THAT WHICH IS ABLE TO BUILD YOU UP - PART 7

WEDNESDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2025

When Paul said, "And now I entrust you to God and the message of His grace", it was not his Christian view, but rather He was directly pointing to our amazing Supreme Creator and Almighty God, emphasizing that He alone has the accurate tool to shape us into His purpose and perfect will for our Christian lives, and also, His tool has got everything we need or require to develop a full grown life of faith. More below!

Reference: Acts 20:32 New Living Translation (NLT)

"And now I entrust you to God and the message of His grace that is able to build you up and give you an inheritance with all those He has set apart for Himself."

Today's article is still on the second segmentary statement:

"That is able to build you up"

The message is free resources from God, but its not designed to help you have some fun or add some scientific knowledge to your existing intelligence or to just gain an intellectual insight. Its designed to deliver spiritual, physical, material and eternal benefits, and building us up is one of those powerfully enduring benefits. The message is bigger and better than life itself, because its full of God's abiding love. And its only a true love that can build us up. The Psalmist unmistakably pointed out this truth in Psalm 68:3, where he said, "Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you" (NIVUK). In other words, the love of God made evident is practically greater than anything else in this life, which you can invest your interest in.

In today's article I'm only going to expound the answer to the first question:

Now how can I tell that the Word of grace is building me up?

Answer: Firstly, are you able to hear, pay attention to, and assimilate or digest the embedded truths? If so, you're gaining profitable weight in your spiritual faith muscles, which is apparently considered as the building up. Secondly, do you put what you hear, listen to, and assimilate - into constant practice? If so, you can confidently tell that the Word of grace is building you up. To that effect, the Lord Jesus Christ says, "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock" (Matthew 7:24 NIV).

Here is the gospel truth: The word or message of grace is overly sufficient for the purposes to which it is applicable, which means that you can always garner so much valuable divine information and personalise them as solutional wisdom for any given situation or any dynamical system whatsoever, because the Word is the store of divinely-inspired supplies.

Secondly, we have an elementary particle of divine light, as well as the secondary or superior pattern of divine light. So, you're either being built up on a rapidly transforming and progressive level of divine influence which moves you to an "upward" direction [OR] on a slow-paced stage where a spiritual illumination is symbolically average, and moreover, both levels of spiritual operations are dependent on the frequency of light you conduct, submit to, or function in. Simply put, you can only be built up at the speed of light you are convincingly able to yield to, and manifest in, and this truth sufficiently indicates that the spiritual leaders or role models you listen to, or call it your sources of divine informative intelligence - matter (see also Ephesians 4:14 NIV).

You can't just pay attention to anything you hear as the gospel truth because the Bible warned in Hosea 4:6, that God's people are being destroyed because they don't know Him (lack of His precise knowledge). It further says, "Since you priests refuse to know me, I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children" (NLT).

There are correct teaching priests with heightened cognizance of God's revelation knowledge who can simplify an expository teaching with a great engaging, Biblical EXEGETICAL curriculum! So also, there are committed Christians who are high-powered force and high quality informative-adherence carriers, and there are those who are always remembered for judging sin and remarkably remaining at that level of inspirational influence which is good. But the truth is that the "latter" can't travel at a greater speed of divine light because their "build up" level is at minimal degree. Unfortunately, they are the ones that are always sin conscious, which is confidence-consuming.

If they come into a place, their light will become a convex lens or "mirror" exertion that grants them the permission to discern those who are practising sinful pleasures. In a nutshell, their light is a reflection of notions that mirror "public opinion" which they develop by being busy with detecting and judging the analysed level of sin in any surrounding environment, and they back it with an overactive criticism, instead of switching on the lightbulb or shinning their light brightly for all to see and behold the glory of God, thereby bringing many to the knowledge of Christ, for light shines thoroughly in darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.

To me, being sin conscious is a "dead point" Christian mentality, because I'm rightly and continually trained in the doctrine of righteousness, meaning that I'm used to having a "righteousness-conscious" mentality, which empowers me to shine forth the light of the glorious gospel anywhere I show up.

To that effect, Hebraic awakening intimation reads:

"So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God" (Hebrews 6:1 NIV).

Now the next or second question is:

"And how does the Word build me up?"

Stay tuned for part 8 for my expository insight into the precise answer. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - 1 Corinthians 3:9; Ephesians 2:20-22; Colossians 2:6-8; Ephesians 3:7;

Exuberant Declaration:

I am found and rooted in Christ Jesus, and I always function with righteous mentality because I'm heavily clothed with the righteousness which is through faith in Christ - the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. Praise God!