MEN ARE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH COMFORT THAN WITH THE TRUTH
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Men are NOT comfortable with the truth.
Men prefer lies.
“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
–John 3:19
The world tells many lies about the truth.
The following are only a few such lies.
1- Men will die for the truth.
Men will die for a great many things. Truth is not one of them.
Men will die for something much more personal or self-centered–family, friends, country, money. They then will wrap their selfish actions in the clean, white clothes of truth, justice or some noble cause.
Men LOVE to tell lies about how good, noble and wonderful they are.
[Yes, the martyrs and apostles of Jesus did die for the truth. BUT they died for so much more: it was not some abstract truth they died for. They ultimately died for the testimony of Jesus–which is the truth personified.]
2- Men are searching for the truth.
IF men are searching for the truth, it’s only so they can construct more effective lies.
God is the ultimate truth and there are none seeking God.
“There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.”
–Romans 3:11
3-The truth is not merely the truth: there are a lot of qualifiers to the truth.
The world exalts those men who tell the most convincing lies about the truth.
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
–Winston Churchill
Truth is something that is NOT valued highly by man.
The truth is: Most men value their comfort rather than the truth.
And again, men are not comfortable with the truth.
DOES the reader want to learn the truth?
OR IS the reader content with what the world tells him?
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THE GOSPEL
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:”
—2 Corinthians 4:3
[Portions of this piece originally appeared in End Times Prophecy Headlines: October 31, 2016.]
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