Saturday, May 14, 2011

Do Not Be Conformed To The World

No true self professing Christian ever sets out to be conformed to the world. Some Christians may not even realize they are conformed to the world. The hypocrite would never profess to being conformed to the world either. Rather a hypocrite would have you believe they are living a holy life, as we are commanded. How many stop and realize, we do not know what is in anothers heart.
People become conformed to the world by justifying their actions in telling their self,'Well So-n- so goes to church every Sunday and does this. Therefore it cannot be wrong.' Or 'Its such a small thing how can God hold it against me? If He judges me harshly for it He will have to So -n-so too.' We should never fool ourselves into thinking because a large majority of the people is living a certain way and we fail to keep God's commandments, we will not be held accountable. God is not going to make an exception because everyone else is doing 'it'.
God tells us to be holy because He is holy. He gave His only begotten Son so that we might have life eternally with Him. Jesus Christ is our only way to Salvation, He is our Savior, He is our only hope.
I know many people will think or say, God IS LOVE. Most assuredly He is or else He would not have gave His only begotten Son for a defiled corrupted humanity. However, we must remember He did give is only begotten Son so that we might have hope. The choice is ours and it is a choice we make everyday.
Most do not like to hear that God is a God wrath but I assure you it is true.

Romans 1:18 Fo the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Romans 2: 5.
Thessalonians 5:9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 


Romans 12: 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Psalm 5
For the director of music. For flutes. A psalm of David.

consider my sighing.

my King and my God,
for to you I pray.

in the morning I lay my requests before you
and wait in expectation.

with you the wicked cannot dwell.

you hate all who do wrong.

bloodthirsty and deceitful men
the Lord abhors.

will come into your house;
in reverence will I bow down
toward your holy temple.

because of my enemies—
make straight your way before me.

their heart is filled with destruction.
Their throat is an open grave;
with their tongue they speak deceit.

Let their intrigues be their downfall.
Banish them for their many sins,
for they have rebelled against you.

let them ever sing for joy.
Spread your protection over them,
that those who love your name may rejoice in you.

you surround them with your favor as with a shield.
Leviticus 11:44 I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves about on the groundIsaiah 35:8 And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.Matthew 7:14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.Micah 4:2 Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.1Give ear to my words, O Lord,2Listen to my cry for help,3In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice;4You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;5The arrogant cannot stand in your presence;6You destroy those who tell lies;7But I, by your great mercy,8Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness9Not a word from their mouth can be trusted;10Declare them guilty, O God!11But let all who take refuge in you be glad;12For surely, O Lord, you bless the righteous;

4 comments:

  1. Howdy!
    Amen - we see very early on in genesis that just because someone else did it, it didn't make it okay...NOT EVEN CLOSE huh?

    Heavenly Father, forgive us of our sins, we thank thee for Your mercy! I pray thee, that we according to Your will allow us to be conformed to the image of Your Son our Sovereign LORD instead to the world. We thank thee again. Oh GOD, our GOD lead us on the path of righteousness for Your name's sake. In Jesus' name - Amen

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  2. That is true Josh. The sad thing is people tend to justify their actions and sins. Just because man justifies their actions does not mean God will.
    Christ deserves our very best and even then that is not good enough, for what He did. But He still deserves it. We are called to be light and salt to this world.
    Thank you for your prayer...

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  3. Thank you Glynda, I appreciate it.

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