Get Into The Right Company

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[TD="align: center"]This came into my email this morning and it got me to thinking about how we should watch what we read as well as watch who we are around. Guard your heart!




The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray. [/TD]
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[TD]Proverbs 12:26
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Get Into The Right Company ​

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Whether you’re a student or working adult, it’s so important to surround yourself with the right people. Today’s verse tells us that the righteous, that’s you and I who are righteous in Christ, should choose their friends carefully, because the wrong friends can lead them astray.

If you hang out with people who are always complaining and telling you why things you want to see can’t be done, they will talk cynicism, doubt and fear into your heart. They will discourage you and talk you out of your dreams and aspirations. The wrong friends can even lure you into destructive habits and illegal activities.

So choose wisely whom you hang out with. Trust the favor of God to give you Spirit- and faith-filled friends who will lift you up when you’re down, give you godly counsel and inspire you to accomplish your God-given dreams. Thank the Lord that this provision is yours through His finished work—Jesus was “put far” from His friends at the cross (Psalm 88:18), so that you could be blessed with many good ones!

 

[JesusIsAll]

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

2 John 1:10-11 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals."

 

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That gospel that was 'once delivered unto the saints' must be the marker. In another post I said that obedience to His plan is the prerequisite for the Spirit to manifest within us, making for true unity. Digressing from His commands and ways, choosing rather to follow the 'traditions of men', insures for the quenching of His Spirit, voiding out any real spiritual fellowship and agreement.

 

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2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

2Pe 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2Pe 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.

We can hang around sinners,for you are not going to avoid your family,but it has to be on God's terms,and not on the company you keep terms.Jesus hung around sinners,but it was on God's terms.Hanging around people that curse and swear,drinking alcohol,and hooting and a hollering,might cause a saint to want to do the same,and we should not hang around people on that level.

 

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Hebrews 7:26
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

 

[JesusIsAll]

That gospel that was 'once delivered unto the saints' must be the marker. In another post I said that obedience to His plan is the prerequisite for the Spirit to manifest within us, making for true unity. Digressing from His commands and ways, choosing rather to follow the 'traditions of men', insures for the quenching of His Spirit, voiding out any real spiritual fellowship and agreement.

The worst problem wouldn't seem to be on the doctrinal level, at least where the saved are concerned in the modern world. (Somebody unsaved, who loves and believes a lie, has no Spirit to quench, not even any means of understanding the things of God, so forget sound doctrine.) The Spirit isn't quenched by somebody being in the company of sinners or the doctrinally perverted. The Lord Jesus wasn't quenched at a banquet filled with sinners, even rather He was a light to the world at that banquet, everywhere He went a light. But the Lord Jesus always did those things of God. In our times, the Spirit is quenched by the likes of football, video games, greed and lust, any covetousness of the things of the world. The secular world is evil, from the standpoint it's Godless, totally of the flesh, of things temporal that lead to death, not of things eternal.

Take your TV dial, throwing out the very few Christian networks, which you're most likely to see some money grubbing charlatan on, anyway: the things of God are absent. Flip the dial all day long, that very name Jesus is absent, unless used to curse. People are headed for eternal damnation, and seldom a peep out of the secular world. So, we're, all of us, quenching the Spirit when we're pursuing the things of the world, when our minds are focused on things where God is out of sight and out of mind, and I'm not saying anything not also about myself.

More people are going to be damned by the devil taking up all their time with the things of the world than anything else, choking the gospel, one way or another, as in the parable of the sower. As for those of us Christian, it's also more time wasted. In any case, I believe the bad company point has to do with being sucked in by the world, with peer pressure of hanging around with people doing evil causing a person to want to belong, causing people to compromise their morals, who fear being the odd man out more than fearing God, man pleasers, this a very bad thing (Matthew 10:38). At any given time, what are we mindful of and loving, the world, or the things of God?

Adrian Rogers once asked if you'd marry a woman you say you love, then send her back home to her parents, after the exchange of vows, only visiting her for an hour most weeks from there on out? Well, can one love the Lord, but only go to church an hour most weeks, living most of our time without regard for God? Same thing. The woman would say, "That's some love!" And I fear so does God, that the Laodicean church is in for a rude awakening, the grace and blood of Christ not as cheap as some are selling it.

Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

 

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Even a good friend may talk you out of your (day) dreams...

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
(Pro 27:5-6)

 

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The worst problem wouldn't seem to be on the doctrinal level, at least where the saved are concerned in the modern world. (Somebody unsaved, who loves and believes a lie, has no Spirit to quench, not even any means of understanding the things of God, so forget sound doctrine.) The Spirit isn't quenched by somebody being in the company of sinners or the doctrinally perverted. The Lord Jesus wasn't quenched at a banquet filled with sinners, even rather He was a light to the world at that banquet, everywhere He went a light. But the Lord Jesus always did those things of God. In our times, the Spirit is quenched by the likes of football, video games, greed and lust, any covetousness of the things of the world. The secular world is evil, from the standpoint it's Godless, totally of the flesh, of things temporal that lead to death, not of things eternal.

Take your TV dial, throwing out the very few Christian networks, which you're most likely to see some money grubbing charlatan on, anyway: the things of God are absent. Flip the dial all day long, that very name Jesus is absent, unless used to curse. People are headed for eternal damnation, and seldom a peep out of the secular world. So, we're, all of us, quenching the Spirit when we're pursuing the things of the world, when our minds are focused on things where God is out of sight and out of mind, and I'm not saying anything not also about myself.

More people are going to be damned by the devil taking up all their time with the things of the world than anything else, choking the gospel, one way or another, as in the parable of the sower. As for those of us Christian, it's also more time wasted. In any case, I believe the bad company point has to do with being sucked in by the world, with peer pressure of hanging around with people doing evil causing a person to want to belong, causing people to compromise their morals, who fear being the odd man out more than fearing God, man pleasers, this a very bad thing (Matthew 10:38). At any given time, what are we mindful of and loving, the world, or the things of God?

Adrian Rogers once asked if you'd marry a woman you say you love, then send her back home to her parents, after the exchange of vows, only visiting her for an hour most weeks from there on out? Well, can one love the Lord, but only go to church an hour most weeks, living most of our time without regard for God? Same thing. The woman would say, "That's some love!" And I fear so does God, that the Laodicean church is in for a rude awakening, the grace and blood of Christ not as cheap as some are selling it.

Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

Not talking about hanging around sinners. Talking about hanging out with saints who prefer the teachings of men instead of God's word. And disobeying God does indeed quench the Spirit.

 

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Talking about hanging out with saints who prefer the teachings of men instead of God's word.

You mean sort of like you do, hanging around here? I see more whackjob doctrine here, than all the real congregations put together, my entire life. Anyway, what's your stage of being quenched, then, today?

 

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You mean sort of like you do, hanging around here? I see more whackjob doctrine here, than all the real congregations put together, my entire life. Anyway, what's your stage of being quenched, then, today?

not sure what your question is.