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Thursday, May 1,
2008
Knowing the Answer
Proverbs 16:1-3 The preparations of the
heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. (2) All the
ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
(3) Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
(KJV)
Are you absolutely positively sure the
answer you are giving today, right now, is from the Lord? Have you
committed yourself unto the Lord and are you established upon the
foundation of God this day, Jesus Christ being in control of everything in
your walk including your tongue? The Lord has an answer for every man and
He expects His people to be ready to give it, anytime, anywhere the
opportunity presents itself. The question is are you prepared, have you
done what is necessary today to give His response, an answer that has
eternal consequences? Although mankind judges things according to the
outward appearance, thus thinking He is clean, the Lord looks to the inward
motives of the heart and that is what He wishes to address. Are you one of
His vessels today, fit and ready for the Master’s use so that He can speak
and work through you to address the spiritual needs of others, or are you
like many others that have scripted answers that are more appealing to the
outward man than the inward one? Someday we will all have to stand before
God Himself and answer for our own lives the things we did and the things
we spoke; so if the answer you give today is of our Father then you will
have no need to be ashamed today, as well as the day of judgment. It’s much
easier to give the Lord’s answer to mankind when it is something you have
put into practice and know firsthand for yourself how it works. However, if
you are just reading from someone else’s script of how they perceive the
Lord and how they think people should be witnessing to others, then you are
just giving a second hand account of someone else’s experience and not your
own, thus the term novice.
Proverbs 19:20-21 Hear counsel, and
receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. (21) There
are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD,
that shall stand. (KJV)
Here is a reminder, how about giving a
simple straight forward answer to anyone that would ask of you a reason of
the hope within you and how they too can partake of this heavenly gift?
Mankind keeps coming up with a bunch of gimmicks on how to win people to
the Lord, when the Lord Himself said that the truth and only the truth
would set them free. First and foremost you need to hear the Lord’s counsel
for yourself, knowing who He is and how to be an example of the believers,
not just words but conduct also. Only the counsel of the Lord will stand,
and only those that receive His word will be able to stand as well; while
the rest may have had good intentions in the beginning of their walk they
will eventually fall away, returning to the realm they were once delivered
from.
I will tell you one that really stands out
to me when I think of the many devices of man is some of this so called
Christian rock music, people that stoop to the lower fallen nature of
mankind thinking that will win souls over. Having watched some of these so
called artists and listening to some of this nonsense on the radio, the
only thing different between them and the world is that they just change a
few words and then think it has the Lord’s approval. Somehow I just can’t
see my Lord on a stage jumping around with a guitar in hand acting like
some out of control lunatic. For those that do attempt to portray my Lord
and Savior that way obviously don’t have a clue who He truly is and how He
desires His kingdom to be represented here on earth. You go stand before my
God someday with this song and dance and see how far you get; then try
explaining to a spiritual being how something that began in the Spirit was
being so misrepresented by a bunch of lame brains in the flesh. We are the
ones that should be transformed and different from the world and its way of
thinking; imitators of Christ and not conforming to this world and its
fallen realm.
Galatians 1:6-7 I marvel that ye are so
soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another
gospel: (7) Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and
would pervert the gospel of Christ. (KJV)
These false doctrines of man, these winds
of doctrines that blow around us, Paul marveled at how quickly God’s people
had given in and were being deceived into some perversion of the gospel.
The Bible says we should fight the good fight of faith; but how much of a
fight do we put up, are we like the lion on the Wizard of Oz who made a lot
of noise until someone tapped him in the snout and he gave up crying? These
gospels that man claims will win the people to the Lord have nothing to do
with the Lord; they are nothing more than a cheap hoax that appeals to the
flesh and not the Spirit. No matter what form it manifests in, it is up to
you to exercise your spiritual senses so that you can rightly discern what
is of God and what isn’t. I marvel at how spiritually illiterate many
people who claim to be of God really are; when the time they need to be
teachers they are truly the ones that need to be taught all over from the
beginning, having missed the simple first principles of God and how His
kingdom truly operates. While many may read and search through the
scriptures to find the answer they miss the spiritual implications and
meaning of them because they still only see a man named Jesus, but never
come to an understanding of who Christ within Him is and how to be led by
His spirit. If any man has not the spirit of Christ and an understanding of
how to operate by faith in His message, then He is not of God and will not
be able to give the answer God intended for that man to give, which can
only be given by those that truly know the doctrine of Christ.
Proverbs 18:12-13 Before destruction the
heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility. (13) He that
answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
(KJV)
That answer you gave to someone, was is
really from the Lord or was it something you gave to impress them? Have you
taken the time to hear the message of Christ firsthand for yourself so that
you know and are not just guessing that what you are speaking came from the
Father through Him? If you don’t know or are not sure, then it would do you
good not to say anything rather than mislead someone to another gospel that
is not of our Lord. I don’t care personally what others think or say about
me or my walk as long as I seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness concerning how to answer a man; then I know God is answering
my prayers when I speak to Him as well as seeking my own personal requests.
Psalms 145:18-21 The LORD is nigh unto
all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. (19) He
will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry,
and will save them. (20) The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but
all the wicked will he destroy. (21) My mouth shall speak the praise of the
LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. (KJV)
Do you wish to be near and dear to our
Lord? Then it can only be accomplished in truth, being open and honest with
Him, not trying to hide things but letting Him show you how to be an
overcomer in these things so that you can speak boldly with confidence on
His behalf when asked. If you call on Him in truth then you can expect an
honest response in truth; however, if you try to lie then don’t expect His
response. Your mouth will truly speak the praises of the Lord when you
truly make Him the Lord in your life and allow Him to have His way in and
through you; sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that even those that
are outside the kingdom of God won’t have anything they can pin on you.
John 4:23-24 But the hour cometh, and now
is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in
truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. (24) God is a Spirit:
and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (KJV)
You know people, worshipping God is not
standing in some building with your hands in the air looking up to the
ceiling like you’re in some kind of trance or hallucinating like your
having a flashback to Woodstock, rather true worship, reverence for God and
His word is done in a lifestyle that is in Spirit and according to His
truth. Truly worshipping God is presenting yourself to Him as a living
sacrifice, alive spiritually and dead to your own desires of the flesh;
ready, willing and able to give His answer to any that would be seeking.
How fit and prepared are you to walk in the Spirit and know that you are
speaking words of life, giving the only answer our Father approves of
today?
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