The Prophet as Troublemaker-By T. Austin-Sparks
It is essentially a part of the ministry of a prophetic instrument to cause trouble. It is inevitable; it is the very nature of things. For the very function of the prophet came into view when things were not right. If things had never gone wrong, had never needed adjusting, correcting, or bringing to some greater measure of spiritual fulness, there would have been no need of prophets. We should know very, very little about prophets if things had gone right on as they should have done.
The function of the prophets was to keep and hold before the people of God His full thought concerning them, especially in the face of certain things that worked very definitely against it. And it is just because of that clash and conflict that the trouble arises.
T. Austin-Sparks
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