"There is no SAFETY in IGNORANCE!"

When it comes to the things of God, the Christian cannot use, “I didn’t know” as an excuse for repeated offenses against the Gospel of Peace. Being “ignorant” is just pure laziness. There is no reason whatsoever to “not know” unless you just don’t want to. Of course, as we have discussed many times in the past, many Christians enjoy their sin too much to cross over into the realm of repentance, redemption and reconciliation.

Don’t be lulled to sleep thinking that you are “safe” because you act like you don’t know what you are doing is perverse, rebellious or wicked. If you are above the age of five you know right from wrong and, I can state emphatically that when I was engaging in sinful activity, I knew exactly what I was doing! There is no sugar coating the truth here. I did it. I enjoyed it. And the rest is history.

          

The deception of “safety” is manufactured by Satan. He wants you to be “comfortable” in your sin; so comfortable in fact that you feel safe committing the sinful activity over and over again while being a hypocrite before the eyes of God. The deception is rooted and grounded in the fact that you will be concerned with your wife and kids finding out what you are doing than God! Imagine that; being more afraid of your wife or husband than God?

          

Ignorance and stupidity are two different paradigms. Ignorance is defined as not knowing something, while stupidity is being comfortable with not knowing something. Think about a person who has high blood pressure, feels bad all the time but won’t go to the doctor out of fear. The person knows he is sick but he is afraid that the doctor is going to confirm what he already knows. So he stays away from the doctor because he doesn’t want to hear the truth, however, the truth will save his life. The truth will identify the problem, expose it and then cure it! This is a prime example of how ignorance and stupidity can be symbiotic. The man who remains ignorant of his health is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. There is no doubt a major a major heart attack waits him in his future.

Because of ignorance, he thinks he is safe.  He thinks that he is safe because he does not know. But stupidity will replace life with death and add another chump to the growing number of Christians serving the devil through deception.