John 1:16-17 (Amplified) tells us, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
The world is so contrary to God's Word, but even Christians have been deceived and haven't heeded Paul's teaching about renewing your mind with the Word, in 1Corinthians 12:2 (Amplified) which says, "Do not be conformed to this world (age), fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs, but be transformed (changed) by the entire renewal of your mind, by its new ideals and its new attitude, so that you may prove for yourselves what is the Good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is Good and acceptable and perfect in His will for you."
After receiving Jesus as their Lord and Savior, many continue living like we did before being saved. We still talk, act, and live like we did before being born-again. We might clean-up our profanity laced speaking, but we don't speak the Truth of God's Word. We spend more time on face book, than we do in THE BOOK. We're content with just going to Heaven when we die and we fail to live for and through God, while we're here on earth.
The Church largely dismisses any teachings about the words we hear and speak, as being "foolishness." Galatians 6:7-8 (Amplified) says, "Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked), by mere pretensions or professions or by His precepts being set aside."
Paul warns about speaking, listening to and receiving words of the world, instead of listening to and receiving the Spiritual things of God's Word of Truth. Paul says that "God will not allow His Words to be mocked or disdained." Jesus went to the home of Jairus (who was the ruler of the Synagogue) when his daughter died in Mark 5:38-40 (Amplified) which says that upon arriving at Jairus' home they saw a crowd and, "Jesus looked carefully and with understanding at the tumult and the people weeping and wailing loudly. And when He had gone in, He said to them, Why do you make an uproar and weep? The little girl is not dead but is sleeping. And they laughed and jeered at Him." The King James Version says, "And they laughed Him to scorn." Galatians 6:7 tells us that, "God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked)." God will honor His Word, even in the place where the unbelievers mock and scorn Him.
The Word tells us that, "What we sow is what we will reap." Jesus taught in "The Parable of the Sower," saying that words are seeds. God's Word is good seed, while the words of the world are sense-ruled or from an unrenewed mind. Both are spiritual seeds and will both produce a harvest. Galatians 6:8 (Amplified) says, "For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh (or senses), reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap Eternal Life."
Don't think that the words, "Eternal Life" apply only to going to Heaven. Jesus said that, "The Words I speak are Spirit and Life." The Words that come from God, pertain to our life on earth and our life in eternity.
Proverbs 18:21 (Amplified) says, "Death and Life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it for death or Life." In Proverbs 4:20-22 (Amplified) God says, "My son, attend to My Words; consent and submit to My sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are Life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh."
Even the unbeliever's words are seeds, that are being sown. As new creation believers, we cannot allow ourselves to have the seeds of the world to be sown into our hearts and choke out the Good Seed of the Kingdom. We are to choose our words wisely and screen out the words of the world and satan. Jesus instructed us to "Tend and keep" the garden of our heart. The Holy Spirit must be the Filter, Who helps us screen out the world's way of thinking and doing. God will honor His Word, as we trust Him. Remember that God will not allow Himself to be scorned or mocked. When people mock the Words you're trusting in and they are God's Words, then He will not allow those Words to be scorned. We only have two choices about what words we follow and what words we say. We will either go the way of the world or the way of the Word. There are no other ways.
When you're mocked about the stand you take or what you say, remember that they scorned Jesus at Jairus' house, but God proved His Word and raised Jairus' daughter to Life. You can't expect the world or carnal minded Christians to understand it, when you make a stand. God, though, watches over His Word to perform it. We must allow the Holy Spirit to filter out the seeds (words) that constantly come at us, so that they don't choke out the Word of God.
The world doesn't understand our standing on God's Promises. We can't expect the world to know what we're talking about, but we must not water down our standards simply because they don't understand. Just because the world doesn't believe it, doesn't mean it isn't Truth. That's why Paul admonished us, "Don't be conformed or adapted to this world (age)."
The world is in darkness, without even a flashlight to light their path. Psalm 23 says that, "We are being led in paths of righteousness and restoration by Jesus, our Shepherd." Psalm 119:105, 130 (Amplified) says, "Your Word is a Lamp to my feet and a Light to my path." Verse 130 says, "The entrance and unfolding of your words give Light; their unfolding gives understand, discernment, and comprehension to the simple."
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