Living in Godly Sincerity

Living in Godly Sincerity

Good morning folks. It's our church day. Majority of Christians are heading to church or already there. And it's good we do not neglect the assembling of ourselves together.

I am really having issues with so many heading to church today but who also won't mind doing anything even if not in line with Christ to get along in life.

Had a disturbing discussion with my brother, who also is a minister and a lecturer in a renowned nondenominational seminary here in Nigeria.

How Christians cheat in exams, even in organised manners. My brother had to take some external exams and had a first hand experience of such. In a whole class with majority Christians and very loud and zealous ones for that matter, he was the only one who stood against an organised exam malpractice and he was badly confronted for that.

I have seen Christians doctoring documents to apply for visas, with so ridiculous things as changing dates of birth and so on...

In the civil services, you can't trust the date of birth of anyone. Based on many people's date of birth they must have had secondary school education in their mother's womb...

And all these without remorse or repentance. We go wrong once in a while but you don't make same mistake twice. But that's if we see such falsification as wrong.

The scriptures says all liars will have their part in the Lake of fire. But how many believe again in God's standard of doing things?

Folks, our difference as Christians shouldn't be in name or in attending church Sunday mornings but in living a life of total submission and dedication to the Lordship and righteousness of Jesus Christ.

If you worked hard to the level your ability and you trust God enough for success, you don't have to go into any exam to cheat, you already know your life is in God's hands, pass or fail. He has a plan for your life.

If you don't have what it takes to obtain a visa to a country, it simply means God isn't sending you to such a country. That's not where God's present plan is for you. And if it is, there must then be a legitimate way of going about it, if you will pray and find out from experts God will make a way where there's no way.

I dread having to travel abroad on false information to go and preach the gospel of Christ, how do I stand and preach against evil there? Would I have agreed that God can't make a way when I still preach miracles?

And how would God think about such?

Some believe if it is for a good cause, a lie isn't bad... Such an idea puts doubt on everything we believe..because it means the whole Way of Christ may just be a cunningly devised fable to control and achieve carnal and selfish ends.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

We must renounce hidden things of dishonesty, we must refuse to walk in craftiness, we must cease from handling the word of God deceitfully, we must manifest the truth and so commend ourselves to the conscience of the world.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 1
12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

We must build personal testimonies around simplicity and godly sincerity and not around fleshly wisdom...out of which our lifestyle and character must flow as Christians.

What God doesn't give you, you don't have it. Where He hasn't brought you, you aren't there, the level He hasn't given you will bring disgrace and it's of no use...

You can't look physically pious with wickedness and lies in your heart and expect divine approval. God looks at the heart and not the outside. We aren't sent to be as the old religious order that Jesus Christ described as whitewashed sepulchre filled with dead men's bones...

We must be true and sincere.

Are you carrying a fake certificate? Are you living a lie? Have you lost the real you through falsification? Have you traded your destiny with fleshly wisdom and 'wayo'?

God is calling you to repentance and I am advising restitution. God loves you and you need to make your way right.

If you are locked and entangled in a falsehood system it's time you unlocked yourself... Come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord, touch not the unclean thing. You are like Lot in Sodom and your spirit is being vexed daily by the errors you see... Run for your life before it becomes too late.

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 1
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

We must cease to do evil and learn to do good... At home, in our neighborhood, at work and in church, we must live out the virtue of Christ and His Kingdom... If we name the name of Christ we must depart from iniquity and unequal living....

[My Offline Bible] 2 Timothy 2
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Good morning.