Proud Of My Friend!

Hello Guys and Gals,

Have you ever challenged a professor? I have! I do not always try to do so, but if they conflict with knowledge I have, I try to seek out why the conflict exists. Inevitably, it usually ends in a bad grade for me!

I have a friend enrolled in law school right now. This friend is a very accomplished man. He has a BA and 2 masters degrees as well as a very accomplished career with the government. Yet, in law school, where he is taking classes on the weekend while still holding a very demanding full time job, he is being treated like he is nothing and when he seeks help, he is being treated badly.

Today, society is trying to say that the knowledge we grew up on is false. They are pushing the thought that the youth holds all the answers and that we should not depend upon the knowledge being passed down by those before us. Even in the church, there is a movement from The Emergent Church that says that we have been too strict, too demanding and not accepting enough of other doctrines. So The Emergent Church is saying that our foundation for the gospel, the Word of God, was only applicable back in the days of nomadic and tribal culture and has no application for a society as advanced as ours is now.

Do you know that in about 300 years, our knowledge has advanced so rapidly that we went from warfare of swords and bows, to nuclear warfare! Yet we have the audacity to say that we know better than our ancestors! How do you know that? Where is your evidence? Where is your original evidence? Do you even know what it is I am asking of you?

Do you know the story of the Tower of Babel? How do you know that they were not as advanced as us?

Do you know the story of Noah's Ark? How do you know that the society he came from was not as advanced as us?

Do you know the story of Tyre and Sidon? How do you know that the society they came from was not as advanced as us?

Do you realize that we have the ability to so utterly annihilate a region or nation so as to leave no evidence left but demolished metal structures? Do you know what eats metal over time? Ever heard of rust, that thing which turns even metal to dust? Do you know that it has been around 6,000 years since Noah and the Ark? Do you know that God has all the knowledge we have achieved so far and even far beyond it?

God does not change! He is known as the Great 'I AM'! That means he is unchanging and He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. If He says this one thing is sin, then He has defined it for He is the Law Maker and if He does not change, His Law does not change. He does unveil further knowledge and relationship with him to us as time goes by. This is why the New Covenant is simply a further unveiling of the Old Covenant. The Old Testament exists simply to point to the New Testament and the answer to sin that the New Testament testifies of, that of Jesus Christ!

Let me now say why I am proud of my friend. He wrote the school and withdrew from it because of the hypocrisy being portrayed therein. He is now sleeping late for the first time in weeks and I am trying to stay as quiet as possible so that he may get the rest he so very much needs! He is a great guy, a pillar of strength in the Lord, and I am honored to call him my friend!

You should not honor a teacher who does not allow their student to challenge even their knowledge. The ones who get challenged and punish for it are not teaching anything but submission to their authority.

God desires us to challenge His knowledge so that He can show us the truth of it! He then rewards us for drawing closer to Him in that very challenge. But if we fail the challenge and start declaring His truth to be false, then comes the sting of the reins He uses to rein us in. Oh how I love the sting of His lash for it corrects my behavior and draws me closer to Him!

If any teacher does not urge you on to further your knowledge and teach you that even their knowledge should be challenged so that they can teach you how to dig even deeper into the knowledge they are teaching, then they are false teachers and the only thing they want from you is your enslavement!

Praise be to God that His lash urges us on to dig deeper into His truth as His truth is the only truth that matters for He is the Truth Definer and no truth exists outside of Him!

I pray that you feel the sting of God's reins as He corrects your behavior and urges you on to dig deeper into His truth!

May Jesus draw close to you this day and bless you with His lash of correction!