"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Arguments" Series, titled "Getting Real"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Arguments" Series, titled: "Getting Real" (Broadcast #7433)
Scripture References: Acts 15:10, Ephesians 4

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

Transcript

Alright, thank you very much, and hello again, friends, how are you? We were studying in the 15th chapter in the Book of Acts, and we were right in the middle of what Simon Peter was saying, regarding this problem that had arisen over who can be saved, people who keep the law, or people who don’t keep it. I’ve often wondered how I might have handled a problem like this, I’m really not sure whether I would have come out as well as Peter and James and the rest did. For one thing, I think I may have been a little impatient and I wouldn’t have let people say their say. That’s one possibility, and another is I might have not gone as quickly to the point as Peter did. He said, “Well, now look what God has been doing. The way to settle any problem is by getting more facts and start with the kind of facts that answer the question, ‘What has God been doing and saying?'” If you can nail down in your own thinking what the Lord has been doing and what the Lord has been saying, then you have a pretty solid basis, don’t you, for reasoning from thereon. That’s what Peter did.

And he said, “Now you know that God actually spoke through me a while back to the Gentiles and that they were saved and that the Holy Ghost was bestowed upon them just as upon us and he cleansed their hearts just like he cleansed our hearts. These are all matters of the fact.” Now, He says in Acts 15:10, “Why tempt ye God to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?” I’ve noticed that when a man is trying to prove a point, he can get awfully righteous. But when the Holy Spirit of God begins to talk to his heart, he’s apt to get a little more honest and admit some things.

Our problem I think in evangelical circles is that too often we’re trying to win arguments, instead of win souls. Would you say so? Well you see, it’s perfectly human, once you take a point of view and establish it, then in order to keep from losing face, you have to maintain that point of view and defend it. And so you end up probably making some statements that you would not otherwise have made because you have to defend that point of view. You take a discussion between a husband and wife, now many of my listeners are married people, and you’ll recognize this immediately. Discussion between a husband and wife, and one of them either he or she, it doesn’t really make any difference who starts it, says, “You don’t really appreciate me.” Well, the discussion goes from, “You don’t appreciate me,” now, the point of view, has been established, right? Well then, whoever said it has to keep on defending the statement with all kinds of arguments, and the other party to the discussion probably drags in a good many unrelated thoughts and arguments as the time goes on.

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