TEXT: Psalm 19:8-11
The principles, when honored, make compound blessings over time. Each principle that is honored positions us for God’s rewards.
When we chose not to walk before the Lord, we are robbed of the blessings of peace, joy, and confidence because of misplaced priorities.
1. GOD DOESN’T WANT US TO BE WHO WE USED TO BE.
II Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:10
When I became saved, I became a new person. I didn’t want to be who I used to be. I wanted to be different.
Being saved from condemnation doesn’t guarantee the application of the promises of God.
Christians don’t always do a good job of being separate and different.
There has to be a NOTICEABLE CONTRAST. There has to be a difference in how we talk, what we like, and how we respond.
2. WE MUST MOVE BEYOND WHAT THE WORLD WANTS US TO BE.
I Corinthians 3:1
THIS IS WHAT BOTHERS ME: Children share the exact same world as their adults; they have the same conversations, hear the same stories, act out as adults, viewing things that they should never see when they are children.
-There was no transition from childhood to adulthood; they were exposed to anything and everything.
-When an eight-year-old child is told, and people in the leadership of our country say, “They can figure out what gender they are.” Are you kidding me? They don’t even know how to eat right.
You don’t understand. That’s a conversation, not for a child… That’s for adults; that’s for people who have their full maturity in their thinking, not an eight-nine-ten-year-old.
-Don’t talk and tell our children that they are less than what they are. Don’t tell them that they are not good enough.
-I’m going to preach it like I want to; I’m tired of trying to walk the rope.
There’s male, and there’s female. XY Chromosomes are male. XX Chromosomes are female. You can’t change the inside. Only God can do that.
ILLUS.: Bruce, Kaitlyn Jenner – If you draw a sample of His blood.
Genesis 1:27
There is something wrong when a child of God doesn’t pursue perpetual change in their life, so they can grow and go in the things of God. Hebrews 5:12-14
Ephesians 2:2
We must learn to discern good and evil so we are not dominated by the “course” of this world.
Romans 12:2(AMP)
HERE IS THE THING: When the word of God is not put into our life. You could be saved and be radically ineffective as a Christian because of emotional instability.
Isaiah 28:13 – “But the word of the LORD was to them, ‘Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line.’”
Proverbs 23:7