CHOOSING
GOOD SPIRITUAL THINGS OF GOD WILL PREVENT US FROM SPIRITUAL TROUBLES IN
CHRISTIAN LIFE
A saying " Prevention is better than cure."
PSALMS 119:11 "Thy word have I hid in mine
heart, that I might not sin against thee."
Introduction:
We are very familiar with medical advice, and we often hear this from
our doctors, but this is even more true and effective as advice and a reminder
for our spiritual life.
Avoiding things that will harm our lives is a better decision than
continuing in something we know very well will harm our Christian life.
Example in our Physical health:
5 Important Reminders for the Christian
I. MEDITATING ON GOD'S WORD WILL PREVENT US FROM SINNING.
The meditation of God's Word will keep us from sinning.
PSALMS 119:11 "Thy word have I hid in mine
heart, that I might not sin against thee."
The Word of God is an effective cleanser for our dirty minds and hearts
and keeps us from sinning against God.
(JOHN 15:3) "Now ye are clean through the
word which I have spoken unto you."
The Word of God is effective and powerful, strengthening our Christian
life so that we may triumph against sin.
(HEBREWS 4:12) "For the word of God is
quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
The Word of God helped King David avoid being enticed into sin
(PSALMS 1:1) "Blessed is the man that
walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."
II. DRAWING TO GOD WILL PREVENT US FROM BACKSLIDING.
Drawing near to God will keep us from turning away from the Lord.
JAMES 4:8 "Draw nigh to God, and he
will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts,
ye double minded."
James challenges us to draw even closer to God, and God will also draw
closer to us.
The truth is, our God never makes an excuse to distance Himself from us;
it is always us who desire to move away from God.
* Backsliding from God is choosing to love the world; Demas turned away
from the Lord and chose the world.
(II TIMOTHY 4:10) "For Demas hath forsaken me,
having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to
Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia."
* ( 1John 2:15-17 ) [15]Love not the world, neither
the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him.
[16]For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not
of the Father, but is of the world.
[17]And the world passeth away,
and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
III. PRAYING TO GOD WILL PREVENT US FROM TEMPTATION.
Praying to God will keep us from temptations.
MATTHEW 26:41 "Watch and pray, that ye
enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is
weak."
Prayer is an effective way for God to guard us against the tempter,
Satan.
The Lord Jesus is our primary example in prayer so that we may triumph
over every kind of temptation the enemy will bring against us.
(MATTHEW 4:1-4) Mt 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of
the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Mt 4:2 And when he had fasted
forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Mt 4:3 And when the tempter came
to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made
bread.
Mt 4:4 But he answered and said,
It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
IV. SOULWINNING WILL PREVENT US FROM UNFRUITFUL LIFE OF
THE CHRISTIAN.
( Acts 6:4-7 ) [4]But we will give ourselves
continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
[5]And the saying pleased the
whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy
Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and
Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
[6]Whom they set before the
apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
[7]And the word of God increased;
and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great
company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
* Paul is good model in Soulwinning.
( 1 Corinthians
9:19-22 ) [19]For
though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I
might gain the more.
[20]And unto the Jews I became as
a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the
law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
[21]To them that are without law,
as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,)
that I might gain them that are without law.
[22]To the weak became I as weak,
that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by
all means save some.
V. SERVING THE LORD WILL PREVENT US FROM AN UNHAPPY
CHRISTIAN LIFE.
(John 15:10-11) [10]If ye keep my commandments, ye
shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide
in his love.
[11]These things have I spoken
unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
* Jerusalem Church is very happy serving the Lord.
( Acts 2:46-47 ) [46]And they, continuing daily
with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat
their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
[47]Praising God, and having
favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as
should be saved.
*God bless you all always*
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