MY FRIENDS, ARE WE ALLOWING THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, TO BE DETRIMENTAL TO OUR SALVATION?

Oct. 2, 2014

MY FRIENDS, ARE WE ALLOWING THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, TO BE DETRIMENTAL TO OUR SALVATION?

40 years, the Israelites roamed the wilderness, with no specific destination in sight. An entire generation was sentenced to an inactive and slothful wandering in the wilderness. It has been estimated that an average of almost 90 people a day died during those years. Then only Joshua and Caleb remained to represent the generation that left Egypt.

Many of us experience this same dilemma, wandering in the wilderness of this world as the years flies by. As Christians our stay on this earth is only for a little while. Time is precious, and how we spend and use it for God’s glory and honor, is of vital importance to our spending eternity with Christ.

God in the wise foresight and anticipation teaches us how we should be discerning and perceptive about how we continue this journey He has placed his chosen generation on. TV, Facebook, twitter and the internet just to name a few, are obstacles that can be credited to this fast pace got to have it now society, where self-reigns supreme over any and everything even God.

We as a nation have become zombies, who are easily manipulated by government and corporate advertisers. Nothing will stop me tomorrow from being in line with the rest of the world to purchase my new IPhone, got to have it! Got to have it ! got to have it!. If we could only get that excited about spreading the good news of Christ soon return.

Sin and Satan’s desire that we all lose sight of Christ saving grace, while forgetting that life is too short to squander away on what self wants is VERY DETRIMENTAL TO OUR SALVATION. Acts 20:35 (ESV) tells us “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, “IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE.” Those 8 words eliminates self from our life.

My friends we are now on Probation which is “the testing or trial of a person’s conduct, character, qualifications, or the like.” For God’s Kingdom. It is now time we stop and focus on the image of our Savior as He takes a lump of clay shaping forming it and at times having to reform and restore this image He has in His mind of what this clay should look like.

In addition, as the potter forms our Character the clay must be “totally, unconditionally passive in the hands of the potter.” We should give no resistance to what God wants out of our life” “But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.” Is 64:8 (ESV)

That should be our attitude when we have a passion to give God our all, as we become clay in the Potter’s hand, “making no resistance” as we say “LORD NOT MY WILL BUT THOU WILL BE DONE.” To live our life in any other way except in the hands of God, shifts our “brain activity from what God wants to a state of susceptibility, suggestibility and an unfocused state of mind which then becomes controlled by the god of this world.

Which then lacks the act of knowing, perceiving, or remembering the things God deems beneficial, and THUS ALL WE DO ONLY BECOMES DETRIMENTAL TO OUR SALVATION because it is not done for the one who gave it all for our Salvation. One day soon Christ will enter the clouds above us and his reward will be with Him.

“And [He] will give to each person according to what they have done. And once each have received our proper reward our Savior will say either “Well done, good and trustworthy servant! Since you’ve been trustworthy with a small amount I gave you on this earth I’ll put you in charge of a large amount in my Kingdom, Come and share your master’s joy!”

OR, He will ask you, one final question, why when I was trying to shape you into my image you preferred the image of this world? And the saddest words we will ever here repeated, He will say, YOUR UNFORGIVEN SINS HAVE BEEN DETRIMENTAL TO YOUR SALVATION “I know you not.”

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