The Faith That God Desires

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel

 which I preached unto you, which also ye have 

received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye 

are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached 

unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

1Corinthians 15: 1-2 

     Authentic Christian Faith are those who have such a faith to understand that part of the beauty of Christianity is that it integrates, that is it is you are all consumed in all dimensions of life, or true humanity. This is what is the appropriate bringing of you to compete subordination and dependence on God, not that you do not become some robot, rather that you, the whole man you, will use all of his/her faculties and become transformed by the power of God. It is by His power that a person can be used in His service and to the glory of God: "And He answering said, Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself" (Luke 10:27; cf. Matthew 22:37). This love, this agape, the principled love of God should become the central role in our relationship with God. God desires that we relate to Him with love, not just philew, friendly love, no, with agape, principled love and the principles we are to love with are found in Scripture. This agape love is not a lukewarm love, it is not a love that is so emotional that a person will act out in ways that are unscriptural, things that are being advocated today. 

    Let us get this one thing straight: real worship does have emotion, and music, singing, praise, and rejoicing, but, they all must be emotions that are Authentic Christian emotions. Do we see anything other than this in the Bible? NO! Do not the pictures we see of live, and of heaven give us an emotional response? Yes! It should! We must though, not allow emotional response to become the measure of Authentic Christian Faith. Each person has a temperament so they respond often differently than another, and unless, unless, they are as being taught be such as the Penteconstals, the Charamatics, and such as the School of the Supernatural here in Redding, CA., these are to be judged by what aroused a person. 

    People are often aroused in their emotions by someone who is a good speaker and able to stimulate emotion. A good orator can whip a crown up, even a Christian crowd, into a frenzy. We see this when people are falling all over the floor, jerking, shouting, falling over backwards, even acting drunk, all from emotions that are out of control by them, but under control of a good orator. This is not the kind of emotion that pleases God. 

     Emotions that please God are when a person' response, emotion is to the truth, to a clear comprehension of the nature of God, about their own sinful nature in need of a Savior, and about His goodness to us, then, and only then is an emotional response valuable and appropriate. 

That thou shouldest enter into covenant

    with the LORD thy God, and into His

oath, which the LORD thy God maketh

    with thee this day: that He may establish

thee to day for a people unto Himself, and

    that He may be unto thee a God, as He 

hath said unto thee, and as He hath sworn

     unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,

and to Jacob.

                    Deuteronomy 29:12-13

Come, come quietly to God and worship Him

Richard L. Crumb