Thirty years ago, a professing Christian told me she’d psyche to her favorite singing grouping “even if God said it was wrong.”
I’m non certain if her music choice was sinful, simply her mental attitude was.
I was shocked 15 years subsequently when this adult woman unashamedly quit manage church building in addition to got involved inwards immorality.
But I shouldn’t convey been surprised.
The seed of her rebellion was acquaint inwards that controversy she'd made then many years earlier.
When nosotros read God’s ascendance against worshiping other gods (Exodus 20:3), nosotros typically mean value of infidel gods. But anything nosotros select over God is an idol.
Christians sin, simply nosotros don't wishing to. We wishing to deny ourselves for Christ's sake (Matthew 16:24).
If there’s anything nosotros spend upward to hand upward for Christ, we're headed downward a unsafe path. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pocket-sized seed of rebellion left unchecked volition grow into thorns that choke out our faith.(1)
Are you lot doing something that God forbids? Please repent, dearest Christian!
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(1) The Parable of the Sower describes "thorns" equally worries well-nigh this life in addition to worldly desires such equally desires for wealth in addition to pleasance (Mark 4:19; Luke 8:14). When Christ says approximately people run out unfruitful because these thorns of life choke the seed planted inwards them, is He talking well-nigh saved or unsaved people? Scripture does non brand this completely clear, simply our wishing should move to hand God our best, non our least.
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