Spurgeons...cont

Bill I know people who use their verses to control others. I am not saying that you do this. Over the years Ive seen how you focus on the gospel of grace. As you know this christian life is really about the words we use. A lot of people are always looking at the trees so to speak ...they never get to the root cause of the problems of this world. They are always looking at the trees and never see the forest. They live their lives focused on their particular verses ..like a horoscope.  I mean most people just preach do do do and yet the bible describes our problem as not what we obtain but how we obtain it. And you see this in the NT of how the apostle talks about christian unity in the church. It goes beyond the limits of this world. It is a spiritual unity. The unity extends to connecting everyone who is saved to the far corners of the earth. The apostle teaches that our unity is that we are of one mind. Instead of saying that it is accomplished by the things we do for one another He says that we all agree on points of doctrine as the expression of christian unity.

The point is that we can do do do and work against christian unity. If we talk about christian unity as a duality of purpose then we are denying there is one purpose. But we see the apostle gives us a fail safe way to judge christian unity. He says that it is expressed in the way we walk. And taking this concept from the Psalms he teaches that the way we walk is our communication.  We speak in a certain way and it is described as christian unity.

I had a pastor who was extremely gifted in this area. Every time I was together with him ,,,he spoke the bible to me ...he presented the gospel of grace. I really never heard him say anything that was not doctrinally correct. God has give us a message that not only addresses how we are to act. But it addresses the things that sustain us. The Psalmist compares the meditation of scripture to eating food at the Kings table. In other words when the Psalmist meditated on Gods word he described it as ascending to a rock on a mountain. This means that he got a perspective of his circumstances in which he could see Gods hand molding and making everything for His glory. I call this rising up to the line of blessing and cursing. Believe it or not the purpose of the psalmist meditation was to get above the circumstances to have an advantage of those who opposed him. Like a king participating in war. He ascends to a view where he is able to know how to obtain victory. But if the king remained on the ground then he would be tempted to use his own control and drag God into his scheme.

This is why there is so much deception in this world. Because people do not realize how much growth in these areas of doctrine and scripture will determine how they live their lives .It will determine who they think is important and what things they trust in to obtain a goal. I warn any man if he has not experienced this view from the rock that he is deceived in some ways. We really have the ability within ourselves to judge all things by the use of scripture. And in this sense any other instrument is an arm of the flesh and will get us going down side roads.  I surely want to be rite next to David in the other side. I will wear myself out to stay on this one road. I will pronounce the truth as God says it. I will not let the fear of man keep me from getting to mystery. Well, I mean according to Gods allowance.