Just because it’s easy to compromise doesn’t mean it’s worth the price you pay for it; understand the deception of compromise today on Enjoying Everyday Life.
I am an alien from Christian planet I am
an alien Burstyn planet
I’m doing a new series here that I work
quite hard on this week called how to be
godly in ungodly world I think it’s a
pretty good-sized challenge to get out
in the world and be a godly person a
true godly person but not come across as
some religious person who doesn’t really
have a clue what’s really going on you
know the Bible says that we are to be in
the world but not of the world but many
of us are of the world and act like
we’re not even in the world we just
float around on our cloud singing the
Hallelujah Chorus all day praise the
Lord praise the Lord anyway thank you
Jesus and sometimes we say some really
dumb things to people that are hurting I
mean really dumb things to people that
are hurting I remember a friend of mine
one time who was she really loved God
but she had a little bit of a religious
edge on her and a relative of mine her
husband died and I remember my friend
was talking she was really just honestly
trying to comfort her she said well you
know just praise the Lord anyway well
you know that offended this relative
because she wasn’t used to that kind of
stuff
and we have to realize that maybe we can
talk to each other a certain way but we
have to be careful how we talk to people
that don’t even have a clue what we’re
talking about we don’t want to act like
an alien from some foreign planet called
the Christian Planet I am an alien from
Christian planet I am a native ristin
planet talking Christianese and wearing
your big Jesus Saves t-shirt to work got
your headphones on sit over in the
corner during lunch and you know you
said well what am I supposed to do well
you’re supposed to be a shining light in
a dark world you’re supposed to to
quietly and calmly and wonderfully and
boldly be what you are without
compromise without compromise but
continuing to be friendly
and be a blessing to those who need to
know what you know that they don’t know
let me tell you something the world is
in desperate desperate condition it
frightens me when I think about how
things have declined in 50 years since I
was a teenager just fifty years what
I’ve seen happen is like unbelievable
unbelievable you know fifty years ago
if somebody was not married a man and a
woman and they were living together you
didn’t tell anybody that I mean they did
everything in the world that they could
possibly do hide it people that they
don’t they don’t have a problem tell you
that I mean then there was even a time
where they might tell other people but
they wouldn’t tell somebody like me
because they had a certain respect for
people in ministry and still knew it was
wrong
they don’t bother me to know the thing
that the problem is there’s not too many
things that do by other people and we
have to make sure that we don’t get like
the world
there’s too much blending too much
mixture the lines are becoming too faded
and I don’t I don’t think that anybody’s
doing it on purpose
but I think maybe we need to do a little
more preaching about how to get out in
the world and behave and not just listen
God loves you he’s got a great plan for
your life he wants you to prosper he
want you to succeed he wants you to have
the best of everything when you sin you
can be forgiven God’s grace is what
changes us we don’t change by works of
the flesh I love to preach all those
things that make people just feel loulou
yes there’s no problem with anything God
loves me no matter what I do he’s going
to forgive me amen thank you Jesus but
I’m not doing you justice if I don’t
also preach to you the other side of it
that the Bible says at the time will
come when every man will stand before
God and give an account of his life
every man will stand before God and give
an account of his life and you know even
when I say something like that you
notice about 1/4 of the people clapped
and that’s because it scares us it
frightens us and there are multitudes of
people watching me today that you are in
serious serious trouble in your life
you’ve lived a life of sin and now
you’re reaping the benefits of it and
you don’t know what to do well Jesus is
your answer he loves you he died for you
you can be forgiven you can have a brand
new start listen to me it’s never too
late to begin again it is never too late
to begin again but then there’s also
multitudes of believers watching me but
you’re lukewarm you got one foot in the
world one foot in the kingdom and you
know what the Bible says in Revelations
I would rather you be hot or cold
because if you’re lukewarm I will spew
you out of my mouth now I’m not even
going to go there and try to figure out
what that means
I just know enough to know that God
don’t like it so let’s just let it be
that well what does that mean let’s get
theological what does that mean that
he’s going to spew you out of his portal
well I mean I thought of you were saved
you saved me I don’t understand it you
know yeah let’s just get a little more
reverential fear and just say I don’t
think I want to be lukewarm then I need
to get stirred up red-hot on fire be
bold be aggressive and serve God like I
really mean it and that doesn’t mean
here again that we have to get out in
the world and see how obnoxious we can
be that’s not what that means but it
means you got to turn the light on you
got a little put a little salt on your
life before you go out I love the
thought that we are the flavor of the
world we’re the flavour everywhere we go
I’m telling you what the world is pretty
tasteless without God it’s like
tasteless but we are the salt and light
of the world everybody look at me you
have a job and it’s more than for you to
sit out there and gawk at the preachers
and it’s more than for you to get your
little remote lay in bed on your soft
pillow in the morning and flip onto my
channel
we learn so we can do amen all right so
this morning we’re going to talk more
about the same thing I shouldn’t talk
about the same thing all weekend
we’re going to go in little different
areas tonight you’re gonna have to
really be bold because and now we’re
going to talk about holiness now we’ll
see who comes back well sister I was a
part of the holiness movement growing up
