#"AN-ADULTEROUS-GENERATION?"
AM I THAT BAD? (Lol!)
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]?" [Matt. 13:15-17; Mark 7:21-23; Eph. 4:20-24.] (Jeremiah 17:9 AMP)
IS THIS PASSAGE SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU "FEEL CONDEMNED"?
NO, but "the Law" is a mirror of refining-reflection, and in our New Testament Reality - "the Perfect Law of Liberty", which provides us the supernatural ability through Christ - NOT to take license - to sin; or languish with lethargic attitudes and lascivious hearts that selfishly serve our own ends or will, and neglect to honor HIS Will!
Even as "saved and sanctified servants" of The Lord Most High, we STILL have to carefully maintenance our hearts, and "guard them with all diligence and prayerfulness"!
WHY DO I SO EASILY STRAY FROM GOD?
"You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world's friend is being God's enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God." (James 4:4 AMP)
An "unfaithful wife" is one who can NOT be trusted, because her own undisciplined flesh and perverse passions, are consumed by pervasive lust that has been given the "chief place" in OUR own hearts...
"God's Jealousy" is consistently provoked amongst HIS people, because our lives are easily seduced by the deception of an "unestablished heart", which we hardly ever confront - until "our hearts are far from HIM"; oftentimes without our knowledge...
"What do you mean, Pastor? I love God - 'with all my heart'?"
OH, YOU DO?
#1 - Okay...Will you do WHATEVER God tells you to do without a begrudging complaint?
IF YOU SAID "yes", that's spiritual maturity and it communicates that you have given God "your heart" at this age and stage, completely..
IF YOU SAID "no", your heart is "far from HIM"...
#2 - AND, do you DESPISE your "consecration requirement" that HE is showing you at every growth stage and "new dimension" of your life; as you continue to walk and diligently seek after HIM?
IF YOU SAID "yes", there is a root of pride and disunity with HIS will and HIS ways that MUST BE excavated from your soul (strongholds in your thinking).
IF YOU SAID "no", JESUS IS LORD, and there is "no limit" to where God can take you, and what HE'd be willing to do "with you", for the sake and cause of HIS kingdom!
"TRUE DISCIPLES" - WALK IT OUT, THEY DONT JUST TALK IT OUT...
"And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must of necessity suffer many things and be tested and disapproved and rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days rise again [from death]. And He said this freely (frankly, plainly, and explicitly, making it unmistakable). And Peter took Him by the hand and led Him aside and then [facing Him] began to rebuke Him. But turning around [His back to Peter] and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter, saying, Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have a mind intent on promoting what God wills, but what pleases men [you are not on God's side, but that of men]. And Jesus called [to Him] the throng with His disciples and said to them, If anyone intends to come after Me, let him deny himself [forget, ignore, disown, and lose sight of himself and his own interests] and take up his cross, and [joining Me as a disciple and siding with My party] follow with Me [continually, cleaving steadfastly to Me]. For whoever wants to save his [higher, spiritual, eternal] life, will lose it [the lower, natural, temporal life which is lived only on earth]; and whoever gives up his life [which is lived only on earth] for My sake and the Gospel's will save it [his higher, spiritual life in the eternal kingdom of God]. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life [in the eternal kingdom of God]? For what can a man give as an exchange (a compensation, a ransom, in return) for his [blessed] life [in the eternal kingdom of God]? For whoever is ashamed [here and now] of Me and My words in this adulterous (unfaithful) and [preeminently] sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when He comes in the glory (splendor and majesty) of His Father with the holy angels." (Mark 8:31-38 AMP)
EVERY TIME I read this passage from above, I am reminded of a word The Lord spoke to me in 2008-2009 timeframe, called "Friends of God?"...
How is it possible to "be ashamed" of The Lord in our generation?
#1- YOU ALLOW your witness for Jesus Christ to be secondary to anything else in life! (Sexual preferences, denominational traditions, social distinctions, etc.)
#2- YOU NEGOTIATE with "God's commands" (disobedience), instead of doing EXACTLY what HE tells you to do!
#3 - YOU DECEIVE YOURSELF by romanticizing what you should be realizing, because it's easier for you (in your mind) to "be religious with people" than "cultivate relationship with God", which actually "cripples you" and "defeats you"; from allowing anything - but HIS truth to consume your heart!
#4 - YOU FAKE IT instead of "living it", which would challenge you to change the "wrong relationships", subtle compromises, and unbiblical philosophies that you're ignorantly and pridefully espousing; even though "you are NOT your own" and those opinions, preferences and judgments are in error!
#5 - YOU BOW to "lesser powers" that make bring your life and family outside of alignment with Christ - bringing you subject to demonic influences, and consistently entertaining worldly things and ways that totally disagrees with God's Word and Christ's ways!
IF YOU are not categorically going to be placed as a part of this "adulterous generation", you're going to have to "guard your heart with all vigilance, for out of it flows the issues of life"...
#MARRIED-TO-JESUS-4-EVER! WS-3
Walter L. Smith III (WS-3), Apostolic Founder/Lead Facilitator
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