MY FRIENDS, WE MUST ALLOW GOD TO CHANGE OUR CULTURE, BEFORE HE CAN CHANGE US!!

June 10, 2015

MY FRIENDS, WE MUST ALLOW GOD TO CHANGE OUR CULTURE, BEFORE HE CAN CHANGE US!!

Webster defines culture as; “the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent” William Miller who is credited with beginning the mid-nineteenth century North American religious movement that was known as the Millerites, makes a statement that says

“I have fixed my mind on another time, and here I mean to stand until God gives me more light, and that is today, today, and today, until he comes, and I see him for whom my soul yearns. (William Miller) for whom my soul yearns how sweet the sound.

“I have fixed my mind on another time” that tells me that I have completely put what I regard as excellent, in the hands of my Savior who has taken on that responsibility, as we “Cast our cares on the lord as He sustains us.” Ps. 55:22 (KJV)

Now my friends where I need you to focus today is, the Good Shepherd telling you and I to “Cast our cares on the lord and he will sustain us.” In addition, as a child of God that statement tell us, that is where we need to fix our mind as we stand still and recognize the power of God and what He is capable of Doing through us and for us.

But we have to change our entire culture and what we regard as excellent as we move closer to Christ second coming. It must be all about faith, faith and more faith. And of course “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17 (KJV)

Faith, and knowing God’s Word and where He is trying to take us on this journey He has placed us on, each essential to the life expectancy of the other. So if we take one of those elements out it would be a real catastrophe.

Mark 4:19 (KJV) tells us “But the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.” So my friends this lets me know before we can fix our mind on another time, before we can change the culture of what we regard as excellent.

We must first dissociate ourselves from the things of this world that do not center our attention on Jesus Christ and Him crucified and the culture of a pure and holy kingdom. Starting with what we watch on TV, the internet, what we read, how we spend our time, and what we spend the resources that God gives us on.

Friends, if we are serious about our Salvation there must be a deep passion from within, a passion for righteousness by faith, and a passion for God’s word to penetrate from within until our light so shine that the culture of those we witness too change also as they see Christ in everything we do and say.

Paul tells us “our citizenship is in heaven” that my friends is the culture we must be focused on and the words of our savior Himself that tells us “Let not your heart be troubled;… [about the cares and the culture of this world] our Savior told us before He ascended to His kingdom, In His Father’s house are many mansions; and one of them has each of His Children’s name on it.

But only if that is the culture we desire and we endure till the end. So as Christians our mind must maintain the atmosphere of the Holy angels and what they experience when they Go before an all knowing, all powerful, Omnipresence God singing “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!”

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY