We let the world come into our hearts before we let it come into our churches. And furthermore, we didnt let it in, we invited it in, then brought it in, then when we noticed it was there, we kept it in. The world is brought in, it doesnt creep in. The church, all of Gods children, have stopped praying, stopped guarding our own selves, and stopped being faithful in all things and we replaced that time and effort with the world, the flesh, sin, and even the very works of devils. After we brought that into ourselves, we come to the church house and guess what comes with us? It is less compromise and more deliberate unfaithfulness to God and His word. It is not the pastors job to keep us living right and it is not our job to blame him or anyone else when the church has the world in it. If one person in a church lives with the heart of God with no worldly elements in him/her, that church will start to repent, cast off the world, and be holy again. The trouble is that none of us live in a way that pleases God, so God is pushed out of us and then out of our churches. The church is not as some say as weak as the weakest brother, but it is as strong as the strongest Christian. The idea of restoring such an one or bearing one anothers burdens is that the strength is the guide and the weakness is the exception. Find the strongest Christian in your church and if he or she is weak, then your church is weak. If you think you are the strongest Christian in your church, then evaluate based on your prayer life, walk and talk with God, hearts desires moment by moment, and actions when everyone is looking and when no one is looking. Dont look to your wonderful time with God during a day, but look to the time in between those fleeting moments to evaluate your own weaknesses. God called us to be holy as He is Holy. Are we holy? As individuals, are we holy? We bring the holiness to the church house, not the other way around. Revival meetings should be a boost to an already holy life, not a reminder that we should live holy. Sunday services and mid week meetings should be times to shine, not times to be recharged from wearing out. The children of God look to church services as beacons of light in a dark world only because they dont see the light all week long. THAT is the point. And the word compromise is not found in the Bible. As a matter of fact, compromise is a word found in the root promise with the prefix com. Com meaning together and promise meaning to exert express and deliberate will of future action. So when we talk of compromise, we are not talking of something that creeps in, we are talking of our expressed and deliberate will that we pledge with the world that it is allowed and encouraged in us and in our churches. We are presented with the world and we meet with it, confer with it, and then agree with it that it should be a part of us and our church by oath and conviction of action. It is not that we let our guard down, but that we took it down, walked out beyond our residence in the Lord, and promised the outside that it will now be a part of our own household of faith. The church is to be storming the gates of Hell that shall not prevail against us all the while avoiding the fiery darts being shot over its walls at us as we make charge. Instead, we let those gates open, we met with the inhabitants, and we made peace with them. Now we must break those ties of expressed oaths, break those promises through repentance, put the armour back on, and fight once again. Am I a soldier of the cross?, A follower of the Lamb?, And shall I fear to own His cause, Or blush to speak His Name? Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease?, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas? Are there no foes for me to face? Must I not stem the flood? Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God? Sure I must fight if I would reign; Increase my courage, Lord. I’ll bear the toil, endure the pain, Supported by Thy Word. Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die; They see the triumph from afar, By faith’s discerning eye When that illustrious day shall rise, And all Thy armies shine In robes of victory through skies, The glory shall be Thine. ----------------------------------------------- com- from L., archaic form of classical L. cum together, together with, in combination, the prefix sometimes used as an intensive, from PIE *kom- beside, near, by, with (cf. O.E. ge-, Ger. ge-). Before vowels and aspirates, reduced to co-; before -g-, assimilated to cog- or con-; before -l-, assimilated prom·ise [prom-is] noun 1. a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises. 2. an express assurance on which expectation is to be based: promises that an enemy will not win. 3. something that has the effect of an express assurance; indication of what may be expected. 4. indication of future excellence or achievement: a writer who shows promise. 5. something that is promised. COMPROMISE, n. [L. To give bond to stand to an award, to promise. See Promise.] 1. A mutual promise or contract of two parties in controversy, to refer their differences to the decision of arbitrators. 2. An amicable agreement between parties in controversy, to settle their differences by mutual concessions. 3. Mutual agreement; adjustment. [This is its usual signification.] COMPROMISE, v.t. 1. To adjust and settle a difference by mutual agreement, with concessions of claims by the parties; to compound. 2. To agree; to accord. 3. To commit; to put to hazard; to pledge by some act or declaration.
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