Posted on 05/04/2022 11:26:06 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth” (Proverbs 5:7 KJV).
“Remove thy way far from her,” that is, stay away from the path of ungodliness, stay away from the wrong places, stay away from the wrong people. You say, “I work around them.” Pray much! Stay full of the Word of God. Pray in the morning and have a good daily devotion, and when you get home, pray and confess all things you heard and saw and get them covered by the Blood. Get some more Bible in you, spend the evening with your family, and go to church.
It’s a filthy business out there with all that ungodly stuff that goes on. But the Bible still promises: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (I Corinthians 10:13 KJV). We can bear it, but we can’t if we don’t do anything about it. We need to counteract it.
All that worldly philosophy and unclean ideas that pass through your mind in the day time—the things you hear and see—you have to counteract that when you get home. Most Christians don’t. They just go, “phew! I’m glad I’m home!” and then plop on the couch and turn on the TV until bed time. Or they pick up the newspaper and read the same stuff over and over so that they can’t get away from it all. They cultivate that stuff all day—they don’t get into to Bible to cleanse their spirit. Turn on some good Christian music.
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16 KJV).
The right kind of Christian music will admonish you to do right, all the stuff of the world you hear all day at work will admonish you to do wrong. You sit there all day and take all that stuff in unfiltered and uncensored, by the time you get home, you feel as much like a Christian as the Devil does. You just have your cup full of the wrong stuff, so fill the cup with the right stuff.
Just confess all that. Ask God to purge your mind with the Blood of Jesus Christ. Get in the Bible, have some devotions with your wife and your kids, get on your knees and pray awhile, put on some good Christian music and start shouting. If you don’t, you’ll be pouting. Before you’re done, you’ll be doubting God, doubting your salvation, out of church and goodbye. The world will just dump that garbage on you—you gotta get clean of it when you get home.
The cross of Christ is the door of escape from a doomed world, as well as the place of refuge for a guilty sinner. By the cross, the believer is crucified to the world and separated unto God.
Many do not see this—or do not want to see it. They boast of the cross as their deliverance from the wrath to come but ignore its power to separate them from the world.
They live at home in Egypt—the ungodly are their associates; and although they speak of being in Heaven at last, they grasp as much of the world as they can, or, to use a popular phrase, they try to “make the best of both worlds.”
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