Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
JESUS TOLD ME TOLD ME KEEP IT SIMPLE.
Jesus never did give anything complex. Did you ever stop to think about the fact that as Jesus preached to folks when He was on the earth, He talked about sheep, sheepfolds, shepherds, grapes, vineyards, and so forth? He taught so the people could understand Him.
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You wouldn’t believe it today to hear me preach or teach, but in my early days of ministry, I used big words and theological terms that a lot of people didn’t understand.
I started out as a preacher in another denomination. Then even after I received the baptism in the Holy Ghost and came over into Pentecostal circles, I was cold and stiff in my preaching many times.
My wife said to me once, “I believe you could preach standing in a wash pan.”
You see, I never moved from behind the pulpit when I preached! I just stood there, straight as a string and stiff as a board! I would stand there behind the pulpit, “just so.”
I was trained to preach that way. And I studied big words in preparing my sermons. My wife would never criticize me. She’s only said a couple things to me in my more than sixty years in ministry. And even then, it was what you’d call good criticism, not destructive criticism.
But my wife did say something to me about using big words in my sermons.
She said, “Honey, why do you use all those big words when you preach? Nobody understands them, and you have to take fifteen minutes just to explain what the words mean.”
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My wife didn’t know it, but the Lord used her, because He’d already been dealing with me about that very thing.
The Lord kept saying to me, “Keep it simple. Keep it simple. Keep it simple.”
You see, when I received the baptism in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost began to talk to me in a more real way.
And one day the Lord through the Spirit said to me, “The people I preached to had very little or no education. The masses of people had no education. And I got right down on the level where they were.”
That’s the reason I started way back in 1939 just trying to say things the simplest way I could say them — the simplest and the plainest way. I endeavored to keep it simple.
Jesus said to me, “I talked in terms the people could understand. I talked about shepherds, sheepfolds, vineyards, grapes, and so forth, so they could understand what I was saying.” Then He repeated to me, “Keep it simple.”
So I began to obey the Spirit of God.
You see, He never did give anybody anything that was so complex that he couldn’t understand. What good would it be for the Lord to give you something if it were complex and you couldn’t understand it? He’d be wasting His time. And you know God is not stupid; He’s not going to waste His time.
- Kenneth E Hagin (The Healing Anointing)
