The Devotional - Fight the Good Fight of Faith, (Part 9)

The Devotional - Fight the Good Fight of Faith, (Part 9)

The Devotional
When is the last time you walked among a crowd and parted them? No doubt you have not done that recently! However, try speaking loudly in words with no meaning and have your arms raised to the heavens pointing at nothing in particular. What might be the actions of some of the people in the crowd? Some would laugh, some would make way for you to get by while others would whisper to one another that you are crazy or have a demon. Yet on the other hand if you did this in the privacy of your home or possibly within the church where you attend that is like minded in such things you may just get the selfish (babe in Christ) seeking praise you are looking for. Thus it is not on the apostle’s authority that this sign of tongues is popular or unpopular, it is; now get this – Only a sign at best, but from above or below, who really knows. This is what the apostle Paul is seeking for us to KNOW.

CHALLENGES & COMMENTS – 1 Corinthians 14:20-25

We need to be babes to the wisdom of acting maliciously, just as we need to be mature in being Christ-Like. I do not recall one event in the human life of Jesus Christ when He spoke in a tongue and asked another human for an interpretation. Even Isaiah 28, Isaiah records this message “For even with stammering lips and another tongue He (GOD) will speak to His people. To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,”

Isaiah goes on to say that the words even though they were refreshing to the spirit of man were not refreshing at all because these words fell on hears that would not hear. Again the apostle Paul says that tongues are for a sign, not for the children of God (believing) but a sign for the children of the devil (unbelieving). So if tongues are out! Just what should a believer (Child of God) be looking for in his or her prayer and meditation with God; just what is it?

The Word of the LORD has, from the very beginning been; “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept. Line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. It is the Word of the Living God that causes people to become humbled, broken, snared and caught; this is the context of Isaiah 28. Christ alone is the Cornerstone of the Living Word (1 John 1:1-4).

We are witnessing changes in Christendom and we need to put on the brakes. We have witnessed the signs and wonders movements doing nothing over the last twenty or thirty year. Also another wave of apostasy has worked its way into Christendom. Over the last century we have observed a reforming of theological beliefs. These have accomplished a falling away from Christ and those who stay are molded into a works system of salvation. FAILURE, if it isn’t failure than why do we have this ramped sin of homosexuality saturating the United States of America today.

We are poor, blind and naked, much like the church at Laodicea – Revelation 3:14-22; The churches of Jesus Christ who practice apostasy today are troubling views of failure, I see these churches as the PROBLEM, not the SOLUTION. It is past the time, but we should be preaching and teaching scripture and toss out human viewpoint RELIGION. 2 Timothy 4:1-5.