Bread of Life Fellowship

Deny or stifle a robust emotional expressions of guilt, shame or fear and you lose your hold on the greatness of the doctrine of justification. What the individuals need is not that these emotions be tamped down. Instead they must be raised in them to an acute level. This is what the Holy Spirit is doing as he convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment. Then when at full flame these emotions drive us to an answer for them in the cross of Christ.

The topic is Illumination. The same Spirit that revealed God's message through the authors of Scripture must illumine that message to the Christian. The danger of imposing your sovereignty (read wishful thinking or assumed virtues) over the text of scripture was presented in our last message. On the other side of such such subjectivism, we may inappropriately come before God's Word is a smug self confident textualism. Because God's special revelation may be understood through the application of common sense hermeneutical principles does not mean that this word can be known without the illumination of the Holy Spirit.

Once you lose faith in a Sovereign all powerful God you lose confidence in His Word. The authority of God's Word is lost in the church and must be restored.

What blocks the well keeping us from the revival waters of Christ's life? The first piece of Rubble that must go is a diminished view of God. The Rubble of unbelief in a sovereign, active, all powerful God blocks our way to the water in the well,

Follow the examples of spiritual giants on their way back to the wells of salvation.