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Excerpted from: Is God a Magician?Be very careful here, because he does not say that they did not receive the truth. He says that they perished because they did not receive the love of the truth. And if we are going to be saved through these perilous times with miracles occurring all over the place, maybe hearing about them practically daily, those who are going to make it are those who love the truth!
Did Jesus love the truth in Matthew 4:4? He was willing to die of starvation rather than use His powers to serve Himself. And so He said "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God." And every Word of God taught Him that He should not be selfish in that way, that He was to use His powers in the service of God. Not even to save His own life.
You remember at the end, He told Pilate, "You think that I couldn't call on My Father and get twelve legions of angels?" He could command their loyalty. But what would that have done? It would have disrupted the prophetic sequence of events. He knew it was God's will that He die. So He gave up His life rather than save Himself. They taunted Him that way. "Oh, He saved others. Now, come down off that stake there, Jesus, and save yourself." But He resisted the impulse to do that.
Now we have got to translate that into our own lives and understand that the blindness that he speaks of there in II Thessalonians 2:11, a "strong delusion," is something that is self-imposed on these people because of their refusal to love the truth. It is not that these people refuse to accept truth. They do not love it! There is a difference. We are talking here about a matter of the heart, not a matter of the brain, not a matter of the intelligence, but an emotional quality. These people are going to fail because they do not love truth! It means that they are indifferent toward it.
Think of a relationship with another person. And remember what truth is; it is personified as Christ. We are talking about another Person, not just words, ink on the pages of a book, but the words of our lover, Jesus Christ. And these people are going to perish because they do not love it. They are not committed to it. They are indifferent toward it. They are not zealous about serving it.
It is very much like two people living together in a union, "shacking up" together, where no real love exists. And when a fairly strong sexual temptation occurs, it is pretty easy to step out of that arrangement and go into another one. What we are talking about here is a matter of dedication to truth. That is what keeps people from being deceived. It is not just an intellectual matter.
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