Why We Don’t Pray More Often

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Why We Don’t Pray More Often
“Pray without ceasing …” 1 Thessalonians 5:17
At 57 I still do battle with my prayer life. I am thankful that right now God has been doing something in my life that has been focusing more on prayer. Sometimes because we find ourselves at the end of our self, at the point of desperation for Him and what He can do. That’s not a bad place to be.
Dr. Jim George in his book The Man Who Makes a Difference – 10 Keys to a Life of Impact (Harvest House) shares nine reasons why we don’t pray more often …
  1. Wordliness  — so caught up in the world that prayer doesn’t show up on the radar screen.
  2. Busyness – my agenda is so full that I have crowded Him out.
  3. Faithlessness – I have bought into the lie that He really doesn’t hear MY prayers.
  4. Distance (from God) – my sin has caused me not to enter HIS presence.
  5. Ignorance – I don’t connect what the Word says about prayer in my life.
  6. Sinfulness – “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear…” Psalm 66:18
  7. Pridefulness – “The self-sufficient do not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray!”
  8. Inexperience – The more we pray, the more we see Him answer and working our lives – the more we will desire to pray.
  9. Laziness
You aren’t dumb – I don’t need to flesh those 9 points out for you. Can you identify with any of the nine in your life that are keeping you from doing what Paul commanded us to do – Pray without ceasing? If so, repent and come to the throne of grace where He is ready to meet you! – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
GPS – God’s Positioning System: Isaiah 44-48; Psalm 14; Proverbs 15
Compass Pointers: He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. William Law
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 28:9; Level 2: Proverbs 28:6-10
Anchored to the Rock: Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it. Rowland Hill

Excuse Me, Washcloth or Filter

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Excuse Me, Washcloth or Filter? 
 “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” Gal 5:16-18 (ESV) 

As we were dropping off our sons to begin their season on Summer Staff at America’s Keswick, my brother-in-Christ, Mark Fisher, and myself are engaged in deep conversation. He was telling me about how the Lord spoke to him through an evangelist about the use of coffee filters. Mark starts off with by saying, “Tomorrow morning try this, when you make your coffee, don’t use the filter. Just let all those nasty coffee grinds go right into the pot. Then after you drink some of it, try to use the filter. No matter how you try, you will soon realize that the filter only works when we use it the way it was designed, before we drink the coffee, not after.”  

This illustration of coffee being filtered goes along with what happens when we find that many of us refuse to leave the foot of the Cross. Some of us just stay there and continue to wash ourselves over and over in the blood of forgiveness. We make very little, if any attempt to step away carrying our own Cross and showing others what the cleansing blood of Christ has the power to do. We seem to forget that once we are covered in the shed blood of redemption it not only covers us in the righteousness of Christ but it also serves as our filter to face the world. And so many of us (present writer included) fall into the traps and snares of our Adversary that we will fail to see the escape that was made way for us. 
This happens because we find the filter too restricting, so we make the choice to take the filter off. 

Keep in mind that this particular filter was designed to work on many levels of the human condition, especially at the level of our thoughts and our desires. Instead of being Spirit lead and having our thoughts and desires filtered, we decide to use the filter as Christian washcloth. We tend to dip it in the blood of Christ to wipe away the filth from our mouths, our eyes, our ears, our wallets, and our feet after we find ourselves in sin. If we go back to our coffee pot and serve someone a cup of that same coffee full of grinds, and when they say “Hey what’s up with this coffee it’s full of grinds?” hand them a filter and see what kind of reaction you get. 

