Who's driving?
"If you let the Devil ride...he's going to want to drive"
People do not walk away from God & their church over night. People don't leave their spouses and children on a sudden whim. You don't become chemically dependant with one taste, drink, etc...
The wide and accommodating pathway to perdition is easy to navigate, and the journey always commences in the mind. The Bible declares to us in 2 Corinthians 10 that we are to cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We are to remain vigilant at the threshold of our mind ready to capture the offensive thought or high minded wisdom (albeit earthly) and bring them into obedience to Christ.
The things I mentioned above are things that I have specifically heard happen this week. When people fail to give God more than just a Sunday commitment…they are setting themselves up for compromise. We must give all and withhold nothing. This means yielding to the Spirit of God and restraining the human nature. If you haven’t dealt with something…putting it off will not last forever.
We can try to be Christian robots and go through the motions but we will deconstruct eventually. Christ was not a robot crossing every T, dotting every I that related to the will of His Father. The Son of Man was driven to fulfill the will of God. Though He was the Eternal Spirit of God revealed in flesh, His humanity is what pursued the will & works of the Father (His Creator).
The humanity of Jesus knew restraint. That’s why He would not turn stones into bread. That’s why He left John in prison. That’s why He didn’t jump at the first request to help with provisions at the marriage supper in Cana. The ends do not always justify the means. Pursuing God’s desired purpose is better than following what we deem right at the moment. Selfishness is a cancerous sin that doesn’t always manifest as stinginess and miserliness. Selfish desires and unsanctified desires catch up in the long run and those who have to suffer because of it are left wondering what happened.
People do not walk away from God & their church over night. People don't leave their spouses and children on a sudden whim. You don't become chemically dependant with one taste, drink, etc...
The wide and accommodating pathway to perdition is easy to navigate, and the journey always commences in the mind. The Bible declares to us in 2 Corinthians 10 that we are to cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We are to remain vigilant at the threshold of our mind ready to capture the offensive thought or high minded wisdom (albeit earthly) and bring them into obedience to Christ.
The things I mentioned above are things that I have specifically heard happen this week. When people fail to give God more than just a Sunday commitment…they are setting themselves up for compromise. We must give all and withhold nothing. This means yielding to the Spirit of God and restraining the human nature. If you haven’t dealt with something…putting it off will not last forever.
We can try to be Christian robots and go through the motions but we will deconstruct eventually. Christ was not a robot crossing every T, dotting every I that related to the will of His Father. The Son of Man was driven to fulfill the will of God. Though He was the Eternal Spirit of God revealed in flesh, His humanity is what pursued the will & works of the Father (His Creator).
The humanity of Jesus knew restraint. That’s why He would not turn stones into bread. That’s why He left John in prison. That’s why He didn’t jump at the first request to help with provisions at the marriage supper in Cana. The ends do not always justify the means. Pursuing God’s desired purpose is better than following what we deem right at the moment. Selfishness is a cancerous sin that doesn’t always manifest as stinginess and miserliness. Selfish desires and unsanctified desires catch up in the long run and those who have to suffer because of it are left wondering what happened.
posted by Pastor Cortes at 5:16 PM
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