Love God, love each other, Divorce the World, I say it so often but I never say it without meaning it. Love God, love each other, Divorce the World. Many Christians today talk about facing their Giants and that’s part of it but the more important part is being a giant. I was always taught that if someone hits you hit ‘em back! get what’s owed to you. Take care of yourself first and worry about everyone else after you get yours. I don’t believe that. I think this world would be a lot better if everyone started worrying about their neighbor as if it was themself. I want to say so much but I feel like I’d be tearing someone else down or just building my self up so this week I’m going to keep things simple. This world is evil, so much that God says that he is going to burn it in the appropriate time. We as a people are so vial that the bible compares our good deeds to a women’s time of the month rags. To divorce the world is to divorce the entire thinking process of the human race. What the world thinks of as honor is nothing but petty pride. What the world thinks of as charity is nothing but a self fulfilling deed. See when people of this world talk about love they’re talking about an emotion that is a result of a relationship. Think about the father who slaves away for fifty years to support his family and then dies trying to help his children achieve their dreams. He is supporting HIS family, the people who on a relational basis are important to HIM. Now while that person is greater then me. (seeing as I’ve had some problems supporting my family) God is endlessly better then both of us. God sent his son to die for his enemies. Who reading this would send their child to war to defend a foreign country that hated us. Who would sent their child to die defending Islamic terrorists. That’s what God did for us, for God so loved the world that he gave… That is real love, real grace, real charity. I look at my life and realize how far under God I am. Paul’s words have never been more real to me in my life. “So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
This makes for a very interesting problem. In human history when we’ve faced oppression we’ve attacked it. But how do you attack a world of sex, drugs, debauchery, paganism, and all out bigotry and hatred. The question is one of the most complicated and the most simple to answer. Love its people. When a person wants to fight for the right to kill unborn babies, love them. When a person wants to throw bricks at homes because of an inter-racial marriage, love them. When a Christian attacks you for trying to spread the gospel, love them. When a person drives home drunk because he thinks he’s fine and shows no remorse for jepordizing the lives of innocent people, love them. When some one tells you that calling homosexual activities is a sin is hate speach and threatens to hit you because of your intolerance, love them. When an important member of your church steals from the congregation and then gets caught, love them. I hate sin, I hate, I hate, I hate sin. I’ve fallen in tears over the genocide of the unborn, the over sexualizing of our youth, and the spiritual apathy of the church, but I don’t want to contribute to the problem. If we want to change the world then we need to set our eyes on the things of God and run as fast as we can towards God. We may fail, hurting the people close to us, breaking a confidence, laying in the same sin we accuse others of stepping in, but we have to move forward, we can’t stop, we can’t afford to.
With all that said about love, now I want to talk about sin. There’s a line between good and evil and I don’t want to play near that line. I talk to so many Christians who when we talk about sin, it turn it into a conversation of what hurts people. Other times we talk about right and wrong and they turn it into rights, what they have the right to do. One of the main problems with relationships (we’ll use husband and wife for simplicities sake) Is that when someone decides to do something for the other they don’t ask what that person wants. Here’s a situation for you to think about. A man and wife, lets call them Gregory and Jenn, live in their first apartment together. Gregory wanted to do something nice for his wife and so he got some money gave it to her and told her to go hang out with her friends, then he went with his friends, upon returning home he found her at home and upset, they fought for two hours because when he wanted to do something for her, he didn’t ASK FIRST! If you want to please God, ask him what he wants, pray, read the bible, listen to your pastors. God says that he wants us for his bride but we’re slaves to this world. Part of the salvation message is repentance, because if you want to marry God you need to start by divorcing the world! I want to take every part of this evil culture and rid it from my body. It’s hard to know what’s right sometimes but I know this. If you want to live a holy life,
Love God- Love him with all your heart in the way that only comes from faith that he loved you first.
Love each other- As God loves you, unconditionally. Always have your brothers best intrest in mind.
Divorce the World- if you want the things of God then get rid of the things of the flesh.
It’s real simple Love God, love each other, Divorce the World!
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