You can have the abundance of friends and people will like you---as long as you do not tell them the truth.
As long as you get in, fit in, act like them, walk and talk like them, you are one of them---as long as you do not tell them the truth.
To be truthful, people do not like laws; they do not like restrictions. They want to be left alone, to do as they please, and with no limitations.
Above all else, people do not like God, and they want to live their lives as if God does not exist.
Mention God, and your abundance of friends and the people who like you will distance themselves from you. They will look at you strangely, or they will sit and stare in stone-cold silence. They will change the subject.
One place where people can hide from God is in their religion, or in their false church: for in these places they worship a god of their own image. And they like that. Their god is less restrictive, they believe, and their god accepts various ways of salvation as well as helps them to prepare their own highway to heaven. Once they leave the building, they are free to ramble because their god remains in the building until they return for another visit. While in the building, they are among friends and the people there like one another because they dress alike, sit and stand alike, walk and talk alike, and no one speaks the truth.
People of religion and false churches are the same as thieves, bandits, and robbers. They know that God exists, but, rather than facing God, they accept their system of forgery by which they can steal forgiveness of sin, steal salvation, and steal their way to heaven. And when they leave the building they can believe that they got away with it again---just like a thief in the night!
Hang out with the pretenders and you will become one. You will walk like them, talk like them, and act like them. Their ways will become your ways, their lies will become your lies, and their god will become your god. You will be popular and they will like you. And you will hide from God just like them.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. (Psalm 100: 3)
As long as you get in, fit in, act like them, walk and talk like them, you are one of them---as long as you do not tell them the truth.
To be truthful, people do not like laws; they do not like restrictions. They want to be left alone, to do as they please, and with no limitations.
Above all else, people do not like God, and they want to live their lives as if God does not exist.
Mention God, and your abundance of friends and the people who like you will distance themselves from you. They will look at you strangely, or they will sit and stare in stone-cold silence. They will change the subject.
One place where people can hide from God is in their religion, or in their false church: for in these places they worship a god of their own image. And they like that. Their god is less restrictive, they believe, and their god accepts various ways of salvation as well as helps them to prepare their own highway to heaven. Once they leave the building, they are free to ramble because their god remains in the building until they return for another visit. While in the building, they are among friends and the people there like one another because they dress alike, sit and stand alike, walk and talk alike, and no one speaks the truth.
People of religion and false churches are the same as thieves, bandits, and robbers. They know that God exists, but, rather than facing God, they accept their system of forgery by which they can steal forgiveness of sin, steal salvation, and steal their way to heaven. And when they leave the building they can believe that they got away with it again---just like a thief in the night!
Hang out with the pretenders and you will become one. You will walk like them, talk like them, and act like them. Their ways will become your ways, their lies will become your lies, and their god will become your god. You will be popular and they will like you. And you will hide from God just like them.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. (Psalm 100: 3)
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