Beloved: grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. Welcome to the second week of the month of October 2022. I pray that Spirit of God will cleanse your life of everything that is limiting your fruitfulness with the word of God that is coming to you in this assembly, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Paul, in his second letter to Timothy, says this about certain people in the church that he must not have anything to do with: “They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.” (2Tim 3:6-7NIV) From what this apostle says here, we can see that one of the reasons he tells Timothy not to have anything to do with these brethren is that they are masters in the art of dominating and manipulating people, especially women.
But why is it often easy for them to manipulate and take over people’s lives and homes? It is because they usually go for those who are ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. In other words, they don’t target everybody. Instead, they target those that are dull in learning and acting on spiritual truths.
I once heard that a certain prophet had a culture of sleeping with married women that came to him for prayers about the problems of their lives. Why was this man successful in doing that? It was because his victims were gullible. And why were they gullible? It was because they had refused to embrace the truth of God that they had been learning.
Was it that they did not know God’s mind about adultery? Or was it that no one ever taught them that having sexual intercourse with someone that you are not married to is wrong? They must have been taught these things again and again, especially if they were Christians. But it is one thing for people to be learning the truth from God; it is another thing for them to understand the truth they are learning and see how it is applicable to their everyday lives.
When people fail to grasp the relevance of the truth they are learning in church, they will most likely not act on it. And it is such individuals that usually become preys of false teachers and false prophets. It is such people that easily fall for the deception of the devil and get corrupted, cheated or injured.
Now ask yourself, “Am I really learning anything from the things I am being taught in our church meetings?” You come week after week for church meetings to pray, worship God and learn His word. But are you really learning anything? Are you gaining the knowledge of the truth of Jesus through the things you are learning? And are you seeing the application of the truth you are learning to your life?
If your answer to all these questions is not ‘Yes’, then, you too are one of those that are ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. Therefore, we can’t trust you to act on the word of God that you are learning. Then even our prayers for you may not be able to protect you from those seeking to take advantage of you and ruin your life. My prayer, at any rate, is that God will fill your heart with a clear understanding of His word each time you hear it and also strengthen you to always act accordingly, so that you will never again be a prey of any liar or deceiver that Satan may send to ruin your life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Have a splendid week.
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