jeanie7 is offline jeanie7 Post #1  August 17,2009, 8:22am
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Hey everyone, It's been a while sinceI logged on. I have been on the road ministering. One of the things I have noticed while out here is the spirit of the world in the church. Those living a life of compromise are snubbing their nose at the Word of God. They have lost the sense of right from wrong. They call right wrong and wrong right. Many have a casual relationship with God leaving no place for absolutes. Many accuse the sanctified of being religious. I post this blog in hopes to enlighten those who are on the wide road thinking they are on the narrow road. Are we really where we think we are?

An Open Door for Satan

II Corinthians 6:14-18
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?
What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial [the devil]? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
So, come out from among [unbelievers], and separate (sever) yourselves from them, says the Lord, and touch not [any] unclean thing; then I will receive you kindly and treat you with favor,
And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

It's amazing how many Christians conveniently overlook this passage. Many get into relationships, partnership in businesses, and ministries with people not walking with God or not in the plan of God. I have showed young women involved with unsaved men, this passage of scripture only to have them shoot it down with their foolish justification. When you date someone who is not a Christian, who refuses to go to church, you are not in your right mind. When you first begin to date someone not saved, you may think it is just for the moment and that you would never marry them, but the further you get into the relationship the more drunk you get (I Peter 5:8) on the idea and you keep compromising more and more until you are completely out of the plan of God. You will go back to the things you did before you got saved, that is a sign of how far away from God you now are. I cannot understand why a Christian would want to date, fellowship, or socialize with someone who doesn't invite God into their life. It's like attending a special gathering or celebration where your spouse is not invited. That would be a dishonor to your spouse and it probably wouldn't go well for you. How could a Christian open their life to someone who refuses their God. Even the religious people don't do that. We need to understand that people who are not Christians belong to the devil. It's like yoking up with the devil. The only way a Christian can yoke up with the devil is because there is something in them that desires the devil over God. There is enough evil in them for Satan to grab a hold of, use them for destruction and then ultimately destroy.

Many times Satan uses them as weak links in the body of Christ to destroy the local church. Many Christians enter into practicing sin and stay in their positions of ministry. They are now an open door for the devil to have access in that church. The enemy will get in through them causing division, havoc, confusion, strife, and sexual sin. If the person who is the open door is practicing sexual sin, then that is the sin that will spread in the church. I know pastors who did not confront this sin in their church and it hit their wives. Their wives had affairs with men in the church and ultimately left their husband and ministry all together.

If you are an open door for havoc in God's house, you will be an open door for havoc in your own house. Kids will begin to act crazy, appliances will break down, car breaks down, unexpected bills in the mail, identity theft, etc. Unusual happenings will begin to occur that will cause stress and strife in your home until you repent, this will close the door to Satan. The wages of sin is death Romans 6:23. The longer you stay in sin the greater degree of death you will experience.

Verse 16 of this passage says that we (Christians) are the temple of God, if you are not a Christian then you are a temple of Satan. You can't be a temple of your own. You belong to God or Satan. How can two walk together unless they be agreed, Amos 3:3. In an unequally yoked relationship there will always be compromise.
Verse 17 says to “Come out from among unbelievers,” yet so many Christians are yoking up with them. Being off of the Word of God is a sin the longer you live off of the Word of God the easier it is to do so because you become comfortable in your sin.

Verse 18 says that God will be our Father if we come out from among unbelievers. While Christians are practicing sin their fellowship with God will be broken. He will not be able to be a Father to them. How sad.

I Corinthians 15:33-34
Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character.
Awake from your drunken stupor and return] to sober sense and your right minds, and sin no more. For some of you have not the knowledge of God [you are utterly and willfully and disgracefully ignorant, and continue to be so, lacking the sense of God's presence and all true knowledge of Him]. I say this to your shame.
Evil companionships corrupt good manners and morals and character. Wow! But yet Christians are doing this and thinking it won't effect them. They are drunk on the world. When you are drunk you can't think straight, talk straight, or walk straight. Also when you are drunk you don't know you are that is why so many get behind the wheel of a car. Deception is great when you are in a drunken stupor. One girl I ministered this passage to who is in a relationship with someone who is not saved, insisted that she was not drunk and that she knew what she was doing. This is deception because if she knew what she was doing, if she understood the wages of this sin she would repent immediately.

These types of relationships also effect their children. Children are passengers in our lives. When Christians leave the plan of God so do their children. When they open themselves up to the enemy so do they open up their children's lives for the enemy to have his way with.

Special Note: If you are practicing sin you are an open door for the enemy to cause havoc in God’s house, likewise, you will be an open door for the enemy to cause the same havoc in your house.
 
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Jeanie,

Interesting post. I don't have any problem agreeing that we as Christians should not be dating non-Christians. The Bible is clear on that point, and it makes sense for a variety of reasons.

I do however have some concerns with the tone of the blog you quoted. It smacks very much of what I term "performance based religion." I've lived under different systems of teachings throughout my adult life, and I've discovered that anytime you have someone in a ministry position lecturing all of their listeners about all their various sins then this is not a good thing. Someone who lives in humility in the shadow of the cross is very much aware of their own shortcomings and their own need of God's grace. A person like that doesn't lecture people on what they should and shouldn't do, but they share the grace they've been given to other believers and invite them to approach God's Throne of Grace where they can find the help they need in overcoming their sins.

I appreciate you sharing, but I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you honestly that what you posted is not how I'd approach the body of Christ. Don't get me wrong, I believe in standards, I believe in absolutes, and I believe God's Word is the final authority in how we are to conduct our life. My issue is with how we get there.

I know my failures, and I know where I am still weak. I know how far I have to go. I know the areas in my life that still need to be surrendered.

Philippians 3:13, 14 Amplified
13I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.


I have not attained that Godliness that I know is available, but one thing I do is each day I press and strain toward God and His grace knowing that as I more and more surrender to Him then Christ comes forth more in my life and lives out in me what I cannot do on my own.


Galatians 2:20 KJV
20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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walter, I agree with your position 100%, I couldn't express it any better
 
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