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You’re Not Better Off In Church
Praise Jesus today everyone. We have to remember that the straight and narrow road is walking with Jesus Christ Himself and every other path leads to eternal damnation for the rich and the poor alike, for the worldly wise and foolish alike, it doesn’t matter what path we are walking if we are not walking with Jesus Christ, if we are not living HOLY for Him, if we haven’t truly repented, then at the end of the road it leads to death.
One deception that I hear many people say that came from a rough background is; “I would at least be better off than I am now if I were in church… at very least I wouldn’t be struggling with drugs… at very least I’d be standing to my feet, I wouldn’t be on the street somewhere, at very least I’d be finding good decent friends with good morality, I’d be better of in church than in the bars…” Well, the truth is satan owns both sides of that coin, he owns the apparent “good” side, and the bad side, he owns the angels of light, that appear to be angles of light, and those demons that are clearly demons, so he has a different flavor for whatever you like, if you want to be a good boy and play church he’ll make you a good boy, but if you want to be a bad boy then you are welcome to do whatever you want, but the truth is at the end of your life if you are not right with Jesus Christ, if you didn’t get sin out of your life, if you didn’t mean business with God, you are still on the wide, broad path to eternal destruction, you are still on your way to hell. You need to mean business with Jesus Christ.
Do whatever it takes to get sin out of your life. do whatever it takes to reconcile your life, your family with the Lord Jesus. Because nothing else is going to matter. I’ve just seen far too many people that think that if they just get their family into church then all things will get better. What ends up happening at very best is they are able to detox, they are able to get themselves out of debt, the people in the church are able to help them, but they don’t ultimately help them OVERCOME THEIR SIN, they don’t ultimately help them to ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. People can’t make anyone a Christian, they can make you look good, they can make you a Christian on the outside, but no one can purify your SOUL except Jesus Christ. People can only go so far and as soon as those people are not around, as soon as the churches close down or as soon as you move, you will not have those same accountability partners and you will lose your spiritual backbone. So, don’t build your spiritual backbone in people and in churches, don’t think that you are going to be better off by just getting into a church, by having your family in church, you NEED TO HAVE YOUR FAMILY ON THE ROCK OF JESUS CHRIST, HE IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE! And if you want to worship Him, you need to worship Him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH, not in some physical building that’s going to be possibly burned down or be persecuted and all the flock be scattered. Persecutions will come, but if we are with Jesus He will be with us through every single persecution, every single trial, He will be with us through those things even to the very end. But people are NOT guaranteed to be with us to the end, and because a lot of people have put their faith in men, when times get tough, they will fail, they won’t be able to push through into the Kingdom of God, they just won’t make it.
We need to make sure that we really are with Jesus, enduring with Him. The times we live in will be tough and the sheep will be separated from the goat and the wheat from the tares.
I’ve told this story before, but when I was in church I did a bible study with some men and some of them were off the street and trying to get their feet back on the ground, and one of the guys in my church said the problem was that these guys just weren’t “church cultured”, and if we just got them into church more, that they would get the church culture in them and that they would shape up. And the truth is, he was right in that aspect, OUTWARDLY they shaped up, they were going to church, they were singing praises, people in the church started to respect them, we were able to get them an apartment, they were able to pay rent, they were able to start holding down a job… but inwardly THEY WERE NOT CHANGING. They were fooling everyone in church because they got church cultured, BUT NO ONE CAN CHANGE A MAN’S HEART, and these guys hearts were NOT changed. And as time progressed, they fell back to the world. One of them when back to the lusts of the flesh back to women, another one went back to stealing, back to the streets and then eventually back to prison or jail.
But it’s sad because when WE think we can change people then we don’t listen to the truth of GOD, we whitewash people. Remember how Jesus said that the Pharisees are like sepulchres, they...
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