So Many Voices

GREETINGS,
 

1 JOHN 4:1
 
"DEAR FRIENDS, DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY SPIRIT,
BUT TEST THE SPIRITS
TO SEE WHETHER THEY ARE FROM GOD,
BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS
HAVE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD."
 
DO YOU REMEMBER THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA?  SO MANY VOICES WERE SPEAKING SO LOUDLY IN THE PLACE, NO SPECIFIC VOICE COULD BE HEARD; THE SOUND WAS A LOUD ROAR.  SOMETIMES THE MANY VOICES OF POPULAR RELIGION CAN BEGIN TO SOUND LIKE THE ROAR OF A SCHOOL CAFETERIA.

CERTAINLY OUR DAY IS NOT THE FIRST TO HAVE MULTIPLE VOICES SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF GOD.  JEREMIAH ENCOUNTERED COLLEAGUES IN MINISTRY WHO WERE SPEAKING A MESSAGE THAT FED THE PEOPLE SIMPLY WHAT THEY WANTED TO HEAR. SEE JEREMIAH 29:15-19.  THE PEOPLE BECAME CONSUMERS; THE MESSAGE BECAME A PRODUCT; THE MINISTER BECAME A SALESPERSON.
 
WHAT TO DO?  IN ORDER TO KNOW WHAT IS FALSE, WE MUST KNOW WHAT IS TRUTH.  LET'S KNOW THE WORD OF GOD.  LET'S STUDY THE SCRIPTURES.  LET'S BE LIKE THOSE AT BEREA, FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAYS IN ACTS 17:11  "THOSE JEWS WERE MORE RECEPTIVE THAN THOSE IN THESSALONICA, FOR THEY WELCOMED THE MESSAGE VERY EAGERLY AND EXAMINED THE SCRIPTURES EVERY DAY TO SEE WHETHER THESE THINGS WERE SO."
 
DRAW NEAR TO CHRIST TODAY, AND BE BLESSED, REMEMBERING THAT YOU ARE LOVED!!!

HENRY