HOW TO DEVELOP A HEART THAT IS SENSITIVE TO GOD’S SPIRIT



Rev Michael Benson Ajayi
  
    Matt 16:4 NKJV “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And He left them and departed”
 In Matt 12:38 NKJV  “Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." The religious and legalistic Jews sought a sign from Jesus Christ as a proof of He being sent of God. As simple as this may seem to the lay person, a critical look will reveal how sinister these individuals where. They are the kind of persons who discourage people from attending to the study and teaching of sound doctrines. So many preachers have fallen prey to these ungodly fellows and as a result churches have been turned to amphi theaters for the display of all manner of theatrics all in the name of miracles thus bringing the glorious name of the lord in to disrepute.  
          Let’s take a logical look at what these Pharisees and Sadducees were offering Jesus Christ by their requests for signs and wonders. ” The fallacy of Denying the Antecedent always occurs when we want to limit our investigations within known boundaries. The following is an example of denying the antecedent. It follows this order of reasoning: 
1. If Jesus were to perform a miracle in front of us right now, then that would prove He is the messiah.
2. Jesus is not performing a miracle in front of me right now.
3. Therefore, Jesus isn’t the Messiah.  This denies the antecedent. God is under no obligation to perform a miracle at the whim of one of His creations. Nor is it likely that the Pharisees and Sadducees   would accept a given miracle as legitimate anyway—preferring to trust that future studies will reveal that the event is explainable by natural law.
Therefore the request by these Pharisees was a religious trap. A lot of preachers have fallen into this trap and lost the sense of direction in the pursuit of faith. They no longer spend time to study the word; they downplay the place of faith in the salvation of a person replacing it with miraculous evidence.  Faith is logical while miracles defy human logic, thus seeking to build one’s faith through miracles will only lead to disastrous consequences prominent among which is a hard heart. A hard heart keeps us from perceiving and receiving spiritual truths as revealed in the gospel. This is why some lives aren’t transformed by the power in the spoken word because they cannot relate to what is being taught from scriptures. Hard hearted individuals find  it hard to testify to the efficacy of the gospel . The word of God doesn’t just make sense to such persons.
         Satan finds hard hearted individuals very useful in the pursuance of His course on earth. He has blinded their eyes  (2 Cor 4:4) thus they are oblivious of the consequences of their actions. Such persons are hard to love and difficult to please. The scriptures in (Heb 3;12-13)describes a  hard heart as an evil  heart  and it is as a result of a gradual loss of interest in the reading and meditating on the word of God(1john2:14). Scriptures says in (Ezekiel 36;26) that God will remove the heart of stone and give us a sensitive heart ,so that we may personally receive information needed for us to partake of our blessings.
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