Why do we need to be different?
If we run the way the world runs, can they see the light of Christ in our life? It isn't the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye we need to be concerned about, but the pride of life as well.
1 John 2:[SUP]
15 [/SUP]Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [SUP]
16 [/SUP]For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [SUP]
17 [/SUP]And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Psalm 101:[SUP]
4 [/SUP]A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. [SUP]
5 [/SUP]Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off:
him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. [SUP]
6 [/SUP]Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
Proverbs 21:[SUP]
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To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. [SUP]
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An high look, and a proud heart, and
the plowing of the wicked, is sin. [SUP]
5 [/SUP]The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness;
but of every one that is hasty only to want.
2 Corinthians 10:7Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
1 Peter 1:
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. [SUP]17 [/SUP]And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: [SUP]
18 [/SUP]Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; [SUP]
19 [/SUP]But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: [SUP]
20 [/SUP]Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, [SUP]
21 [/SUP]Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 Peter 4:1Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; [SUP]
2 [/SUP]That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. [SUP]
3 [/SUP]For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: [SUP]
4 [/SUP]Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: [SUP]
5 [/SUP]Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
America is a nation that is in a slowly boiling pot of sexual imageries & unclean birds nesting in people's brains.
Revelation 18:1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. [SUP]
2 [/SUP]And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and
is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
I was confronted with one of those unclean birds. They do exists.
I was half asleep waking up and my head jerked up and back as I felt as if a bird was taking off so fast, that my head reacted that way in its wake. I was dreaming about being underwater... and can't recall the imagery in the dream but it was about a naked or a semi naked woman swimming and I saw a huge bug swam towards her to bite off her head.
I did not fathom the moment until the Lord led me to those verses about unclean birds. Then afterwards in rel life, I went to see a movie that when I got there, did not realize that my favorite actress was in it... what I did not realize that she would be naked in it. The Lord has a tendency to warn me with prophetic dreams of what is to come.. and that was one of them.
For the sake of struggling believers, I will not mention the movie nor the actress unless it tempts them to see it. I could not believe she did a film like that and it was a stupid film. She had never done anything like it and she was usually classy about the kind of films she had done: action/suspense/family with big name stars... hopefully she will not do that again.