We live in a time where many Christians don’t stand on the Word in full assurance, but doubt the words of God and compromise with the world and adjust the words of God to the world and the time we live in. Because you have to move with the times and can’t apply an ancient Book in this day and age. That might have worked in the old days, but not anymore. But is that true? Can you no longer apply the Bible to your life in this day and age? Has the world changed and must the Bible move with the times or not?
Regeneration and the discernment of spirits
A Christian, who says to believe, but is not born again in Christ, is unspiritual and doesn’t discern the spirits. Many occultists move in the spiritual realm and may look spiritual and are considered spiritual, but in reality, they are not spiritual, but carnal and are influenced and led by demonic powers, because you can only become spiritual if your spirit is raised from the dead by the power of God.
There are many people, who are not born again in Christ and move in the occult realm from their soul and can predict the future and do great signs and wonders.
Look for example at Simon the sorcerer, who bewitched the people of Samaria with sorcery. The people considered Simon as the great power of God, but Simon didn’t belong to God.
And also the woman, who had a spirit of divination, which was an evil spirit from the kingdom of darkness, didn’t belong to God (Acts 8:9-11; 16:16-18 (Read also: ‘Do you have to be born again to walk in the supernatural?‘)).
There are many Christians, who say they are born again, but are spiritually blind and don’t see what is truly going on.
They don’t discern the spirits and what is going on in the spiritual realm, behind the natural realm, whereby they are ignorant and tempted, and misled.
People can speak spiritual words, but their actions show if they are truly born again and spiritual and believe what they say and if the Word and the Holy Spirit abide in them or not.
A son of God is yielded to God instead of the devil
One of the characteristics of a son of God is that a son of God is yielded to God and is obedient to Him and His Word and shall never bow for the devil and shall never be influenced and led by him and his minions.
A son of God, who is born of God and has His nature shall never compromise with sin and tolerate sin, under no condition (Read also: ‘What are the characteristics of a son of God‘).
If someone, who says to be a Christian, tolerates and accepts sin and maybe even practices and perseveres in sin in secret, is not born of God and doesn’t belong to God, but the devil, since the person is led by the flesh, in which the sinful nature reigns.
The world has not changed in terms of sin. The same sins, which are practiced today by many people and are tolerated and accepted by many churches, are not new but were already practiced by the people in the Old Testament.
The works of the flesh have been practiced for centuries
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him (Colossians 3:5-10)
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-22)
The works of the flesh (sins) were practiced by the Gentiles. But God didn’t want His people to adapt their works and do the same works and lived the same lives as the Gentiles, who didn’t know God.
God wanted His people to live holy lives, which means that His people would live in obedience to His words after His will in His Truth.
God had separated His chosen people from all the other pagan nations in the world and because of the holy and righteous walk of His people, His people showed that they loved God and belonged to God.
All the works of the flesh, like adultery, fornication, (sexual) uncleanness, effeminacy, lasciviousness, inordinate affection, idolatry, witchcraft, anger, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, malice, strife, blasphemy, filthy communication, lying, seditions, heresies, evil concupiscence, covetousness, envyings, stealing, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like, have been practiced for centuries by those, who don’t know God, don’t love God and don’t belong to Him. And that’s still the case (1 Corinthians 6:9, Galatians 5:19-22, Colossians 3:5-10).
Jesus has dealt with the cause of sin
Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, has dealt with the cause of sin, namely the sin nature, which reigns in the flesh and causes the people to persevere in sin. Jesus has redeemed mankind from sin, which is a fruit of death and leads to death, by His blood and the cross.
Only by faith in Jesus Christ and regeneration in Him, people can be redeemed from the sin nature, which reigns in the flesh and be saved.
But because many people love their lives in the world and are not willing to put off their flesh (put off the old man and his works) and don’t consider sin as evil, many false doctrines have arisen and all kinds of manners and ways have been founded to keep doing the works of the flesh without feeling guilty about it.
The words of God have been adjusted to the lusts, desires and will of people, and doctrines have arisen, which approve of the works of the flesh and sometimes even promote the works of the flesh.
Has the world changed or has the wickedness increased?
Due to the fact, that many Christians remain unspiritual, because they are not truly born again and keep living after the flesh like the world instead of living after the Spirit in the Truth of God, the wickedness has increased. And that’s exactly what is happening around us.
The world has not changed but the wickedness has increased and now we see the fruit of it.
Because of the increase of wickedness, the morals of people have changed and the creation of God, including man, and the will of God and His commandments, ordinances, and covenants are being attacked and destroyed.
All the rebellion, violence, famine, diseases, turmoil, pestilences, natural disasters, and chaos in the lives of people and on earth, don’t have a natural cause, as the scholars of the world, who are natural people and don’t have the Spirit of God, say and make the people believe, but have, according to the Word, a spiritual cause, namely sin, whereby people serve the devil and empower him, his army and kingdom (Read also: ‘The power of the devil is powered by sin‘).
The words of God are adjusted to the wickedness of people, instead of Christians entering the spiritual battle, fighting against the wickedness by submitting to Jesus Christ and standing on the Word and obeying the words of God, and applying the words of God in their lives, so that they become doers of the Word (Read also: ‘The hearers vs the doers‘)
Because all scripture is given by inspiration of God and every word of God is still profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
But because the words and lies of the devil (the world) are believed above the words and the truth of God, the salt has lost its savour and the light that is supposed to shine in the darkness, becomes weaker. Through the lives and works of people and their disobedience to the words and will of God, the darkness is not pushed back, but the darkness only increases.
The return to the Word and the restoration of the people and the land
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people; If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:13-14)
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth (Acts 13:47)
If the believers would return to God and yield themselves to the Head, Jesus Christ, and obey the Word and pray and do, what they are supposed to do and put off the old man and put on the new man and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and call the people to repentance and the removal of sin, starting in the churches, instead of compromising with the world and sin, then there will be a change in the churches, in the heavenly places and on earth.
Then the believers would walk by faith after the Word and live according to the will of God and righteousness would reign over sin and iniquity and they would be the light to the Gentiles and be for salvation, so that they also believe, repent and become born again in Christ and walk after the will of God. And as a result, the people and the land would be healed; restored, and made whole by God.
‘Be the salt of the earth’
