"Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them."(Ezekiel 22:26 NKJV)
"Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord GOD." (Ezekiel 22:31 NKJV)
A friend posted these three scriptures yesterday and I felt them to be as appropriate for today's people, as in the day of Ezekiel.
Our rebellion knows no bounds and we continually justify the error of our ways!
God has never blessed rebellion, nor will He ever!
"Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”"(I Samuel 7:3 NKJV)
What you think about the most is your idol and anything you place above the commandments of God, He will not honor.
Just because your church endorses something - does not make it clean! Just because your preacher (from the pulpit) says something is okay - does not make it right in God's eyes! Just because it has been done this way for centuries - does not make it holy!
God is coming back for a bride who is without spot or blemish! One that seeks His face in all things. One who will lay aside her desires for His! One who lives to serve Him!
"Oh, but that is Old Testament", you say!
God has not, nor does He ever change! What was Holy then is still Holy today! What was right and just then, is right and just today!
Following the One True God is the same as in the days of Moses! He requires obedience to His Word! He has not changed!
Yes, we have a better covenant and the blood of our sacrificial lamb, covers all sin, but sin has not changed! And if we continue to sin willingly (justifying our rebellion) there remains no sacrifice!
"For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins," (Hebrews 10:26 NKJV)
When the children of Israel were convicted of their sin of idol worship they repented!
"Then they cried out to the LORD, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths; but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.’" (I Samuel 12:10 NKJV)
Should we not do the same?
Isn't crying out to God in remorse and calling on His name in repentance what reaches Him? Isn't that what sets us apart from the rest of the world? Our ability to hear His voice and our willingness to set aside our will for His, when He shows us the error of our ways? Yes - that alone make us a follower of Him!
Just saying a few words at an invitation, does not make us a Christian! Being told we are "saved" by a preacher after asking Jesus into our heart does not mean we are heaven bound, if we have not had a change of heart! If we have continued in the ways of the world instead of conforming to His ways (which are higher) then we are not His, no matter what your denomination has said!
In heaven there will be no denominations! There will only be those who have overcome the world! (Read Revelation 2)
If we are Christ's then we are being made into His image! If we are not changing, not conforming, not being remade, but are indistinguishable from the world, then we are like the god of this world! There is no middle road! We either are, or we are not! And the best way to tell is in what's in the heart!
"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks."(Luke 6:45 NKJV) (anger, hatred, bitterness, unforgiveness, vs. love, peace, joy)
And what you put most into your heart is what will come out! It's reaping and sowing! You put God's Word in and God's Word comes out! The Word will change you for it is sharper than a two edged sword!
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12 NKJV)
It will not leave you they way you began, if your heart is for God! It will convict you of the sin in your life, unless you are using it to justify your sin! The devil has been twisting The Word of God since The Garden and continues today! You have to guard your heart!
Set your heart on the things of God! Make Him your primary purpose in life! Seek Him with all of your might! And He will make straight your path!
Even so - MARANATHA!
From 4/6/15, 9/19/15
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