On Sunday I spoke about the lack of real Christianity that we see among people who go to church. I brought the message because I wanted to give a challenge to those who find their lives not being everything they want it to be. I see a lot of people struggling with their everyday life and mostly it is due to the fact that they aren’t living a life that is submitted to God.
I have said this before and I will keep saying it – Christianity faked will not work; in fact it is the most miserable circumstances to try to live through. If you are trying to fake Christianity then the world doesn’t like you because they will never understand why you believe the things you say you believe. And the church won’t accept you because you don’t live the things the church believes.
OK, so before I go any further with this I want to say that I am not being pessimistic, I am simply being honest about what I see happening with a lot, and I mean a lot, of Christians. By the way, when I look at these things I am in good company!
"…Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8 NKJV)
Jesus asks the same kind of question. As a Pastor I want everybody in my church to be ready for the return. And I also want them to live the best life they can have and that will only happen as they become intentional about living the Christian life. (I am not talking about trying to live a Christian life style; I am talking about living in real salvation.)
I hate seeing the people that I love living half hearted Christian lives, when God wants to do something really amazing with each and every one of them. And all it takes is setting your mind on doing the things God wants you to do.
In the next post I will show why it is possible to live a really genuine holy life!
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Praise the Lord Pastor Steve. I enjoyed reading your recent posting.
Unregenerate man will follow this path as his guide and build a world around him which reflects his separation of God. In his intelligence he perceives that he is highly sophisticated. In whom else should he trust but himself? His inventions are great, his thinking is with the greatest detail and his perception of the world is with the deepest understanding. Blinded is he to the truth that there is a far greater sophistication from which he removes himself with each added trust in himself. Each invention and achievement is man’s signature on his declaration that he does not need God. Further and further from the true revelation of Jesus he strays. Believers need to purge their heart daily from the influences of the world that have been planted in our hearts. Influences will begin as subtle seeds and soon take root. Unsaved man’s heart is revealed in the book of Revelation. A believer in understanding the Revelation of Jesus Christ will be more sensitive to the worldly seeds being planted in their hearts. It is imperative for the believer to demand that these influences be purged from his heart. God is most pleased with this level of zealousness to be like Him. The heart of man is described in Josephus’s statement of Nimrod “Nimrod persuaded mankind not to ascribe their happiness to God, but to think that his own excellency was the source of it. And he soon changed things into tyranny, thinking there was no other way to wean men from God and fear of Him, than by making them rely upon his own power.”
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