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The Right Response to the Word


The Right Response to the Word

(Pen Knife Christians)

David Wilkerson

Josiah, the scripture said, trembled at the word of God.

One day the high priest found a dusty scripture in some hidden corner of the temple and the King heard the words of the law. There he rent his clothes. He trembled.

He sends representers to the prophetess Huldah and said,

“What shall we do? The wrath of God is against us because of our sins.”

“We reached those flash points. What are we do?”

And he trembled and he wept and he cried before God because the word convicted him. And the word of God became his rule.

For 31 years, Josiah, submitted himself to the authority of God’s word. Everything the word said he complied because of the fear of God. He was governed by the word of the living God.

Bible says,

God rising up early sent prophets

Jeremiah 26:5

‘Rising up early’ means He came early far before the invent of judgment. He came far before.

In fact 27 years rising up early. God warned Jerusalem and Judah

“I have sent you all my servants, the prophets rising up early sending them saying, Return ye now everyman from his evil ways.”

“But you have not inclined your ear, you have not harken to me. Behold, I am going to bring Judah and Jerusalem all the evil that I promised that I pronounce against them.”

God gave Jeremiah a final word for His people and this was going to be a final word before the Chaldeans invaded.

Go now and read all that you have written from my mouth all the word of the Lord in their ears of the people in the Lord’s house upon the fasting day

Jeremiah 36:6

These weren’t heathen. These were in the Lord’s house. This was to be a preached message.

This was to be a preached message. He had written the word of the Lord, also read them in ears, of all Judah that come out of their cities (Jeremiah 36:6).

Baruch. Everyone knew it. He was connected to the prophet Jeremiah.

He begins to thunder out the message of judgment word for word, everything that Jeremiah had said.

God said, “One last time repeat it. Give it to them. Let them know what is coming.” He stands before that post.

Folks, there are three kinds of hearer represented in this episode

in the 36 chapter of Jeremiah. There’s the passive hearer. This whole multitude listens sitting there.

And the Bible makes it very clear that they had become passive.

Here comes the final warning, then read Baruch the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord in the ears of all the people

We know that they rejected this word. They become so passive.

Do you know what passivity means? To receive a word or an action without responding or initiating response and return. It is not responding to the word of God in your everyday life.

We warned lovingly with broken hearts.

“Get into the word.

Get into the Book.

Study it.

Daily dig into it.

Because everything is going to be shaken.”

A flood is coming and you’re going to need this so that you’re not toasted and turned by wind and wave of a doctrine and finally deceived by antichrist.

The spirit of antichrist is already here, the bible says The deception starts now.

Perturbed hearer, no.2

To be perturbed means to be greatly disturbed, upset, made uneasy.

This scribe Micaiah begins to tremble.

The scripture says,

so Baruch took the roll in his hand of the book and came to them And they said to him “Sit down now and read in our hearing all that Jeremiah said so.” Baruch read it in their ears

Jeremiah 36:14-15

And it came to pass when they heard all the words

that they were afraid both one and another

Jeremiah 36:16

And the word here in Hebrews.

They shuttered. They trembled at the word of God. They were perturbed.

Finally I want to talk about the pen knife hearer.

The perturbed man said,

“We must tell the king all of the words.”

Jeremiah 36:16

Jehudi begins to read to the king.

And it came to pass when Jehudi had read three or four leaves of the book. He (Jehoiakim) cut it with a pen knife and cast into the fire until it was consumed.

Jeremiah 26:23

Yet they were not afraid nor they rent their garments

neither the king nor his servants who had heard all the words

Jeremiah 36:24

They had heard it all.

The Bible says,

Those who shuttter, those who perturbed by this word made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll but he would not listened to them (Jeremiah 26:25).

He would not hear them.

Listen to me. You know what’s happening in this nation. We’ve got judges now. We’ve got atheist, politicians that are ungodly are trying to ban this Book. They are trying to get it out of our society.

They’ve got their pen knives out and they’re trying to cut and destroy and consume and burn and get rid of this Book and get it out of the American system completely.

Then took Jeremiah another roll and gave it to Baruch, a scribe

and wrote there in from the Jeremiah all the words of the book. Jehoiakim had burn into the fire and there were added besides under the many more like words.

Jeremiah 36:32

Word came more powerful than it ever was. Let me come down now, zero into this pen knife hearers that were in the house of God.

God is broken hearted about the pen knife hearers in His word. There’s a whole generation now of those who just take their knives.

“This is contradicted to my music style.”

“This is contradicted to what I believe.”

“It dosen’t matter what the book says.

But this is what I see. This is how God is.”

“Away with guilt. Away with all fear.”

“Let’s just believe that God is love.”

“Everything is fine.”

“Do as you please.”

My heart just breaks when I see young ministers, young people

just take their knife, their own feelings their own concept totally isolated from this book and preaching out their own heart and doing what they please.

Because they can pick and choose what they want, they won’t take the whole book. They just pick and choose. That means you’ve got knife in your hand and you’re a pen knife hearer of the word of God.

When I stand before the judge I want to know that I preached the whole counsel of God.

The Lord’s made it clear that if you neglected the study of this book I’m talking about getting it into this book until you say,

“Jesus I want to know everything that you ask of me.

I want to bring my life into conformity to this book.

I want to know how to stand. I want to know how I get faith.

I want to know Jesus more intimate ways.

God, forgive me for neglecting Your word.”

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