Lies vs. Truth

Jesus taught us who we are in the beatitudes. "Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." You are salt. You are light. "Blessed are the peacemakers." I do not believe you have to go to heaven to be transformed because when you get to heaven you do not need to be transformed. Do you think Paul needed to wait? Paul said, "From the foundation of the world, God ordained me to be an apostle to the Gentiles."

Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Look at King David. He got caught in his own lust. Yet we sing David's Psalms and quote his scriptures. He was a man after God's own heart.

Abraham had Fear of man and was a liar. He lied to the Pharaoh and to Abimelech the king of the Philistines. The father of our faith had spiritual problems, but God chose him to be the father of many nations anyway. Not only did Abraham have a Lying spirit and Fear of man, his son Isaac inherited the same problems. Isaac and Rebecca went into the land of the Philistines where Abimelech was still king. Word for word, Isaac said what his father had said 40 years earlier, "This is not my wife; she's my sister." He yielded to Fear of man and an inherited Lying spirit.

It continued for four generations because 10 out of 12 sons of Jacob lied about what happened to Joseph. Exodus 20:5 says in the preamble to the 10 Commandments the sins of the fathers shall be passed on to the third and fourth generation. In spite of these four generations of sin, Abraham is called a friend of God.

In this teaching should we have stereotyped Abraham as a liar?Abraham is still called a friend of God. When you look back at David, do you consider him a murderer and an adulterer? Do you think he is a type of Christ-king, prophet and priest? We do because we consider him as the man the Word establishes him to be, after his conversion, according to selection, election and ordination.   We see him the way God saw him from the foundation of the world.

God's greatest leaders were very imperfect. When God changed them, they were not that old man or that old woman, they became a new person. When you become that new creature in Christ, you are really not a new person; you are really just beginning to walk in what He intended for you from the foundation of the world.