What did you say?

You moved in with your girlfriend, or was it your boyfriend?    You bought a house together, and are living happily ever after?    Oh, you do go to church!    You are a Christian, and are forgiven, so no worries, right?!

Really?   Where does it say, ‘go forth and sin again and again?   Does it not say, go forth and sin no more’?    Reform your ways, and pick up your cross and follow me!

Do you keep company with those like yourself?    Are you not drawn to those who enjoy what you enjoy and profess what your profess?    How can one who ‘trades’ partners, and lives without the sacrament of marriage, profess Christ?    Does Christ not tell us to obey the Commandments?    Are we not to stay far from the  7 deadly Sins?

When sin is embraced with the flesh, and the mouth speaks praise, can the spirit that dwells within the soul professing and sinning still illuminate?    How can man or woman flee from sin with words and embrace it with flesh?    Do the two not oppose each other?

God is a God of forgiveness this is true.    Yet, Jesus Christ has put forth the teachings and lived them out for us to embrace.    The teachings are written in the Word of God, The Most Holy BIBLE!    If you wish to become learned in the ways of the LORD, then read the Word!   The living truth of Jesus Christ is within the pages!

There are no excuses!

Either you wish to profess Christ, and carry your Cross, or, walk in darkness!    If you are a light for Christ and do not illuminate Christ by living and walking in His foot steps, How can you grow in the light?

Misconceptions are pravalent today.   Many have the idea, simply asking forgivness constitutes eternity.    Well, it is true, to be forgiven constitutes life.    However, to be a ‘friend’ to Jesus, is to walk in the light of Christ!    To become Christ, is to embrace Christ, and to embrace Christ is to apply His teachings to the heart and profess them with the lips!   To be the example of Christ before others!   If people see you sleeping with your neighbor and going to Church on Sunday, are they not left wondering?    Is that not the same as my saying I will  do for you, but then never get around to it?    My intent is there, but my actions are contrary to whom I  maintain I am!    Will you not say to me, ‘you hypocrite?

Would you like a friend like this?    There in word only but not in action?   You will remember Jesus was loved by all while He was preaching, but when the chips were down and Jesus was led to the ‘slaughter’ (cross)   there were ‘few’ very very few who stood with him!   He was left , Abandoned, Betrayed, and Alone!!   Do you think that hurt?    Maybe just a little, huh?!   Imagine what it is like to be left out, forgotten, and ignored!   It pierces the heart!

Yet,  he who puts himself before Christ is not worthy of the Kingdom of heaven.

The LORD is the judge, not me!   I am only here to enlighten the thinking of some who have the idea anything goes with Jesus Christ!    Well, I do not know your heart, and would never dare to presume you do not have a pure heart; but I will tell you the more you ‘suffer’ with Christ, the closer you become to Jesus !   His gift!  Not mine!

So if you want a closer walk with the LORD, then you must suffer with Him and because of Him to endure the cross with Him.    For this is our love to Him!  Our thanksgiving to Him for His perfect sacrifice of Love, so pure, so lovely, because He did not hesitate to suffer brutally, for all of mankind!

Book of Luke: Chapter 17  Verse 32-37  Jesus is Speaking!

32) “Remember Lot’s wife.   33)Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it; whoever loses it will keep it.   34)   I tell you, on that night there will be two men in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.   35) Two women will be grinding grain together one will be taken and the other left.”   37)   ” Where,  Lord?”   they asked him, and he answered,    “wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures gather.”

The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians   Chapter 4  Verses 17-24  (Renewal in Christ)

17) ” I declare and solemnly attest in the LORD that you must no longer live as the pagans do-their minds empty.   18)  their understanding darkened.   They are estranged from a life in God because of their ignorance and their resistance;   19) without remorse they have abandoned themselves to lust and the indulgence  of every sort of lewd conduct.  20)  That is not what you learned when you learned Christ!   21) I am supposing, of course, that he has preached and taught to you in accord with the truth that is in Jesus:  22) namely,  that you must lay aside your former way of life and the old self which deteriorates through illusion and desire,   23) and acquire a fresh, spiritual way of thinking.   24)You must put on that new man created in God’s image, whose justice and holiness are born of truth.”

Chapter 5  verse 1-3  Ephesians continued:

1) “Be imitators of God as his dear children.   2)Follow the way of love, even as Christ loved you.   He gave himself for us as an offering to God, a gift of pleasing fragrance.”   3)   As for lewd conduct  or promiscuousness or lust of any sort, let them not even be mentioned among you; your holiness forbids this.”