Leviticus 5-7

 Leviticus 5:1 (NIV) "If anyone sins because they do not speak up when they hear a public charge to testify regarding something they have seen or learned about, they will be held responsible."

I think about what this verse means for Christians today, especially as it relates to knowing and living the truth. How often we hear in conversations in our churches and certainly online propagation of false doctrines or unbiblical worldly concepts and we sit idle and quiet. Men and women of God in the face of deception we must speak up to defend the gospel and the word with the truth. Jesus came to earth for many reasons, chiefly to testify to the truth - if we are to be like Jesus more and more every day then we ought to boldly speak up and testify to the truth and not shrink back to properly defend the gospel of grace. As men and women filled with the Holy Spirit and the word we should pray for increasing spiritual discernment to understand the ways and deceptions that subvert the truth, God is faithful to answer our prayers as long as they are in alignment with his will. 

James 4:17 (NIV) "If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them."

We must be obedient to the call God has on our lives and bold ambassadors for Christ, lovingly declaring the truth. O LORD, my prayer today is that you fill me with your Holy Spirit empower me with your discernment to triumph over the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony; strengthen me by your mighty hand as I submit and surrender to your heavenly will that I would not love my life so much as unto death.

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