Christian Clarity Review

Numbers 20:7-13 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, Take the staff, and gather the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, and it shall give its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock, and shalt give the assembly and their beasts drink. And Moses took the staff from before Jehovah, as he had commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, ye rebels: shall WE bring forth to you water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his staff smote the rock twice, and much water came out, and the assembly drank, and their beasts. And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to hallow me before the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land that I have given them. These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.

Psalm 106:32,33 And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account; For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

It is not the problem of God’s servants if the people are deceived, because of their other deceptions concerning speech, that it is pointless to talk to rocks. It is only pointless to talk to rocks and the dead in non-creating speech. But in speaking to and in the deception of the people, Moses and Aaron were not allowed to enter the land.

Yet today, what we have in the pulpits is a mass of persons provoking the people to do exactly what Moses and Aaron were not allowed into the land for doing: taking on themselves the credit for whatever God does through them. The people are told night and day that they have free will and can do as they please and thus are sold into slavery on the basis of “following the holy directions” “with their free will” AND taking credit for whatever God does through them in spite of their deceptions.

Literally, the people are being seduced to anger God against them from the pulpit by lying doctrines that make the people proud and vain and the consequences are plainly seen in the whole of the world. Instead of learning the lesson of Meribah, the people are made to imitate the error as if such were truth and piety –and common sense.

It is such a common lie among them that they have free will, literally that they have power over their own actions both of thought and other deeds that to tell them they do not and are being deceived brings at best laughter and at worst derision or death.

Yet there they are telling each other: parents telling children, children telling parents, friends bragging to each other .. of the deeds they have performed by themselves ‘with God’s grace’ and doing so to be able to hold each their face up to their own family and neighbors. So rampant is the lie that those whom God withholds from participating in it are held up as worthless to those who speak it and we are given to understand plainly all that we would have to do to fit in with the liars is lie as they do.

Yet your god is no-god and God will not allow us to bow to it. We don’t have the free will to be deceived by your demonic idiocy and lies.

We, as non-metaphorical new creatures in Jesus Christ stand in Christ with the mind of Christ:

John 8:53-59 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who has died? and the prophets have died: whom makest thou thyself? Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God. And ye know him not; but I know him; and if I said, I know him not, I should be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word. Your father Abraham exulted in that he should see my day, and he saw and rejoiced. The Jews therefore said to him, Thou hast not yet fifty years, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. They took up therefore stones that they might cast them at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and thus passed on.

In every way modern pop Christianity has become the very persons who deride the meek because God is the refuge of the meek while the refuge of the liars is their own vain pride in the lie of free will.

Psalm 14:4-6 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah. There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous. Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because Jehovah was his refuge.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen