Word of God

Word of God

My wife and I were watching a program and she asked why there is not any shame in the world.  My comment was this:  We don’t have shame anymore because we have become desensitized (1. Make less sensitive. 2. Make (someone) less likely to feel shock or distress at scenes of nudity, cruelty, violence, or suffering by overexposure to such things or images).  Over exposure to movies (R rated), TV (nightly series, soap operas, reality shows, talk shows, etc.), video games, books, magazines, social networks, and the internet have molded and defined our society.  These things have become our bible and I am sad to say that many Christians have bought into this antichrist society.  We are compromising the Word of God by trusting what man has created in our society.  Jeremiah 17:5 Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD.

Recently, I was invited to visit a rather large church that is growing at a phenomenal rate.  They have two campuses with a Sunday combined attendance in excess of 4,000.  The majority of the people were in their twenties and thirties and it was an awesome sight to see all these people coming to worship God.  Unfortunately, most of these people walking into the sanctuary did not have the Word of God in their possession and the few that had a Bible could not read their Bible because the lighting was so poor.  The message was very good, but without the Word of God we will not have the knowledge to overcome the evil in this world.  Isaiah 5:13 says “Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge….  And Hosea 4:6 says” My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

So whether it is no knowledge or lack of knowledge, bad things can happen to good, wonderful people who love God and have walked closely with Him in their lives.  Why?  God’s people don’t know every precept from Genesis to Revelation.  We don’t know all that is important to our life or the lives of our families.  We could have missed a few or many of these precepts along the way, opening the door to our problems. 

Knowing God and knowing His Word will not guarantee our freedom.  The church is full of people who can quote scripture forwards and backwards, but the Scriptures are not bearing fruit in our lives.  We have been taught to be intellectually and spiritually superior, but we have not been taught how to defeat our enemy.

The Word is Jesus Christ, a living being, but the defeat of your enemy with the Word can only be fruitful if we believe and make it part of our life in faith.  It is not fruitful if we believe God because of works (Ephesians 2”8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast).   We have to become one with God.  His nature and our nature have to become one in that area of our life.  To become one with the Word is to know what the living being, Jesus Christ, has said as revealed in the Scriptures and believe it.

When His thoughts become our thoughts, we are spiritually changed.  When His ways become our ways, we are spiritually changed.  Only then will we be able to weed out the antichrist society that is dominating this world.

Jeremiah 39:18 For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword; but your life shall be as a prize to you, because you have put your trust in Me,” says the LORD.’”

It is my prayer that you make a commitment to read the Word of God every day which will allow His Word to speak to you and change your life.

AMEN