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Suppressing the Truth

 The story of Jesus Christ is not a made up story, it’s actually something that took place in history. The bible is more than a historical book, it’s the word of God. In the book of Romans the bible says that God has given us evidences of his existence so that we are without excuse, (Romans 1:19-20). But why do so many discount the message of the bible and live like God doesn’t exist? For the large part, people are willfully ignorant. They may have heard the message of the gospel at one point, but then chose not to believe. What they don’t understand is that God holds them responsible for their unbelief, and one day when they die, they will be judged for it. (Hebrews 9:27).


The same applies for those who believed at one point, but no longer believe. Our faith must carry us throughout our lives, and we must actually die with faith, in order to be pleasing to God (Hebrews 11:13). One of the ways people stop believing is that they suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18). At first when people sin, they become very uncomfortable with the situation. God has made it this way so that we would eventually turn from our sins and repent. Sometimes we are required to forgive or to be reconciled to others, but the human heart resists this call of God, and after a while when we persist in our sins, our heart becomes calloused and hardened and we no longer hear God calling us to repent. 


After this hardness of heart happens, people act like the truth doesn’t exist, this is what is meant by suppressing the truth. We essentially burry the truth, or hold the truth under water, kind of like a beach ball. The reason why people hide the truth is because the truth brings conviction of sin, but if we are unwilling to repent we continue to act as if this truth doesn’t exist. People even get angry with those who remind them of their sins, simply because their hearts have been hardened and they don’t want to repent. 


We are living in a time where priests and pastors are afraid to talk about sin because they are afraid they will upset their congregation. The question to ask is why do people come to church anyways these days, if it is not to deal with their sins. In my generation and in earlier ones, church was a place that you heard the truth about sin, and you repented, but now there are too many people even in church who suppress the truth because they don’t really want to change. If you talk to them, you eventually find out that they want to go to heaven on their terms, and not necessarily on God’s terms. This is the difference between a church that is alive spirituality and one that is dead.


To even suggest to some people that God has different thoughts than them is to commit a big error because these people have made an idol of the Lord and created their own God in their own image. Some of them have become their own God. This on the contrary is a sign of an unrepentant heart, a heart that doesn’t want to change, and a heart that ends up persecuting those who try to tell them the truth. Ultimately, a heart that suppresses the truth. This is Mike.


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