#245: Whose Opinion Matters Most? · Trumpet Bookshelf · Radar

Two Ways to Receive Truth0:28 – 4:02

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There are two ways to receive God's truth.

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Did you know that you can actually disprove anything? It's all a matter of mindset and attitude and will.

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A closed mind can disprove anything.

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2 Timothy 4, verses 3 and 4 state, For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables.

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Here in 2 Timothy 4, verses 3 and 4, we see people who want teachers that speak an easy message.

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A soothing message.

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The truth doesn't really matter.

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Just basically make the itch on my ears go away.

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Make me feel good about myself, even if you tell me lies.

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And people will knowingly reject the truth sometimes in favor of something a bit more comforting.

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But ultimately, lies do not provide any real comfort.

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Now the other way to receive the truth can be found in Acts 17 verse 11.

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We've seen how deadly a closed mind is, where people can reject truth even when they know better.

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But then Acts 17 and verse 11 praises the Bereans anciently.

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It says, these were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so.

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The Bereans studied with an open mind, and they were ready to believe anything they read in the Bible.

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They wiped away preconceived notions, all forms of bias, and they simply let the Bible interpret itself.

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No book on earth is more misinterpreted and maligned than the Bible.

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You could show one passage of the Bible to 10 different Bible scholars, and you would get at least a few different interpretations, if not 10 different ones.

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It just seems like everyone has their own reading of the Bible.

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Now, of course, a lot of this is God's doing.

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God has not opened everyone's mind yet.

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But then also human beings tend to be hostile toward God, as it says in Romans 8 and verse 7.

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And a lot of humans close their own minds to the truth through their own stubbornness, their own rebellion.