daily devotionals for july 25th today's scripture reading will be luke 12
51. do you suppose that i came to give peace on earth i tell you not at all but rather division
well that's a bold statement there but you know if you think about it every place that
jesus went because he was and still is the truth when he spoke it stirred up that religious spirit
and people didn't want to hear that they didn't want to hear truth he is the way
the truth and the life and when he spoke truth it offended them and so it brought
division here's what he said in matthew 10 he said i've come to set man against his father
daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law a man's enemies will be
those of his own household you know often times when a family member comes to know the lord
and they they're so like on fire for jesus and they go home none of their family understands them
i mean if they're not in a christian family they're just not going to understand them
or if they're in a christian family that's not spirit-filled and then they get this one
gets filled with the holy spirit they really aren't going to understand them because they
don't understand the things of the spirit well the pure word of god his presence his holiness
the word it's going to offend many and it will bring division and
you know in well like i said in your own family there will always be strife and there's
difficult it's they're the most difficult people to witness to and why is that because they've
known you all your life they know your downfalls they know your weak spots they know the old person
before christ so they're going to be the hardest person to witness to but the word of god is
sharper than any two-edged sword and when you're speaking the truth his word it will bring division
now i always believe and this is how the lord taught me is to speak his word in love and by his
grace you know he can work things all together for good to glorify him but it will bring a division
bob said he got kicked out of many churches and why was that because he would go into the church
and he would speak the word that god gave him and it offended many you see the the true word
of the lord will offend many it's not like you're going in and you're you they say you know tickling
somebody's ear no when you speak the truth people don't want to hear it and it will bring division
but god works this out for his own good one time here when it said division he said don't suppose i
came to give you peace on earth i tell you not at all but rather division one time the lord told me
he woke me up in the middle of the night and he said get a pad and pen i want to teach you my
mathematics and i'm like wow this is exciting i thought he's going to give me something
like einstein but it's very very simple three words division before multiplication
i thought wow i think how powerful that is there has to be division before
things can multiply because the word needs to be rightly divided if you look at a church
oftentimes there will be a division or a split in the church because generally over church doctrine
but when that division comes and those who are offended leave then god can do a great work
and multiply the body so i think that's a good word all right till next time be blessed