Bible Verse of the Day Tuesday December 5th, 2023

Deuteronomy 18:15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.

This verse points to Moses as a prophet that God will use to spread His Word. Jesus teaches us God's truth through His words, as recorded in the gospels. His teachings are also through his examples, as we learn from the entirety of God's Holy Word. The indwelling of His Holy Spirit also helps us understand what we read and study in God's Word. When we apply what we learn from God's Word to our daily lives, we will become closer and closer to God as every day passes. Since voices are discordant in the world we live in today, some tend not to respond to God's Word. No unsaved person has the mandate to speak the truth. That is because humanity begins and ends with human reasoning. We can only find the absolute truth in God's Word. Consequently, that truth can only come through a revelation from God, all-knowing, all-powerful, sovereign, and truth itself.  

Religion is opposed to Christianity, as the Pharisees were opposed to Jesus when He was on the earth. Moreover, even the Sadducees were dead set against the teachings of the Apostles after Jesus had ascended to Heaven. Currently, there is a fusion of Christianity labeled progressive Christianity that is in opposition to the clear truth of God's Word. These false teachers place the primary authority in themselves, as humans, instead of the truth of God's Holy Word. It should not surprise anyone who is totally surrendered to Christ Jesus and grounded in His Word that those who hate God's Word would attack it. When the followers of Christ Jesus preach the gospel with conviction and assurance, it becomes an unmovable and unstoppable force in spreading God's Word to all the earth (Acts 1:8). All the persecution that Satan can whip up among His followers cannot stop the spread of God's Word because the Holy Spirit is at work. The perception that Satan causes his followers to place on God's people only serves to empower God's faithful followers. Tertullian, an early church father, hit the nail squarely on the head when he said: "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." He informed the Roman Empire that the Christian movement was not some new philosophy but the divine revelation of the Word of God.

All Christian ministry depends on the person speaking on behalf of Christianity to be Spirit-controlled. To be governed by the Spirit is the same as yielding to the Spirit. Surrendering to the Spirit depends on God's resources, not our own.