No Longer Trying to Understand

¹¹ We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. ¹² In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! ¹³ Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. ¹⁴ But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. – Hebrews 5:11-14

I continue to be shocked, although I do not know why, at how many pastors give sway to society’s morals and tell us that things clearly stated in the Canon of Scripture, the Word of God, can be changed simply because they want it to be that way.  My shock quickly gives way to frustration as these pastors are supposed to be the learned ones, called by the Spirit of God Himself, to TEACH everyone the TRUTHS contained in HIS WORD.  That’s it!  If they can’t do anything else, can’t shepherd people, can’t share their life, can’t manage their way out of a paper bag, the only thing they should be able to do is teach the truths of God’s Word.   And I find my blood boiling simply hearing another and another have no faith in God’s Word, the very Word they are to teach others.

I have found that I can justify any sin I want to do at any time.  I am a conniving selfish baby when left to myself and I want what I want.  All I have to do is reason out some excuse through the experiences in my life.  I can even reason out a way that’s it’s better for me to sin because it “helps” someone else.  There is no limit to my hypocrisy.  A final method of justifying is to persuade the clear intentional direction Scripture provides.  I can find enough vague references and discuss society in those days to confuse enough people to buy in to my desire to get what I want.  It’s really not that difficult to convince babes who do not study or meditate on God's Word.

Just to be honest, let me make one thing perfectly clear, there are many things written in God’s Word that I wish weren’t there.  I do not know many people who can’t say the same.  The sinful man side of me would like to modify many verses so it suits me, so I can do what I want to do.  BUT, THAT WOULD TAKE NO FAITH.  If I’m going to lay on my death bed unable to be helped by my parents, my wife, my children, my job, my friends, my money, or anything else in this world and I’m going to rely only upon my faith in the Words of God regarding Jesus’s life, death and resurrection to escort me into eternity, then how exactly can I not rely upon those same Words that describe how to live life?  Either I have faith in the Words of God, all of them, or I have no faith at all.

Here in Hebrews we read that these people who have fallen away from God “no longer try to understand”.  This is exactly the way people who have an agenda to defend their actions with society’s morals react to any confrontation about their actions.  They do not try to understand.  In fact, they can’t.  Here we are taught that these same people no longer know righteousness and have to be re-taught the elementary truths of God.  Of which, is a complete trust in God’s Word.  The most basic concept of faith.

If we can’t believe in the Word of God as the Word of God and that His Word is the only life, then we need to burn all the Bibles and churches, go fishing on Sundays and do whatever we want, whenever we want, whyever we want. 

Believe or don’t believe.  Have faith or don’t have faith.  Do not claim faith then teach what you want to teach!