Doing it God's Way

I think it is time that I address something I see happening a lot these days, that is damaging to the Christian walk.

There are those who use experiences as their measure of truth, even though their experience is not Biblical, they say if it brought them to Christ, it is alright to be unBiblical because it works. This is pragmatism and patently unbiblical.

Pragmatism: an approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application."

Just because something seemed to work does not mean it is alright to do it. We ought to seek out God's way of doing things, it matters the way we reach our conclusions.

Pragmatism is rampant now, the idea that we can do anything anyway we want if there are good results is ludicrous. We must do things God's way guided by the Holy Spirit and it will always line up with Scripture. Just because something appeared to work does not mean its alright to do it, nor is it evidence that it really did work, there are many hidden attitudes that come with disobedience against God.

Pragmatism always leads to doctrinal error, which leads to sin.
Luke 6:46 ""Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?"
God is not pleased when we use human methods to carry out His will, He wants us to do His will His Way!!!!!

Doesn't seem real hard does it? Unless we are stubborn and willful, like a spoiled child who wants to have his own way because it is popular.

Pragmatism: "testing the validity of all concepts by their practical results."
This practice of pragmatism has no place in the Christian life. We are not to base what we do on what we think will work. Our culture is steeped in psychology based on secular humanism. The devil can make anything look right, when it is all wrong.

We are to simply obey God when He tells us to preach or teach, He will speak through us. We are not to evaluate whether or not something works before we preach or teach.

Matthew 10:19 ""But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say."
When we are born again the Holy Spirit comes to live in us, He is our voice, our hands and our feet. We are to let Him do the speaking through us, not figuring out in our human minds what we should do but rather trusting Him, that He will do the speaking using our mouth. We are to walk when He prompts us to walk and do with our hands what He has prompted us to do.

Too many people do not understand what it is like to know when God has spoken through them, they may have trusted Him for salvation but they have not trusted Him for daily life. That's why we have so few Christians who are bold in their Christianity. In fact many are embarrassed at the mention of Christ or His principles in the company of others outside the church building.

May many who call themselves by Christ's name learn what it is to hear the voice of God and sense the joy that comes from it.

Pragmatism is one of the devices used by many people to bring in extra-Biblical revelation, through private manifestations. Those in these movements believe they are hearing from God but some are hearing from the demons and others are lying about hearing anything. After all satan is the father of lies, the whole movement of the charismatics is based on lies.

God says: 1 Corinthians 2:14 "But 1 natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually 2 appraised."

Matthew 7:13 "13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it."
What happens when we think it is alright to use any method because it appears to work, is nothing less than denying God's principles. When we ignore His principles to follow after man's way, we are saying that man's way is better than God's way.