"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Attention" Series, titled "Who Gets The Credit?"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Attention" Series, titled: "Who Gets The Credit?" (Broadcast #7050)
Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 2:3-6

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

Transcript

Alright, thank you very much, and hello once again, radio friends! How in the world are you? Are you doing alright today? Well, that little greeting establishes the fact that this is indeed your good friend Dr. Bob Cook, and I’m so grateful to be back with you again. I get lonesome to get with you. Did you ever have that feeling? No, I’m not with you physically. You’re there and I’m here. But oh, my heart and my mind and my thoughts, and my longings for God’s best in your life…they’re all with you. And I guess you know it, don’t you?

Well, we’re looking at 1 Thessalonians Chapter 2, and it’s Paul’s appraisal of his own ministry. He has some negatives and then we get down to some positives as well. He said “When I came, no deceit; I told you the truth. No uncleanness; I was right with God. No guile; I didn’t try to manipulate you. No flattering words; I didn’t lay it on with a trowel. No covetousness; I wasn’t trying to get something out of you. That was as far as we got the last time we were together. Now, you look at verse six: “Nor,” said he, “of men sought we glory, neither of you nor of others, when we might have been burdensome of the apostles of Christ.” “Give me my place because I am an apostle!” No, he didn’t do that. Leadership, beloved, has to be deserved; it can never be just demanded. Well, it can be demanded, but the minute the pressure is released, the leadership evaporates. Leadership has to be deserved. Bob Pierce used to say, when they asked him why he would take boatloads of rice over to Korea after the Korean War, feeding the refugees, he’d say, “You have to deserve a hearing. You can’t come to a person who’s starving and preach the gospel without helping him some.”

It’s a profoundly true statement. You have to deserve a hearing for the gospel and you have to deserve any leadership that you have. So he said, “We didn’t seek glory, neither of you nor of others.” Now there are two groups involved in this. Let’s admit at the outset that it’s nice to have somebody recognize you as being a person of some worth. Isn’t it? It’s nice when people recognize anything that you are doing or a position that you hold. You know, people introduce me and they say, “Mr. Cook was President of Youth for Christ, and President of the National Association of Evangelicals, and Vice President of Scripture Press and President of the National Religious Broadcasters,” and when they recite all of that, you sometimes think you’re sitting in your own funeral listening to your obituary. But a recital of who you are and what you’ve done…it feels good. You know, you have to admit that. And if people snub you, and somebody says “Bob Cook,” and somebody else says “Who?” you feel kind of let down. Am I communicating with you there, beloved? We’re all human, aren’t we? The point is, if that area of your life, the area that feels good when people recognize that you’re worth something, becomes the motivating force in your living and ministering, you’re in trouble. “Neither of men sought we glory.”

Cont.

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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.”