“Living in a World of Compromise”   Revelation 2: 12-17

As I am penning this weeks pastor’s desk, I’m having an awful week.  I can’t sleep, and I have a cold but I have to keep pushing through because I have what is called a “recertification audit” at my work that I am responsible for, and it’s not going so well.  Definitely feeling ‘weighted, measured and left wanting.”  Have you ever felt that way?  I share this only because in these situations we can feel so overwhelmed at times that we let the things of God go undone and compromise.  It would be easy for me to just dig up an old sermon, it would be easy for me not to prepare for Sunday (and seemingly justify it) and compromise my responsibility on Sunday.  Now I’m no martyr (still breathing), nor claim to be, but only to share when it comes to the things of God, we cannot compromise.

Not all compromise is bad.  Take our Government of two parties for example.  They will never agree but the two should/must compromise and meet somewhere in the middle for the betterment of the very people they are suppose to represent in this great land called the United States of America!  When a government though compromises positions of Government and allow those who do not hold the Judeo Christian values that founded America - “In God we trust,” - “One nation under God,” we do so at our own demise.  As Christ followers we must continue to pray, exercise our right to vote as ‘citizens’ and wait on God.  Yes, we are living in a world of compromise but when it comes to the things of God, we must not compromise, if we do we do so at our own demise.  Have your read THE BOOK?! - The Bible, mankind’s final authority.  Jesus said that heaven and earth will pass away, but His word will never.

The enemy of our souls wants us individually and corporately to compromise because he knows in the end it will only bring hurt, heartache and destruction.  Billy Graham said, “Too many Christian TV and radio programs have been geared to please, entertain, and gain the favor of the world.  The temptation is to compromise, to make the gospel more appealing and attractive.”  I believe Mr. Graham is right, and I am fearful that compromise has crept into the church at large.  We would do well to hold our ground with biblical truth and heed the warning Jesus gave to the church in Pergamos (Pergamum), “Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” - Revelation 2: 16- 17a  

By the grace of God Almighty, “I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob” - Ps.132:4

God’s continued blessings and favor!

Pastor Rodney

“For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.” - Acts 20:27