#Understanding,#Scripture, #Pay the Price,#The Truth

Praise the Lord!!

My soul delights in the Lord.  He is so good and kind and faithful to His children.  Years, I mean years I have pondered the scripture found in Proverbs 23:23 that says, "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding".  I have asked the Lord for years, what does buy the truth and sell it not mean.  When I  first got saved, I thought it meant, buying Bibles and study materials.  Wrong.

This past Friday, the question crossed my mind again.  With so much going on with those that profess Christ, the backsliders, the lukewarm, no interest in the work of the Lord, the question came back to my mind.  For regardless of what people do, the word of God can not be changed for anybody.

So what does it mean to buy the truth and sell it not?  It fell in my heart to turn on some holiness preaching.  The preacher was saying the church is not cheap.  He went on to teach about what something cheap means, what it looks like, how something cheap is handled, etc.  Then he gave a testimony.  He said a preacher friend he knows started a work for the Lord.  He was doing all the right things, but nothing was happening.  He said his friend went for a drive and was talking to the Lord.  He started asking the Lord to tell him what he was doing wrong.  Why wasn't anything working right.  He said the Lord spoke to his friend and told him, "you are buying the truth".  I repeated to myself the answer the Lord gave that preacher, 'you are buying the truth'.

Light bulb on!!!

Buy the truth?  Pay the price to find out and know it is real.  Go through for the cause of Christ and the gospel.  Can you stand when no one stands with you?  Can you continue on doing what the Lord called you to do when no one is helping you or if everyone is talking about you?  Will you buy into the truth of the gospel or will you sell out and run when you are tried??

Light bulb on!!

Buy into the truth.  A person has to be willing to go through to know for themselves the word of God is true and to prove to God that He can trust you with his work.  Don't faint.  Don't sell out.  Don't turn to the world or others, trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding.  Stand on the Word of God so you can find out that it works.

Buy the truth and sell it not.  Get it?

Question, have you paid the price?  Have you bought the truth and not sold it?

steadfast apostolic.com

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

#Call Jesus,#Cry out,#Jesus, Deliverer

If you call Jesus right, he will hear you and come see about you.  Ask blind Bartimaeus. The scriptures says in St. Mark 10:46-52 that Jesus, His disciples and a great number of people were leaving Jericho.  Blind Bartimaeus heard that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.  Blind Bartimaeus could not see.  He did not know what Jesus looked like.  He only knew what he heard. Blind Bartimaeus began to cry out to Jesus, "Jesus, thou son of David have mercy on me".  When the people tried to stop him, he cried out the more so, "Thou son of David, have mercy on me".  He did no let people keep him from calling on the Lord.  He must have heard about the miracles, healing, deliverance that took place at the hand of the Lord. Jesus heard the cry of Blind Bartimaeus.  It was the sound of the cry that revealed to the Lord that Blind Bartimaeus was calling out in a blind state, but yet believing something would happen if he could get the attention of Jesus of Nazareth. .  He w
Read more

#A Lot of Singing,#Shouting,#Tongue Talking,#Playing

Music was one of the things that drew me to want to go to Church when I was not saved.   I use to love to hear and 'feel' the spirit of the songs.  Back then, the singers would sing unto the Lord.  They were not paid to sing.  They were not seeking recording contracts.  They would sing unto the Lord.  The would sing about the Lord.  So, when one went to hear the singers, your soul got touched whether you wanted it to or not. I can remember going to the Holiness Churches.  The praise was different too.  When the Saints praised God back then, it was real.  When the Saints did dance 'in the Spirit', it was real.  You could feel it.  There was always this 'presence' in the Holiness Church that I could not explain....then.  But that presence kind of held you captive, whether you wanted it o or not.  And, sometimes Church would go on for hours, but no one cared.  And, if one of the Saints said something to you that the Lord gave them for you, you knew it and felt it
Read more

#Not Wise,#What if,Church Attendance,#Unwise

"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it".  St. Luke 9:23,24 ******************************* It is unwise to put what you want to do, feel like doing or desire to do above the Lord.   Not wise .  Someone did not go to Church today because he or she did not 'feel' like it.  Someone did not go or will not go because he or she had something else they wanted to do.   Not wise . What if the Lord 'did not feel like it'?  How would you breathe?  How would you walk?  How would you talk? The same God you ignore on Sunday is the same God that will wake you up on Monday to go to work.  Do you treat your job better than you treat the Lord? Do you go to your job more than you go to Church? Not Wise . Time for Church steadfastapostolic.com
Read more