Most of what we do in the body is immature anyway. That’s right. Unfortunately about 90% of what the body does today is immature. Did you ever come into an assembly of the saints and they would give a tongue and it would be that long. And there would be an interpretation come and it would be that long. Or somebody get up with a tongue and it sounds like gibberish and the interpretation would be, “my little children, thus I say unto thee, thy praises have gone up before me and I have heard thy prayers and I have the praise….” Have you wondered about it and what was happening? Did it bother you? It just to do me the same way until one day, right in the middle of it, I mean it was going on around me, it was just like the Lord jerked a knot in me and brought me up short and said, “One thing you need to understand, Mr., the body has to be afforded the opportunity to be immature or they’ll never grow to maturity.” What should our response be when we see immaturity in the body? We ought to say glory to God. There’s another one of God’s children taking another step towards maturity. Do you want to know a real indication of maturity? The willingness on the part of the individual in the pew to receive correction from those who have been placed in a position of spiritual authority over them. Whenever some dear sister stand up and interrupts the pastor in the middle of his sermon with a tongue and the pastor says, “Sister, sit down. That’s not the time or the place. The Holy Spirit doesn’t interrupt himself. You sit down and be quiet until I’m through and the Holy Spirit is through ministering through me and then we’ll see if he has something to say through you.” Then you sit down and say, “Glory to God, I’m learning.” But let me tell you this, because of who it is that is in you and because of the capacity that you have in God, for all of the manifestations of the spirit, faith, knowledge, wisdom, miracles, healings, prophesy, discernment of spirits, tongues, interpretation of tongues to be flowing in and through you to minister life and health to the body, you need never to shrink back in fear moving out in faith believing in God for miracles in your life. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather make a mistake for God than I would make one for the Devil. I’d rather make a fool out of myself for God than make a fool out of myself for the Devil. That opportunity must be afforded for God’s people whenever they come together to minister fellowship one to the other. Why do we come together? If we’ve been commissioned as kingdom to go, where have we been commissioned to go? Into the cities and into the villages to do what? To take the authority over the devil, to lay hands on the sick and they’ll recover, then why do we come back together again? We think we come back together to hear somebody preach at us. But preaching is to be done to the lost by you. So whenever we come back together why do we come together? Because all of the time during the week if we know who we are and what we are and who it is that’s in us we have been out there expending that energy of God and now we need to come back and get those spiritual batteries recharged.
Who is it that’s in us? Jesus Christ. Who is Jesus Christ? God. What has he given us? His power. His Holy Spirit to do the work that he’s commissioned us to do. What is that work? To be the kingdom of God. What is Kingdom? Those people over whom God is ruling and who are demonstrating the rule of God in practical application in their lives. What is the commission of kingdom? To go unto the cities and the villages to take the authority over the devil and he’ll flee from before you. To lay your hands on the sick and they’ll recover and to say that the kingdom of God has come near you. Why do we come back together? To get our spiritual batteries recharged, to get our needs met in order that we might get back out there and active—be the kingdom of God.
Do you believe that? Are you ready to do it? Are you ready to be it? Now is the time--let’s do it. We are transformed by the renewing of our minds, not by emotion, not through experience, but by knowledge. The renewing of your mind because knowledge is power and ignorance is powerlessness. I hope that the power of the Holy Spirit rises up in you and that you will come to know and understand as you’ve never known before who and what you are. Who it is that’s in you, the capacity that you’ve got in God, and the commission that’s yours as kingdom.
