May 12, 2014
MY FRIENDS, HOW GROWN ARE YOU IN GOD’S SIGHT?
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. 1 Corinthians 14:20 (KJV)
Self dying, and life beginning in Christ, is to escalate Christ in your life above everything else. He must be the focal point as our eyes are forever “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross….” Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV) for our Salvation.
So as we escalate Christ, self-diminishes as we begin to recognize it is not about us. My friends this controversy did not begin at our birth. It started over 6000 years ago in the courts of God’s pure and Holy kingdom when Satan decided “in his heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God”
In addition one third of the heavenly host followed his lead and so the controversy begun to where we are today where man “call’s evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Is. 5:20 (NIV)
But as a child of God like Moses “WHEN HE WAS GROWN UP, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; 
choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.” Hebrews 11:24-26 (ASV)
My friends that is where I need you to focus today in the words “WHEN HE WAS GROWN UP” because if you are at the age in your life where you can distinguish between right and wrong then you are “GROWN” in the sight of God for He tells us.
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, (or woman) I put away childish things. 1 Cor. 13:11 (KJV) Or have we allowed the god of this world to continues to keep our focus of the childish games of this world that keeps our attention centered on the allurement of this world like a child that witnesses Christmas for the first time with all the pretty wrapped gifts and beautiful colors.
“There is a stage in a child’s life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. But of course the time will eventually comes when most children become able to distinguish the spiritual from the ritual and festal aspect of all holidays.”
But what about a child of God what is the cut of point when sin and all of our so called “Socially Acceptable Sins” are no longer tolerated in our life because we have outgrown even the thought of bringing any reproach before God as we die to self daily while completely given it all to our Savior, as we subject our small and insignificant Minds and desires to the greater goal of honoring Christ who gave it all for us on Calvary.
In addition to telling others of the good news of Christ soon return, as we approach the end of this great controversy. Paul tells us in Galatians 2:20 (NKJV) I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
It’s amazing we constantly tell our sons and daughters, will you PLEASE GROW UP and act like a man or woman I am tired of telling you the same thing over and over. So now my friends place God in your position as the parent, we are his children, now imagine his disappointment when we refuse to GROW UP in mind and body and lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, (while not willing to) run with patience the race (that our Savior has) set before us. Heb. 12:1 (KJV) SO FRIENDS PLEASE GROW UP AND GIVE IT ALL TO CHRIST.
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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