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With Whom Do You Walk

If your friends and relatives are instrumental in taking you away from the Lord through their pressure to think unbiblically or to think the way they want you to think, it is time to move on from them, pray for them, and resist any pressure from those who attempt to keep you locked into the family or friendship system which does not glorify God.

There are many people we love but who are not supporting us in our Biblical views, even becoming angry when we assert them. Sadly many people who are the most unkind and rude in this way are those who say they are Christian.

Notice that they do not ask why we believe the way we do, they only accuse and mock our choice to follow Christ. They will even say they are a Christian but their attitudes do not reflect those of Christ. Often these people lack all the fruit of the Spirit of God.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

The Pharisees were of this sort, they wanted allegiance to themselves creating a sort of cult following without any questions or challenges to their way of thinking. Those who had the strength to assert themselves using Scripture were ostracized and rejected. Sound familiar to any of you?

Matthew 23:15-16 "… 15 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. 16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’…"

The more we wish to walk with Christ, understand His heart and be an instrument for Him the more we will be maligned and accused. The devil's favorite tool to torment the believers in Christ is the ungodly or those who pretend to be godly.

Authentic born-again believers love to hear about the Lord, they love to discuss the things of God and they are not legalistic, making rules God never made to make themselves seem spiritual.

Authentic believers walk in the fruit of the Spirit as a constant lifestyle, they don't have to try because it comes naturally to them because they are indwelt with Christ Himself.

May each one assess their own attitude to see if they are still working in their own flesh to be what they think they should be or are they seeking Christ to become like Him?

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True Believers and Sorrow Over Sin

True believers are sorrowful when they sin even in the slightest way whether by attitude or actions. They hate their sin and want to be cleansed of it.

Those who say they are Christians but justify their sin have not been born-again.

Hebrews 12:5-8

5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,

Nor faint when you are punished by Him;

6 For whom the Lord loves He disciplines,

And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”

7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

A true believer is miserable in their sin and eventually will confess it to be cleansed and turn from it.

1 John 3:8-10

"… 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.…"

Because God loves His children He will correct us.

God said it not me! Denying Christ in the Walk

1 John 2:20-24

20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.

23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

24 As for you, see that what you heard from the beginning remains in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father."

There are many ways to deny Christ by proclaiming to be a Christian but hate the principles of Christ. When someone says they go to church or they are a Christian but fight against the Word of God they are denying Christ. Christ is the Word, He is the essence of His own Word.

John 1:14-15 "14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John *testified about Him and called out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who is coming after me has proved to be my superior because He existed before me.’”"

It is our dedication to His Word and the fruit of the Spirit that defines us, our walk defines us, not our words.