The Bible's Not Complicated

    The Bible was written, so that the common man could figure it out. Jesus, talked
to the multitudes, very few intellectuals in the crowd. Fishermen, could understand
Him. Carpenters, could understand Him. Farmers, could understand Him.
    The people that couldn't understand Him, the ones that plotted Jesus's death were
the intellectuals. I hate to say this, as an American, with a high school education
and one year of Bible college, it is easy to get caught up in debates over nothing.
    The Sadducees and Pharisees were the intellectuals of the Jewish faith, in fact
the man that wrote the most books in the New Testament, Paul, was a Pharisee.
Paul talks about his education, studying under one of the greatest teachers of his
generation, Gamaliel. Paul, could of continued to use his education to debate
scripture with others in the Temple. But Paul soon realized that, because of his
knowledge and wealthy upbringing and his zeal for God, that he had been wrong
about this new sect called, The Way, which was later called Christianity. Not only
wrong about Christianity but also wrong about God and about the Messiah,
Jesus Christ.
    My grandmother, with her 6th grade education, could read the scriptures. She
was the most spiritually alive person I have ever met. When my grandma prayed
for you, she would hold your hands, and you could feel the Holy Spirit start to
move from one of her hands, through your body and back into her other
hand. As long as you were holding her hands, that current continued to flow, it
was always an amazing experience to pray with her. I've heard the same story over
and over from many different people of how grandma was used by the Holy Spirit.
    Because of that experience with my grandma, it was easy for me to accept
how the Spirit moved the early church. How that fire that burned with-in Peter,
Paul, Stephen, and others could not be contained. That fire had to come out and
be used.
    There was absolutely no power on this earth, that was going to keep the
Apostles or the church quiet. In fact, the first church prayer in Acts was for
boldness.
    That power is still available to us today, but sometimes we are to smart for our
own good, or even Jesus's good sometimes. We get hung up on, theological
theories and trying to somehow, mix the oil and water of creation and evolution,
instead of hung up on God and plugging into the power of the Holy Spirit.
   I think we would be much better off by getting our mind out of the way.
   I think we would be much better off not thinking, but relying on the Spirit.
   I think we would be better off applying the Spirits knowledge, not ours.

Faith Akers Ministry @ Akers-Enterprises.com
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