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There is one God and one mediator between God and men. The office is taken.
The error is not in the idea of a go-between but in its extremism, when someone stands so far between you and God that you stop reaching for Him yourself. Saul’s middleman was no con artist; Samuel was God’s own choice, and Saul still never learned to pray. Twice he called Him “the Lord your God.” When he sinned, he asked the prophet to pardon him. David fasted seven days, Paul asked three times, Elijah looked seven times. Saul prayed once, heard nothing, and went to a medium.
“Do not substitute the silence of God with the verbosity of men.” The eighth message in The Prophetic Mandate series is not against ministers. It is against a dependence that cannot find God without someone in the way.
Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Ephesians 2:18; 1 Samuel 9-10; 1 Samuel 15:22-30; 1 Samuel 28:6-7
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Jesus said false prophets come in sheep’s clothing. Not another breed of sheep. Wolves, and wolves eat sheep.
Where people want the remarkable badly enough, someone will always arrive to supply it. The test Jesus gave was fruit, not gift, and the people He sends away in Matthew 7 are people who prophesied in His name. Ahab’s four hundred prophets agreed to a man, and Zedekiah made horns of iron to prove it. Micaiah saw a lying spirit volunteer to speak through them all. They heard something; it was not God.
Jehoshaphat could not settle, and asked whether there was still a prophet of the Lord. The seventh message in The Prophetic Mandate series asks the listener to learn the anointing that abides within, and not to reject knowledge.
Scripture: Matthew 7:15-23; 2 Corinthians 11:12-14; 1 Kings 22:6-23; 1 John 2:27; Hosea 4:6
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Samson tore a young lion apart with his bare hands in the vineyards of Timnah. He could beat the lion. He could not master his own temper.
Anger itself is not the sin. Jesus looked around in anger at hard hearts and then healed the man’s hand. But anger has a time limit, and God warned Cain while he was still only angry. Absalom had real cause over Tamar, lay with his anger for two years, had Amnon killed, and spent three more in exile. Simeon and Levi had cause too, and left a city of widows and orphans.
However justified it feels, there was always a choice. The first part of Lucifer’s Little Foxes, from the book of the same name, asks the listener to bring real hurt to God before the sun goes down on it.
Scripture: Song of Solomon 2:15; Judges 14:5-6; Ephesians 4:26; Mark 3:5; Genesis 4:6-7; Genesis 49:5
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