Well, Poor OLD Aunt Toot is coming for a visit this afternoon. I am makin' coffee. I made goulash earlier, as Dan may stop by later. I want to write soon on obedience. Well, I will write a bit now on it.
I was watchin' Pastor Hagee this morning and I liked his sermon. Part of it, he was saying the church needs to preach Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords. I agree with that. But, ya know, I would add to that this. We need to accept Him and His word. So much is preached about praising Him and His glory and all. I agree. But what I would add is this. WE need a heart change! WE have to learn to submit to God.
We have such a Social Gospel goin' on. It's an easy Gospel to follow. When we praise the Lord and we hear the story of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection, this is just the beginning. The important idea is "Do we believe it and would we offer our life for what we believe?" See, it has to hit us in the heart.
We can praise God and that is something we do, but will we submit to His will? Will we cry out, "Lord not my will but thine be done?" Most of my early marriage was a daily submission to His will. Every day I wanted to do what I wanted to do. Give Up? But I had to study the word to have a meek and quiet spirit. And even at that, it was not me who submitted to God but Christ within me did. In myself, I could do nothing. And this is to be our lives as sacrificial lambs of God. We are to die daily to ourselves and to what we want. We must cry out, "Not my will, Lord, but Thy will be done in my life."
There are so many half truths being taught. Why? Because the foundation of the Bible and God's plan is the family. The husband as head and priest of the home under God. The wife is to submit to her husband and the children under the parents. This is a picture of Christ and the Church. And the Bible says that any man who doesn't have his house in order can't be a pastor or a deacon. Women are not to take authority in the church. But now days, we have church teachings built upon half truths.
We are to build our house upon the Rock, upon the truth. So we end up only praising the Lord at church and not allowing the Holy Spirit to convict us and pull at our heartstrings. The religious teachings of the day are built on sand because the foundation of Bible teachings is missing.
The religion of the day is missing the heart of God. It's boring and not cutting edge. It's missing the excitement and the power. The glory so many of these preachers talk about is not based on the foundations of Christ and His word. This glory they are calling down with filthy evil hands? They better hope it don't come? It's God's grace that it hasn't come down and burned them up. We must be seekers of His truth first and then His glory will come.
