“You may have to change your thinking to find your place. If you have
some unscriptural religious traditions, you will have to discard them.
For example, 2 Timothy 2:20 says, “But in a great house there are not
only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and
some to honour, and some to dishonour.” Many who read that verse (or
preach it) stop right there. They say, “Not
everybody can have the kind
of excellent ministry that people like Brother Copeland has because in a
great house there are some vessels to honor and some to dishonor. Some
are vessels of gold, but some of us are required to be the earthen
vessels.”
“Nonsense! Satan will twist the very scriptures themselves in order to
keep people bowed down and trying to please God on the basis of their
feelings and false humility. If you don’t believe that’s hypocritical,
just see how you react when someone else starts telling you how
worthless you are! Just let your darling child come home from school one
day and say, “Guess what the teacher told me today? That I am unworthy,
no good and a worm!” You would go to court over that! Yet many people
tell God that very thing about themselves and call it humility—that’s
hypocrisy.”
Excerpt From: Copeland, Kenneth. “Six Steps to Excellence in Ministry.”
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