Compromising With Sin/Breakdown of Society

                                                                

People seem to be committing crimes and abominations in massive  quantities today. And it only seems to be getting worse. Just watch your local or national newcasts. One may say demonic influence or possession seems evident. And being how weak the flesh is, I believe that could be a very reliable statement. For Scripture tells us our struggle is against the world, the flesh and the devil. So we must be strong in the Lord and the power of His might.                                                           

Paul addresses the demonic influence in Eph. 6:10-18.  And if so,  it is still no excuse for ones  transgressions. Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We are tainted by it through and through. And our sin nature, which is with us from birth,  is decidedly influenced if we feed it with the vain, wicked, immoral, and self centered  cravings of this world which are passing away. For as a person  thinks so they are.  With what one fills their mind, you could say,  they become. Junk in-junk out. Which is the common nomenclature for a persons condition today.

                                       

                                   Not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother.                                                                              And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds                                                                                      were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. (1John3:12)

Each person is held accountable for their own rebellious acts before God. He is a Just Creator. "everyone will die for his own iniquity;" (Jeremiah 31:30)  And everyone will likewise be judged when they stand before God. (2 Cor. 5:10) Pursue unholy works of the flesh,  receive a holy condemnation and as a result a just punishment. Don't flirt with sin. For before you know it, you will be engulfed in an ocean of evil. Drowning in your own wicked lusts.                                          

If you say  God is a loving God who sent His only Son into the world to pay the sin debt. You are correct. By repenting, confessing, by  grace through faith, and not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God,  by  Jesus Christ alone. Does one enter into a right relationship with the creator. And thus has a citizenship in heaven. (Phil. 3:20-21)  A place in the kingdom of God. It is then that one is born from above a new creation. The old has passed away, all things have become new. (Gal. 5:17)

                                      

God the Father Sons torture and  torment on that cross reveals to us all how absolutely obscene, disgraceful, offensive and atrocious  our sins are before a Holy, Righteous, Perfect God.  Jesus Himself said " you must be perfect, as the father in heaven is perfect, to have a place in the kingdom of God."  (Matt. 5:48)                                           

Only His Son, by which God has spoken to us. The brightness of God's glory and the express imagine of His person. (Heb. 1:3)  The Word who was in the beginning with God and was God. (John 1:1) Only He is perfect, for He is divine. The One without sin, clothed Himself  in human flesh. Prophesied by Isaiah as a child born, a Son given, born of a virgin. (Isaiah 9:6; 7:14)  Jesus Christ is the One by whom  all things were created in heaven and on earth, (Col. 1:16) and  now sits at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

No mere human being could satisfy God's forgiveness. Only Jesus the  Christ, being in very nature God,  humbled Himself and  came in the likeness of men. He was obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. His was God the Father's only acceptable sacrifice for sin. (Phil. 2:5-8) All the Old Testament animal sacrifices pointed to the only perfect, acceptable redeemer, who was to come. (For without the shedding of blood, their is no forgiveness  Heb. 9:22) As John the baptist proclaimed as he saw Jesus walking toward Him, "Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."  (John 1:29) 

It is God who calls us from darkness to light, by grace through faith, it's nothing we can do.  For in God's economy nothing mankind can do could  warrant His approval. Only His Perfect, Divine, One and Only Son. Born of a virgin, born under the law, could fulfill the law and the prophets. And that Jesus did. (Gal. 4:4-5)

I urge you as God the Father proclaimed to the disciples and Apostles, "Listen to Him! For this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."  Hear him who speaks boldly in our Bibles, for all Scripture is "God-Breathed."  That is God's chosen "Holy men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter 1:20-21) As Our Messiah Himself has proclaimed " Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." (John 5:24)                                                 

He is coming again as promised to gather his own, His elect from the four corners of the world, and to judge the world in righteousness by the man He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to everyone, by raising Him from the dead. (Acts 17:31) This is the Gospel. 

Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. (1 Cor. 15:3-4) And though this fallen world will proclaim there are many paths to God.  Jesus Christ, very God in very flesh, proves them liars and idolaters when He proclaims" I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through me."  (John 14:6)                                                 

Jesus gives us Hope for He is called "the Blessed Hope." (Titus 2:11-14) And as he said over two thousand years ago to those throngs of people  following Him, He says to us all today...“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28)

If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead. You will be saved. (Romans 10:9)

"He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”(John 3:36)

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1:21-22)

For those who have confessed Jesus as Lord and Savior are "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that they may proclaim the praises of Him who called them out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. (1 Peter 2:9-10)

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,  rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. (Col. 2:6-8)