Jeremiah 6:14-16 "…14 They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. 15 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD. 16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’…"
Sometimes we think there must have been better times than now. The more we read the Bible and grow in wisdom, the more we realize nothing has changed, and the church has always been a remnant of authentically born-again believers swimming upstream from the culture around us.
Matthew 23:13-15 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are."
The modern church system thinks it is more godly and has more wisdom than in the past, but just the opposite is true. Many have more knowledge than they have had in the past, but less wisdom, as well as more misinterpretation of truth based on their present culture.
People in this generation are seeking truth based on their own desires and pleasure, not what God actually said in His Word.
Proverbs 29:1-2 "1 A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery. 2 When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan."
Many "conservatives" are spending more time on saving a wicked and dying country than they are on loving Christ. I rarely hear the name of Christ coming from their mouths, but I constantly hear about the latest evil the government is doing.
What we speak about the most is our focus in life.
My prayer is that many will begin to ask God to show them truth to be able to discard every false thing they have learned over their lifetime to embrace God's truth.
My other prayer is that those who are born again would no longer walk according to their culture!
Galatians 5:16-17 "16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want."
Romans 8:4-5
"so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit."
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!"
Ezekiel 36:27 "And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances."
Proverbs 4:23
"Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life."
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