Depart from Iniquity

2Ti 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.

The Lord know those who are his.

If we name the name of Christ, we need to DEPART from iniquity.

We simply CANNOT turn a blind eye to sin! We are being taught to do just that, so much so we are now taught that sin is GOOD and GOOD is sin.

Go ahead and dare spout that there are sins such as same sex unions, go ahead and the fallout will be tremendous. Even many, many Christians have embraced this and they've done it because God is love and God would love all regardless of something viewed as being out of a person's ability to alter. Does God love fornicators. Yes. Does God love adulterers? Yes. Does God love thieves? Yes. Does God love murderers? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes. God LOVE all human beings, but was God HATES is sin.  Every sin separates us from God.  God hates every act of fornication, every act of adultery, every act of stealing, every act of murder, every single sin God hates, He cannot condone a single sin, not one! But we have convinced ourselves that God can accept the sin in us. We've done this in order to allow ourselves to keep on cherishing our sins without any belief that there is a consequence to our sins.

Sure we've made laws- we throw people in jail for stealing and murdering because we've decided that those particular sins are still worthy of non-acceptance.  But we've now accepted fornication and adultery as being perfectly acceptable, no punishment needed.  We've NUMBED our spiritual senses, and Satan loves it.

We've agreed it's perfectly fine to covet what others have, no problem there.  We even say it's okay to bear false witness for the right reasons, absolutely nothing wrong with that, right?  We have also done away with any mandatory worshiping of God and all that entails. It is not a sin to not worship God, it's perfectly fine. We have agreed to all this the world over with only pockets of people who truly believe that sin is truly sin and it can never be deemed not sinful.

Many lay claim to loving God and they fully believe they do, but they are NOT loving the God of the Bible, they are NOT loving the God of the Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. They are loving a God of their own devising. Oh, they say it is the same God, but it is not, not really. They've made up their own rules and they attribute them to God, but it's their God, not the One and Only True God. There are a lot of churches and a lot of false gods created to meet the desires of the people to continue to sin and remain unaccountable for those sins. They've made sin good, but God has never made sin good and never will make sin good.

We can be forgiven of our sins, God loves us and will forgive us.

But God will NOT condone sin, He just cannot, it's impossible. 

Sin separates us from God and it always will.

2Ti 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.

Depart from iniquity, not cherish it, not embrace it, not call it good and acceptable.

We must recognize our sin, name it for what it is and then seek to repent and be forgiven.  And we must do this daily.  This is our daily Bread- the Bread of Life, Jesus Christ.

More on this tomorrow by the grace and mercy of our beloved God, our beloved Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ now and forever!

Amen!