Don't Kill The Rooster

Have you heard the “rooster crow” when you failed too?

The problem with so many people today is that when they hear the “Rooster crow” all they want to do is kill the rooster and not hear his message to their hearts.

How do you “kill the rooster”? You kill the rooster every time you refuse to recognize that he is calling you back to repent of your denial.

Peter heard the rooster and he went out and wept bitter tears, repenting of the times that he had failed God. He cried and begged for forgiveness. He felt so worthless and weak. This was a feeling that left him alone in a world filled with people because he knew that his relationship with Christ wasn’t as strong as he thought it had been. He just couldn’t believe that he could be so weak and so deceived by the devil. How could Peter, a man who swore to die for Christ, give in so easily under pressure?

Have you ever felt like Peter? How could I have been so dumb to do such a thing, whatever that thing may be? How could I say such a bad word? I thought I had gotten rid of those things in my heart? How could I treat someone like that? I thought that I had enough of the Love of God in me that I would never act like that again? How could I get so mad and fly off the handle at my wife or my husband like that? I love them, and I love God, and I just don’t understand how that could happen!

Peter felt so worthless, but when he heard the Rooster crow, he didn’t try to kill the rooster by pushing it out of his mind and going on in his denial. He went out and fell on his face before God seeking forgiveness, then started doing his best to find his way back to God. He finally found his way back in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost!

When you deny Christ – listen to the rooster crow? What is that rooster and how does he crow?

I can only say that the “crowing of the rooster” is the Holy Ghost within you that reminds you of what you have done. He works on your conscience; He speaks to your heart; and he pops into your mind, to let you know that you need to repent for what you have just done. Don’t “kill the rooster” by ignoring the guilt feelings – fall on your face before God in repentance.

Too many people just keep “killing the rooster” until finally they can’t hear Him “crowing” anymore.

1 Timothy 4:1-2, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;"

Have you seen people who once loved the Lord with all their heart and it seemed that they would never fail to serve God, and yet today they are no longer in the House of God?

They have “killed the rooster” and ignored his “crowing” so many times that they don’t hear Him at all anymore.

They once thought that they would not miss church for anything – but they don’t hear the crowing anymore, they’ve killed the rooster, and it doesn’t bother them to stay home now. The more they miss, the less they hear the “crowing”!