Hey it's Rachel! Today on Crack Your Bible I wanted to
talk to you about your rights and responsibilities as a Christian, just
staying in the same vein as, "what are Christians supposed to do when we are
living in this fallen world?" Now I know that a lot of people will cry out to God,
"why is this happening" or "please help me with this" or "show me what to do. I don't
know what to do!" And we don't understand that God has already given us the tools
and the abilities to do the things that will further the Kingdom
(Matthew 6:7-8 on screen) before we even
ask for it. He knows what we need before we even come to Him with our prayers and
petitions. So many times people want to say, "God why are you letting Satan attack
me? Why is this happening to me?" When God has given you the tools. He's giving you
the ability. He's given you the legal right
(Ephesians 1:3-8 on screen) as adopted sons. You have been
adopted in through sonship into God's family through Jesus Christ. You have the
legal rights to say, "Satan you can't do this to me!" You get to take authority
over Satan. You get to say, "Satan you can't attack me. You can't do this!" You
(Matthew 10:7-8 on screen) have the ability and the rights to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons.
You can do these things.
(John 14:12-14 on screen) Jesus says that you'll do even greater miracles than He
did because you have those rights as a child of God. Now when you're being
attacked, go out and exercise that authority you've been given. Stop trying
to do it your own way, because your own way is going to waste time, it's gonna be
dangerous, and you're going to get hurt. That's why you need to know your Bible.
The Bible says that my people perish for a
(Hosea 4:6 on screen) lack of knowledge. And if you aren't
well-versed in the scripture, you're going to face quite a lot of trials, and
you are going to assume that God has turned His back on you - and that is not
so. Now, when I was working, I always had to drive like 25 miles to work every day.
And unfortunately, there's a lot of bad drivers
in Las Vegas. There's dangerous drivers, there's people that are renting sports
cars for the very first time that they don't know how to drive, there's people
who are on their phones trying to take photos of the Las Vegas Strip, and there
are a lot of accidents in Las Vegas. But I remember one day I was driving to work
and I would always drive in the carpool lane, because I saw the signs on the side
of the road that said that only between certain hours and on certain days was
the carpool lane in effect. So even though I was driving by myself, because I
had looked at the signage and I had read the signage, I knew that I was well
within my right to drive in the carpool lane, even though I was driving alone. But
I would constantly see people weaving in and out of traffic because they have
some place to go, even though the carpool lane
was free and clear. There was nobody in their way, but because they were not
aware of their rights - that the carpool lane is free for them to drive in during
these specific hours, they were doing things their own way. And their own way
was dangerous. Their own way is going to get them killed get somebody else killed
or they're going to end up with a ticket. And that's what we see in the Body of
Christ. If you don't understand your rights and responsibilities, you're going to
go out there and try to do things your own way.And your own way is going to be
dangerous, you're going to get yourself hurt or you're going to get yourself ticketed.
And that's how it is when you don't understand your rights. If you want to
ignore the signs that are posted everywhere, if you want to ignore the
gospel that's right in front of you, that's fine. But just know it's going to be
a whole lot harder for you in your life if you want to do things your way. But
when you are aware of your rights as a child of God, things are going to start
working for you. Period. And here's the other
thing, when you get with God, you get to be in the carpool lane no matter what
day it is, no matter what time it is, because Jesus is the one driving you.
He's the one who is guiding your steps. He's the one in charge and you're the
passenger. So there's always two wherever you go. You always get to stay in that
lane that's free and clear. And you get to bypass all the other obstacles in
this life that would come up if you weren't with Jesus. That's just something
that I want to share with you. I hope you will like, subscribe and share and I will
talk to you later. Bye!