TODAY'S LESSON: TRUVALUE
A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES,
AND LOVING FAVOUR RATHER THAN SILVER AND GOLD.
PROVERBS 22:1
ASK THE AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE IT IN THIS WORLD AND THEY'LL TELL YOU ONE THING:
COMPROMISE
THINK ABOUT IT...
EVERYDAY WE COMPROMISE OUR TIME, OUR TALENTS, AND YES;
OUR MORALS.
DO WE DO IT ON PURPOSE?
NO, MOST OF US EITHER DO IT OUT OF FORCE OF HABIT
OR ELSE THAT'S WHAT WE GREW UP WITH.
BOTTOM LINE: IT'S A PART OF OUR SIN NATURE.
FOR ALL HAVE SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD.
ROMANS 3:23
SO WHAT'S TO STOP US FROM COMPROMISING OURSELVES
THUS FINDING OUR TRUE VALUE?
WHEREFORE LAY APART ALL FILTHINESS AND
SUPERFLUITY OF NAUGHTINESS,
AND RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS THE ENGRAFTED WORD,
WHICH IS ABLE TO SAVE YOUR SOULS.
JAMES 1:21
IN OTHER WORDS: KEEP IT REAL!
NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS:
FOR EITHER HE WILL HATE THE ONE, AND LOVE THE OTHER;
OR ELSE HE WILL HOLD TO THE ONE, AND DESPISE THE OTHER.
YE CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON.
MATTHEW 6:24
GOD KNEW THAT THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN
WOULD LEAD TO A WORLD OF COMPROMISE.
FOR THIS REASON HE SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.
WHEREBY ARE GIVEN UNTO US
EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES:
THAT BY THESE YE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE, HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION
THAT IS IN THE WORLD THROUGH LUST.
II PETER 1:4
CORRUPTION-THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO DEFINE COMPROMISE.
ONE THING'S FOR SURE:
JESUS NEVER PROMISED US A SMOOTH JOURNEY,
YEA, AND ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY IN CHRIST JESUS
SHALL SUFFER PERSECUTION.
II TIMOTHY 3:12
BUT HE DID PROMISE US A SAFE LANDING.
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD,
THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,
THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH,
BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
JOHN 3:16
