Ignorance.Īnd then listen to this, 2 Corinthians 2:11, “So that no advantage would be taken of us for we are not ignorant (same word) of his schemes.” “So that no advantage would be taken of us (by Satan) for we are not ignorant of his schemes.” What is one of the ways that you can avoid being taken advantage of by the great enemy of the Christian faith? By not being ignorant. Romans 10:3, “For not knowing (literally, ‘ignorant’), For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.” What does it mean? It says, in their ignorance they sought to save themselves and did not believe upon God’s saving person and work, and they were eternally lost. It almost led to their absolute destruction and a few decades later it did. Nineveh didn’t know their left hand from their right hand. You don’t think a lack of knowledge is dangerous? It’s extremely dangerous. It was having a hook poked through your lip or your nose, and being led off to a foreign land naked. Murder, rape, pillage, a suffering like nothing you and I could ever even understand. Then in Isaiah 5:13 he says, “My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge.” Now you say, “Oh well, exile for their lack of know…” Do you know what exile was? Slavery, the cruelest forms. My people are destroyed, he says, for a lack of knowledge. Why do we constantly teach our children? If we don’t teach our children they’re still our children, but we teach our children why? So they don’t kill themselves. In one sense it does, but I want you to know something, your lack of knowledge can get you into a whole bunch of danger. Hosea 4:6 (I believe Anthony quoted this on Sunday), “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.” Yes, “My people,” “My people.” You see, just because you’re His people doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re just living in a secure place. But in other places in Scripture a lack of knowledge can lead to something far more detrimental. In the case of the Thessalonians their lack of knowledge led to unnecessary grieving and because of that, a poor testimony among the pagans. So we must know our Bible’s so that it won’t be said of us “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ” – Hosea 4:6. Yet the only thing the unbeliever should stumble at is the Gospel we proclaim. To the unbeliever the fanatic makes him stumble at Christianity before he ever gets to stumble at the Gospel. To the church they lay rules on the Christian that Jesus Christ never made and they burden God’s people like the Pharisees did. Then you can get appropriate help.The person who is unbalanced and lacks Biblical knowledge can become a “Christian fanatic” and harm both the church and the unbelieving world. However, if you have a therapist, even a psychiatrist, who does understand, you need to encourage your parts to be honest with that person. You do not have to tell someone everything just because he is she is a doctor. The “medical model” simply does not work for dissociation, and many treatments can do more harm than good. Too many medical professionals, including psychiatrists, believe that hearing voices is a sign of schizophrenia, that mood swings mean bipolar disorder which has to be medicated, and that depression requires electro-convulsive therapy if medication does not relieve it sufficiently. Unless you know that your doctor understands trauma symptoms, including dissociation, you are wise not to reveal too much. “Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about revealing psychiatric symptoms.
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