Changed by His Love
1 John 4:6: We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
I used to tell the people of my church that I use the Bible as a Geiger counter. A Geiger counter tells you whether or not there is uranium there in the rocks and in the soil. So I just run the Geiger counter over the congregation, and the Bible is what I use—it’s my Geiger counter. I want to tell you, God’s children will always respond to it. That was my confidence as a pastor, and that is my confidence as I write this book: God’s people are going to hear.
And, my friend, I do not expect the other crowd to hear. If they don’t want to hear it, all they have to do is close this book. The Christian ministry does not depend upon them for support; God’s people are to support God’s work. After all, the ark of the covenant was carried on the shoulders of the priests of Israel. The ark speaks of Christ, and if we are to take Him to the world, we must carry Him on our shoulders. The supreme encouragement of the ministry is to know that God’s children will hear you. 1
Loving Him
How does the Spirit of God work with the Word of God to teach the people of God?
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:12–14
Loving Others
God is not silent. His voice speaks to us from His Word, if we are willing to listen.
Make Me Like You
Lord, thank You for Your Word that keeps me in the truth and exposes the error.
1. McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: The Epistles (1 John) (electronic ed., Vol. 56, p. 117). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
