Sunday, October 12, 2008 Print Article Leave a Comment Teach Faith to Your Child Dr. Frederick K.C. Price
Second Corinthians 4:18: While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Here is a paraphrase of this verse that I think helps to make this verse more clear. The word seen is not talking about visual perception. And that is what we have a tendency to think of--what we see visually, or from the standpoint of our five senses. What he is talking about is the difference between sensory perception and spiritual perception. This is the way I paraphrase it: "While we do not look at the things which are [perceived by the senses], but at the things which are not [perceived by the senses], for [or because], the things which are [perceived by the senses], are temporary [or subject to change]. But the things which are not [perceived by the senses], are eternal [and everlasting]." If you are going to walk by faith, you cannot allow what you see in the sense realm to dictate the terms of your existence. Remember again, we do not deny the things in the sense realm. They are there, they are real, but they have nothing to do with our faith, unless we allow them to. Sponsor Ad The way that we allow them to, is by letting them tell us how to act, what to say, and what to do. We should be letting God by His Word tell us that. When we let God, by His Word tell us, then we are living our lives by faith. The problem for many people is, when they found out about living by faith, their lives were already in motion. They were already down the road of life, and they had already put into operation some things that they did not realize they were putting into operation, by what they were believing and by what they were saying with their mouths, over a lifetime. Most people reading this, who are adults, when they found out about the principles of tithing, were already in financial deprivation. Most of us were like that. We had bills up to our eyeballs. We had credit that was stringing us out. We were already financially out of it. We wanted to tithe, but we could not tithe and pay the bills. Naturally, since we cannot see God and He does not come down here and repossess anything, we figured we could miss paying God. but we had better pay the creditors, because they will come and get the car. They will foreclose on our house, so we had better pay them. Now because we are already in a credit buying mode, it is very difficult for some people to get into a position where they can begin to tithe. If a person was trained from childhood to tithe, there would be no problem. I have a teenage son and he already knows about tithing. If he does not do what he knows when he grows up, he will get his behind kicked by life. But he had the advantage to learn about this as a child. I did not. When I found out about this I was already in debtor's prison, so to speak. I was out on bail. I had to play catch up. Had all of us become Christians as children and if we had been taught as children, then we would not have to play catch up down the road. We did not find out about divine healing, or about walking in faith, until we were already adults. And we had been sewing seeds that had opened the door for the enemy to have a right to put things on us all of our lives without realizing it So now we find out about faith; now we find out about with Jesus' stripes we were healed. Now what do I do? I get physically attacked with something, and so I attempt to use my faith on it, but do not get any instant results. The question in reference to faith is, "How do I operate now?" He tells me, do not look at the things which are seen. But I have pain. The x-ray says I have this growth as big as a grapefruit. What am I supposed to do? God said not to look at it. Rather, you look at the Word of God. You have to realize that God's Word is for God's people. For God's people as babies--as little children. That is the reason why the writer in Proverbs said, train up a child. He did not say, "Train up an adult." He said, train up a child in the way he should go... (Proverbs 22:6)." When you do you will be sowing good seed that will produce a harvest for your children and your future generations to come. For more information on faith, please reference Dr. Price's O. Addison Gethers e-mail address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] window live messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
