THE WAR OVER INFORMATION
A very dear friend of mine told me some years ago: that the next war would be fought over information. I did not necessarily agree with her, after all she only had a master’s degree in computer application, while I just barely finished high school. In her absent the words she spoke years ago appears to be affirming themselves; judging by the media adding to the vocabulary the term: misinformation. When we speak the words of God can we confirm what we are saying? 1 Timothy 1:7desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.If we cannot confirm what the Law or the Bible is saying we are commanded to be silence, and this is extremely hard for us to do because our hearts are hard. We would like to give God our opinion when we read His scriptures, or we would like to give God a piece of our mind. 1 Corinthians 2:16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. To have the mind of Christ we must be instructed and chasten in our minds and this takes time. We are commanded to patiently wait on the Lord to reveal himself or His thoughts concerning a scripture, if we fail to do as instructed the following happens. 2 Timothy 3:7ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.We simply cannot inherit eternal life until we come into His knowledge of the truth; our carnal knowledge give mis-formation or a lie.1 Timothy 1:7desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.People just mouth- off scriptures without any understanding as to what that scripture means to God: this shows no fear or reverence of God.There is no sin in desiring to be teachers if we have been instructed first by the Holy Ghost. Our problem being we just don't believe that there's a higher Spiritual level of wisdom that can only be taught by the Holy Ghost: we simply have no faith. Thus, this becomes a battle over information or wisdom and who we are hearing it from. Our own earthly wisdom is a very subtle counterfeit of God’s wisdom and we fail to recognize this. If we never learn whose voice we are hearing while reading the Bible, the battle is lost. We should ask ourselves while reading the Bible [millions never do] whose image are we forming in our minds as we are reading? Years ago, before television people would listen to a radio dramatic shows and would create in the minds images of the characters on the show. Also, we do this perhaps when reading a fictional novel: the main character becomes an image of us. A lot of modern movies do well if we can relate to the character. The Bible is unlike any book ever written because it conveys the character of God and at the same time condemns the mortal character of man. Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. After Adam sinned by thinking he could make himself as wise as God [Adam represents an image of us] we were no longer made in the image of God. Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. The United States Supreme Court uses an image of a woman to represent its laws; the woman in the above Bible verse represents a bad law. A bad law or carnal interpretation while reading the Bible is the LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. The law of the Spirit wars against the law of sin and death; yet until we spiritually hear anything from God Spirit there is no conflict in the mind: when we hear something from God we have been illuminated. Hebrews 10:32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions. Again, were no law exist: meaning we have not been illuminated by God, no afflictions exist. People wrongly believe that these afflictions are physical, maybe you cannot pay your bills: problem being you put yourself into debt, not God. The great fight of afflictions will be if we return to the former way of seeing the scriptures by our own wisdom. We must endure the temptation of the carnal mind to make God words sin or our own thoughts. The carnal mind has made sin into something physically we do, yet I am not condoning living a lewd lifestyle, because such a lifestyle would leave no time to pursue the things of God. James 4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.We should all desire for the things[words] of God to be revealed to us, when we fail to wait, we spiritually kill anything that God desires to give us.Mark 11:24 is one of the most misunderstood scriptures in the Bible, due to mis- information given by the carnal mind of man, because we all interpreted the Bible our way[Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.] and refused any instructions from the Holy Ghost.Mark 11:24Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.The things we have desired have been give us more fleshly interpretation of Gods words or something physical like a new car.In twenty-five years of playing Church, I had never met anyone who knew that they were waiting for God to reveal His word unto them. If God does not create a desire in us to know Him, we will simply have none. This waiting is our Salvation! Mark 15:43Joseph of Arimathæa, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. We have only craved more fleshly wisdom and have not craved to be part of the Spiritual body of Jesus Christ, Him being the Head. Yet people will mouth-off about God being the head of their lives and have not a clue to what they are affirming. 1 Timothy 1:7desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.If we were honorable men and women, our desires would not fail, and we could boldly go to God word knowing we would receive the promise.