As Brother Mark continued in conversation he made this point. “This is exactly what we are doing to the Holy Spirit when we remove the filter. We take off the filter, which represent the gift of discernment to be used before we sin, and instead of using them as they were designed, we decide to use them as wash cloths which represent our conviction and use it after we sin. Hasn’t God showed us that we should be filtering our thoughts before we act on them? We should filter our thoughts before we speak, before we look, before we listen, before we spend, before we go and so on.” 
So I’ll ask you this brother. Did you have a cup of coffee this day that wasn’t filtered? And if you did, how did it taste and do you really enjoy it that way? I agree with Mark that drinking coffee without it being filtered is just plain nasty to drink but living out the life provided for me by my Heavenly Father and to just dab the shed blood of Christ on my sin with a washcloth is just plain disobedient. So when you step out into the world this day make sure you have put the filter in before you add the coffee. I am sure that the Savior will add His sweetness to it if you do. – Chris Hughes is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and is a regular Freedom Fighter contributor

GPS – God’s Positioning System: Isaiah 40-43; Psalm 13; Proverbs 14
Compass Pointers: “Throughout the centuries relatively few Christians have been martyred for Jesus. We may die of embarrassment, but few of us will face the literal loss of life for our faith. However, it is clear that staying is easier than going out into the world. But then, Jesus never promised us we could stay in our comfort zone. Jesus calls us to go into the world. This is scary when we think about the hostile world we are entering, but God loved the world enough to send His own Son into the world, and He calls us to follow in His footsteps.” Too Christian, Too Pagan   Dick Staub

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 28:9; Level 2: Proverbs 28:6-10
Anchored to the Rock: We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is NEVER out of season. Matthew Henry
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Retirement … Say What?

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Retirement … Say What?

I am a Baby Boomer. Since I was born between 1946 and 1964, I get that distinguished title. I don’t know how distinguished the title is since I share it with 75 million other Americans. But get ready because beginning January 1st this year approximately 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 each day for the next 19 years. That is a lot of “Boomers” retiring.

Boomers have dealt with a lot of issues over the last 50 years. We dealt with the Vietnam war, an assassinated President, Watergate, the Cold War, the introduction of email, texting, Woodstock and the Beatles. But of all the major issues, none is scarier than dealing with retirement.

Just like the host of other subjects we have covered in this blog, I believe the Bible gives us guidance on how a Christian should view retirement. The strongest counsel from God’s Word about ceasing all labor to pursue a life filled with leisure is the fact that nothing good is said about it. Read Proverbs and try to find a verse that encourages living a life of leisure. The closest word that I see in Proverbs to this type of lifestyle is “sluggard”.
The only place retirement is mentioned in the Bible is Numbers 8:24-26. This applies specifically to the Levites working in the tabernacle. Even in this reference retirement does not mean to cease from work, it means changing responsibilities.

Based on the absence of a direct reference to retirement and consistent call to be productive in both the Old and New Testament, I believe there is no scriptural basis for retiring to a life of leisure. Remember Moses, he was 80 years old when he began his 40-year adventure of leading the children of Israel.

The Bible implies that the type or intensity of work may change as we grow older. But even though we may retire from our vocation (even “full-time” Christian ministry), we should never retire from serving the Lord. Luke 2:25-38 is a good example of two elderly people who continue to serve the Lord faithfully.

Retirement years should not be spent solely in the pursuit of pleasure. Paul says that the widow who lives for pleasure is dead while she yet lives (1Timothy 5:6). As followers of Jesus Christ we are on the earth for a much higher purpose than earning money or pursuing pleasure. We are here for the purpose of Glorifying God and fulfilling the Great Commission.

We do have a responsibility to provide financially for our families needs (1Timothy 5:8). But someday, if we have been good stewards of the resources God has blessed us with; we will find ourselves in a position where we have fulfilled all of our earthly financial obligations.

At this point we have the privilege of devoting 100% of our energy and resources to fulfilling the Great Commission. Maybe this means serving in a foreign country as a missionary, or serving in your local church or in a ministry like Keswick as so many wonderful volunteers do. Maybe it means continuing in your career or trade and instead of giving 10% to the Lord’s work you contribute 100% of your income.

