Amos 8:11-12 (CJB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP]“The time is coming,” says Adonai Elohim,
“when I will send famine over the land,
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of Adonai.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]People will stagger from sea to sea
and from north to east, running back and forth,
seeking the word of Adonai;
but they will not find it.
You have all heard the story: A man saved all his money to buy a ticket on the ship to America. He wanted to start a new life. So for several years he saved all he could and finally he had enough to buy his ticket. He rushed down to the ticket office and purchased it just in time to catch his ship. He stayed in his cabin and ate crackers and cheese, which was all he was able to buy after he had paid for his ticket. By rationing his crackers and cheese he made it to port without starving. When the ship had docked, and everyone was getting off the ship, the captain stopped him as he started for the gangplank and asked him. "Sir, I have not seen you since you boarded. Are you all right? Did you have a good voyage? Maybe we offended you in some way?" "No no!" The man replied. "It was a fine voyage, I had no more money after buying my ticket so I stayed in my cabin and ate only crackers and cheese that I was able to get before we left port. That way I was able to come to America." The captain looked horrified. "Sir, sir! Surely you knew? The meals and entertainment, everything you might have wanted, was part of your fare!!
John 8:47 (CJB)
[SUP]47 [/SUP]Whoever belongs to God listens to what God says; the reason you don’t listen is that you don’t belong to God.”
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (CJB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP]He will enable him to deceive, in all kinds of wicked ways, those who are headed for destruction because they would not receive the love of the truth that could have saved them. [SUP]11 [/SUP]This is why God is causing them to go astray, so that they will believe the Lie. [SUP]12 [/SUP]The result will be that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken their pleasure in wickedness, will be condemned.
John 8:44-45 (KJV)
[SUP]44 [/SUP]Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Matthew 6:30 (CJB)
[SUP]30 [/SUP]If this is how God clothes grass in the field — which is here today and gone tomorrow, thrown in an oven — won’t he much more clothe you? What little trust you have!
Matthew 13:58 (CJB)
[SUP]58 [/SUP]And he did few miracles there because of their lack of trust.
John 12:37-38 (CJB)
[SUP]37 [/SUP]Even though he had performed so many miracles in their presence, they still did not put their trust in him, [SUP]38 [/SUP]in order that what Yesha‘yahu the prophet had said might be fulfilled,
“Adonai, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of Adonai been revealed?”
Enough scripture for now. Suffice it to say, that Crackers and Cheese Christians are crackers and cheese because they choose not to believe Gods word for more than basic salvation.
The question though needs an answer....If you will not believe God for healing that He promised, and you will not believe God for provisions that He promised......How can you believe Him for anything else? If His Word is not true on one single thing,......How can you trust the rest of it to be true?
You believe God or you are not of Him. Simple as that.
I believe we are seeing this dearth of the Word in churches today.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]“The time is coming,” says Adonai Elohim,
“when I will send famine over the land,
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of Adonai.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]People will stagger from sea to sea
and from north to east, running back and forth,
seeking the word of Adonai;
but they will not find it.
You have all heard the story: A man saved all his money to buy a ticket on the ship to America. He wanted to start a new life. So for several years he saved all he could and finally he had enough to buy his ticket. He rushed down to the ticket office and purchased it just in time to catch his ship. He stayed in his cabin and ate crackers and cheese, which was all he was able to buy after he had paid for his ticket. By rationing his crackers and cheese he made it to port without starving. When the ship had docked, and everyone was getting off the ship, the captain stopped him as he started for the gangplank and asked him. "Sir, I have not seen you since you boarded. Are you all right? Did you have a good voyage? Maybe we offended you in some way?" "No no!" The man replied. "It was a fine voyage, I had no more money after buying my ticket so I stayed in my cabin and ate only crackers and cheese that I was able to get before we left port. That way I was able to come to America." The captain looked horrified. "Sir, sir! Surely you knew? The meals and entertainment, everything you might have wanted, was part of your fare!!
John 8:47 (CJB)
[SUP]47 [/SUP]Whoever belongs to God listens to what God says; the reason you don’t listen is that you don’t belong to God.”
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (CJB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP]He will enable him to deceive, in all kinds of wicked ways, those who are headed for destruction because they would not receive the love of the truth that could have saved them. [SUP]11 [/SUP]This is why God is causing them to go astray, so that they will believe the Lie. [SUP]12 [/SUP]The result will be that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken their pleasure in wickedness, will be condemned.
John 8:44-45 (KJV)
[SUP]44 [/SUP]Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Matthew 6:30 (CJB)
[SUP]30 [/SUP]If this is how God clothes grass in the field — which is here today and gone tomorrow, thrown in an oven — won’t he much more clothe you? What little trust you have!
Matthew 13:58 (CJB)
[SUP]58 [/SUP]And he did few miracles there because of their lack of trust.
John 12:37-38 (CJB)
[SUP]37 [/SUP]Even though he had performed so many miracles in their presence, they still did not put their trust in him, [SUP]38 [/SUP]in order that what Yesha‘yahu the prophet had said might be fulfilled,
“Adonai, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of Adonai been revealed?”
Enough scripture for now. Suffice it to say, that Crackers and Cheese Christians are crackers and cheese because they choose not to believe Gods word for more than basic salvation.
The question though needs an answer....If you will not believe God for healing that He promised, and you will not believe God for provisions that He promised......How can you believe Him for anything else? If His Word is not true on one single thing,......How can you trust the rest of it to be true?
You believe God or you are not of Him. Simple as that.
I believe we are seeing this dearth of the Word in churches today.