Day: March 9, 2026

Monday, March 9, 2026

“They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you” (Galatians 4:17,18 KJV).

Let us see if we can identify and comprehend the dangers of relying on emotions….

Early in my ministry, I attended services at a local denominational church. In the Sunday School class for college students, I met a slightly-older young man who had a little girl. We briefly conversed every weekend at church for several months. Years later, after we had both left that assembly, we re-connected on social-media. I was now much more aware of the truth, so I began sharing my discoveries with him.

I cautioned him about modern English Bible translations. He told me our former pastor had already informed him of that controversy. Indeed, there was a difference between them and the King James Bible… BUT… he could never tell his now-teenage daughter to discard her corrupted modern version. It would “break her heart” and, thus, “break his heart.” She simply loved that book, and, though she was a minor, he would not be the adult/parent in her life. He lauded his favorite version, she adored her preferred version, and neither was a King James Bible. Dear friends, that father was emotional to the point of failing his poor emotional child so miserably!! Emotions deceive.

Billions in this world esteem their false doctrine, false religion, false worldview. Indeed, if we tell these non-Christians about the exclusivity and superiority of Christianity, it will offend them. Every belief system cannot be correct. How unloving we are to let them suffer in darkness without first offering them light. Yea, it will cause them great pain to realize they have been told spiritual lies, emotionally manipulated to support fiction and fantasy (“zealously affected, but not well”). We absolutely cannot avoid this. What we are to do is swallow our pride, admit our wrongdoing, and impart sound Bible doctrine to everyone… even people we ourselves once led astray. It is far more desirable for us to tell them the truth and for them to hate us for it, than for us to stay silent so they will love us for it.

Lies are destructive, and, regardless of emotions, we must expose them by teaching the truth….