deeper into a relationship with Yeshua, and she was not, she had her religion which her people cried with her when she was sad or distraught. And she had her saving grace of God which allowed her to remain the same person. But my God, the truth, Yeshua, made it clear I must change. Yeshua started to remove my sinus, telling me to not do it no more, or making me so embarrassed by them I wanted to.
For example one night we got so drunk while out on the lake, and when I trailered my boat it was on the trailer almost sideways. My neighbor came out the next morning and asked what happened, to which I told him I got really drunk and was embarrassed saying I should not have done that. He said in his “christian” way. We all sin and fall short…
This is the problem, we believe these lies satan spreads in the church community, lies that we will always be sinners and it is as if we cannot do anything to change it, so rest on this false grace doctrine and just go to fellow “christians” for comfort when times get tough.
Two things on this, first is this is a perfect example of why we get into arguments. Because one religion tells you one thing, and another tells you another. Politics the same thing, there is a HUGE difference in political parties and the doctrine they push. The old saying is never argue politics or religion. But these two things shape the majority of our lives, so how do you not discuss them?
Normally people cannot argue with me on politics because I do not go there, I simply say they are all crooks, all looking out for themselves. It does not matter if democrat or republican, look at how each party has driven us deeper into debt and more problems. The real truth is we do not need a government at all, we just need the Lord God and live in his truth. If we all knew him and obeyed him, we would not have wars, murders, stealing, rape and other sexual sin… Those things do not happen in a man who obeys God 100% of the time. They do however happen in men who try to obey the bible or simply live in this false grace doctrine and do not try to obey anything. This ex-girlfriend lived a pretty wicked life actually very distant from God. After catching her cheating I started to see patterns of times she probably did it before, and also against her ex husband. I do not have 100% proof but the signs are there. And on top of it she would speak like all the problems of her marriage where because of him, he is the one who cheated, which appears he did as well.
But here is the point, she kept digging her own grave, creating major problems for her and her kids. Which also created problems for me because she did not work and I was expected to pay for many things for her kids even when those things were wrong and creating problems for her kids.
I can go on and on with issues with her, but the point remains we had issues between us because I was moving to the truth in Yeshua and what he was showing me was the right way to live. In other words his truth, and she did not want to come. As I moved towards truth, like stopped drinking heavily and stopped paying for all these things for her kids… We started to drift even further apart. She had her arguments of why I was wrong and not acting in a “christian” way. And I had the Lord telling me what I was supposed to do and the two did not come even close to being similar and so it tore us apart. As Yeshua said, “I did not come to bring peace, I came to bring a sword to bring division…”
Keep in mind also what Paul wrote about the Spirit and word. That it is like a double edge sword “dividing” he wrote this for the same reason except it is not dividing you from other people, it is dividing you from you. Taking your old half truths or lies and changing them into truth which sets you free.
This is another reason why heaven is so special and without drama and troubles. The only people who get there have died unto themselves and their lies they live, and have come to the truth. In this truth in God there are no divisions, no arguments, no problems. We will all act in one accord, in other words exactly the same. The same beliefs, same actions, same everything. We won’t even need a sun or light because the Lord is our light, he will be our God and we will be his people. No government except him. Plus the side benefit of not more physical suffering like being too hot or too cold, or mosquitoes biting you. Nothing like that, just an eternal perfection.
This is what I look forward to, the day all this craziness in this world stops for me and I get to remain in the truth and love of Yeshua and Father God. A place where we do not have people lying or full of dysfunction.
One more quick teaching, as I just got off the phone with one of my other buyers who is going through some big issues with an ex and his son and custody. Which brought up my older girls and visitation issues I faced. His ex is lying about some stuff and trying to get full custody. When we spoke and listened to what he said and what I said, it hit me. Never once did my older girls ever say a word about anything I did that was wrong or worthy of me not seeing them. Never abusive in any way, and a father who not only spent time with them but even to the point of coaching their sports teams. Not that I was a perfect father, but I certainly did not do anything worthy of what happened.
So the question becomes why along the lines did the court not see it and do something about it? Maybe I did not have a good enough lawyer?
And the other thing we spoke about was how girls as a whole love drama, men don’t. My ex created a lot of drama, making them feel things towards me they should not have felt. And when I look back on the lies, that they believed. Things my ex would say like everyone hates your dad, he is a loser. He left us, he doesn’t love you and wants nothing to do with you… Those lies get into you and along with your mom constantly complaining about the dad whenever his name comes up, they cave in and do what the mom wants.
The lies of this world can be at all different levels, sometimes the people flat out lie on purpose to gain an unfair advantage or control. Just look at what is going on in this world with politics and the elites and world wealth. Sometimes on a smaller scale like my ex with my older girls or my friends deal currently with his ex.
And finally, on a good note. With my current wife. Anytime we have a difference of opinion on what is truth, we have arguments. However they are getting fewer and fewer in between because as we move closer to God and his truth, we both share that truth. And God makes it clear to not go down certain rabbit holes with my wife. My wife likes to be in control, so do I. So we butt heads on some things. But God has been showing me more and more why? Why do you need to be in control? Like with money, what’s it for? You have enough and I am your providor, so why fight about it? So I gave her the monthly money but also the responsibility of collecting it and taking care of the renters to get it. So now it is her deal to deal with, not mine. It did not eliminate all our problems but it did a lot of them. Again it is the truth in Yeshua which sets you free. Because truthfully, why am I so concerned with making more money when we barely use any to live on as it is? And in a year I will start getting social security so we will need even less from other sources. We basically will be able to live comfortably on my SSI. So the truth is why do I concern myself with making even more money like my ability to eat and live or my salvation depended on it, when it doesn’t?
These are the things satan wants us to focus on, the cares of the world, arguing about his lies he sows in us in the flesh. Making them to be a big deal when they really are not. In some cases the lies of satan are big deals like the people he controls who want to destroy you, take your wealth and kids. I can promise you men out there like Epstein would love to have my kids. Or even on a smaller level, like my ex wife destroying my relationship with my older daughters.
This is ultimately what satan wants, to destroy you and take you to the lake of sulfur with him. It is your decision if you want to keep living in the half truth/lies of satan? Or turn to the Lord Yeshua and live in his truth which sets you free?