Digging Deep

JESUS: "And why call me Lord, Lord and do not the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me and hears My sayings, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built a house, and dugged deep, and laid a foundation on rock..." (Read Luke6:46-49)


Digging Deep is the labor behind 2Timothy 2:15; "Study to show yourself approved unto God a workmen that needs not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of Truth."

Once Truth is Rightly Divided (understood) then OBEDIENCE to it is the Building of a Solid Foundation. In Matthew 7:24 Jesus referred to those obedient as The Obedient Wise Man.

The Cross of Christ, His Blood, His Death, Burial, and Resurrection is the beginning of Truth for Believers; Baptism in Jesus Name (See Acts 2:38) being the first step of Obedience for Believers. But the Foundation is not yet complete. At this New Beginning you are kept by Grace so you can complete the laying of your Solid Foundation.

This New Beginning or New Birth gave us direct access to God the Father. Part of our obedience is coming boldly before the Throne of Grace to find help in times of trouble (see Hebrews 4:16). We do this as The Spirit of Grace (The Holy Spirit), having given us access to the Father, grows us in His Characteristics of the Spirit of Lord, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, and the Spirit of Knowledge and Fear of the Lord. (See Isaiah 11:1-2; Ephesians 2:18-22)

Spiritual Warfare is grown in and attained to as we continue Obeying the Rightly Divided Truth of Gods Word. Meeting our daily encounters and circumstances with the Word of God No one who calls themselves by the Name of Christ will ever have the Overcoming Victory He has prepared for us to walk in without first digging deep into Gods Word.

Obedience to Gods Word is not something we can attain to naturally. Nor as a Baby Christian. Obedience comes as we have our senses exercised to discern what is good and evil and this comes by growing past the basic principles of Christ and going on to perfection. We do this by getting off the Milk and on to the Meat of Gods Word (see Hebrews 5:12 through Hebrews 6:3)

The Apostle Paul by The Spirit wrote to the Corinthian Church who were baby Christians this:

"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled." (2nd Corinthians 10:3-6)

Learning Spiritual Warfare is a result of Digging Deep into the Truth of Gods Word. Rejecting the false solutions that the flesh constantly reaches for, we learn to cast down our vain imaginations and those FALSE SOLUTIONS the World offers all of which exalts themselves over the knowledge of God, learning also to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ the outcome being your obedience is fulfilled.

We are living in the end times. A time the Word says that the love of many will wax cold and that men will be lovers of themselves. The practice of Loveless Lawlessness abounds in the Church as many in the Church are being misdirected into the same confusion the world is.

But to Overcome and to Love as Christ Loved is the standard and it is an impossibility without first Digging Deep; understanding Truth, obeying Christ's commands, believing Spiritual Facts and Trusting unwaveringly His Promises which make us partakers of His Divine Nature (see 2 Peter 2:4) evidenced by the fruit of His selfless understanding love in us.

In Christ’s Love and Service,

Brother James Pierson, OIC Senior Minister