Ephesians 5:3 “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.”
Compromise has plagued the body of Christ so badly that it is unfortunately often hard to tell the difference between Christians and people that are unsaved. For instance, statistics show that the ratio of people in the Christian community that view pornography are just as high as the ratio of people that view pornography in the secular community. The only difference is that Christians lie about it. The unsaved people have actually had more integrity than us. They at least tell the truth.
Christians today will go to church and jump up and down and dance around during praise and worship, and then shout, “Amen” at the preacher, and even get up and share their wonderful “insights” with the rest of the church and then go home and live no differently from the world. We go to the same parties as the world, watch the same movies as the world, tell the same jokes as the world, laugh at the same jokes as the world, dress the same as the world, have Myspace and Facebook pages that look exactly like the world’s, watch the same TV shows as the world, and do our best to rank #1 in everyone’s popularity contests just like the world. It is a false religion and is worthless and powerless and will change and impact no one.
James 3:10-11 says, “Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?” James 1:26 says, “Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and GUARD AGAINST CORRUPTION FROM THE GODLESS WORLD.” (emphasis mine)
I have often logged onto a Christian friends Facebook or Myspace page only to find a page filled with all the same garbage and Godless content that you would expect to find on a lost persons page. Pages full of compromise. It is unfortunately rare to find a Christians page that truly represents the Christ they claim to have laid their life down to serve. Sure, they will write “Christian” in their “Religious Views“, and include a couple of cool Christian quotes in their “Favorite Quotes” section – but as I scroll down the page I also find quotes from their favorite perverse movie, inappropriate pictures of themselves scantily clad, and efforts to do everything in their power to seduce every last ounce of attention out of the opposite sex possible. Plus a whole host of Godless applications and contests. Instead of trying to save them from sin and unrighteousness we are teaching them to compete to try and rank #1 in the very areas and behaviors that we should be teaching them to flee from. Christianity is about a lot more than going to church twice a week or just putting, “Christian” on your religious views.
James 4:4-5 says, “You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?” Paraphrased that means, “Quit cheating on God! You will become His enemy! Don’t you know that He cares when you flirt with the world? He is a fiercely jealous lover!” In the book of Jeremiah you can see God’s heart in great pain over the fact that His bride (Judah) had become unfaithful to Him. Judah, in spite of seeing the previous outcome of Israel, continued to pursue the world’s ways. Judah now looked just like the heathen kingdoms, and because of that was soon overtaken by them. Because of Judah’s refusal to repent she was given into captivity. This should be a wake up call to us as the current state of the Church (especially in America) could easily resemble this story of Judah.
Hebrews 10:26-29 says, “Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.” God is just and we will be held accountable for the way we represented his Son to the world.
We need to get over our fetish with the opinions of man and start living our lives to please the King and not to be the most popular. Jesus Himself said in John 15:18-19 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” Again paraphrased that means, “If the world loves you it’s because you look like them, if it hates you it is because you look like Me.” Holiness never blends in, and it is not for the faint of heart. But it is for anyone that desires to destroy God’s loneliness and to represent the King and Ultimate Lover Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world that desperately needs Him. You cannot experience the feigned ecstasy of the world and the true ecstasy of God at the same time. There is a price to pay for this life of love and glory that we have been called to, and the cost is your life. And it doesn’t come without a battle. But you were made for war.
The purpose of this group is not to bring judgment on Christians, but to remind them of the biblical standards for purity and holiness that God has ordained for His people and to challenge them to live as the brides of Christ that they are intended to be. This is a group for reformers and forerunners willing to stand against the culture of our time and lead insurgencies of true Christianity. For when the Church becomes single minded on its lover Jesus Christ the power of Heaven will be released onto this earth. This is about more than a Facebook group, this is about an obsession with Jesus Christ.
I ask that you would please do these three things.
1. Examine your Facebook and Myspace pages and honestly determine if there is anything on them that misrepresents your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If there is remove it. Don’t allow anything on your page that Jesus wouldn’t allow on His. There should not be even a hint of impurity. (Ephesians 5:3)
2. Remove anything from your page that your “fiercely jealous Lover” (James 4:5 – The Message) Jesus Christ wouldn’t want on His bride’s page. If you’ve ever been in a romantic relationship with someone jealous you should be able to relate to this one easily.
3. If you claim to be a Christian and refuse to do #1 and #2, then please remove “Christian” or anything related from your “religious views” option in order to quit making a mockery of Christianity. It is better that you be either hot or cold – not lukewarm. (Revelations 3:15-16)
If this message has stirred you than please continue to spread it, not just on facebook, but with the way you live your life. Don’t sleep walk through this life, glory is waiting for you. Fight for it, it‘s worth it. The revolution has already begun, and you were born for it. Many are called but few are chosen. And the ones that are chosen are the ones that choose Him. Don’t let your destiny pass you by. Represent Christ with your life.
“Charge the gates ye proud and strong are we not invincible?”
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