Who Do We Listen To?

Dearly beloved, “Where there is no knowledge of God the people wander aimlessly.” This is as true today as the day it was written.

All scripture came from the mouth of God and it is profitable, at least according to Him. It carries great profit and fully equips us for whatever may arise in life.

God revealed His Word to us and He wants us to respond to Him with believing; yet some think that it is better to share their “spiritual” experiences, or they gather to hear some new thing; anything in search of a different feeling. Experiences are no guarantee for truth, beloved.

Nothing can replace the accuracy and integrity of God’s Word and the truths it communicates to us for godly profit. By His divine power God gave us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that called us by His own glory and virtue. God’s Word reveals His will and purposes.

God says that He does not want us ignorant of spiritual matters; then why would anyone choose to remain ignorant since answers are available?

He does not want us ignorant of our hope in Christ and our release from death and this evil world, so why be ignorant?

He does not want us to remain ignorant concerning the truths of the great mystery in Christ and the one body, so why not listen to Him and believe what He says?

Beloved, our Father would have all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth; that’s His will; not mine. He wants to enlighten the eyes of our understanding with revelation truths. Not all choose to take Him up on His offer.

If anyone could have shared their experiences, Jesus could have. He was the only man ever to be resurrected from the dead; he arose from the dead after being dead for three days and three nights after being mummified. He passed through about a hundred pounds of embalming materials in which he was buried.

He was the first to receive the promise of eternal life, he received a new resurrected body that death had no power over. In his new body he visited the imprisoned spirits who destroyed the first heaven and earth and declared his victory over them, over principalities, powers, mights, and dominions in the heavenly realm: he led captivity captive! God made this same Jesus both Lord and Christ - oh the stories he could have told, but he didn’t.

Later that day he asked two disciples on the road to Emmaus why they were slow of heart to believe all that the prophets said about Christ; “Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself.”

Later they said, “Did not our hearts burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures?”

Later that evening he suddenly appeared to his disciples who were behind closed doors for fear of the Jews who had murdered him. In his first meeting with them after his resurrection from the dead, he opened their understanding so that they could believe the scriptures; he put the Word of God together for them, so they could believe it.

Beloved, “Faith (Greek: pistis: believing) comes by hearing, by hearing the word of God.”

What does God have to do to get through to people? Jesus told the religious leaders: “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though on rose from the dead.”

This should express the heart of anyone who claims to speak for God: “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.”

“Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

The last night, before his arrest, torture, and death, summing up his life’s work the Lord said three times in his prayer to his Father, “I have given them Thy Word.”

We should listen to God. What greater thing could anyone serve God’s wonderful people, dearly beloved?