There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

the church grill each Sunday. Their common statement to simple preaching is, “I didn’t get fed today.” Since I was age eighteen, my life has been spent studying and researching biblical truths. I have more than seventy-five thousand hours of biblical research, and I enjoy digging out Hebraic prophetic truths related to the Scripture that I was previously unaware of. However, I enjoy all forms of teaching and preaching, and I have never removed myself from the preaching of the simplicity of the Word. For me, no message from God’s Word is boring, and foundational truth must be consistently presented. There is a danger in becoming an overly perfected meat eater only— a person who becomes spiritually fat on the meat and can become critical of a church or believer who is not on the same level of the deeper knowledge he or she is experiencing. This becomes pride. Paul warned the church at Corinth not to allow knowledge and pride to “puff them up.” The phrase “puffed up” is the Greek word phusioo, which means to inflate or to blow something up. He warned the Corinthian believers of being puffed up five times (1 Cor. 4:6, 18, 19; 5:2; 13:4). The idea is that believers with great understanding and knowledge may tend to allow themselves to have an inflated ego and act superior to those of less understanding. If you enjoy the meat of the Word, never become arrogant in your knowledge and treat others of less understanding as someone feeding on bologna while you chew on fillet. As a humorous note, years ago I was driving a ministry friend to the airport. This person was seeing up to ten thousand people attend his conferences, whereas we were