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*DAILY DEW 23/AUGUST/2023*
*Resisting The Unholy Romance* (II)
_Key Bible Text:_
*"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."* (John 15:18-19)
_Bible Insight:_
That terrible zone of confusion so evident in the whole life of the Christian community could be cleared up in one day if the followers of Christ would begin to follow Christ instead of each other. For our Lord was very plain in His teaching about the believer and the world.
Paul explained to the Galatians the difference between the bond child and the free: “But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now†(Galatians 4:29).
So throughout the entire New Testament a sharp line is drawn between the Church and the world. There is no middle ground. The Lord recognizes no good-natured “agreeing to disagree†so that the followers of the Lamb may adopt the world’s ways and travel along the world’s path.
The gulf between the true Christian and the world is as great as that
which separated the rich man and Lazarus. And furthermore it is the same gulf, that is, it is the gulf that divides the world of ransomed from the world of fallen men.
I well know and feel deeply, how offensive such teaching as this must be to the great flock of worldlings which mills around the traditional sheepfold.
The confused religionists seek to make themselves sheep by association. But we may as well face the hard truth that men do not become Christians by associating
with church people, nor by religious contact, nor by religious education; they become Christians only by invasion of their nature by the Spirit of God in the new birth. And when they do thus become Christians they are immediately members of a new race, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, and a peculiar people!
_MEDITATION:_
*"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light."* (1 Peter 2:9 (KJV))
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*DAILY DEW 22/AUGUST/2023*
*Resisting The Unholy Romance*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? "* (2
Corinthians 13:5)
_Bible Insight:_
The Christian faith, based upon the New Testament, teaches the complete antithesis (direct opposite) between the Church and the world.
The trouble with us today is that we have tried to bridge the gulf between two opposites, the world and the Church, and have performed an illicit marriage for which there is no biblical authority.
Actually no real union between the world and the Church is possible. When the Church joins up with the world it is the true Church no longer but only a pitiful hybrid thing, an object of smiling contempt to the world and an abomination to the Lord.
The decline and degeneration in which many (or should we say most?) believers walk today is not caused by any vagueness on the part of the Bible.
Nothing could be clearer than the
pronouncements of the Scriptures on the Christian’s relation to the world. The confusion which gathers around this matter results from the unwillingness of professing Christians to take the Word of the Lord seriously.
Christianity is so entangled with the world that millions never guess how radically they have missed the New Testament pattern. Compromise is
everywhere.
The world is whitewashed just enough to pass inspection by blind men posing as believers, and those same believers are everlastingly seeking to gain acceptance with the world. By mutual concessions men who call themselves Christians manage to get on with men who have for the things of God nothing but quiet contempt.
_MEDITATION:_
*"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his."* (Romans 8:9)
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*DAILY DEW 21/AUGUST/2023*
*How to Hear God’s Voice*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me."* (John 10:27 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
1. Get into God’s word to hear His voice.
If you want to hear God’s voice, study His word.
2. The Spirit Speaks.
Spiritual preparation and active participation are required to hear the Spirit. The Holy Spirit speaks through impressions, promptings, and suggestions, bringing things to remembrance.
3. God’s voice is hidden in God’s wisdom.
God’s ways are in line with God’s wisdom.
4. Pay attention to peace.
5. Lower the noise.
When we lower the noise we can hear His voice.
6. Unmute God.
You can’t hear God’s voice today if you didn’t heed His voice yesterday! Repent for disobedience and start obeying the last thing God told to do.
7. Write down vivid dreams.
8. Don’t neglect prophecies.
The prophet of God does not replace my need to hear from God. Neither does our hearing from God replace our need for the prophet of God.
_MEDITATION:_
*"And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."* John 10:4-5 (KJV)
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*DAILY DEW 20/AUGUST/2023*
*Jesus did not save you online*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too."* (1 John 5:1)
_Bible Insight:_
Woke up late - online service
Had a long week - online service
They plan to protest - online service
Elections being conducted - online service
Someone blocked your car - online service
You have too many things to do - online service
You need to arrange some things - online service
Saturday was lit - online service
Wind starts blowing - online service
Rain fell - online service
You dreamt that rain fell - online service
I don't mean watching service online is a sin. It is not. Especially when you have no choice; but when you do?
Ahn ahn!
Jesus did not save you online. He came all the way down here. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. He became like you, and died for you.
Fall in love nau. Fall in love with the imperfect Body of the One who died to give you Life, and a Hope, and an Inheritance.
C'mon! Where is your love; your passion; your belonging; your longing; your commitment; your devotion - to the Body of Christ?
Can you be a true believer without it?
1 Thessalonians 2:17-18
As for us, brothers and sisters, when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you--in person, not in heart--we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face. For we wanted to come to you--certainly I, Paul, wanted to again and again--but Satan blocked our way.
NO. It is not possible. Before, Satan might have been blocking your way, but now, you yourself have become the block. Even the ice block
Any small thing; church fellowship is the first thing you cancel.
Stop it. Repent. Return to your first love.
What will you say to the Lord when that Indonesian church says "Despite the flood in 2014...." or that church in Delta says "Despite the flood in 2017, we did not forsake the gathering of Your people"
What will you say when members of Ekklesia Yan'uwa a church in Maiduguri which was demolished in 2021 with several injured and one killed and that Sunday they still held full service - what will you say when they say "Lord, we did not forsake the gathering of the brethren?"
Please, wake up.
_MEDITATION:_
*"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."* Hebrews 10:25 (KJV)
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*DAILY DEW 19/AUGUST/2023*
*Not Salty; Not Sacrifice*
_Key Bible Text:_
*"And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt."* (Leviticus 2:13 (KJV))
_Bible Insight:_
I agree with Pastor Vlad on this:
*"Salt is a good metaphor for Christian conversation and behavior."*
🧂*"Salt improves taste; in the same way, what believers say and do should leave a “good taste†for others."*
🧂 *"Salt also preserves food; Christians should influence others for eternity with their grace-filled lives. Saints, be salty!"*
But let's connect it with scriptures. God told his people, Israel and by extension, his people today, including you and I -- *"with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt"* No offering will be accepted by God if it has no salt.
Romans 12:1 (KJV) connects the dots further: *"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye PRESENT your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."*
We do this presentation of ourselves as living sacrifices as we live a salty lifestyle-- Romans 12:2 (KJV) puts it clearly *"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."*
The salty lifestyle calls for non-conformist standards and values. We can't be salty if we conform & subscribe to the wordly principles, standards and views around us. Rather, we must put a stop to decadence and degeneration as salt does.
We must improve the taste of things around us for good and for God's glory, even as we bring eternal values to bear! As we let our *"light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."* (Matthew 5:16 (KJV))
_MEDITATION:_
*"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men!"* Matthew 5:13 (KJV)
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