0725. SPEECH AND POWER

SPEECH AND POWER

"I will know not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power" (1Co_4:19).

"That was a good speech." "He is a very eloquent speaker." Such language is common, but Paul has another way of judging such tongue deliverances. "I will know not the speech, but the power." Unspiritual minds can only judge the speech, the outward form-they know not the power. What power is this, by which the very heart-life of Christians is revealed? It is that holy, gracious, gentle, heart-melting, inscrutable something called "anointing," that makes eternal and spiritual things very real and precious and powerful to those who hear. The Holy Spirit acting through the heart and speech of the preacher. Without this power all preaching is but as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. May our speech be always seasoned with such salt.

Autor: James Smith