Wide World of Mike

HT: Gene Pensiero

 the moment a Christian, or a church, departs from the principle of revelation and goes into high criticism or intellectual understanding of the Bible, all spiritual authority is lost.

this is very relevant to the days in which we live and to the land in which we live. instead of attacking a city in the name of the Lord, the very spirit of the city gets into the life of the church. the local church becomes full of party strife and division, and believers become materialistic. the Bible is approached on the basis of ‘what i cannot understand, i will discard.’

if we submit the Word of God to our own intellect and refuse to believe in the possibility of absolute, authoritative revelation, the church loses its power and authority. and if it loses the ability to say, ‘thus saith the Lord,’ it has no answer to the problems of our times.

during the last century we have talked about the spread of modernism &neo-orthodoxy as if those things were new. but they are as old as the New Testament.

…if you want an enlightened mind on the Word of God, you have to live a crucified life.

that’s the principle.“

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