When ye received the word of God
which ye heard from us,
ye received it not as the word of man,
but as it is in
truth, the word of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
Pride is a great tool in the hand of Satan to make the
preached word ineffective. And nowhere
do we see pride more in exercise than over this issue of the word of God being
preached by sinful men. If one has heard
the word of God, he has heard it "from us," that is, sinful men
called to declare the unsearchable riches of Christ. Contempt for the preacher often leads to
contempt for the word he preaches, and if it is God's word he preaches, how
dangerous it becomes to show contempt.
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