The Sharp Axe

Hosea 4:6 (NKJV) " My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge". The worst kind of deception is self-deception . We believe we are doing right, when we are actually living in error. Because we are human, we will always make mistakes. That’s just our human nature. It’s when we continue in error especially when we know it’s wrong, that’s what the Lord despises. God’s people should be walking in the truth. What is the truth and where can it be found? God’s Word is truth. Jesus is the author of truth, In John 14:6 He says,“ I am the Way and the Truth and the Life ;” He gives us the Holy Ghost to help discern the truth. He says in John 15:26, “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth …” I know for myself, I’ve spent several years walking in self-deception with what I’ve believed. See if any of these areas sound familiar: Religious teaching, relationships, even certain scriptures of the Bible that have been taken out of...

YOU KNOW, I SOMETIMES WONDER WHAT GOES ON WITH ME. ONE MINUTE, I GET UP IN THE EARLY MORNING AND IMMEDIATELY GO TO MY QUIET PLACE TO TALK WITH GOD. THE NEXT MINUTE, I’M LOOSING MY TEMPER AND YELLING. ONE MOMENT, I’M READING MY BIBLE AND JOURNALING THE THINGS THE LORD IS SAYING TO ME. THE NEXT MOMENT, I’M GOSSIPING TO SOMEONE ABOUT MY CO-WORKER. ONE MINUTE, I’M TEACHING MY KIDS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL ABOUT JESUS. THE NEXT, I’M HONKING IMPATIENTLY AT THE CAR IN FRONT OF ME FOR DRIVING TOO SLOW. IT’S LIKE I’M LIVING WITH A PSYCHO, ACTING LIKE A CHRISTIAN ONE MOMENT, THEN ACTING LIKE THE DEVIL THE NEXT! THE APOSTLE PAUL OBVIOUSLY UNDERSTOOD THIS. HE WROTE IN ROMANS 7:15… 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. BECAUSE WE’RE STILL DEALING WITH THE SIN NATURE IN US, WE SOMETIMES STRUGGLE WITH OBEYING GOD AND HIS WORD. WE HAVE TO CONSTANTLY MAKE THE CHOICE WHICH NATURE WILL WE FOLLOW. WE’LL ALWAYS MAKE MISTAKES. SOMETIM...