No one knows it all.

The moment we think we do, we are guilty of pride and arrogance. Pride is sin.

The Lord made it clear:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Is. 55:8-9.

It is impossible for us to understand the thoughts and ways of the Lord.

Yet we fight and argue over what we think our limited understanding of the Bible says God is going to do and how it all plays out. We must continually ask for revelation from the Holy Spirit as we study God’s Word for ourselves.

How often do we ask the Lord to correct any of our bad theology and the lies we have believed?

As humans, we all have some flawed theology, and are even deceived in some areas. There are things we know, things we are completely wrong about, and things we know nothing about. Only God knows it all. It’s not what we think is true; it’s what He says is truth.

The Gospel of Yeshua

They say you can’t take it with you…but there is something we can take with us.

People.

We can take our spouses, kids, sisters, brothers, neighbors, friends, co-workers, and people we don’t know yet to Heaven with us.

Instead, we fight and argue over:

The shape of the Earth,

The true name of the Messiah and the Father and how to spell it and say it

Whether annihilation awaits the non-believers or eternal punishment,

End-time doctrine—pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib, or no rapture…

The timing of the resurrection,

KJV vs. ESV, NIV, NASB….

None of those things are the Gospel of Christ. But we argue over them like they save us.

Restitution of All Things

We are called to share and teach the Gospel by first introducing them to Jesus so they can have eternal life through His death and resurrection. Jesus shed His blood so we can have abundant life. He died because the blood of perfect animals wasn’t enough to restore all of humanity and the universe. The Blood is why God will make a New Heaven and a New Earth. That is part of the Gospel and our goal as believers is to live with the Father forever on His New Earth, which is Heaven. God will restore all things to their original state before sin.

The Gospel is the restitution of ALL things. That’s the Good News—the news we should flood social media with and talk about.

When my son was seven or eight, he asked if a particular family member loved Jesus. We said, “No, he doesn’t believe in Jesus.” He burst into tears. He wept over this family member possibly not going to Heaven one day.

It convicted me. How often we weep and pray over those who may not go to Heaven with us?

Which is better, everlasting punishment in the Lake of Fire or an actual second death that removes them from the universe forever? Are we really arguing over which way is best for God to punish the ones we love and will never see again unless their hearts change?

Does He Know You?

Jesus said, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ Matthew 7:21-23 ESV.

These verses should concern us all. Are we doing the will of the Father? It is not enough to say, “I know Jesus.” He. Must. Know. Us.

Are we walking so close to Him that we turn right or left when He does? Or stop and rest when He does? Is His Word something we study and love? Do we obey Him? Do we hear His voice?

The prince of this world wants us to think way too highly of ourselves. He wants us to be unteachable, rude, and full of head knowledge instead of heart knowledge. His goal is to divide us by pitting us against one another. We can have different opinions about scripture; let’s not make it an argument, especially if it is not a topic that does not affect our salvation.

The older I get, the more I realize how brief life is. The Lord has humbled me in more ways than I care to share. Don’t make Him humble you; there’s a lot less grief if we humble ourselves before Him and let Him correct us.