There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

any impact in cutting away the works of the flesh, the power of temptation, or to defeat your inner enemies. My wife brings out the butter knife only during special occasions, reminding me that some believers are seasonal Christians , meaning they show up and show out during special holiday holy days , such as traditional celebrations of Easter and Christmas, expressing their “faith” two days out of three hundred sixty-five a year. To these people, church should be polished and short, without any emotional display, and occasional, not weekly. M EAT-CLEAVER LEVEL The third group of believers is the meat-cleaver level of Christians. My wife, being a wonderful cook, has numerous types of knives in her kitchen at home and on the youth ranch. This large butcher knife, as some call it, is used to cut the meat from the bone or to cut the bone in half on a large piece of beef. In the Bible the “milk” of the Word is the simplicity of understanding the Bible, which is the level of a babe in Christ or an immature Christian. However, the “meat” of the Word is the strong doctrinal and practical teaching, or what we would say are the deeper parts of the Bible (Heb. 5:12–13). The meat eaters are those mature believers who have passed beyond the milk and no longer desire the simple basic teaching; they must have deep teaching—something to feed off of and make them think. They must leave the service in awe saying, “Wow,” as the message must have mesmerized them, or they feel slighted and half fed. These individuals grow rabbit legs and hop from church to church looking for a chef instead of a pastor, someone who can cut up the beef, throwing well-done steak on