Faith today has really become belittled,
Following the word of God is really just an after
thought, or rather a "Nice thought". People claim
they are "For Christ" but their words and their actions
are directly against the very word of God.
I don't claim to know it all, but I can seriously
see how for my generation and this generation
it's hard to know solid TRUTH, because on one
hand the world won't teach you solid TRUTH, and
on the other hand "popular" mainstream Christianity
wont teach you solid TRUTH either…
I always find it sad and yet laughable when I hear people explain what a "Christian" is or what a Christian is not, specially when it is by people who are not followers of the faith themselves. Kind of like when a mormon comes up to you and says "I follow Jesus Christ and teach his word, would you like to know more?" that would be an example of laughable, laughable and yet sad mind you because they claim they are Christian, which is an example of the title of this blog "Serving God opposite of His word" which is laughable because that's not possible…YOU CAN'T serve GOD and be opposite of what His word says, and yet it is sad because far to many just don't get it.
Not to just pick on Mormons either, the same can be said of "Westboro Baptists Church" who claims to be "Christian" yet preaches/protests nothing but hate, same can be said for others who claim to be "Christian" yet don't preach a wrath of God at all. This all kind of collates with what I've been reading in 2 Kings and Isaiah about Assyria and King Hezekiah…(bare with me here..)
| And when they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. Then the Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What confidence is this in which you trust? "You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? "Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem'?"' "Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses—if you are able on your part to put riders on them! "How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, 'Go up against this land, and destroy it.'" Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." But the Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?" Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! "Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from his hand; 'nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."' Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: 'Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 'until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us." 'Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 'Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 'Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'" But the people held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him." Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh. 2 Kings 18:18-37 A "Rabshakeh" back then was a high-ranking officer in the Assyrian army, and he was trying to get Jerusalem to just give up and surrender to Assyria, even claiming that God himself has given him the authority to take the city. Saying that God was displeased with King Hezekiah for earlier purging the alters and High places(2 Kings 18:15). The Rabshakeh was playing on the near eastern belief at the time, that "gods" owned the land and could give it to whomever they wish. So we can see that "The Rabshakeh" claiming God has given him authority to take Jerusalem is ludicrous, "The Rabshakeh" was treating the situation as if God the one true GOD, was just another god of some land he was about to conquer and control and would fall to his god just like all the "other gods" did. So on some level we can see how "The Rabshakeh" story is much like those who claim they serve God but are opposite of His word, "The Rabshakeh" wasn't serving anything but blasphemy. Wether "The Rabshakeh" and Assyria knew it or not they only existed at the command of THE ONLY ONE TRUE GOD.
And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD: "Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. "Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."' 2 Kings 19:5-7 The story of The king of Assyria "Sennacherib" and "The Rabshakeh" is also in Isaiah 36:2. Now we know that Assyria was feared, Assyria destroyed many nations and had much power but when it all comes down to it God will not be mocked , Assyria mocked many gods and got away with it, because simply put they were not gods at all they were false gods made by the hands of men, just as King Hezekiah put it in his prayer to God.. Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth."Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. "Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,"and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them. 2 Kings 19:15-18 God didn't take blasphemy and mocking lightly back then and the King of Assyria paid the price for it, just as those who do it now will also. If you truly serve God, then you will live according to His word it's as simple as that. You can't serve God and then be opposed to His word, it doesn't work like that. Either you are born again or you are not, Christ does a work in you and a change comes and the old passes away and you are "born again" made new through Jesus Christ OR YOU ARE NOT. There is no… "I believe in Jesus Christ, and I'm saved from sin so now I can continue in it" umm no…that would mean you don't know Christ at all, and a change never did come. Because if you really "know Christ" and a change did come, that change would have come from Him(not yourself) and you will no longer want to LIVE IN SIN…it's really that simple.. Those who try to justify their sins and say it's "ok I'm saved" are slapping God in the face, and are not saved at all. Same goes with those that stand there like they are Gods gift to the world and spew hatred like they themselves are perfect. Those living in sin ANY sin and trying to "justify" it are living for themselves and don't want that change to come, for the one thousandth time Selfishness is not Christ(Christian) at all. Serving God opposite of His word, wether that means living opposite of it or opposed to it or if it means picking and choosing what suits your needs from it….The fact is you are not serving at all unless you are wholly committed to God and His word. |
