Knowing And Standing On What You Believe

Knowing and Standing on what you Believe

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - We are living in a time of uncertainty, darkness, fear, gloom, desperation, and anxiety as gripped our nation, people are literally sitting on the edge wondering what is coming next. It seems as if every 10 minutes in the past few weeks something major has changed in our world and it has caused people to stop and ask the question what’s going on. Asinine decisions regarding the nation’s defense and security are being made, the economic structure is in question, the National Institute of Health which is a federal agency that conducts and supports medical research in the United States and around the world is in jeopardy. The Pentagon which is the Headquarters of the Department of Defense and the symbol of American power, influence, strength, and leadership is threaten and weaken with threats of dictatorship and authoritarianism. The educational system, as flawed and backward as it is, is under attack and threatened to be destroyed. To say we are facing trying times is an understatement and what lies ahead is only going to be worse. Now is not the time to be indecisive, it’s not the time to be playing patty cake, it is not time to be straddling the fence, it is a time that we truly need to make sure we know and stand on what we believe, not so much that we believe, but what we believe and why we believe what we believe.

It is not that you believe that is important because the world is full of people that believe. People believe in all sorts of things they believe in the political system and that this person that they voted for is going to make everything alright, people believe in musicians, they believe in athletes and even some of the greatest believers are Atheist because they believe that they don’t believe and it takes a lot of faith to believe that you don’t believe when you can look around and see for yourself the sky, the birds, the sun, moon, stars, trees, oceans and say there is no God, but the Bible says the fool hath said in his heart there is no God. So, saying that you believe is not the important thing but knowing and standing on what and who you believe is because what you believe determines your decisions and how you live your life.

The Mystery of Iniquity is hard at work and laying the pathway for the Anti-Christ and many are being deceived in and by the apostate church, confused and deceived by a corrupt and perverse political system, and are wondering what am I going to do now. I believe that the people of God are about to have their belief tried and our faith is about to be tested and shaken to its core, the form of godliness will not be able to stand but those of us that are rooted and ground in sound doctrine and have our hope built on nothing less than Jesus Christ and righteousness shall be able to stand and having done all to stand.

Today I want to talk on the subject of Knowing and Standing on What you Believe.

PRAYER

SCRIPTURE: 2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates”

Let me ask a few very simple questions? Have you ever taken time and asked yourself why you believe what you believe and how did I come to believe what I believe? Do you believe what you believe because someone said so and it was never questioned, or did you search the scriptures for yourself? Most people believe what they believe based upon someone else’s belief. WATCH THIS: - Because Mom and Dad believed this way and brought you up in the church you were taught this, and for the most part your belief is based upon the belief of your parents. I remember being 10 and 11 years old in the church testifying saying giving honor to God who is the head of my life I thank God for being a lawyer in the court room and a doctor in the sick room and at 10 or 11 years old I had never been in a court room or the only sickness I had was a common cold, my testimony was based upon what someone else said, my belief was based upon what someone else said experienced. That was good when I was 10 or 11 but if at almost 60 if I still had the same testimony, if I still had the same basic belief something is wrong.

There is nothing wrong with that at 10 or 11 years old because that is foundational belief, that is the basic belief system upon which your own personal relationship and belief system is built upon. It is a good starting point because it enables you to have head knowledge where you can quote a few scriptures that should ignite your spiritual curiosity and cause you to want to dig deeper and develop a stronger belief system and knowledge of God and His Word, but it is not enough to stand life’s trials and tribulations that calls for not head knowledge but Heart Understanding Proverbs 4:7 says, “Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding”. Understanding is the power of comprehending to make it an experience by applying it to your life.