Daily Devotions
February 21st, 2014 by Pastor Solley1 Cor 9:12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
How is it that people hinder the gospel? They hinder the gospel when they refuse to believe and receive it. The gospel message should be like a snowball rolling down hill, getting bigger and bigger all the time, bringing in more and more all the time. It is hindered when it is not received. The gospel is also hindered when it is not lived by those who claim it. The gospel message has the power to change lives but in today’s watered down Christianity people want to live like the world lives and do what the world does. It hinders the gospel in that lives are seen as no different after salvation. The gospel is hindered when it is not given out. Each one reach one has turned into each one be concerned only about self. The gospel is hindered when it is not defended. Today people want to tolerate and accept anything so they do not offend others. Yet there is only one true gospel, one true way to heaven, and that gospel needs to be defended. The gospel needs to be funded. Good Bible believing churches needs to stay open, missionaries need to stay on the field, tracts need to be purchased and so on. Today people are giving less and expecting more and it does not work that way. There are many ways one can hinder the gospel message.