SIGNS OF GENUINE CHRISTIAN OF BEING WEAK
IN THEIR SPIRITUAL LIFE
1. LACK OF INTEREST TO HEAR AND SEEK THE WORD OF GOD.
(Proverbs 1:23-33) [23]Turn you at my reproof:
behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto
you.
[24]Because I have called, and ye
refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
[25]But ye have set at nought all
my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
[26]I also will laugh at your
calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
[27]When your fear cometh as
desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and
anguish cometh upon you.
[28]Then shall they call upon me,
but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
[29]For that they hated knowledge,
and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
[30]They would none of my counsel:
they despised all my reproof.
[31]Therefore shall they eat of
the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
[32]For the turning away of the
simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
[33]But whoso hearkeneth unto me
shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
2. LACK OF INTEREST TO WORSHIP GOD IN HIS TEMPLE.
(Hebrews 10:25) Not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so
much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
* Seen in their lack of desire to worship God in spirit and in truth.
(John 4:22-23) [22]Ye worship ye know not what:
we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
[23]But the hour cometh, and now
is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
* Strong Christian always excited to Worship God in His temple.
(Psalms 122:1) I was glad when they said unto me,
Let us go into the house of the LORD.
3. LACK OF INTEREST TO SERVE THE LORD.
* They are more concern to love the World than to serve the Lord.
2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having
loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to
Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
* ( IJohn 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.
( Romans 1:21-22 ) [21]Because that, when they knew
God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in
their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
[22]Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools,
* So many Christians believe that they are genuine Christian but have no
desire to serve God who love them and saved their soul.
4. LACK OF DESIRE TO COME TO GOD IN PRAYERS.
(Matthew 26:36-40) [36]Then cometh Jesus with them
unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here,
while I go and pray yonder.
[37]And he took with him Peter and
the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
[38]Then saith he unto them, My
soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
[39]And he went a little further,
and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let
this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
[40]And he cometh unto the
disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not
watch with me one hour?
* They are lazy in prayer.
5. LACK OF INTEREST IN WINNING LOST PEOPLE.
( John 4:34-38) [34]Jesus saith unto them, My meat
is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
[35]Say not ye, There are yet four
months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
[36]And he that reapeth receiveth
wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he
that reapeth may rejoice together.
[37]And herein is that saying
true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
[38]I sent you to reap that
whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into
their labours.
6. LACK OF EXCITEMENT FOR THE SOON COMING OF THE LORD
JESUS BUT ENJOY IN THEIR SINFUL LIVING.
( IITimoteo 3:1-5) [1]This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come.
[2]For men shall be lovers of
their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy,
[3]Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are
good,
[4]Traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
[5]Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
* To God be the glory *
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