and I’ve had all that legalism listen
I’m going to teach in a very balanced
way we’re going to have fun but I’m
telling you what when we go out of here
tonight and leave we’re going to be
ready to do it in a better way than what
we’ve been doing it in the past Luke 4 5
through 8 going to talk about deception
and compromise then the devil took him
up to a high mountain and showed him all
the kingdoms of the habitable world in a
moment of time in the twinkling of an
eye and he said to him to you I will
give all this power and authority and
all their glory all their magnificence
and excellence preeminence dignity and
grace it has been turned over to me and
I give it to whomsoever I will therefore
if you will do homage to and worship me
just once it shall all be yours let’s
look at the next verse and jesus replied
to him get behind me Satan come on now
right here is where it all hinges Jesus
was tempted to compromise just once to
get something he wasn’t comfortable
right then I can give you comfort I can
take away your suffering I can give you
everything
if you’ll just compromise just once just
a little you know what a compromise is a
calm
my’s means that you go just a little bit
below of what you know is right it’s
just a little just a little only once
everybody does it God’s merciful you can
be forgiven how many of you are glad
that Jesus didn’t compromise when he got
that temptation like that I wonder how
much we damage our lives with these
little things that we think don’t really
make any difference Jesus said
immediately get thee behind me Satan
Paul told the Galatian Church a little
leaven leavens the whole lump eleven is
like yeast and although I’m not a great
Baker I have enough sense to know that
if you mix up flour and water and you
try to cook it you’re going to get
something flat but if you put yeast in
it or leaven in it it’s going to change
the whole shape of it and so the message
that Paul was trying to give the church
although he was speaking to them about
not letting legalism back in the message
can be taken in a much broader sense
that when any little compromise that we
make actually does distort everything
you got to be very careful about these
little little things James 4:17 says to
know what is right to do and not to do
it it is sin so we have sins of
commission sins that we commit and then
we have sins of omission things that we
know we should do that we don’t do and
to be honest I think there may be more
of those then there are the things that
we actually do that are wrong maybe our
greatest problem is not doing enough
right maybe it’s not so much what we do
wrong as it is what we don’t do right
even what Dave shared about there being
60 million Christians and only 30
million or even registered to vote and
out of the 30 million that are
registered to vote 14 million of them
don’t even bother to vote now we all
people know that’s wrong
so why don’t they go it’s raining don’t
you hear but then when things go down
the drain because we didn’t bother to
elect the right people then everybody’s
complaining complaining what they need
to do something though though though
though though they it’s time for us to
take our responsibility in many areas of
life and you know what the more
responsible you are the happier you’re
going to be there’s nothing about lazy
apathetic passive living that makes
anybody happy
well you’re clapping weakly but I’ll
keep at it let’s see where we go here
you know what I’m going to put out a
challenge to you today by the time we
leave this morning I want everybody to
have made a decision that you’re going
to go out in the world and you’re going
to behave just a little bit better than
you were before you came here today
because no matter how we say well you
know God knows my heart God doesn’t know
our heart and I’m grateful that he deals
with us according to our heart but the
world can only see my behavior and we
are the billboard for Jesus Christ our
lives the church we are the billboard
the advertisement if you will for Jesus
would you like to have my life well no
thank you
we need to be happy peaceful loving
people giving forgiving patient all the
fruit of the Spirit kind I got some I
got some good people right here in the
middle of this section here that I think
you guys got back in the same seats you
were with me last night too there’s not
one person in here including me that
couldn’t make a decision to come up just
a little bit higher in your behavior not
one not one of us and that’s called
growth it doesn’t just happen without
any activity on our part let’s look
again at Romans 14 11 and 12 let me
scare you a little bit more Romans 14 11
and 12 for it is written as I live says
the Lord every knee shall bow to me and
every tongue shall confess to God
acknowledge him to his honor and to his
praise and so each of us shall give an
account of himself I want you to think
about the
just think about that you so I thought I
was saved by grace and you know when I
stand before God all I have to do is say
I believe in Jesus well that that is all
you need to do to be saved and go to
heaven but you know what I think I would
like to get a little bit more out of us
than that I think that’s a decision we
have to make today did you just want to
go to heaven or would you like to take a
bunch of people with you I mean I think
that’s the question really if you want
to know the truth I’m handing out
employment applications today who in
this place would like to work for God
and if you think I’m offering you a job
at my ministry that’s not what I’m
talking about I’m saying who in this who
in this place today wants to fill out an
application and go to work for God right
where you’re at in your neighborhood in
your place of business where you shopped
where you go to school we have to stop
just being godly or some form of what we
think is godly when we’re with our
others so-called godly friends and then
act like everybody else when we’re out
with everybody else do you sit and
gossip and complain at the lunch table
like all your unsaved coworkers do you
steal ballpoint pens and take them home
from work that you said half the day and
play on the internet when your boss
isn’t looking
well bless God they don’t pay me enough
anyway I’ll get off it even if they
don’t two wrongs don’t make a right
