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Are you overcoming or is the evil overcoming you?
Many of you are the only godly person in your household.
What is happening there? Are you continually speaking the Word of God to your household or are you withdrawing into silence and allowing the evil to sweep across everyone?
Turn on the light and the darkness vanishes. Turn off the light and the darkness reigns.
Mt. 5 ... Jesus says ... 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Lk. 12:35 ... Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
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Everywhere we are, goodness should reign.
We speak the Word of God and the evil flees. The evil no longer flaunts itself in our presence.
I've seen several people in my own family turn to God. I just kept speaking the truth of God. While some avoid me, others were saved, coming to the truth.
We are speaking here of eternal life.
That's the most important thing of all!
Nothing is more important.
When sin is brought to our attention, first we are shocked! When sin keeps being repeated, it begins to seem normal. I fight sin. When they flaunt sex on TV ads, I often return to Bible doctrine and read the Word of God to establish the truth in my heart.
Romans 12:2 ... And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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Make no mistake, we must fight to hold on to the doctrines of Christ.
Paul told Timothy ... I Tim. 4 ... 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
7 But refuse profane (secular) and old wives' fables (superstitions), and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in THE LIVING God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
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(When we speak the word of God we will both labor and we often suffer reproach because of the Word we speak. But we must speak to save ourselves and them that hear us. We cannot allow the evil around us to reign. Let the evil flee or let them repent and come to God. But we do not allow evil to reign when we are there.)
Once the Holy Spirit said to me: "If you fail to speak the truth, you steal from the other person."
Here is some sound wisdom we can live by, putting these "godly exercises" into our daily lives.
I Tim. 4 ... 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
That which seems "normal" is often not godly.
For example: When we hear that a man is going to marry a divorced woman, does that seem normal in today's world?
Are we shocked when people are living together, having sex without being married?
Are we shocked and disgusted when we see a man with shoulder length hair? Or when we see a woman who has hair cut like a man's?
Are these really just personal preferences? Or are they sin in the sight of God? What does the Bible tell us?
Hopefully we see how important it is to read Bible daily and to read godly exhortations, reestablishing ourselves in the doctrine of God.