So how should those 10,000 Baby Boomers that turned 65 today view retirement? If they are Christians, certainly not with the anticipation of an empty pursuit of pleasure, but rather the excited opportunity to fulfill the Psalmist’s prayer in Psalm 71:18. “Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation…” George Hutchison is an instructor with Crown Financial and serves on the America’s Keswick Board.

GPS – God’s Positioning System: Isaiah 37-39; Psalm 12; Proverbs 13

Compass Pointers: Don’t try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith.
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 28:9; Level 2: Proverbs 28:6-10
Anchored to the Rock: Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give Him honor. Matthew Henry

The Concentration of Personal Sin

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The Concentration of Personal Sin
“Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips …” (Isaiah 6:5)
Once again, good old Oswald Chambers nailed me to the wall today in talking about my sin:
When I come into the very presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sense, but I suddenly realize and the focus of my attention is directed toward the concentration of sin in a particular area of my life.

A person will easily say, “Oh yes, I know I am a sinner,” but when he comes into the presence of God he cannot get away with such a broad and indefinite statement. Our conviction is focused on our specific sin, and we realize, as Isaiah did, what we really are. This is always the sign that a person is in the presence of God.

There is never any vague sense of sin, but a focus on the concentration of sin in some specific, personal area of life. God begins by convicting me of the very thing to which His Spirit has directed my mind’s attention. If we will surrender, submitting to His conviction of that particular sin, He will lead us down to where He can reveal the vast underlying nature of sin. That is the way God always deals with us when we are consciously aware of His presence.

This experience of our attention being directed to our concentration on personal sin is true in everyone’s life, from the greatest of the saints to worst of sinners. When a person first begins climbing the ladder of experience, he might say, “I don’t know where I’ve gone wrong,” but the Spirit of God will point out some definite and specific thing to him.
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The effect of Isaiah’s vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was “a man of unclean lips.” “He touched my mouth with it, and said, ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.’” (Isaiah 6:7). The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated!

Wow. I really got hammered on this today. BUT I know this is just another reminder of God’s love for me and you. Is there an area of personal sin in YOUR life that needs to be addressed today? – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
GPS – God’s Positioning System: Isaiah 35-36; Psalm 11; Proverbs 12
Compass Pointers: Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lies in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song – He has become your salvation. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 28:9; Level 2: Proverbs 28:6-10
Anchored to the Rock: I am convinced that nothing can avail, except churches and ministries on their knees in total dependence on God. As long as you go on organizing, people will not fall on their knees and implore God to come and heal them. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Openness with God

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Openness With God

“And there is NO creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” – Hebrews 4:13

Good morning, brothers. I want to share with you a truth that if WE (you and me) were to grasp this, it would impact how we live our lives.

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“I must never forget that God’s knowledge of me is COMPLETE! “Thou … art … acquainted with all my ways” (Psalm 139:3). This means that God knows my subconscious as well as my conscious life. He knew me in the womb (vv. 15-16), which means He knew my genes, my hereditary traits, and all the unborn capabilities for good and evil. In the hands of an evil being, such knowledge would easily be my undoing. But in the hands of a God of infinite love, such knowledge is my safety and salvation.

God will accept me as I am, warts and all, provided I do not try to pretend. Pretension is the mark of social custom, the device whereby human beings are able to tolerate one another. To be barely, rigidly open with each other would be to turn the human race into a vast asylum.

But God, who knows us completely, never uses that knowledge to take advantage of us. Nevertheless, God expects me to be as honest with Him as I am capable of being. This means I must be honest with myself. If I am self-deceived, I can never be open and honest with God.

