Blessings in the name of JESUS !!
One of the ways the last sentence in Matthew 7:14 becomes a horrible reality…… “And few be there that find it)… ETERNAL SALVATION!!!!!! …. No one asks why ??
GOD created man to love the LORD our GOD with all of our heart, soul and mind. (Deuteronomy 6:5), But such an emotional and powerful investment is impossible when man’s mind is “filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity” (Romans 1:29). A depraved and unstable mind is morally corrupt and completely unable to love and serve the LORD. The only way to receive a new heart and a new mind is to “repent and believe the good news” (Mark 1:15) of the Gospel (see John 3:16) and to be that “NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST JESUS! (2 Corinthians 5:17), all old things must fall away !!
The first chapter of Romans describes the “godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness” found in Romans, in verse 18…6+6+6.. The LORD our GOD is greatly offended by such behavior. The Greek word “paradidomi” is used three times in this chapter to explain how centuries ago The GOD of Abraham “handed over” or “delivered up” people to “shameful lusts” (v. 26) and a “depraved mind” (v. 28).
Imagine a courtroom scene where an enraged defendant charges the bench and spits on the judge, who then hands the defendant an additional 180 days in jail for “contempt of court.” Similarly, GOD handed people over to a depraved mind, once again Romans 1:28, as divine punishment when they deliberately suppressed the truth.
The Holy Bible provides numerous signs of a depraved mind. Such people are “full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. (Galatians 5:19-21) through the lusts of the flesh ! They are gossips, slanderers, GOD-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless” (Romans 1:29-31).
You may wonder: Why would anyone choose to hate GOD? The answer lies in what could be called the “bottom” of man’s soul; namely, his “sinful nature.” The Apostle Paul wrote, “I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature” (Romans 7:18). A sinful nature is embedded in the heart and the mind, (Romans 8:7)…the Carnal mind is the enemy of JESUS CHRIST !! and it nevertheless contains all manner of wicked desires and sinful inclinations.
The other term used would be, “Compromise” found in Revelation 3:15-16. There is no room at all for such a thing. JESUS speaking, “for I shall spew thee from MY mouth. (Removes that name from the LAMBS Book of Life (Revelation 21:27), to go a step further, once you name is removed, then (Revelation 13:8) tells us, so saith the LORD ” And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (the beast), whose NAMES are NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE, of the LAMB slain from the foundation of the World…
True Believers are not supposed to “slide down to the bottom” to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.. We can’t have or allow ourselves to be deceived into believing we can live a life of Sin, repent and think it’s all good ! True Believers have been set free from sin and have become slaves to “righteousness” (Romans 6:18).
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the (HOLY SPIRIT) have their minds set on what the (HOLY SPIRIT) desires” (Romans 8:5).
If Man tends to repent of sin and unbelief, he remains “under law” rather than “under grace.”
“GOD gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion” (Romans 1:26-27).. In Leviticus
18:22, so Saith the LORD… “For it is an Abomination unto HIM”
While there are certainly a significant number of people today who are inflamed with homosexual lust, there are obviously far more people engaging in heterosexual fornication and adultery. This should not be so ! The Bible instructs GOD’s people: “We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did – and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died” (1 Corinthians 10:8).
The bottom of man’s soul contains deadly spiritual toxins. Paul wrote, “The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God”, again (Galatians 5:19-21).
So, who or what is controlling your mind today? The HOLY SPIRIT, or the devil using your sinful lusts and desires? If it is your heart’s desire to “take captive every thought to make it obedient to CHRIST JESUS” (2 Corinthians 10:5), then call upon JESUS to forgive your sins as you devote yourself hour by hour to dedicating all that you are to JESUS !!
1 Corinthians 6:19…..
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the HOLY GHOST which is in you, which ye have of GOD and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify GOD in your body, and in your spirit, which are GOD’S”.
Praying for those who are weak in the Spirit, Stand against the wiles of the Devil !! Your life depends upon it. 🙏🙏🏾🎚️🎚️
All in the name of JESUS, Amen and amen. ✝️✝️
Please pass this on to all who need the WORD of GOD to separate the LIGHT of the GLORIOUS GOSPEL from the darkness of hell..
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