Holiness is RIGHT!

This morning as I glanced through the Christian news, I was pleased to see an article on a preacher's sermon that spoke out against sexual sin. However, I was disturbed to see that the congregation in attendance was not pleased to hear the message. Some even walked out.

Really?

Are we so into doing things how we want to do them that we won't even sit and listen to the truth of God? Do we care more about our own petty pleasures that we don't want to hear God's cries for repentance? Are our hearts so hardened that we aren't sensitive to the Spirit anymore?

It is so disappointing to see how far we have fallen away as a church. Then again, this only confirms what the Bible has to say about the end times: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2 Timothy 4:3,4

When I lived in DC, I was the member of a church where the Bishop was not ashamed to preach about staying holy before God. He would shout to the rafters: "Holiness is RIGHT!!!" So true.

God has clearly called His children to live upright and holy before Him. We are to die to our flesh and allow our minds to be renewed in Christ. (Romans 12:1,2)

How can we lay hands on the sick, pray in the name of Jesus, and call others into the Kingdom when we allow our hands, mouth, and body to engage in sinful acts?

Lord, help us all to hear your call for holiness and actually respond!

Verse of the Day:  And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:19b, 22