Despite God’s complete knowledge of me, He can do nothing for me until I release my will to Him. “Try me and know … my thoughts”(Psalm 139:23) is a plea. Once released to help, God will use His complete knowledge of me to guide me in “the everlasting way” (v. 24). This means controlling my subconscious, where areas exist of which I know nothing, and using it for profit instead of for loss.
When Jesus said to Simon, “Thou art Simon … thou shalt be … Cephas” (John 1:42), He was beginning to change a man from a mass of raw instincts into a refined copy of Himself. Jesus knew what He had to start with. He knows it with me. But He also knows the end to which He intends to bring me, polished and glorified. – from Daily with The King (Moody Press)

This is one of those necessary truths that if I can burn it in the hard drive of my mind, will help me to lead a life of integrity. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
GPS – God’s Positioning System: Isaiah 31-34; Psalm 10; Proverbs 11
Compass Pointers: There is a battle going on for the minds of people. We do need to be alert to the devil’s schemes and subtle teachings that masquerade as truth in our society. But the way to resist such mental error is not with emotional diatribes. Instead there needs to be a clear understanding of the Bible’s teaching about demonic error, accompanied by a committed submission to the commands of scripture. Gary R. Collins

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 28:9; Level 2: Proverbs 28:6-10
Anchored to the Rock: “What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use – men of prayer, men mighty in power.” E. M. Bounds

Jesus Pleads for Me

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Jesus Pleads for Me
Here is a great hymn from Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Hymnal, Our Own Hymn-Book – A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public, Social and Private Worship. It was compiled in the mid 1800’s and used at The Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, England:
Jesus Pleads for Me

Before the throne of God above
I have a strong and perfect plea;
A great High Priest, whose name is Love,
Whoever lives and pleads or me.


My name is graven on His hands,
My name is written on His heart;
I know that, while in heaven He stands,
No tongue can bid me thence depart.

When Satan tempts me to despair,
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look, and see Him there,
Who made an end of all my sin.

Because the sinless Savior died,
My sinful soul is counted free;
For God, the Just, is satisfied
To look on Him, and pardon me.

Behold Him there! The bleeding Lamb!
My perfect, spotless Righteousness,
The great unchangeable, “I Am,”
The King of glory and of grace.

One with Himself, I cannot die,
My soul is purchased by His blood;
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ, my Savior and my God. – Charitie Lee Smith, 1863

Meditate on these words as you prepare your hearts for this Lord’s Day. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
GPS – God’s Positioning System: Isaiah 28-30; Psalm 9; Proverbs 10
Compass Pointers: A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian…and most of all, his family ought to know. Dwight L Moody

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 28:9; Level 2: Proverbs 28:6-10
Anchored to the Rock: Prayer-time must be kept as duly as meal-time. Matthew Henry

Don’t Miss Church

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Don’t Miss Church
“ … not staying away from our meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near …” Hebrews 10:25 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
Here is a little funny to lighten your day after a long week. It will make you chuckle – but hopefully it doesn’t describe you …
Don’t wait until the hearse hauls you off to church. If you do …
— You will go, regardless of the weather.
— You will go, regardless of the condition of your body.
— There will be beautiful flowers there, but you won’t enjoy them.
— You will go, regardless of how your family feels.
— The minister may say many good things, but they will do you no good.
— There will be beautiful music, but you won’t hear it.
— There will be heartfelt prayers, but they will not touch your heart.
— There will be friends and relatives there, but you won’t worship with them.
— You will go, no matter how many hypocrites are there.
— You will go, no matter how much you are needed at home or at work.
— You will receive no blessing from the service.
— You won’t feel concerned about your clothes.
— You will never have to decide about attending church again!
Aren’t you glad to be alive and well and full of zest and able to choose to go to church? – Walter Nuessle

Walter got it right! How about you? Don’t miss spending time with the Lord and His people tomorrow. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
GPS – God’s Positioning System: Hosea 8-14; Psalm 8; Proverbs 9
Compass Pointers: Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: the more you feed them, the  more they grow. – Billy Graham
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 27:1; Level 2: Proverbs 27:17-22
Anchored to the Rock: As long as we continue living we must continue praying. Matthew Henry

Living in the Will of God

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LIVING IN THE WILL OF GOD
“And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”  (Colossians 3:17)

            The will of God is a wonderful place to be.  Most Christians have experienced the difference in being in the will of God and being out of it.  The consensus is that the most satisfying place for the Christian to live life is in the center of God’s will.  Paul reminds the Christians in Rome that the Christian life properly lived will reveal the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. God’s will is good, acceptable and perfect.

