A Double Mind=Two Minds=Double-Minded

Then the heart is divided! The person is two people! Then he is interested in receiving honor from God as well as from people! Then the promises in which he believes cannot be fulfilled because he is not fulfilling the condition, which is that we are wholeheartedly for Him!!

James writes very firmly and very clearly about the usual way of being double-minded: on the one hand, you pray (for example) for wisdom or for a fullness of love; on the other hand you do not at all believe that you will receive what you have prayed for. “For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” Jas. 1:7-8. “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.” V. 6. This is how a person can carry on all his life without receiving what he has prayed for. He certainly wanted to receive it, but at the same time he also manages without it—day after day, and year after year! Clement also wrote in his first letter (about ninety-five years after Christ): “Wretched and unhappy are the double-minded and they who doubt in their hearts.” And in his second letter he states, “Miserable are the double-minded who doubt in their own hearts.”

In the letter by Barnabas who lived in Paul’s days, it is written, “You shall not be double-minded or speak with a forked tongue, for a forked tongue is a deadly snare!”

In 1 Timothy 1:5 and in 2 Timothy 1:5 it speaks about faith: sincere faith=genuine faith=faith without doubting. This means: not being double-minded. Therefore Paul called him a true son in the faith; he also gave Titus the same testimony!

The central question concerning many things and many people is if their faith is really genuine or not!

Concerning love, it is also written, “By sincere love . . . .” 2 Cor. 6:6. And: “In sincere love . . . .” 1 Pet. 1:22.

Insincerity means not genuine; there is something else underlying it! It is not only what it says it is and what it appears to be!

“With . . . a double heart they speak.” Ps. 12:1-5. Unfortunately, they do this most often without understanding it themselves!

“I hate the double-minded, but I love Your law.” Ps. 119:113. This is what the man said who was according to God’s heart, according to God’s mind!

“Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” Jas. 4:8-11.

True light about this fateful sin is sorely lacking! May clear light arise in very many people! It will arise with absolute certainty for every truly upright person. See Psalm 112:4, Psalm 94:15, and Psalm 7:10. The question is: Is it only a theory or is it reality?