Brethren, Let us not be ignorant...

Brother Joseph Prasad [ 2014 ]
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As believers, we carefully walk in this world as strangers and pilgrims. The Sacred Scriptures constantly teach us how we should be prudent and have a spirit of sound mind. As our citizenship is in heaven and as we are not of the world, we tread in this world as a soldier walking through the enemy territory in a state of high alert. Though the world recognizes us as unlearned and ignorant men [Acts 4:13]. But to make the world to take knowledge of us as the ones who are with the Lord Jesus Christ, It requires a constant vigil which the word of God provides and also to know and understand the lessons the Spirit of God gives to us. It is worth to learn lessons from the portions where Apostle Paul warns believers not to be ignorant.

In 1Corinthians Chapter 10 apostle Paul, talks about the fathers and the privileges they enjoyed as the people of God. It is important to note that the words ALL and MANY. All our fathers were under the cloud, passed through the sea, did eat same Spiritual meal and did drink the same Spiritual drink from the Spiritual Rock [Christ] that followed them. But with many of them God was not pleased. Here the lesson for us to know is the state of our heart. These things did not happen to our fathers just by chance that we may take convenient lessons. But God so designed the history that one may know the intent for which they are recorded. They are not written for our information, but are written for our admonition, that we may appreciate the wisdom of God in placing them as ensamples so that we may apply it to ourselves and take the more earnest heed ,as we think we stand lest…. we fall. So brethren let us not be ignorant, but learn lesson as we are taught by the word of God through the help of the Spirit of God.

In I Corinthian Chapter 12 again Apostle Paul warns believers not to be ignorant of the Spiritual things. We are quite familiar with teaching of this chapter. We can learn simple lesson from verse 7" But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to everyman to profit withal (whole assembly)”.We need to understand that everyman is given a responsibility and none of us can excuse ourselves from it. As we gather around the emblems of the Lord on a Sunday morning or around the Word to know the God’s mind or around the Mercy seat to draw from inexhaustible riches of our God, it is our duty to wait upon Lord to take our turn to burn the incense in the presence of the Lord so that the whole assemble is profited .Paul continue to exhort believers through the example of human body” if one member suffer all the members suffer with it “ through the head.Often we appreciate the profoundness of the doctrine and ignore its application. May our good God continue to strengthen us, as we endeavor to walk in His ways.

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