The Foolish and the Weak
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:27Devotional Series: Where is My Fear?
Teaching: Where Is My Fear pt. 3 (WED 2024-05-22) by Pastor Star R Scott
That book The Knowledge of the Holy that Tozer wrote and speaks of all the attributes of God. We can read and we can know all of those different attributes of who God is. Are those attributes affecting our daily living, our knowledge of God, who He is, how we represent Him? I was talking to somebody just the other day. They were talking about how they relate to someone. In this relationship, there’s been friction at times and just knowing God and how He handles things. We might be going, getting things done, and we’re making haste for the kingdom of God. We’re getting a lot of stuff done. Who are we running over in the process? Who are we ignoring? Amen? How about backing off a little bit, maybe, and just spending some time with some of the little lambs or some of those who are just in our midst here that are growing up in the faith. Yet, we’ve an agenda, many times, and we think that we have this going for the kingdom.
Many preachers are doing that today. I’ll actually be talking about that in Africa here in a few weeks when we go over there. How sad it is to watch the destruction of preachers’ homes because they are doing all of this for God but losing their families. They’re in the pulpit and shouldn’t be there because their houses are out of order. You don’t love your wife enough to deserve to be in that pulpit. You’re not spending time with your children enough. You don’t deserve to be in that pulpit. How can you oversee that household of God if you can’t even keep your family in order and have those children know that their dad, the preacher, loves them? So many children grow up resenting God, resenting the ministry. There’s no competition. God has already told these that He’s put His hands on and called how to run their homes. If they did, their children would know, “Yes, they’re committed wholly to God and to His kingdom, but they love me and they want to include me in that,” praise God!
We can take that over into every one of our homes. What am I saying? If we fear God, we’re going to replicate who He is in our lives in the ministries that God has called us to. I told this one person, I said as they were involved in ministries and there were those that were in authority, et cetera and just speaking along the lines of some of the frustrations sometimes that come, I told the individual, “Love them enough to tell them the truth”; amen?
This is what I’ve tried to instill here in our fellowship and especially with our staff etc. I’ve never said this directly to the men but we’ve communicated it. “I might be in authority over you, but I am not superior to you”; amen? When we deal with each other, that’s the love of God. That’s the fear of God. Who are we? We’re nobody but an individual that God has gifted and called and placed. It has nothing to do with our superiority or that we’re better in any other way than anybody else. God likes to call the foolish and the weak that He might have the glory (1 Corinthians 1:27); amen?
The fear of God will dictate how we handle relationships with one another. The fear of God will never let us abuse one another, verbally or socially or any other way. So, we lean not to our own understanding, and in all of our ways we acknowledge God and He directs our paths.
Many preachers are doing that today. I’ll actually be talking about that in Africa here in a few weeks when we go over there. How sad it is to watch the destruction of preachers’ homes because they are doing all of this for God but losing their families. They’re in the pulpit and shouldn’t be there because their houses are out of order. You don’t love your wife enough to deserve to be in that pulpit. You’re not spending time with your children enough. You don’t deserve to be in that pulpit. How can you oversee that household of God if you can’t even keep your family in order and have those children know that their dad, the preacher, loves them? So many children grow up resenting God, resenting the ministry. There’s no competition. God has already told these that He’s put His hands on and called how to run their homes. If they did, their children would know, “Yes, they’re committed wholly to God and to His kingdom, but they love me and they want to include me in that,” praise God!
We can take that over into every one of our homes. What am I saying? If we fear God, we’re going to replicate who He is in our lives in the ministries that God has called us to. I told this one person, I said as they were involved in ministries and there were those that were in authority, et cetera and just speaking along the lines of some of the frustrations sometimes that come, I told the individual, “Love them enough to tell them the truth”; amen?
This is what I’ve tried to instill here in our fellowship and especially with our staff etc. I’ve never said this directly to the men but we’ve communicated it. “I might be in authority over you, but I am not superior to you”; amen? When we deal with each other, that’s the love of God. That’s the fear of God. Who are we? We’re nobody but an individual that God has gifted and called and placed. It has nothing to do with our superiority or that we’re better in any other way than anybody else. God likes to call the foolish and the weak that He might have the glory (1 Corinthians 1:27); amen?
The fear of God will dictate how we handle relationships with one another. The fear of God will never let us abuse one another, verbally or socially or any other way. So, we lean not to our own understanding, and in all of our ways we acknowledge God and He directs our paths.