you stealing from them doesn’t make up
for it every man will stand before God
and give an account I don’t know about
you but listen I’ve just made a decision
I want God to be proud of me I mean I
just want him to be proud of me I know
I’m not perfect and I’ve got a long way
to go
but I want God to be proud of me and I
want God to be proud of you I am NOT
going to spend my life doing what I am
doing which I’ve already been doing for
35 years and if I am going to do this
until I draw my last breath you are not
going to get to just sit there and never
change that is not the way we’re going
to work this deal you might as well get
ready to change or you just might as
well quit listening to me because it is
going to be very annoying if you keep
listening to me and you don’t want to
change I’m going to make you extremely
uncomfortable if you don’t want to
change lukewarm
is not going to work compromise is not
going to work excuses are not going to
work
self-pity is not going to work
Oh hallelujah let’s look at Matthew 23
let’s get a little whoa going here woe
be unto you
Christine Cain flew in to join us and
she said I can’t believe you had the
guts to preach on the woes in the Bible
when somebody says what Joy’s preach on
this week and you can say whoa whoa
there’s a lot of woes in the Bible and
to be honest if I stood here in read
them all we’d all be scared like a
really bad I spent a lot of years not
knowing what it was but it sound very
frightening I didn’t think I wanted any
of it but I took the trouble to look it
up in preparation for this and one of
missouri’s
like a kind of misery that you cannot
get away from no matter what you do and
so when we see what would be unto you
who dude us and so like last night I
shared about in Isaiah it says woe be
unto the judges who issue unrighteous
decrees Wow I don’t want to be one of
those judges who have made some of the
decisions that are being made today but
the thing is the day is going to come
when they’re going to have to give an
account for their actions can they be
forgiven yes and I pray that they’ll
repent before they have to face God and
that they can be forgiven and when we
turn to God he wipes away our sins and
he forgets them and he removes them as
far as the East is from the West and
God’s not going to bring up your past
I’m trying to teach this in a balanced
way where we all understand that God
loves us and we don’t have to live with
the wrong kind of fear but we do need to
have a reverential fear in awe of God
that he means what he says
there’s all kinds of woes but these woes
are to the religious crowd but woe to
you scribes and Pharisees pretenders and
hypocrites your thing praise God I’m
glad that’s not me well you know what
what is a religious person a religious
person just to put it in plain English
would be somebody who marches off to
church every week has turned their Bible
into a coloring book they’ve got
everything underlined and red and yellow
and pink and you know I’m kind of into
I’m in the pink right now myself I’ve
got myself some new pink markers and man
I’m just I’m doing it up see pink color
my message of that way I like it and
then when I get really serious about
something you see that I know I got a
big pink star next to that one
whoa so that means no this is really
serious
so you know you can go to church three
times a week you can memorize Scripture
we can have our Bible underlined but
still what are we acting like out in the
world how long does it take you to
forgive somebody when they hurt you I
said how long does it take you to
forgive somebody when they hurt you who
are you mad at right now now that got
quiet oh I better sit down and have a
motherly chat with you come on who are
you mad at right now I mean there’s so
many people that go to church all the
time angry who are you gossiping about
who have you been judging and
criticizing whose business have you been
minding except your own
oh I just feel so anointed today
well I have so many problems in my life
and I thought surely if I came to your
conference I would get comforted I
already told you this morning I meant it
I love you love you love you love you
and I want you to have the very best
life that you can possibly have but this
is part of it and anybody who doesn’t
tell you both sides doesn’t really care
about you they’re just preaching to use
something that you’ll clap for because
it keeps them happy it’s time for the
church to wake up and realize that
according to 2nd Corinthians 5:20 we are
Christ’s personal representatives out in
the world put up second Corinthians 5:20
let me show you this it’s amazing
Scripture so we are Christ’s ambassadors
God making his appeal as it were through
us we as Christ’s personal
representatives beg you for the sake for
his sake to lay hold of the divine favor
now offered to you and be reconciled to
God so he’s saying we are Christ’s
personal representatives and through our
lives God is pleading with people be
reconciled to me can you get this
understanding when you go to work God
wants to plead through you to somebody
who’s lost please and you don’t even you
don’t have to preach one word to do it
he said well Joyce I just I’m just not
good at witnessing let your lives be a
witness if you’re bold enough to say
something you think the time is right
then say it in a loving way hand
somebody a book give somebody a Bible
but let your wives be a witness when my
husband worked in the engineering field
everybody knew he was different
they do it and I don’t mean like
different in a weird way but yeah there
were things that they did they didn’t
invite Dave to do he ate lunch by
himself a lot of days when their
marriages were falling apart
I mean honestly everybody came to him
even people who made fun of him even
people who who maybe had given him a
hard time or had tried to persecute him
a little bit they they come around to
Dave you know they had big drawing
boards back then because he was in the
engineering field kind of hang around
his drawing board hey Dave hey doing
today well you know whatever I don’t
know you know what’s up you know well
man my wife left me I was wondering if
you could talk to me a little say if you
stand your ground people will come to
you because the time is going to come
when they’re going to get desperate
enough they need to talk to somebody