"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Acceptance" Series, titled "A Little Slack"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Acceptance" Series, titled: "A Little Slack" (Broadcast #7089)
Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 5:14-15

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

Transcript

Alright, thank you very much. And hello again, radio friends. How in the world are you? Doing alright today? Well, I trust so. Bless your heart. Nice to be back with you. This is your good friend, Bob Cook, and we are going to look at I Thessalonians 5:14. We got into that the last time we got together and we’ll walk through it again and go on into verse 15 as time serves us. It’s a great book, isn’t it? This I Thessalonians. He says, “Now, we exhort you, brethren,” and that’s the beseeching word. It’s a kind word. It doesn’t have any gravel in it. “We beseech you.” We ask you earnestly and lovingly, that’s what it means. “Warn them that are unruly.” Warn is a verb that actually is a compound word meaning set their mind straight.

“Set them straight, get some sense into them those that are unruly,” and unruly means out of line, out of rank. They’re out of step. They’re absent without leave. They’re trying to do their own thing. Self-will is not only tragic and oftentimes ridiculous, but it doesn’t have any sense to it. There is no sense to the idea of just insisting on doing your own thing. That’s why Paul says, “If they’re out of line and out of ranks, try to put some sense in them.” Interesting concept, isn’t it? Remember this, the next time you want your own way instead of God’s will, will you? Not only do you end up looking ridiculous, but it says to everybody that you don’t have good sense. Anybody with good sense is gonna go God’s way. See, that’s the idea. Oh, that speaks to my heart and I know it does to yours. I want God’s will and I want to have the good sense to do it. Amen.

Well, he says, “Comfort the feeble-minded.” Now when we use the word feeble-minded today, we mean folk that are either brain injured, or whatever. And our hearts go out to them and we do all we can for them. We have the special Olympics and we have special education and all of that which is as it ought to be. And by the way, Christian culture is the only place, a Christian country or a Christian area is the only place where you find people who care about those who are needy in this sense. However, feeble-minded as it’s rendered here, in your original text means people with small minds, small souls. Folk who just… They don’t see the big picture. Now what are you supposed to do for them? Well, it says comfort them. And it uses the word comfort in a verb that is often used in terms of consoling people who are in sorrow. The warm, tender, compassionate presence, the loving words that help somehow to cut the edge of sorrow, that’s the verb it uses there. Being alongside to comfort.
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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.”