The Bible warns us of the habit of opposing the truth. There are people who seem to make it a hobby to oppose themselves to the way of truth taught in the Bible. Whatever God supports they oppose. Study the underlying danger of this evil habit.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Opposing themselves ...
The Bible says in 2. Timothy 2:24,25:
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach,
patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure
will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.
There are those who constantly oppose themselves to the sound doctrine of the Bible
and who'd rather hold on to their own imagination, understanding or private
interpretation of some scripture. Those who oppose themselves usually seek strife and
sedition, but as Christians all we can really do is with meekness present Bible truth.
Then it is up to God to give them repentance or not. We can not convince or compel
people into compliance with Bible truth.
However, it is very interesting to observe how people oppose themselves. One of the
ways that I know the Bible is God's inerrant word is that people naturally always tend
to do the opposite of what the Bible says. Have you ever noticed that? By nature, man
opposes himself to the truth of God. Many Christians in the shallow social club-type
churches especially oppose themselves to Bible truth since they have largely turned
themselves away from the truth and turned to their own little ways.
It is amazing to see how people oppose the way of truth. Here are some examples:
The Bible says God's people need to be separate (2. Cor. 6:14-18) and pure (Titus
2:14). People today and the professing Christian especially tend to be worldly and to
follow every whiff of sin. They are totally addicted to fashion fads, sports, social
habits, pagan holidays (Halloween), and ungodly television shows. Why do professing
Christians oppose themselves? Don't they know the scriptures? Why do they make
light of God's word?
The Bible teaches the principle of self-denial (Mk. 8:34) or to be temperate (1. Cor.
9:25). It goes without saying that when you follow Christ you need to let go of
something. So why do you find professing Christians of today doing all they can to
have "fun", to participate in a megalomaniacal lifestyle of more-more-more and more-
bigger-better, and misusing church as a place to strut their stuff and brag about their

2. status, degrees etc. ???
The Bible says it is a dishonor for a man to have long hair (1. Cor. 11:14). What does
society teach? The opposite. Since they are blinded to the truth, the oppose God's
ways by nature.
The Bible says that a woman ought to be a keeper at home (Tit. 2:4) and to guide the
house (1. Tim. 5:14). However, society, the feminazis and the backslidden church have
deceived women and stolen their hearts from God's true calling and intention for
them and misled them to oppose God's way, to turn from the right way described in
Proverbs 31:10-31), and to take on the filthy character qualities of the woman in
Proverbs 7:10-18. Why do they oppose themselves?
The Bible says that it is not good to pile up debt (Prov. 22:7, Ro. 13:8). But society of
today is deep in debt. The USA is over 8 trillion dollars into debt which endangers the
stability of the dolllar and the economy. Households are in debt. Society has created a
sick system where people are many times forced to take on large amounts of debt for
education and to relentlessly exclude those without the proper education from jobs
and other functions in society and therefore condemn millions to poverty. Shame on
this society.
The Bible says that a man is supposed to wear a man's clothes and a woman wears a
woman's clothes (Deut. 22:5). In today's degenerate culture, however, people oppose
themselves and men become cross-dressers and women have the audacity of wearing
pants instead of skirts and dresses and cut their hair short in opposition to 1. Cor. 11:5
-16. Why oppose yourself to God's word when you know how to do right? Why do
entire churches dodge this truth? Are they captive to society and its corrupt system it
imposes on people? Be separate! come out! Be not partakers with them! Walk not
with them! Don't be conformed, be transformed!
The Bible says man was created by God and now is separated from God because of
sin, is corrupt, depraved and doomed to hell without God. People today oppose
themselves and believe the opposite. They believe man was not created, but is the
random product of impersonal forces of evolution. They rather believe Satan's false
promise in Gen. 3:5 that we evolve into gods and run the world without God. Isn't it
strange that mankind buys into Satan's lies but opposes itself to God?
God speaks of a 6 day creation work roughly 6000 years ago. People today oppose
themselves and speak of billions of years of gradual development. You can pick on
what the Bible says and be sure that people today teach and practice the opposite
while they rebelliously oppose themselves to sound doctrine inpired by God. It is my
prayer that the Lord sends out faithful servants into this world that will teach sound
doctrine with meekness and patience to those that oppose themselves. It is always
such a joy when God gives repentance and someone gets in on what God says in his
word instead of holding on to what the world or even a church says. It is pathetic to
see how many churches have emancipated themselves from the Bible and have
purged those who still believe it from their ranks by denouncing them as "too strict".
May the Lord pardon this folly.
The Bible says that a woman ought to be characterized by a meek and quiet spirit (1.
Peter 3:4) and submit to her husband since he is the head of the home (Eph. 5:22-33).
But professing Christians of today are full of excuses and pretexts for not following
sound doctrine in this matter. They oppose themselves and the women have become
stubborn and loud (Proverbs 7:11) while they try to usurp authority (1. Tim. 2:11,12)

