Denial, Coping Skills! Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

COPING SKILLS: COCK—A—DOODLE—DO! DELUSIONAL!

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

**DELUSION: mistaken, a false teaching despite evidence, believing what is not true. CAN I GET AWAY WITH THIS.?

THERE ARE SEVERAL DEEP THOUGHTS THAT ARE HARD TO CATCH THE TRUE UNDERSTANDING. LET US LOOK AT ONE.

** YOU DON’T SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE… YOU SEE THINGS AS YOU ARE!

I had a friend with an ear trained for music. 5 guitars were playing. Someone was a little out of tune. This man would walk over to one of the 5 guitars and tune the third string. How did he know which guitar? Which string?

I was riding with a friend that had a fence business. I was amazed. He counted the fence post and he told me how many feet was between the posts. Then he told me how much a foot cost. Then he told me that fence cost so much money. I had never thought about how many feet between fence posts. I had never thought about the cost of a fence. He was an expert with a trained eye on fences. He would say with authority that is a $1700 fence.

We were going to a rest home in Tennessee. We had the music and people loaded in the van. A very experienced mechanic was with us. When we got on the interstate he made an observation. He said you have an out of balanced tire on the left rear. He hears things that you don’t hear.

There are 10 babies in a room. One of the babies started crying. The moms were all listening. One mom jumps up and goes into the other room. The mom hears a baby’s cry and she immediately knows that cry is her baby.

WHAT DO YOU SEE? DO YOU SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE? DO YOU SEE THING HOW YOU SEE THINGS?

Jeremiah 1:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

JEREMIAH KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ROD. WHEN MOSES AND AARON’S CALL OF GOD WAS QUESTIONED… AARON’S WALKING STICK, BUDDED AND GREW ALMONDS.

God is speaking to Jeremiah. God asked the Preacher what do you see?… JEREMIAH SAYS I SEE A MIRACLE. There is a rod cut off an almond tree. OK? WHAT’S THAT MEAN? Jeremiah knew the ALMOND TREE was the tree that lost everything in the fall and winter. The almond is the FIRST TREE TO WAKE UP IN THE SPRING.

Jeremiah understood beyond WHAT HIS EYES SAW. The Spirit of God was speaking to Jeremiah to be:

*ALERT, TO BE AWAKE, BE READY, BE DILIGENT, DON’T BE PASSIVE --- TAKE ACTION.

THE SECOND TOUCH OF GOD: WHAT DO YOU SEE? GOD SAYS: JEREMIAH YOU SEE THINGS WELL… GOD SAYS I WILL PERFORM MY WORD. THEN GOD SAYS THERE IS MORE THAN THE AWAKENING. YOU NEED TO SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE.

Jeremiah 1:13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

** Seething: BOILING, sin costs and God will use nations from the north, judgment is coming, it will appear.

HUMANS HAVE A COPING MECHANISM THAT THEY CAN DISTORT REALITY AND KEEP US FROM FACING THE TRUTH.

SEEMS WE HAVE THE GREAT ABILITY TO LIE TO ONESELF… GOD HATES LYING. TO LIE HAS GRAVE CONSEQUENCES. YOU CAN NOT TRUST A LIAR. THE TROUBLE WITH LYING IS WE BELIEVE OUR OWN LIES.

This coping skill of denial is true in our eating habits, alcohol, drugs, tempers and laziness.

Let me illustrate THE POWER OF A LIE AND DENYING OR COMPROMISING THE TRUTH. The best player on the team developed some bad habits. His coach told him HE WAS “HOOKING” the opponents ball players with his arm behind him. HE DENIED THAT HE WAS DOING THIS. Not me! I talked to him and told him if he would quit “hooking” he would not foul out. He told me he never “HOOKED.” The referee’s picked on him. Everyone picked on him. The coach talked and talked. He denied with everything in him. The world was against him. He fouled out every game, while denying he never hooked another player. The coach had a professional photographer start taking pictures.

THE BEST PLAYER LIED TO HIMSELF. He was the only one that believed himself. Even his parents warned him. He was believing his OWN LIES which kept him from developing to be better. The camera does not lie. When he was shown his arm hooking around the other player, he still denied it.

PETER IS A SOLID EXAMPLE OF DENIAL. NOT JUST ONCE BUT 3 TIMES--- THE ROOSTER MADE PETER SEE HOW WEAK HE REALLY WAS… WHO WAS PETER LYING TO? NEVER! NEVER! PETER DENIES TO JESUS’S FACE.