Hosanna Restoration Church

Today, 9/11 we remember the horrific results of unchecked ignorance! Our hearts go out to those who were most affected by that day and we pray for them and for those who continue in ignorance celebrating that terrible act as a day of victory. May the whole world seek God for true wisdom!

To be ignorant is to be unaware and uninformed. Here, the Word of God describes what was done to Jesus as an act of ignorance. As I have considered that and recognized the parallel to the acts of 9/11, a couple other words were brought to my mind.

Ignorance if unchecked, leads to insolence. To be insolent is to be arrogant in speech or conduct and to become haughty and overbearing. When a person refuses wisdom they try to overcome it by magnifying their ignorance in order to get others to come to their side. Jesus was never arrogant, He simply spoke the truth and the truth set people free. The advance of ignorance makes people slaves.

Insolence unchecked leads to insubordination. To be insubordinate is to be unwilling to submit to authority. This leads to lawlessness and willingness to do anything to advance their ignorance. It is pretty easy to see how both the murder of Jesus and the murder of thousands on 9/11 were the result of unchecked ignorance.

Just as some take offense at calling the murder of Jesus ignorance, so there are some to take offense at calling the acts of 9/11 ignorance, but that is what it was and that is what I will call it. There is no excuse for that type of ignorance and if we do not call it what it is, then we will be open to even greater acts of ignorance. With all of that said, let’s get personal about ignorance.

Like it or not, we are all guilty of ignorance at times. Ignorance in itself can be good if it leads us to seek to be informed. Learning new things is good. A desire to learn is good so that what we were once ignorant about we can become informed. However, if we excuse our ignorance and are determined to sit in it, insolence and insubordination will soon follow.

God has given us all the tools we need to overcome ignorance. There is no excuse for it. Refusal to learn is perhaps the highest form of ignorance. For a Christian to excuse ignorance or justify what they know is not the will of God is a train wreck in the making.

One of the greatest fights in our fight of faith is the fight against ignorance. If we refuse to follow the truth we will become advanced in our insolence to justify our behavior in hopes others will agree that our way of thinking is really more acceptable than the Word of God. Some go so far as to say that it is out of date and that we need to update God’s thinking. Ultimately we will just refuse to submit ourselves to the truth or to God while all the time convinced that we are absolutely right. There are no little acts of ignorance when it comes to God’s Word.