The Difference Between Mental Assent To God's Word and Real Commitment
Expository teaching of Luke 5:1-11. Area Fellowship in Kansas during 1976 Twig Hopping 5575 miles. Below is an excerpt taken from the teaching: The Difference Between Mental Assent To God's Word and Real Commitment Before I ever left International Headquarters, the things that are happening around the world and around the country and many other places, I felt in my heart that the one thing that I would like to share with my people wherever I went was the difference between mental assent to God's Word and real commitment. And I felt that what we needed across the country and among The Way people is just a commitment to God's Word. Now we have a lot of people across the world committed to God's Word but I'll never be satisfied until everybody who has taken a class called Power for Abundant Living is really committed. And there's a tremendous difference between just mentally assenting to God's Word or getting committed to it and say again in the innermost part of your being, “Thus saith the Lord,” and believe it. That's why tonight I'm going to share the same thing basically with you that I've shared with all the twigs across the country because I believe that it will bless you. I know it will. Because it's so easy to sit with a group of believers in a twig meeting and that twig coordinator has, she or he has just bled their heart out working the word for that twig meeting so they can really share the love of God from that word and pray with you and lift you up. And then so many times people go home and say, “Oh, wasn’t that a great twig meeting? That Word of God was sure wonderful. That twig coordinator really spent some time working on that word.” And the next day they don't walk on it any more than they did before they heard it. And that’s not quite right, because if the Word of God is the will of God, it means what it says and it says what it means. People we’ve got to come to the place in this day and time where you and I just commit ourselves to God’s Word and sa
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Doctor of Theology degree. Dr. Wierwille taught the first class on Power for Abundant Living in 1953. Books by Dr. Wierwille include: Are the Dead Alive Now? published in 1971; Receiving the Holy Spirit Today published in 1972; five volumes of Studies in Abundant Living— The Bible Tells Me So (1971), The New, Dynamic Church (1971), The Word's Way (1971), God's Magnified Word (1977), Order My Steps in Thy Word (1985); Jesus Christ Is Not God (1975); Jesus Christ Our Passover (1980); and Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed (1982). Dr. Wierwille researched God's Word, taught, wrote, and traveled worldwide, holding forth the accuracy of God's "wonderful, matchless" Word. PDF AUDIO