Sticks and Stones Breaking Bones Are Nothing Compared to What Words Do To The Heart: BE Broken or BE...

So say , so do and BE what you say. Practice what you preach. These things are right and true. Hypocrisy is never good. We are saved to BE. We are saved not by righteous works but to do righteousness and unto good works.

However, the Church has come to let the world and natural men dictate to us who is qualified to speak or preach, as leaders and ministers and/or as any layman Christian.

We are all to evangelize and preach the gospel. Our lives are to be a living testimony and we are to be "written epistles". But the Church has forgotten about the power of the gospel. Preaching it is life and more vaulable. We have been tricked into exalting natural philosophies such as "actions speak louder than words" and have devalued wisdom, God's wisdom, that is found in preaching and is foolishness to the world. Preaching is of much price to God and it is our part and what actually saves and delivers. The Word is God. No. Talk is not cheap. It is as valuable. HE, the Word, IS Life.

I started out talking about hypocrisy. It is wrong, but we must remember the hypocrisy that Jesus opposed was much more of the heart than action. The double minded man is unstable always. The one that continues to think right, even if they miss it will BE.

Church, I urge you. No longer should we devalue preaching or hearing preaching. We are saved BY FAITH through GRACE. Now surely it is the faith of the hearer. But I propose to you, it is the overall grace of God that allows them to hear, and mostly that of it found in and on the preacher or sent one.  Romans 10 lays out the case most wonderfully. Faith comes by hearing. (Not by seeing some one do something though we should do.) And hearing by the word of God (again not actions, though we should act.) And how can they hear unless there be a preacher? (Once again not a doer, though we personally should all be doers of the word). And how can one preach unless they be sent. (It is sent to preach or speak the word). Preaching is an action. The greatest action. It is our greatest work of co-laboring with God to be 2nd, 3rd, and/or 4th and so on witnesses to what the Lors has done to deliver that there be no excuse.

We tend to overlook and diminish preaching and the preacher, though it is most important and THĒ power of all change. Don't get distracted.

Again. I do not mean to promote or co-sign or excuse any hypocrisy, but sent and sent to preach is what gets the job done. His words are spirit and they are life.

The one that preaches truth and truthfully concerning our Lord, is more powerful and effective than the one that does right, but speaks wrong. Selah. Some struggle now with this. All ducks are in a row, but they speak perversely concerning God, even when their words are sweet. All ducks are in a row, but they are neither graced, nor sent to those people and to that place. They will have none effect and that's the BEST case scenario. Much more so, we've seen disaster, confusion, strife and much sin.

Consider the scripures below. For all you Word of Faith people, know this, that it is His Word spoken that is most and more powerful than the written Word. And it is His Spirit that leads us to which word of the Word to preach in every moment.

After all this comes BE by convergence. Things will then just happen, like Peter's shadow healing, or the hem of Jesus garment.

Actions do count. Talk it. Walk it. That is best. The blessing will overtake. We use that scripture for personal favor and things so much, but consider it in the context of Peter's shadow as mentioned, and Paul's hankerchief. We have limited ourselves by not directing many scriptures to all creation and for every good purpose; to love the whole wide world. But, between the two, as far as Christianity and Judaism is concerned, it is that words speak louder than actions. Even in the case of good actions, even the Cross, is it not that we that are here now receive it by the keeping of the account through words first spoken and preached, then written and read? Were you there? Maybe MH was. (#jokes. MH shout out)

Check out these scriptures below:

Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 3:4
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings,  and might overcome when you are judged.
(Even when actions don't match, preach Gods truth, and you will be jusified IN THE SAYINGS AND OVER COME! This is right.)

John 8:32
And all of you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 17:17
Sanctify them through your truth: your word  is truth.

Now that you've read, though I can hardly wait to preach it, but will take what I got, study. Then do. Preach that is. Preach the Word of Truth. It is still the power! These are spiritual matters. Hear. Meditate. Study. Be.

Graced and sent I am and fully persuaded. (JP shout out :)

Peace In! (I'm still showing the way),

Yulanda K.

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