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1 Timothy 4:2
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2 Speaking lies [pseudologos] in [en] hypocrisy; [hupokrisis] having [kauteriazo] their [idios] conscience [suneidesis] seared with a hot
iron; [kauteriazo] KJV-Interlinear
2 by means of the hypocrisy of
liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, NASB
When we get to the
study of Ephesians, we will study the scar tissue of the soul. You might want to sometime review the charts,
on the web site, of the human soul for both believers and unbelievers. There are three charts.
The searing of the soul
is in view here.
We have studied already
that the Bible (the Spirit), has stated that there is going to be an apostasy
coming, such as has never before occurred in history. This from our long study of verse one. That single verse study took us about five
days to complete.
We have learned that
all evil, all false doctrine, comes from only one
source, namely Satan. Satan is the
father of lies, and those who follow him (demons)
promote his lies as well.
Their system of lies
has saturated the world through history, by means of various communications to
humanity by demons, through the occult, through the various systems of reading
cards, or bones, or the stars, or astrology, or numbers, and so forth. And though many folks see these things as
seemingly harmless, they are in effect the most dangerous things in all of
history.
History has recorded
many leaders who have consulted seers, or witches, or persons who claim to have
access to the other side. And you should
not be surprised that, that practice is observed even in our current day.
Anyway, Satan's philosophy
is readily available to humanity, by various means.
And all lies are in effect,
hypocrisy, which is nothing more than duplicity, deceit, pretense, double
standards, insincerity and so forth.
The speaking of lies, is on the human side of the coin, whereas the source
of the lies is on the satanic side.
Satan starts the lie,
and man promotes and continues it, even to the point of enhancing it to his advantage
or convenience.
Speaking lies, pseudologos, means the purveyor of deceit, or
lie-speakers. And again, Satan is the
source, but humanity is the agent of his lies.
And the result of all lies, or all false doctrines, or all false
opinions, is the establishment of gangrene in the soul of the individual, 2 Tim
2:17-18.
Gangrene rots the soul
from the inside out.So the rot when it
is inside, is caused by the infection of false beliefs
that reside within ones soul.
But there is one more
concept here, and that is one of searing.
Not only do people who
lack truth in their soul, have the opposite of truth in their soul, namely lies
or false doctrines, then retaining that bad information or view point,
unchecked by truth, causes them to seal up that falsity within themselves, such
that it is seared within them.
Seared, kauteriazo, means to cauterize a wound, to seal it up so
that nothing will escape, or get in.It
is a medical term used for closing a cut or open wound with a hot iron. It not only keeps the inside stuff in, but it
also keeps the outside stuff, out.
And in our case here,
keeping the inside stuff in, means to keep the false doctrine inside the soul,
and the truth out of the soul.That is
the worst possible situation that anyone could get themselves
into.
They have indoctrinated
themselves so thoroughly with lies, that they cling to
them, hold on to them, and in effect shut out all possible help from
truth.They rot (symbolically speaking),
from the inside of their soul.
Pharaoh is typically
the example of this path to oblivion.He
refused to hear Moses, ten times.In
exodus, he is said to have hardened his heart through six of the plagues, that
is the hardening or searing process of his soul, such that the scar tissue from
the searing, sealed in his hate and defiance.
Then it is God who hardened his heart for the final few plagues, which
simply means that God kept him alive for the final plagues to emphasize that
once a person crosses that maximum threshold of lies, then there is most likely
no return.They cannot even rationalize
within themselves that there is a threshold once they have crossed it.
The conscience, suneidesis, is the area within your soul that differentiates
between that which is right from that which is wrong.
The conscience is the
faculty that affirms or condemns an action, Rom 2:14-15. It is the sensitivity to right and wrong that
controls behavior, Acts 23:1; 24:16; Rom 9:1; 2 Cor
1:12; 2 Tim 1:3. False teachers reject a
good conscience, 1 Tim. 1:19.
The false teachers' consciences
have been so ignored and misinformed that they have become like scar tissue
burned senseless, which cease to function. With scarred consciences, they feel
no guilt or remorse as they promote their false doctrines or ideas.
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