The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling!

Gut Check~

We have all from time to time felt that something was 'just not right'. This feeling comes when there has been a 'cognative dissonance' set up by circumstances that are outside our comfort zone, where your heart says go one direction but your intellect tells you to go another. We experience the results of this 'identity crisis' as a 'feeling of doom', especially when what we are planning to do goes against a well established paradigm. In these kinds of circumstance there is often a feeling of uncertanty or dread, that what we are about to do will in some way harm us or others irreparably. This can be called a 'leap of faith'.

This is especially poigniant when we consider spiritual truth in relation to what we have been taught from our parents or from the pulpit. When you discover that certain elements of salvation are not what you have learned throughout your live, but seem to be something entirely different, this sets up a 'cognitive-dissonace' that can truly set your teeth on edge. This is what it feels like to  even begin to consider that the apostle Paul may not be who and what you have been taught.

Jesus words are what set up this 'gut check' situation, when you see that what Jesus said is materially different than what Paul taught in his writings. It is at this point where you intellect must overcome your tripidation of the unknown, and allow you to move from the realization that you have believed lies rather than the truth of the words of God. But when you realize that what you know now is not enough to gain eternal life, you can know that the words of Jesus that He gave to his own eyewitness disciples will 'save the day', and you will find peace.