Friday, February 15, 2019

It Is God And Not Our Culture Who Decides What’s Right And What’s Wrong

Walk in the light as He is in the light…—1 John 1:7 

Does the fact that you continue to sin concern you?  Even a little bit?  Or are you content with living the life of a marginal Christian? Are you accommodating sin in your life because, well frankly, you like it?  One of the biggest threats to being faithful to God is the love of our culture.  

If you embrace what our culture offers or promotes as truth and right, even though the Word of God says it is a lie and wrong, then that is exactly where you are.  Living a marginal life.  Like Nero, playing your fiddle while Rome is burning. Listen, freedom from sin is not freedom to sin.  It is really not OK.  

It is a mistake to look at other Christians and what they do or don’t do as a measure of right. The problem is, so many “Christians” are so in love with the world and the things of the world, that if you look at other Christians and not Jesus, you can find justification for what you do and don’t do very easily.  

Even churches struggle with the draw to the primacy of culture over worship and practice.  Churches will cancel activities in favor of the Super Bowl.  Seems harmless enough on the surface.  But at its core is the exposure of a heart problem.  Don’t ask them to come to church instead … the preacher may be preaching to empty pews.  

I want you to think about where your heart is and where your priorities are.  Loving God and not loving the world is not an option, it’s a command.  

Do not love the world or the things in the world. Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.” – 1 John 2:15

We live in perilous times.  Our culture is growing darker by the day.  People are looking to the government (who is their god) to solve the problem with more laws. But many of the laws they pass only encourage more sin.  Instead, the solution is Jesus.  The Church has becomes so used to following a compromised way of Christian living, like the frog in the pot, that they think “the water (the practices of our culture) is just fine”, when in fact it is coming to a boil. 

You might be thinking, “He is not talking about me! – that is not my church."  If not .. praise the Lord, but be watchful … the temptation is all around you.  The bottom line …… Each of us should examine our heart.  Child of God …. I am encouraging you to let the light of Christ shine  (Matthew 5:16) .. first in your home and then the world.

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