HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SPIRITUAL AWARENESS

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 proof of His divinity. As simple as this may seem to the lay man , a critical look will reveal how sinister these individuals where. They are the kind of persons who discourage others from attending to sound doctrines preferring the theatrical display of spiritual gifts and ego. So many preachers have fallen prey to this trap and have embraced magic as a means of keeping their audience .Satan is raising magicians to create confusion among miracle seekers and further keep victims away from the holy scriptures.This is further fueling marital infidelity among Christians.Miracle -seekers are easily prone to evil emotional traps.    
          Let’s take a logical look at what these religious Jews were offering Jesus Christ through 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 insensitive  heart. A hard heart keeps us from perceiving and receiving spiritual truths as revealed in the gospel. This is why lives aren’t being 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 makes no sense to such persons.It sounds boring to such persons.This is a major cause of  academic failure in underdeveloped nations. 
         Satan finds such persons 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 that will be responsive to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer : Heavenly Father forgive me of my sins against you I believe Jesus Christ died and was raised again for my salvation I receive him as lord and saviour and receive grace for spiritual sensitivity and wisdom for creativity and success in Jesus name.  .
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