Deluded and Fooled

occultism, idolatry, and anything else you want to name are considered as something that won’t affect us anymore and we will sit and watch it for 2 or 3 hours without feeling that conviction of the Holy Spirit anymore because our conscience has become seared through continued compromise.

My kids used to make fun of me because I would speed the tape through the cursing and immodest scenes of a movie. In the first place that movie should not have been there, but none of us is immune to compromise and so we allow it to go on and on until finally we don’t speed up the tape anymore.

There was a time when we would hear profanity and it would bother us. Now we laugh at it and even repeat it. There was a time when we would turn our heads when someone walked on the screen naked, now we stare and admire the work of art that man parades before us and call it artistic freedom. God still calls it sin, even if we don’t.

There was a time when we preached against mixed swimming in public places. Now we take the whole church to the beaches and when “Christians” walk out on the beaches in their swimsuits you can’t tell them from the models on Sports Illustrated magazine. And how do I know about the models of Sports Illustrated? It’s because of the compromise that has entered into our home and into my life also. None of us are innocent. We are all guilty. We are all living like Lot in the midst of a sinful world and that sin seems to cling to us like mud.

There are a lot of holiness doctrines that were created from the laws of men. I am convinced that none of us can obey the holiness regulations, or do’s and don’ts, of any preacher, anymore than we can obey all of the Law of Moses. Those laws of men, just like the Law of Moses, are only useful in pointing out to us just how much of a compromised and sinful life we lead. Obeying those laws can’t save you anymore than obeying the Law of Moses can save you. Does that make those laws ineffective? NO! We are still commanded to live a holy, sanctified life unto God! But we cannot depend upon our own holiness to save us for that only comes through the grace of God and the power of the Blood of Christ.

I know that it is impossible to live in this world without being tempted. It is impossible to drive down the highway, read a book, go to work or anything else without being affected by the power of sin. The billboards on the highways are more pornographic today than the movies were ten years ago. The Disney shows that once were the most clean, family oriented films of all, have become little more than faucets that pour out occultism and witchcraft. Even the children’s cartoons have become purveyors of Satanic doctrines and black magic.

We are living in a sinful world and we will all be tempted. We will all be vexed, as was Lot, with these daily invasions of our heart and mind.

1 Corinthians 10:13, "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

God knows that we are flesh and subject to temptation. He was also tempted in the wilderness by Satan. God knows that we have our weaknesses so that’s why he also promised us that with every temptation we would be given the power to overcome