The Big Lie

The biggest lie ever is "I'm too bad to be born-again!"

When I was a youth that's what I thought. How did that thought get into my mind? From the realm of darkness. For you whose neurons cannot make the synapse jump, that means that demons planted thoughts in my mind. Who else would it be?

I am educated, and being somewhat of a "scientist", how can I rationally believe that there is a supernatural realm that I can neither see nor hear? Actually, it's by the same token that others believe there is not! That premise has never been proven nor disproven. My thought is that it is more rational to believe that existence is deeper than my senses can take me!

Let's say that I'm deaf. I cannot hear what is spoken by others, not because the reverberations are not there, but because I do not have a receiver. Likewise, with the supernatural world because a person has no faculty to perceive it, does not mean it does not exist. Surprise - I have that faculty!

"Faculties" are the powers of the mind. "Sensations" are one of the many faculties. The obvious five are: vision, audition, offaction, gustation, and somatosensation. Don't let those scare you but most of us have those five! Because we can detect things beyond those five, scientists have identified several more: pain, balance, temperature, etc. The possible list is endless, and remains to be discovered.

As an example, before Columbus, except for the divinely inspired, everyone sensed that the earth was flat because that was their perception. If they had looked beyond their noses to the horizon, they could have detected the curvature. If they had looked up, they could have seen the rotation of the moon around the world. God inspired some to know that thousands of years before science accepted it. Columbus knew that because God "told" him the earth was round:

Isaiah 40:22 (ESV) It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in...

Although few sensed it, the world was always spherical (a revolution of circles). With divine inspiration, maybe just discernment, Columbus knew that the earth was round. He overcome "the big lie". At one time, that was even religious heresy!

Likewise, because we cannot see the spiritual world, does not mean that there is no supernatural. Indeed, the natural proves the supernatural:

Romans 1:20  (ESV)  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,^[a] in the things that have been made.

We can know God by His Creation! We can't see Him, but except for the foolish, the Creation is proof that God does exist! In fact, if people deny His Creation, they even deny the existence of God. Most people fail to perceive that. They have the faculties to perceive God's existence but don't know that they have it (Ezekiel 12:2).

The soul is the spiritual faculty of the human being. It is how we sense God, and also how we sense Satan. Both God and Satan are supernatural because the natural senses know nothing of their existence. God calls everyone through their faculty of the soul. Satan, like the noises in the air, interferes with good spiritual reception. We can't see the interference, either on our TV sets, or in our souls.

Now back, to the big lie: "Deception" is the interference to our soul. Satan takes God's will but adds some lies. It is mostly truth which Satan filters to the soul but our reception is poor because of Satan's deception.

As a child, I perceived from nature that there must be a God. I had never read Romans 1:20 before but it proved true to me. As soon as I could wonder about the universe I realized that there Is a Creator! God called me to Him. My soul heard him:

John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Because God "draws", people must have a faculty which is drawn. That faculty is our soul. We can't prove that we have it but we can sense that we do!

Because I was young, Satan didn't bother with my reception. As a child I felt the calling, but didn't know what to do. As I grew in years, my Dad and the church filled me in: I must be born-again! Then my soul, usually getting "good" signals, since only God is good, began to get interference from the unseen world. That interference was, you're too bad to be born-again. 

Knowing the will of God, and his good signal, that seemed true. I knew that I was a sinner. That was a true signal from God. However, Satan emanated some static. You are too bad. That is the big lie!

The truth is that you are never too bad to be saved! You are too bad to do it on your own, because you were born bad. When the true signal gets through the static, in the form of Light by the way, you are born-again. That Light is: You are bad, really bad, but by grace God has chosen to save you through His Son, Jesus. Once you realize that indeed you are too bad to save yourself but Jesus can, then you are born-again. Satan's deception is so that you don't get that calling by making sure you have poor reception.

It is imperative to believe in the supernatural world. Satan cares little that you believe in him just so you don't believe in God. Most get Satan's message - there is no Creator God who has Almighty Power. Whether you admit or not, you are influenced by the supernatural world. Wise people acknowledge that they feel called in some fashion - by good or evil. Some can't detect either. They just turn off their spiritual faculty as if it is not even there. They are reprobate.

In fact, evil people who see the Light in spite of the spiritual static love God the most!

Luke 7:47 (ESV) (Jesus) - "Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.” 48 And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

You are never too bad to be forgiven. That is "the big lie".  In fact, when you seek forgiveness and receive pardon, you will love God more than those forgiven little. Paul was a chief sinner. He claimed that dishonor. However, when he was pardoned, he loved God even more than most! Never listen to the static that your soul receives - hear the truth and filter out the static:

John 8:32 "...and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

The soul is the receptor of truth, and deception is the interference to the reception. The truth is that you are not too bad to be born-again, and that truth comes from the supernatural world whether you believe it or not!