We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

Another Brink in the Wall Part 2 by Pink Floyd

Life is the teacher and the whole world is teaching us from the moment we are born. If we do not get the truth from our parents, we will fill that void with the voices of a thousand different lies. Sadly most if not all of those voices do not even realize they are lying.

These are the key ingredients of lies and how to eliminate them. It is written in Matthew chapter 4 and I quote only the relevant parts; “³ And the tempter came and said to him, ⁴ But he answered, “It is written,” It does not matter what lie is spoken, the answer is contained in God’s Word.

A lie is a counterfeit of the truth. Bank tellers do not study counterfeit money to detect forgeries, they handle and look upon the real thing over and over and over again. The counterfeit is seen for what it is because it cannot match up to the true thing. The Word of God is exactly like that. We do not need to study lies, we need to continually study and look upon the truth.

Ephesians 5:25b, 26 Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

He cleanses our mind of lies by the power of the Holy Spirit (washing of water).

Paul tells us in Romans 12:2 “be transformed by the renewal of your mind,” which is the process of eliminating those bricks and replacing them with truth. The real power of truth is being in its presence. He abides in us and if we will diligently read His Word, truth will prevail, but we have to read His Word.

Ephesians 4:18-24 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁸ They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. ¹⁹ They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. ²⁰ But that is not the way you learned Christ!— ²¹ assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, ²² to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Key to verse 21 is “assuming that you have heard”. It is critical to understand that we have to do our own hearing of the Spirit of Truth. Others can only assume we hear, they cannot do that for us. One of the most telling statements heard in bible study is “I don’t get it!” That is a confession that they are having a difficult time hearing the Spirit of Truth.

The reason we assume others have heard is because when we accept Jesus into our hearts and make Him the Lord of our lives, the Father sends the Holy Spirit. We are mindful that He wants to be heard, He wants to lead us in truth. He also knows how best to reach each and every one of us in a way we are willing to accept. He will not force Himself on us. We need to be willing recipients. We do not know what is blocking anyone else’s ability to hear with those spiritual ears.

One blocker could be a wall of lies so ingrained in the mind that those walls need to be torn down brick by brick. Pink Floyd in the album The Wall identifies those bricks as thought control. They weren’t wrong.