"Straight-Talk"

"They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders poison is under their lips. Selah." (Psalms 140:3)

  I seriously did not known that was a thing, but I am using it anyway. If you have studied the Bible to any degree, then you might have witnessed that the thing which brings people to follow through on temptation is to compromise on something that God has said, or something that they know would not approve of. We really do not need to be told we have done wrong, it is written on our hearts what is right and what is wrong. Paul tells us this in his opening of Romans, as he explains why sin will be punished, saying, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shown it unto them." (Romans 1:18-19) Because this is so, there is really nobody that has an excuse, because as the Bible says, "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) It is crystal clear, because sin is missing the mark; and how can you sin if there is no mark to miss? Not to get off the subject, but we are talking about Religious Persecution, and last I checked in on the noise of what might be happening, there is a serious effort in the works to silence the churches from speaking out against certain social issues. It is not my place to judge anyone on the way that they choose to live; but it is my place to tell someone about Jesus and the forgiveness of sin. Sin is sin, regardless of what you might be into, it is all sin if it goes against God's commands for how we should be living. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone; otherwise, we need to focus upon the Message, letting God change the heart of a person; something that is impossible for us to do, because we are basically in the same boat! This is probably the easiest way to explain what it is we need to understand David is speaking about; because there is a spiritual battle that is going on anytime their is any opposition to God's Word. The easiest way that we can not be fooled or deceived by anyone or any group of people, is to know what God says in His Word, period! If it's not in the Bible and if it does not alien with the Message of the Bible, then do not let it be anything that can change or affect your mind. Compromise is always something that is used to set us up for what we cannot see coming; unless we stay focused upon basic truth, we can make some seriously wrong choices. That being said, we have an Advocate in Heaven! So if we do mess up, even though everyone here might condemn us, as long as we are abiding in Christ, God never will...

"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." (2 Corinthians 11:3)