Greatest Weapons....The Wayfarer 6/24/17

Greatest Weapons
6/24/17

John 8:44King James Version (KJV)⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

The greatest weapon in Satan's arsenal is also his oldest, used  to lure away a  third of God's angels to follow  him to perdition,  and used on mankind, from the beginning in the Garden of Eden, through the Milenia to this day as we progress to the finality of the defeat of that weapon's effectiveness once and for all.

That weapon was, is and will continue to be, that his lies are truths, and that the truth given us by God is to be disbelieved.

That weapon was effective on both angels and mankind, and continues to be effective on them because of the inherent vanity that coincides with the gift of choice, given both of these creatures to accept or deny place within the creation that was, and remains for the pleasure of the Creator Himself.

Just as Satan sought equality, and superiority to his Creator, so too does he continue to promote mankind's own quest for that same equality, and superiority.

It is that very quest that makes mankind apathetic toward the wishes and demands of a Creator who cannot be denied the fruits of His own Creation.

That very apathy, in and of itself becomes part and parcel of the weapon used to deny mankind of the Creator's intent for him, as is the intent of the one wielding the weapon.

It is that apathy that is so evident among disbeliever, and those claiming belief, yet remaining apathetic to the lie, even advancing that lie through inaction as well as action that leads to a world, troubled and in turmoil as that apathy grows ever stronger.

Revelation 3:14-22
King James Version (KJV)
¹⁴ And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
¹⁶ So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
²¹ To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
²² He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Apathy on the part of a believer is unacceptable, and cannot coexist with belief in the Truth given us through Christ Jesus.

That apathy that allows the lie to continue, to thrive within society, begins and ends with the individual that concedes to the demand for that apathy within their individual lives.

Willingness to "overlook" the evidence of the lie being told leads to the growth of the lie, and greater acceptance of the lie rather than the truth.

Prisons fill continually because of apathetic response given to the young in need of guidance, who find that guidance in the lie rather than the truth, because of the unwillingness to face the discomfort of that truth as the lie is presented to the young.

The young, then having been guided only by the lie, can only face the consequence of that lie, compounded and magnified as youth flees and the adult within the child reverts to what has been taught, or failed to be taught.


Proverbs 22:6
KJV
⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Apathy toward the lie results in ignorance of the TRUTH.

Ignorance of that Truth results is still grater perpetuation of the lie, condemning those who remain apathetic to that Truth, while in possession of it, to reap the rewards generated by the lie that was never addressed.

Every generation, since Adam, has set out on a quest for that Truth, too often detoured from the completion of that quest by the very existence  of the lie that has resounded so loudly that the whisper of the Truth could not be heard, drowned by the amplification of that lie, as evidence of the Truth has been obfuscated and rejected because of the discomfort of that very Truth in a world ruled by the lie.

That lie has led to acceptance of the unacceptable, legalization of the illegal, promotion of the abominable as normality despite abnormality that remains obvious to any in possession of the Truth, and a continuing quest for "a better life" that leads only to the promised death when that Truth is ignored.

That lie that is so pervasive that it is not even recognized leads to hunger, disease and pain for so many as others choose to ignore, remain apathetic toward those conditions in others as they pursue their own superiority, rather than equality of place among their own race of humanity.

Wars, deprivation, drought, flood, pestilence of every kind exist alongside the apathy of the "superior" creatures not experiencing the results of them... therefore choosing the apathy that allows the Truth to go unseen and unheard.

The quest for truth through each generation has been led down a path of detour by the "substances" that demand the apathy required for their use, rather than the empathy required to achieve the end ;of that quest, having found what is being searched for.

The substances become the end all, be all for those who choose them, and the apathy toward all else denies the Truth that must be faced no matter how uncomfortable to each facing it.

Hebrews 9:27 KJV
²⁷And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Apathy coexists with the vanity created by choice, and can only coexist with the greed that accompanies that vanity... the vanity of the lie being pursued that continues to promote the "superiority" of man, rather than the Superiority of his Creator.

The equality being sought by men may never be obtained with apathy toward that superiority.

"OK preacher, you have told us about the weapons available to Satan, and how great those weapons are in their use against us, now just what do you suggest we do about it?"

The weapon of that lie CAN be defeated, must be defeated, HAS BEEN defeated once and for all by a far greater weapon that does not exist within Satan's arsenal and never can.

That weapon is TRUTH accompanied by mercy and GRACE, having been delivered by no less personage than the only begotten Son of God, Christ Jesus Himself.

In order for that weapon to become a part of the arsenal used in protection of the believer, apathy must first be abandoned, replaced by the faith that is necessary to employ that TRUTH.

Hebrews 11
King James Version (KJV)

11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

² For by it the elders obtained a good report.
³ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.




Faith must be more than a word, it has to have the substance that vanquishes apathy, otherwise it remains just another word being mouthed to no effect, like so many others made meaningless by the apathy that is evidenced.

Faith must be grounded in the TRUTH, not the lie being touted as truth by those who would deny the effectiveness of what has been delivered along with that TRUTH.


John 14:6-7
King James Version (KJV)
⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
⁷ If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.


The Way, Truth and Life remain available despite the all pervasive lie.

KJV John 1 :17.

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

It can and WILL be found only by those rejecting the apathy generated by the greed, vanity and supposed superiority of men.

That apathy must be banished from the lives of the believer, from the believer's home, from the very vocabulary of the believer if he is to BE a believer...despite the "discomfort" that will always attempt to quash the Truth.

Matthew 10:38
King James Version (KJV)
³⁸ And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Jesus took His cross willingly, without apathy toward those who were apathetic toward His Father.

He took it willingly for those who were willing to reject the apathy inherent within their world.

He took it willingly despite the apathy toward his suffering the greatest insult to His physical body possible, the torture and death of that body, in order to prove the sufficiency of the sacrifice made through His Resurrection.

That resurrection remains WAY, TRUTH, and LIFE despite the apathy of the lie.

Neither life lived, nor cross to be carried promise comfort within an apathetic world, nor can greater comfort come within that world than through the rejection of that apathy and EVIDENCE of the rejection of that apathy toward Creator and toward all mankind, those close within family circle that create that discomfort, and those in the greater circle of man that are in need of the Truth that may only be given it by those in possession of it.

 2 Timothy 1:12
King James Version (KJV)
¹² For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Amen and Amen
The Wayfarer