Once upon a time there was a people called Rechabites; a biblical clan, the descendants of Rechab through Jehonadab. They belonged to the Kenites, who accompanied the children of Israel into the holy land, and dwelt among them.
In Jeremiah 35, it is recorded that the prophet took some Rechabites into the Temple and offered them wine to drink, and that they declined on the ground that Jehonadab, son of Rechab, their ancestor, had commanded them not to drink wine or other strong drink, or to live in houses, or to sow seed, or to plant vineyards, and had enjoined them to dwell in tents all their days. Jeremiah used this fidelity of the Rechabites to their principles as an object-lesson in his exhortations to his contemporaries.
Today Christians are quick to interpret God's Word to suit their flesh and carnal lusts but easily to heed and defend their earthly cultures, customs & traditions. These Rechabites were told by God to drink wine but they refused because they were strongly anchored to the voice of their ancestors. If we, Christians, would act like these men and anchor strongly to God's Word and the defend it jealously, no wind of doctrine can toss us to and fro.
Our Apostolic fathers are still speaking to us today through the pages of the scriptures & they wrote to us according to by God's Holy inspiration. As the scripture says, 2 Peter 1
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Let us be like the Bereans in Acts 17., "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so".
The Jews in Berea applied seriously to the study of the word preached unto them. They not only heard Paul preach on the sabbath, but daily searched the Scriptures, and compared what they read with the facts related to them. The doctrine of Christ does not fear inquiry; advocates for his cause desire no more than that people will fully and fairly examine whether things are so or not. Those are truly noble, and likely to be more and more so, who make the Scriptures their rule, and consult them accordingly. May all the hearers of the gospel become like those of Berea, receiving the word with readiness of mind, and searching the Scriptures daily, whether the things preached to them are so. Just as Pastor Tunde Bakare said, Christians these days keep their common sense at home when going to church, that's why they are gullible.
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
In Jeremiah 35, it is recorded that the prophet took some Rechabites into the Temple and offered them wine to drink, and that they declined on the ground that Jehonadab, son of Rechab, their ancestor, had commanded them not to drink wine or other strong drink, or to live in houses, or to sow seed, or to plant vineyards, and had enjoined them to dwell in tents all their days. Jeremiah used this fidelity of the Rechabites to their principles as an object-lesson in his exhortations to his contemporaries.
Today Christians are quick to interpret God's Word to suit their flesh and carnal lusts but easily to heed and defend their earthly cultures, customs & traditions. These Rechabites were told by God to drink wine but they refused because they were strongly anchored to the voice of their ancestors. If we, Christians, would act like these men and anchor strongly to God's Word and the defend it jealously, no wind of doctrine can toss us to and fro.
Our Apostolic fathers are still speaking to us today through the pages of the scriptures & they wrote to us according to by God's Holy inspiration. As the scripture says, 2 Peter 1
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Let us be like the Bereans in Acts 17., "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so".
The Jews in Berea applied seriously to the study of the word preached unto them. They not only heard Paul preach on the sabbath, but daily searched the Scriptures, and compared what they read with the facts related to them. The doctrine of Christ does not fear inquiry; advocates for his cause desire no more than that people will fully and fairly examine whether things are so or not. Those are truly noble, and likely to be more and more so, who make the Scriptures their rule, and consult them accordingly. May all the hearers of the gospel become like those of Berea, receiving the word with readiness of mind, and searching the Scriptures daily, whether the things preached to them are so. Just as Pastor Tunde Bakare said, Christians these days keep their common sense at home when going to church, that's why they are gullible.
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
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