"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Authority" Series, titled "In The Midst Of Darkness"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Authority" Series, titled: "In The Midst Of Darkness" (Broadcast #7410)
Scripture References: Acts 13, Genesis 18

Learn about Dr. Cook's ministry at https://www.walkwiththeking.org/

Transcript

Alright, thank you very much. And hello, radio friends. My, it’s nice to be back with you. I trust everything’s okay at your house. God bless you. Let’s look at the Word of God together, we’re in the 13th chapter of the Book of Acts, and we’re right in the middle of the discourse that Paul the Apostle was presenting at the synagogue in Antioch of Pisidia. So we stopped on just one little phrase the last time we got together. “When John fulfilled his course he said, ‘Whom think ye that I am? I am not He.'” That is, I’m not the Christ. “Behold, there comes one after me whose shoes of his feet I’m not worthy to loose.” Small thought here, make up your mind as to your real relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ. I think one of the problems in contemporary evangelicalism is that we have lost the awe with which the Bible-taught, Spirit-led believer looks in the direction of God. We have lost the sense of real, underscored, real humility.

For instance, it is commonplace for the young person growing up in a Bible-believing church to hear sermons on making Christ your Lord and the act, the outward act of professing Christ as Savior becomes more or less commonplace. That is to say, we in the last hundred years or so have developed a kind of a formula that first, you preach a sermon… Well, first, you have a service with its so-called preliminaries, which include singing of songs, reading of scriptures, giving of testimonials, taking up an offering, that sort of a thing. Then you preach a sermon, then you ask people to make their decision, their commitment for Christ, then you have various ways of doing this. Sometimes you bring them from where they’re seated into a separate place, they “come forward” as the phrase goes, and then they go into an inquiry room, a room of prayer. Then you pray with them after you’ve shown them the Scriptures and you seek to lead them to a knowledge of Christ. Now this is more or less, you may say, standard procedure with many people, and a good one. I follow it myself, it’s a good procedure.

The point I’m making is that in our culture we get used to these things and they no longer produce in us a sense of real humility and awe. For example, what would your reaction be if you were asked to ride beside the driver on a truck containing some thousands of pounds of nitroglycerin? Huh? Now you know that the slightest jar can set off nitroglycerin and produce a tremendous explosion. You know this, don’t you? Okay, now this is being transported, this chemical is being transported from point A to point B some place down in the oil fields or wherever, and for some reason or other you’ve never had this experience before, and so you are requested to ride in the cab of the truck beside the driver as he is transporting these thousands of pounds of nitroglycerin. How do you feel about it? Well, I don’t know how you feel but I can guarantee you that if this experience came to me, now I’ve never ridden in a truck like that, but I have unfortunately read about some such trucks blowing up. And in those cases they just never find the driver, he has been blown to bits, and I’ve read about that so this is part of what’s in the background of my mind.

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Isaiah 55:11:
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”