April 30, 2023
Greetings and blessings to all of you. God has always been working with 3 types of people. In Isaiah 45:22 He said, “Turn to me and be saved all the ends of the earth for I am God and there is no other.” He is working with the unbeliever (the natural man); He is working with the one who believes but still want to hold on to the world (the carnal man); Jesus in one hand and the world in the other; and finally, He is working with the (mature believer) one who desires to get fed with the Word, Repent; live the Word out in his day to day- without compromising. God throughout the Scriptures has warned us about “us”. How we are so prone to wander. How we love ourselves so much that we do not want to surrender the life He gave us… back to Him… on a continuous basis. Faith, Trust, Learning to Wait on the Lord and being Courageous in this evil world will help us to grow into mature believers. God knows that a drop of Satan’s rebellion has fallen on every human heart. But He loves us unconditionally. That kind of love should make us love Him more…obey Him more. trust Him more…. not take advantage of His love and be disobedient as the carnal man does. The natural man disobeys God because he is not born -again ...and he has no loyalty or allegiance to His Maker. In Rom.12:3 it warned us “not to think highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly.” In our culture we (carnal man) have a propensity to practice an unacknowledged narcissism. Getting caught up in the latest technology, political polarization, forgetting about biology, anatomy and just plain common sense, finding comfort in all the New Age spirituality… the name it claim it movement, etc. If you identify yourself as a mature believer our responsibility is to identify the lie, explain how God of the Bible sees it, and warn them of the consequences of their behavior. The Word says, “for the time is coming when people will nor endure sound teaching but have itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” ( 2 Tim. 4:3,4) Today we have a belief system that derives from our feelings; our feelings has ignored what God has said about the human heart in Jeremiah 17:9-10. And because God loves us unconditionally, we think that God does not challenge our lifestyle. It is a God that we created on our terms. A God that approves of everything we do. Get to know Him-then grow.
With the Love of Christ
First Lady Vivian C. Currie
Pastor ALC