When the world pulls you off track it’s essential to get back on the path that God originally laid out for you. Yes, we all have an original path that God laid out for us since before the foundations of the world. No, we are not mindless automatons. We have all been given a free choice to make the best decisions as we navigate the path that’s laid out before us. We live in a world that has given most people in Western democratic societies a multitude of choices. The extremes are monumental from living a life of simplicity to living a life of hoarding up all the world’s goods and treasures. On the other hand, what concerns us most today, is the extremes in what we believe as the truth and how we apply that truth to our lives. Again modern man is faced with extremes that go well beyond the path that God has laid out for His beloved children. Yet, when God calls His beloved children He puts them on a path of simplicity seeking the simple truth from God’s Word that has the answers for all of life. Dear children, try to remember those days when you first accepted Christ when the simple truth about being forgiven and transformed into a new creation brought such great joy to your life. Let’s get back on the path of simplicity before many of us stray away by following the extremes in the world.

Before we talk about getting back on the path that God has called us to, let’s look briefly at the many things in life that are purposefully designed to get us off the path. When I say purposefully designed, I am specifically talking about Satan and the powers of darkness. Satan knows that a time is coming when he will no longer have dominion over the world. He knows a time is coming when he can no longer lead humanity around by the nose. I firmly believe that the closer we get to the end, the stronger Satan’s grip will become over all of humanity. There is not a day that goes by where Satan does not increase his grip exponentially. Satan’s grip is designed to get us off the path that God wants us to be on, where we can experience the absolute joy of being transformed in Christ. Essentially Satan is attacking our faith and what we believe to be true. For Satan, this has become increasingly easier as the Church and Christians in particular have become more lukewarm. It’s getting more difficult every day for the Christian to know what he believes to be true about his salvation and God’s methodology in growing us from one degree of glory to another. This is caused by their lukewarmness as we shall see.

So, how does Satan lead the Church to become lukewarm? He begins by filling our hearts and minds with the things of this world, which include their beliefs and the things they put their trust in to solve their many problems and the things that open their understanding about life. Instead of turning only to God and the Holy Spirit, they turn to the world to give them the answers for all of life. Have you not seen that on social media, YouTube, and the news media? They are all inundated with everyone’s personal opinion, proclaiming what they believe is the truth about every subject known to man including what we should believe about God. Most of these opinions are laced with half-truths, which are extremely hard to detect without proper discernment from the throne room of God. Couple this with receiving the so-called truth from other world religions, cults, psychology, and philosophies you will have the building blocks to pull you completely off the path that God had ordained for you. God’s truth is simple, but it is powerful if it’s completely understood and applied to your life. God’s truth cannot be properly understood if it’s integrated with the wisdom of the world. Nor can it be useful in your transformation to become all that Christ wants you to be.

Unfortunately, most believers today don’t have the discernment to detect the half-truths from the millions of opinions on all the social media platforms and different video channels like YouTube. These half-truths are developing a lukewarm theology that goes well beyond the simple truth of God’s Holy Word. Here is the problem with integrating the world’s opinions with God’s simple truth, you are left with a bunch of knowledge that doesn’t perform what it was intended to do in the life of the believer. It causes greater confusion casting humanity in one direction, and then another, which is Satan’s design. Satan does not want God’s children to accept the simple truth and apply it to their individual lives. Satan will do everything in his power to keep everyone away from the simple truth of God’s Word. Satan will go so far as to give you the Word, but completely out of context of what is being taught or discussed in the Bible, which is often quoted on Social Media. Furthermore, Satan will do everything he can to give you only Scripture verses to make you feel good about yourself, always believing that God’s unconditional love is totally blind to your sins or your gross immorality. Yes, God’s love is unconditional, but it also requires repentance by putting off the old life. Without putting off the old life through confession, repentance, and a sincere desire to never repeat the trespass, then there can be no Spiritual growth.

To have daily spiritual growth takes a lot of time and a lot of commitment. Again, we see Satan’s design is to rob humanity of their time. He doesn’t much care what you spend your time on as long as it’s not using your time to focus wholly on your spiritual growth. We have been given two things to make our spiritual growth possible. We have been given God’s Word in the Bible and the indwelling Spirit to lead us and help us to apply it to our lives. There are over 127 commandments in the New Testament alone given to God’s children telling them what we should be doing and what we should not be doing. To put these Words in your heart by reading them over and over is only the first step. It is the Spirit’s job to bring those words back to your memory and then to apply those words to your life. This is the key to transformation. Without applying God’s Word by putting off the old life through repentance and putting on the new life by doing the Word, then there is no transformation in Christ. The Bible pulls no punches. For example when the Bible says don’t lie or deceive others, then that’s what must be put out of our lives by never doing it again. And when the Bible says to speak truthfully to one another, then that is something we put into our lives every moment of every day, which is putting on Christ. You can quote Scripture all day long, but if we don’t help ourselves and others to apply it to their lives, then we have done nothing. Remember, dear children, Satan is an expert at quoting Scripture and never applying it to his own life. But we as Christians, are different. We live to become more like Christ every day.

When we first accept Christ as our savior through repentance and agreeing to follow Him every day of our lives we realize that this is just the first step. We learn very quickly the true definition of commitment. We will learn to do things we never thought possible. We learn that with commitment every day we can, through God’s help, put off the old life and put on the new life in Christ. We will be transformed bringing the greatest blessings beyond anything we could have imagined. We will experience the true agape love where we experience God’s love flowing through us to others. We will experience a peace that defies understanding and we will experience joy causing us to be truly happy, happy. We learn the value of commitment when we learn how to truly forgive others and forget the trespass. We learn the value of commitment when we stand boldly against Satan in our minds by casting out the old trespass that he reminds us of along with every evil thought that comes into our mind. Because of everything Jesus did on the Cross, we are committed. As we witness the transformation taking place in our lives, then we know that we are on the right path. We will never allow Satan or the things of this world to take us off the path again. We are being Transformed.

The Gospel Presentation

We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, which explains the many difficulties that you are currently facing in your life. Well, I have good news, God has solved that problem by sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who was born of a virgin to show us the way to a beautiful new life in Christ. God has dealt with all of our sins past, present, and future by having His son pay the debt for our sins. Jesus Christ willingly went to the Cross in our stead by allowing all of the world’s sins to be placed upon Him as a sacrificial Lamb. As Christ hung on the Cross, the wrath of God was poured out on Him to pay the penalty for our sins. Jesus Christ died on the Cross and was buried for three days. On the third day, Christ arose from death to life everlasting. The good news is if we believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then we will be forgiven for all of our sins and receive the Holy Spirit. The Spirit will lead us into all truth helping us in the transformation process of putting off the old life, allowing the old sin nature to die with Christ, and then putting on our new life in Christ by being raised with Christ to everlasting life. You can accept Christ today by confessing your sins to Him through a simple prayer asking Him to forgive you and make you into a new creation filled with the Holy Spirit. If you have done that, then you have just begun the greatest journey of your life that leads to heaven and eternal life. Welcome to the Kingdom.

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