3. with a rude and spoiled spirit. Worldly churches cowardly hush on the scriptures on
the role of the woman in order not to offend their members. That's why these
churches are starched and uptight because there is no liberty to preach the truth. The
preaching has degraded to a Sunday talk that does neither address reality nor sound
Bible doctrine but just some sugar-coated, saltless half-truths about that mention God
every now and then, but really show no love for the truth. Why do they oppose
themselves?
Jesus says: And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged
with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon
you unawares. Luke 12:34. Jesus warns against surfeiting (overeating) and
drunkenness. These bad habits will disable us from being sober, vigilant and godly
Christians. But what do professing Christians do? Oppose themselves, of course! In
America Christians have taken on the bad habit of going to eat in restaurants after
church. In the cities restaurants pave the roads for miles and Christians wonder why
few people come to church. Why, it is because all these people are at work running
restaurants so the church crowd can come after service to eat. Worldly Christians
have no regrets about stuffing fast food into their body and this same "Christian"
crowd will not endure preaching on what the Bible says on nutrition. Among Baptists
in particular I have found the hypocrisy of preaching against drunkenness but
refusing to preach against surfeiting because that is the Baptists' dearest pet sin:
overeating. Jesus actually recommends fasting to the church (Lk. 5:35, Acts 13:3). But
people today oppose themselves. They shamelessly stuff one Happy Meal after
another into their children and spend big money for eating out all the time and are to
lazy to cook at home and eat together at a family table. The Bible says: fast, don't
overeat. Society says the opposite: Don't fast, eat all you can. Have you noticed those
gutless churches where they don't preach on fasting because they think it offends
people and they are afraid that a church member gets sick while fasting and sues the
church or gives it a bad name. Worldly people today who can't think for themselves
but rather just believe their TV and their daily people have been misled to believe the
stereotype that only "cults" fast. Too many Christians oppose themselves because they
still hold on to stereotypes that the world has spread against the cause of Christ.
Hopefully, some able servant of the Lord will instruct those that oppose themselves
with sound doctrine!
The Bible says: Flee also youthful lust. 2. Tim 2:22. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which
war against the soul. 1. Peter 2:11. People today do the exact opposite. Lust is
institutionalized as the leading principle in advertising and sales. The appeal to lust
through shameful displays of nudity and concupiscence are all over the place. Worldly
music appeals to fleshly lusts. Why are they opposing themselves?
Jesus says: Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning, made them
male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and
shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh. Mt. 19:4,5. But people
today once again oppose themselves are are captive in Satan's web of lies and change
the truth of God to the very opposite of what God said and changed the natural use
into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use
of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that
which is unseemly. Romans 1:26,27. Why do they do the opposite of what God said.
God created man and woman for each other. But man opposes that and starts the
sodomite same-sex abomination.
The Bible says that children need to be trained (Prov. 22:6) and corrected with the
rod (Prov. 29:15), Society opposes itself and leaves children by themselves behind the
boob box or an occult video game that never should have been bought. Then they
refuse to correct the child, but spoil it to the point where it has a spoiled, rotten
character of a fool who is too proud to take instruction. Why oppose yourself?
There are thousands more examples where people by nature oppose themselves to the
word of God. But it all boils down to this:

4. Opposition to God is satanic!
If you are saved, you business is to OBEY God and not to OPPOSE what
the inspired sciptures say. It is pathetic to see how people claim to be "saved" but
their way of life, their opinions, their actions, their words consistently reflect the
opposite of what God says. Best example: God opposes adultery and divorce. Folks
today oppose themselves and get divorced left and right instead of getting ahold of the
Blessed Book and DOING what it says. I personally have come to the point where I
hate talking about the Bible. I despise religious chitchats and pious conversations.
The only thing that matters to the Lord is this: IS IT DONE? Instead of talking about
the Bible I put an emphasis on doing the Bible because actions speak louder than
words. You can preach your heart out over worldwide radio, tv, web and all other
global media. But talk is cheap nowadays. If you are just preaching something, but
you and your family are still caught up in wordly habits, materialism, your wife
doesn't submit, your kids won't obey, you still smoke, drink, overeat, you still listen to
rock music and enjoy soap operas and TV talk shows then your preaching and
worldwide ministry is vain because it is not DONE. Because you still opposing
youself to sound doctrine in so many areas of your life. You are just talking about
something you don't really now.
Why is opposition satanic? Here is where it all started:
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he
is God. 2. Thess. 2:3,4.
When the man of sin (beast/antichrist) is going to reign in the great tribulation he is
going to oppose and exalt himself above God. That takes us back to Lucifer, who was
the anointed cherub (Heb 28:14-16), who wanted to exalt himself above God and be
like God - a created being opposing the Creator. Then Lucifer fell from heaven and we
thus know him as Satan who is now the prince of this world until Christ returns with
his saints to remove beast, false prophet and Satan from the earth and doom them for
eternity.
It is Satan's work that so many people today always oppose themselves to God. The
god of this world keeps people blinded but thank God for every servant of the Lord
who can intruct those that oppose themselves, so they can get out of Satan's snare (2.
Tim. 2.26). It is God's way to obey the truth. Opposition to that comes from the
wicked one.
Posted by Ingo Breuer
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