Comfort Zone OF Sin

Mankind seems to have become SO ~comfortable~ in their own ways that they can’t digest the truth of God’s Written Word when IT IS Given to them… IT either goes in one ear, straight through the empty space between, and out the other, OR *IT* totally bounces off of the hardened mindset of their ~own~ way.
Humble hearts are few and far between… Obedience has been overrun by arrogance… & .. Faces are turned and hard set, toward the ploys of Satan’s world, snares that he has laid out to catch man in and draw all men to him and away from the Savior, his adversary, Jesus Christ. Because, he knows that he has but a short time to rule and he is ruling well… (I Peter 5:8)
How can we know this? How subtle and sly do you think the adversary really IS? Let me give you an example, that ~WILL BE~ very unpopular, but IF folks could only see how true…
There area many sports teams that use the: ~Devil~ as their mascot’s for their teams… Harmless! Just a little blue, or red devil that represents the sport of how tough and ~BAD~ their team IS.
Many, many followers of Christ, support this idea as well as the schools, because their children are on them and they want their children to succeed at sports…SOOOOoooo…
The ~Christian~ IS NOT Going TO: protest this mascot, for fear of: Offending, Causing unnecessary problems among their friends, “OH, IT JUST would not set a good example to stand up and tell the school board that this IS NOT Pleasing TO God, ~y~ they’d laugh you right out of the room, for being SO picky”. AND your child would be ridiculed, and the coach would not let them play the better positions, he’d keep them on the bench… You would suffer more than IT would be worth, and bring ~unnecessary~ suffering on your family… SOOOoo..
You stand and yell, “GO Devils”.. “Git-um Devils” … your child plays well, SO, you declare that he IS playing FOR the LORD, showing his talent that the LORD gave him, and supporting the *Devils*….. ALL GOOD…. ALL ARE IN A COMFORT ZONE… NO ONE IS ROCKING THE BOAT OF THIS FLESHLY LIFE….. Harmony abounds…
After ~ALL~ What IS IN A NAME? WHAT IS Wrong with claiming an innocent little devil as a mascot?…. AFTER ALL There IS Nothing Written that WILL Indicate THAT THIS IS A SIN? IS There? WHAT IS IN A NAME?
(Genesis 3:20) .. Adam called his wife’s ~name~ Eve, BECAUSE, she was the mother OF ALL living… (Genesis 4:25)… and she bare a son, and called his name: Seth… for God.
(Genesis 17: 5).. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, BUT thy name shall be Abraham, FOR A ~father of many nations~ I (THE LORD) have made thee.
(II Kings 9:37)… the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the earth.. Also (REV. 2:20).
All throughout the Written Word, that Christians claim to follow, IT IS Written of the implications of: A Name…
(Jeremiah 7:30)…THE LORD SAID: “they have set their abominations in the House Which IS Called BY MY NAME, TO pollute IT”…
(Luke 8:30).. The man possessed was called: ~Legion~ .. Because , many ~devils~ were entered into him….
So we can see that names have and hold value… whether IT IS our given name, or the name that we attain by our actions, whether we prove ourselves to be ~Criminal~ OR ~Saint~ ~Obedient~ OR ~Rebellious~, A Rose by any other ~Name~ IS still A Rose… and an ~Implication~ of A Name Still proves to be what the Same infers… AND SO…
DO we lift up to the Name of Christ IF we claim TO BE HIS?
Back up and look at the actions, that ~Speak~ Louder than Words, Actually they Scream OUT to a lost and dying world… IN Example…
We protest, because the government took the Bible out of the schools, Which IS THE BOOK That we Are Supposed TO Lift up as A Guide TO our Faith… BUT.. We reject THAT Very Book ourselves when IT Comes to supporting the sports that carry the Name of The Adversary of THE ONE< whom we Claim TO Believe IN, Follow, Walk with….
We march around the schools in Prayer marches, for the safety of the schools, praying that prayer be restored to the schools, and then walk into the sports arenas, and holler, “GO DEVILS, GIT-UM”… Something wrong with the picture, Isn’t IT JUST A Mite Askew? Downright warped? Either we ARE for Christ, OR we ARE for His adversary and ours, BUT we can’t be found sitting astraddle of the fence…..
(Revelation 3:15-16)… Remember this IS Jesus Speaking: “I KNOW thy works, that thou art ~Neither~ cold nor hot: I Would that thou wert cold or hot… SOOOOoo… THEN BECAUSE: Thou art ~LUKEWARM~ and neither cold nor hot, I WILL Spew thee out of MY Mouth…”
We have reached a time, modernized to the point that we can sit and watch comedians make fun of: The Bible, The Father, The Son, AND The Holy Ghost, and laugh right along with them.. Join in the fun… Then get up the next morning and trot off to a Church Service in the Name of Christianity, feeling good about our religion, happy as a dead pig in the sunshine, because that IS what we are… we are serving a belief that holds us in the ~comfort zone~ of the world led by Satan, Instead of Standing on the Rock of Salvation, buffeted by those lost to the world… Which AS IT IS Written, we must endure as Jesus endured *IF* .. We are going to be His True followers, walking within Him so as to be IN The Father Through The Son Jesus Christ….
(James 4:4) .. Ye adulterers & adulteresses, know ye not THAT the friendship of the world IS enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore WILL BE A ~friend~ OF The World *IS* THE ~Enemy~ OF God…. (James 2:26) .. As the body without the spirit IS Dead, SO faith without works IS DEAD ALSO.
Our works in the world are all in vain *IF* we try to straddle the fence in our walk..
(Mark 7: 7) “IN Vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
(Romans 1:21)… BECAUSE, 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…
In The Comfort Zone of the world, we begin to accept things that are not pleasing TO God, things that really testify to our rejecting HIS Power and HIS Glory, and in our vain imaginations, *IT* becomes okay for us take part in and support things that God has had Written IN HIS BOOK OF ALL Instruction for us to follow, that are an abomination unto HIM…. Claiming that IT IS Modern Time, we don’t really mean IT AS A Stand against God… Our hearts are pure, even though our actions speak otherwise… IT IS not in our minds to commit the ~Sin of Disobedience~ even though our hands are in the spoiling pot of the world… IT’S Sorta like the ~Drunk~ claiming that; “I had one little drink, but I ain’t too drunk to drive.” “One drink don’t make one drunk”… One affair don’t make one a fornicator, we can excuse any thing we do, BUT that don’t make IT Right before God’s Eyes, and our sins are not HIDDEN in Jesus as many believe…
Jesus came to live among men, was crucified as the Once and for ALL Time Sacrifice for mans sin, BUT we still are accountable for that sin *IF* we walk outside of Christ, which IS where we are walking when we are IN THE Comfort Zone of This Lost and Dying World of Satan….
Because *IF* we are walking with/in Christ we are proving staunchly ~Obedient~ unto His Father AS He Walked, we ARE Proving Humbly Loyally TO God, and taking our punches in the world, for that walk as Jesus DID, not trying to hold hands with the world in order Not To Rock the Boat of The Devil’s Pride….