The Dangers Of Ignoring The Truth

Luke 11:47-51 (NKJV)

"Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’ that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation."

Truth is very pesky and persistent. Truth is independent. Truth cares nothing about your rights or its feeling. Therefore, the messenger of truth must remain equally neutral. The messenger has no sympathy or empathy.

The messenger doesn't care about how you would feel about the message.

The messenger is just delivering the news from the One that sent him.

You can always tell when you don't like the messenger and his message.

You ignore it.

John 15:22 (NKJV)

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin."

When it comes to the bills that we've created, all the messenger or mailman/woman has done was look on the name and address of the statement and placed it in your mailbox. Your name, your mailbox, your bill. You've created it, not the mailman/woman.

The mailman/woman doesn't have any sympathy or empathy for you. They just deliver what YOU'VE created. Therefore, don't blame the mailman/woman for what you've created.

The prophets were sent by the Lord to warn Israel of the doom that would come because they refused to hear the Lord with His written Word. Since Israel disregarded the written Word, the Lord would send the prophet.

Their lack of respect for the written Word is emphatic. Especially when the Lord sends the messengers to warn them to turn from their wicked ways.

Israel was cruel to the prophets of the Lord. It underscored their hatred for God and His commandments. A good example was the heart attitude of Israel prior to the Babylonian captivity.

2 Chronicles 36:15-16 (NKJV)

(2 Kin. 25:1–21; Jer. 52:4–30)

"And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy."

It's the same with pastors that love the Lord, His truth, and the people. True pastors warn the sheep. True pastors care for the sheep. True pastors will do everything to tell you the truth.

True pastors are an enemy to those that refuse to walk in the truth.

Galatians 4:16 (NKJV)

"Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?"

Paul was alarmed the the believers turned away from the truth of the gospel to pursue the law of Moses to be saved. The believers at Corinth introduced sin in the camp. It was the same in Ephesus. Paul had to send Timothy to straighten them out. Paul had to send Titus to Crete to do the same.

There's so much foolishness in the house of worship.

Today, people run from the truth because of their love for foolishness and sin.

2 Timothy 4:2-4 (NKJV)

"Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."

That time is now. People in church want foolishness and sadlly, they have no appetite for the truth. People want fables and myths.

Then when a pastor does 2 Timothy 3:16, the pastor is ignored.

True pastors warn the sheep but there comes a time when the sheep will ignore the warning of the shepherd. There's only so much that the true shepherd could do.

Sometimes, the true shepherd lets them go and spend all their of their inheritance. The true shepherd knows that famine is coming. They know that it may cost you your life. But it's in hopes that you would come to your senses.

The Pharisees and Sadducees of the times of the Lord Jesus had the same attitude because they were driven by money and power. The Lord observed that they cared nothing about the sheep. Matthew chapter 23 was a rebuke to these ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing in that they were hypocrite leaders.

However, in Matthew 15, the Lord said "Let them alone."

Matthew 15:12-14 (NKJV)

"Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Let them alone.

They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

The most difficult thing to do is to watch them drive themselves and their followers into the ditch but because of their hearts. But it's the only lesson.

Let them alone, they be blind leaders of the blind and they'll both fall into the ditch. Which means that no one in that blind group will be able to help each other get out of the ditch.

It's the same with following false teachers and false doctrine.

You try desperately to sound the alarm, but they insist on continuing into the ditch, and you have to let them fall into it.

You hear and see false doctrine every Sunday. And every week, you watch them both fall into the ditch.