Jeremiah 2:13
In the beginning
God instilled in human beings something that would enable us to know the
difference between doing well and not doing well. He spoke to Cain about the consequences of
listening or not listening to that inner voice of discernment. “If you do well will you not be
accepted? And if you do not do well, sin
is crouching at the door. Its desire is
for you, but you must rule over it” (Genesis 4:7).
When God is
abandoned in a nation or in an individual’s life, the definition of doing well
changes. The standard God put forth is
no longer the plumb line. Doing well is
defined by the society of that nation or each individual. The standard is either personally motivated
or legalized by the majority of people within that society. Once God’s standard has been abandoned that
opens everyone to the rule of the enemy of God, and the princes and power of
evil that crouch at the door, not to provide a better life but to devour
people.
When it is
proclaimed that what is wrong is now right, when the concept of sin is done
away with, when God’s love is so exalted that His wrath is impossible to see or
imagine, we will not do well. When we
have done away with the tenants of the need for salvation and redemption, with
the need of a sacrifice, the need of a Savior, we have done away with the
Gospel of Jesus Christ on which Jesus’ Church was founded. Once that is done the empty, futile, and
fruitless ways of this world and the worthless works of flesh are all that
remains. Building a foundation of faith
on that is like building a foundation on sand. The door is opened and sin will
surely enter in as a strong force. We
will not survive the floods and winds of adversity and the fall of mankind will
be great and devastating.
The empty words of
the doctrines of man, the human cunning, and the deceitful schemes are all the
cisterns that are broken and will not hold water. They will lead to the demise of those
churches built on anything other than the solid and indestructible Rock of
Jesus Christ and the work he did to save us and to reconcile us to God.
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