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“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” —1 Corinthians 9:27 We know that we are living in a sex-crazed culture and a sex-saturated society. We can see the cracking of the foundations. “And if the foundation be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?” We know that there is a sexual sickness in America that is devouring the very soul of this nation. Paul said this particular sin is a sin against one’s own body. There is something damaging and destructive about participating in immorality, fornication, adultery, and sexual sin of all kinds. It perverts God’s plan and God’s purpose. Now remember, sex is God’s gift to mankind. God is not trying to take sex from you; He is trying to save sex for you. Having said that, we all know that we must master our sexual drives, lest we be mastered by them. It is clear in Scripture, we are to have nothing to do with lust and immoral sex. The proverbs say, “Can a man take fire to his bosom and not be burned?” Paul says that failure to discipline our bodies in this area in our lives results in losing influence, losing ministry opportunity, losing reward. Jesus comes and His reward is with Him, the Scripture says. But the reward is lost to those who disqualify themselves. This area of life is to be under control.   WE NEED TO BE RADICAL AND RUTHLESS WITH THE TEMPTATION OF  SEXUAL SIN.

Friday, October 12, 2018

The Deadly Nature of Compromise

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?”

Nehemiah 6:1–3

As the world around us moves further and further from the truth, the voices calling the church to make accommodation to that downward trend grow louder as well. So many people think that by joining hands with the world and becoming more and more like them, we will be more effective in reaching them. But the notion that the problem of ineffective outreach is too much commitment to truth is folly. There never has been a society that welcomed the gospel with open arms—it has always been an offensive message to those who reject God’s grace.

Charles Spurgeon said, “There are some, in these apostate days, who think that the church cannot do better than to come down to the world to learn her ways, follow her maxims, and acquire her ‘culture.’ In fact, the notion is that the world is to be conquered by our conformity to it. This is as contrary to Scripture as the light is to the darkness.” The message that we must become more like the world appeals to our carnal nature, but a worldly church holds no appeal for the lost. The need of our day is people who will hold the truth firmly and kindly, and refuse to compromise their convictions.

Today’s Growth Principle: 

God’s call for His children to come out and be separate from the world is still in full force.