            The Bible not only admonishes us to live in the will of God, it also gives the guidelines by which we can know that we are in the will of God.  In Colossians 3:15-17, Paul gives three clear guidelines for knowing the will of God.
            First, is the peace of God, verse 15.  Let the peace of God rule in your heart. The word rule carries the idea of umpire.  In other words, let the peace of God umpire your heart.  God has given boundaries and standards for Christian living.  When the child of God is living within those boundaries and is living according to the guidelines of God’s word, peace will be an obvious state of mind.  But when he steps outside God’s boundaries, the absence of peace is the indicator, the alarm, the “umpire’s whistle” indicating that he is out of God’s will.

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            Second, is the word of God, verse 16.  Let the word of Christ dwell in you.  There is no way to know the will of God apart from time in the word of God.  And this does not mean an occasional lucky dip, grasping for guidance in a panic method.  It means that there has to be a continual, systematic relationship with the Scriptures whereby day by day the Lord reveals Himself.

            Third, is the name of the Lord Jesus, verse 16.  Can you ask Jesus to sign off on the activities of your life?  Can He endorse what you are doing?  When the child of God is in the will of God, his life is endorsed by Jesus.
            Remember, God’s will is good, acceptable and perfect! Roger D. Willmore is a contributor to our Real Victory for Real Life and a popular speaker at America’s Keswick

GPS – God’s Positioning System: Hosea 1-7; Psalm 7; Proverbs 8

Compass Pointers: There is no test of faith so true as the grace of thanksgiving. Are you praising God enough? Are you thanking Him for your actual blessings that are more than can be numbered, and are you daring to praise Him even for those trials which are but blessings in disguise? Have you learned to praise Him in advance for the things that have not yet come? Anonymous

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 27:1; Level 2: Proverbs 27:17-22

Anchored to the Rock: The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. C. S. Lewis

The Code

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The Code

Most of you know that one of my addictions is books. I love to read and most of the material that I use for my Freedom Fighter entries come from the books that I am reading.

As a reader, one of my blessings is to preview new books that I can recommend to others to use in their studies. The other day I received a catalog of new books and I read a review of a new book being released in England. Right in the description was a neat outline suggested by the author, for men to think through as they walk with the Lord. I thought it would be worth sharing with you. Carl Beech calls it THE CODE:
  1. Jesus is my Captain, Brother, Rescuer, and Friend.
  2. I owe everything to Him. I will do anything for Him.
  3. I will unashamedly make Him known through my actions and words.
  4. I will not cheat in anything, personal, or professional.
  5. I will look away from the gutter, but be prepared to pull people out of it.
  6. I will keep my body and mind fit and free from any addictions.
  7. I will put the welfare of those closest to me before my own welfare.
  8. I will treat all men and women as brothers and sisters.
  9. I will lead as He would lead. I will honor my leaders provided this also honors Him. I will follow Him in company with my sisters and brothers.
  10. I will use my strength to protect the weak and stand against the abuse of power.
  11. I will protect the world that God has made.
  12. If I fail I will not give up. He never gives up on me.
Not a bad code to live by, guys. Have a great day. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
GPS – God’s Positioning System: 2 Chronicles 29-31; Psalm 6; Proverbs 7
Compass Pointers: The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. – George Mueller

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 27:1; Level 2: Proverbs 27:17-22
Anchored to the Rock: God will not do apart from prayer what He says He will only do in answer to prayer. Armin Gesswein

System Navigation: Sufficient Application

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Systematic Navigation: Sufficient Application  

“Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments. I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.” Psalms 119:5-7 (ESV) 

Over the year I have been writing some Freedom Fighters that are based in those things that I have be picking up from a really thick book I started reading back in January. This book, “Systematic Theology” written by Wayne Grudem has been a down to earth read. I really thought I would have a hard time understanding it but that is not the not the case. My problem is taking what I have read, processing it and then getting back into it. Yes you can say it…procrastination. However, the last thing I wrote about was the sufficiency of God’s Word and we all better agree that God’s Word should be THE moral compass in our daily walk. AMEN? 

