No middle ground

by David Long

There is no middle ground with God.

 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matt. 6:24).

"He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth" (Lk. 11:23).

"Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him" (Ex. 32:26).

"And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth" (Rev. 3:14-16).

What they needed to hear

 by David Long

"And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee" (Acts 24:24-25).

The apostle Paul preached to Felix and Drusilla what they needed to hear. What did they need to hear? Paul's sermon consisted of three points: righteousness. temperance (self-control) and judgment to come. It don't look like they changed their ways but they got what they needed to hear. People may not change their ways but we need to tell them what they need to hear. 

The moral decay of a society

by David Long

Read Romans 1:20-32. That is a moral decay of a society. That's what's happening to our society. God' design for marriage and the family are being destroyed by fornication, adultery and the LGBTQ. The children are being taught that sexual perversion is normal and it's ok to identify as another gender. 

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world" (Titus 2:11-120). 

I hate sin

 by David Long

That's right, I hate sin. Why? Because God hates sin. 

"These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren" (Prov. 6:16-19). 

"Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way" (Psa. 119:128).

I hate sin because it condemns the soul and if we don't repent of our sins we will be lost (Lk. 13:3). 

Does God care how I worship Him?

 by David Long

Did God care how Cain and Abel worshiped Him (Gen. 4)? If He didn't then why accept Abel's worship and reject Cain's? "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh" (Heb. 11:4). 

Yes, God cares how we worship Him (John 4:23-24). We can't worship God any old way we please. We can't make up our own way of worship (Matt. 15:9). If God has told us how to worship then we must worship Him that way and He has told us how to worship Him. Any other way is wrong. 

God given roles in the family

 by David Long

Husband's role: "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body" (Eph. 5:23).

Wife's role: "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord" (Eph. 5:22). 

Children's role: "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honor thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth" (Eph. 5:1-3).

Get rid of God

 by David Long

"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them" (Rom. 1:20-32).

Notice verse 28 says, "They did not like to retain God in their knowledge." True today with the masses. Why? Because to acknowledge God means responsibility and accountability. Because they don't want God telling them how to live.