25/10/2022
As born-again believers of the Message, our whole attitude changes when we come in contact with the revelation of the God’s Word. Our whole outlook changes from earthly to heavenly. We no longer live for this world. We now live for God and for His kingdom. We now love to serve Him, to seek His perfect will, and to fellowship with God’s people. We have learned to love to go to church and to fellowship with other believers. By faith, we begin to overcome the things of the world. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, these things are dead to the true believer. Jesus said, “If you love Me, obey my commandments” (John 14:15) . He gave us the greatest commandment of all, saying, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all they strength: this is the first commandment” (Mark 12:30).
The Apostle Paul admonished us, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58). Romans 13:11-14, “And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].” Drugs, drinking, parties, dirty movies, even defiling our body with alcohol and ci******es, all these have become repulsive to a true Christian. Illicit s*x, lying of any kind, cursing, jealousy, rumor-mongering, and other fruits of darkness and unbelief, we endtime believers have grown to hate these things.