So what of the practical applications of the sufficiency of Scripture? Well one thing is that it should encourage us as we try to figure out what God would have us think about a particular issue (possibly doctrinal) or to do in a situation. We may not get all the answers we are looking for directly, the secret things belong to the Lord our God, but God does provide us with the Holy Spirit for guidance. If you go to Scripture frequently enough, keep up the practice of searching Scripture for guidance and do this as a lifelong process, you will find “growth in the skill of rightly understanding the Bible’s teaching and then applying them to specific questions.” (Yep, borrowed that line from Grudem) 

Scripture’s sufficiency will show you that there is no modern day revelations from God that are to be placed on a level equal to Scripture in authority. If you are watching/listening to a television/radio preacher and all of a sudden he announces that he just got a message from the Almighty Himself and He said that you need to sow your seed by signing a check, you may wanna run that though Scripture before you find your bank account emptied. We need to insist to ourselves that God does not require us to believe anything about Himself through the mouth of these preachers unless we can confirm it by Scripture. Also a thing to be mindful of is when we find that there are those who would have some extra-biblical Christian writings (Gnostic Gospels for example) to place alongside Scripture there is a danger of deemphasizing the Bible’s teachings as well as teaching something contrary to Scripture.  

But what with regard to living the Christian life? The sufficiency of Scripture will remind you that “nothing is sin that is not forbidden by Scripture either explicitly or by implication.” There had been moments deep in Biblical history where there was unneeded rules, either written or implied, that became a burden to maintain. We had those Corinthians with the issue of eating meat offered to idols. Even in these modern times we have our unnecessary and unspoken violations like being caught at a Yankees game with your son or maybe it is wrong for you to be seen at a Justin Bieber concert with your daughter. Just for the record, Justin Bieber’s music really should be outlawed, banned or something (it’s horrible) and the Yankees…well maybe I’ll just leave that alone being a Phillies fan and all.
There are four other issues that Grudem covered and they were, add nothing to Scripture, do not believe in any redemptive work not found in Scripture, nothing is required of us other than what is found in Scripture and “emphasize what Scripture emphasizes and be content with what God has told us in Scripture.” And that last part is key to getting that “the secret things belong to the Lord our God.” I will close with a question from Grudem’s book…”If the Bible contains everything we need God to tell us for obeying Him perfectly, what IS the role of the following in helping us to find God’s will for ourselves: advice from others; sermons or Bible classes; our consciences; our feelings; the leading of the Holy Spirit as we sense him prompting out inward desires and subjective impressions; changes in circumstances; the gift of prophecy (if you think it can function today)?” I would like to hear your answers. – Chris Hughes is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and regular Freedom Fighter contributor 

GPS – God’s Positioning System: 2 Kings 18:1-8; Psalm 5; Proverbs 6

Compass Pointers: “God’s instructions were explicit. If the ground was too rocky to gather up a mound of earth for an altar, stones could be fashioned, or polished with a tool. Nor could the altar be elevated. Not one step must be climbed to reach it. There must be no illusion that man could contribute anything by his own efforts to his salvation. God Himself is the only One who can save man, and salvation must be a gift of His grace. Such is the Gospel consistently presented from Genesis to Revelation.”                                                                                                      The Non-Negotiable Gospel – Dave Hunt

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 27:1; Level 2: Proverbs 27:17-22

Anchored to the Rock: I have so much to do today that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. Martin Luther