“GOSPEL IS VEILED!”

2 Corinthians 4:1-6                                            (ESV)
“1 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of GOD, we do not lose heart.
2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with GOD’S WORD, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of GOD.
3 And even if our “GOSPEL IS VEILED”, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
4 In their case the GOD OF THIS WORLD HAS BLINDED THE MINDS OF THE UNBELIEVERS, TO KEEP THEM FROM SEEING THE LIGHT of the gospel of the glory of CHRIST, WHO is the image of GOD.
5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but JESUS CHRIST as LORD, with ourselves as your servants for JESUS' sake.
6 For GOD, who said, "Let light shine OUT OF DARKNESS," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face of JESUS CHRIST.”

Recently I wrote during my meditation time a few words that rang loudly in my EARS while reading the above Scripture!  “More than a few people who claim to be “Christians” expect GOD to never allow distress to come into their lives?  Read the book of Job.  Read Acts 9:16 “For I will show him (Paul) how much HE MUST SUFFER FOR THE SAKE OF MY NAME." - Acts 9:16”..

We should expect and plan for the enemy to assault, scheme, and manipulate us with all of his might as we serve the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS!  2 Corinthians 1:3-7 says “Blessed be the GOD and FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, the FATHER of mercies and GOD of all comfort, WHO COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR AFFLICTION, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.  For as WE SHARE abundantly in CHRIST's SUFFERINGS, so through CHRIST we share abundantly in comfort too.  If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when YOU PATIENTLY ENDURE SAME SUFFERINGS THAT WE SUFFER .  Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you SHARE IN OUR SUFFERINGS, you will also share in our comfort.”

We need to understand that the enemy is constantly attacking us and the Church with LIES!  "Tell the masses a LIE often enough and for long enough, sooner or later they will all believe it” said Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister who died in 1945.  As soon as he was gone, someone else was enlisted to contradict TRUTH.  Would the message sent to Paul in Acts 9 ever be preached from modern pulpits nowadays?  It appears that it is “more comfortable” for preachers to preach that the “GOSPEL IS VEILED” instead of what the SPIRIT is instructing them to say?  But Scripture says that those who believe what is being taught, that the “GOSPEL IS VEILED”, will PERISH!

Hearing TRUTH, and allowing TRUTH to change your life, is not a comfortable experience, but GOD COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR AFFLICTION!  We need to stop whining about our seats being too hard, the temperatures being not what we want, the music being too loud, and begging HOLY SPIRIT to change our hearts and visit our brokenness and HEAL OUR LAND quit aiding and abetting those for whom the “GOSPEL IS VEILED”!!!!