Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and what could be more fun and energizing and uplifting than starting our conversation today with a quote from George Orwell's

dystopian novel 1984. This is the one that describes this place where a party

takes over a whole country and they control people and weaponize them against each other

and it's absolutely horrible and terrifying and exactly the reality we don't want to live in.

And as you read the story you're like, well, thank goodness, we don't live in that reality,

but I think part of what Orwell is going for is that as you get further into the story, you're like,

oh, but there are little bits of that reality that we kind of do.

And one of the little bits of reality that it's a little

too close to home, regardless of at what point in history you're reading this book, is the idea

of the lies that are accepted as truth, lies that you just have to play along with.

Now I'm sure a lot of you in your brains right now are like, oh he means this.

I don't mean that, whatever you're thinking, I don't mean anything. I just mean as a matter of practice, there are social pressures that exist at any given time that cause us to look at a thing, see how the thing is, and say that's not actually

how the thing is.

The quote that is most famous in terms of epitomizing this reality from 1984 goes like this, the party told you to reject

the evidence of your eyes and ears.

It was their final most essential command.

And if all others accepted the lie, which the party imposed, if all records told the same

tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

And as the story unfolds, there are moments in the protagonists life in other

characters lives where the rubber meets the road so to speak everybody's cool

with playing along with this lie or that lie just to get along to avoid putting

someone else in a bad situation, whatever it might be.

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