If You're Messy And You Know It...Be Converted! Part 2

3. Folks who feel like they can live any kinda way and "make it in" - seriously need to review the lists in 1 Corinthian 6:9-10 and Galatians 5:19-21.


"Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."

"The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."

4. Folks who just wanna be startin something and run with the wrong crowd should read  Romans 1:28-32 and re-read NO. 3 above again.

"And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.  They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,  slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,  foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."

Finally, Jesus said something that trips people up. A lot. At the end of His teaching in Matthew 5:48, He admonished the crowd and disciples to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect. Theologians and Bible scholars have studied the Greek word used here: τέλειος téleios  (tel'-i-os).

Simply put, it means complete, full grown. And, indeed it is a process. It means we are not to remain the same. It means, if we love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and our neighbor as ourselves, we are fulling the whole law. (Matthew 22:36-40, Romans 10:4, Romans 13:10).

There is a standard of living for Kingdom citizens. Let us not be fooled into thinking a change will happen suddenly - we must be about a renewed mind, right now. Christ made it possible for us to live eternally and not suffer damnation, if we would just allow the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth...and transform us.

I am messy and I know it, folks. And I'm convicted, and pray every day for a fresh anointing and conversion. S/he who hath ears, let them hear.