I can't tell you how many times I've walked it. How many times I fell for it. How many times I've seen it. How many times I hear about it. I am talking about compromise. This message is more for my ladies this morning (no offense fellas even though I know you all go through this too!). We meet a man who goes to church once a month and we try to make him the one. We meet a man who has a job and we try to make him the one. We meet a man who looks good and we try and make him the one. We meet a man who has money and we try and make him the one. We meet a man who drives a nice car and we try and make him the one. We meet a man who is nowhere near being saved and we try and make him the one. We meet a man with a six pack and we try and make him the one. We meet a man who we know ain't taking care of his children, who ain't got a job, and still lives with his mother, and we try and make him the one (Yes, I said AIN'T). Hold on...we meet a man who is married with children and we try and make him the one!
Lord Jesus we need help! I have been there more than once and have finally received a certificate of marriage which is proof that if we do not compromise, God will give us the desires of our hearts.
Compromise-an agreement reached by adjustment of principles
Ladies, ladies, and ladies. We allow men to take us through some things! We allow men to come into our lives, sweep us off our feet, then turn around and hit us on the head with the broom!
Why? Because we compromise. We get tired of waiting on God. We get tired of being alone. We just want to be loved. We just need a little help. We just want to be married. We are getting too old. We want to start a family now. We hate being single. I can go on. I have said them all and I have heard them all. We say, "We can change him." Again, I have lived this and I believe it will be my most powerful sermon..."The only one who changes is you!" He is either going to come up to your standards which rarely happens or you are going to go down to his standards which is always the case.
It's the oldest trick in the book. The Devil has been using men to get us to sway from God since the beginning of time. Unfortunately, we always feel the need to learn the hard way more than once. Why? Because, "I can change him. I can teach him about Jesus. I'll help him get saved." In the end, you end up unsaved! If it looks like a snake, slithers like a snake, and talk that same game that he spoke to Eve from the very beginning- IT'S A SNAKE!
Let me help somebody this morning:
The only one that can lead someone to Christ is God:
John 6:44 NIV:"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him
John 6:65 NIV: He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him."
Even when you are encouraging someone to accept Jesus Christ, you are just watering the seed that God has already planted. God plants, you water, God gets the increase...1 Cor. 3:6 &9:6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.9 For we are co-workers in God’s service;
We want to plant, water, and get the increase.
Why do we allow someone to promise us the moon and the stars then take it from us while we are staring at them? God has already promised us everlasting life but we trade it in for a couple months of what? We have so many babies that are being brought into the world without fathers. We turn around and blame the men when in fact it is us! We are angry and mad because they don't want to take care of the baby/babies. We live each day with a chip on our shoulders, hating and wishing evil because of what he did and is doing. Matthew 7:5 NLT:Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye. We become single mothers, we become stagnant in our lives, we carry condemnation and feelings of guilt, and we go through so much more because we chose to compromise.
Recognize who YOU are: Ps. 139:14: I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
God did not hold anything back when he made you! So you may not look, dance, or sing like Beyonce, who cares! There is something special about you that Beyonce wish she could possess!
Quit comparing yourself with others, especially when they don't believe in what you believe in. Proverbs 31:10:A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
What the bible says about compromise:
Ps. 119:-4 NLT:Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the Lord. 2 Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts.3 They do not compromise with evil,
and they walk only in his paths.
1 King 18:21 ESV:21And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.”
Draw the line in your relationships:
John 10:27 ESV:27 nMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Joshua 24:15 ESV:15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Ps. 119:15 ESV:15 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.
Ps. 119:10 ESV:10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
Don't fool yourself:
2 Cor. 6:14 NIV:Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
Don't Settle:
2 Cor. 5:2 Message: and we'll never have to relocate our "tents" again. The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what's ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less.
Stay Focus:
2 Cor. 5: 9-10 Message: Cheerfully pleasing God is the main thing, and that's what we aim to do, regardless of our conditions. 10 Sooner or later we'll all have to face God, regardless of our conditions. We will appear before Christ and take what's coming to us as a result of our actions, either good or bad.
You will come out ON TOP:
James 1:12 ESV:Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
If you find yourself compromising, it is not too late to turn things around. For your Heavenly Father cares for you. He is waiting for you to come back to him. Jeremiah 31:3 KJV:Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you. 1 Peter 5:7 ISV:Throw all your worry on me, because I care for you. Matthew 28:20 ISV: And remember, I am with you each and every day until the end of the age." Luke 1:37 ISV:Nothing is impossible with respect to any of MY promises."
Child of Promise not
Compromise (poem I wrote)
You are a
child of promise not compromise
A peek at you should show God’s Glory in your eyesHear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
He taught me also, said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words & keep my commandments
Get wisdom; develop good judgment.
So you won’t find yourself in default on the Day of Judgment
Don’t forget his words don’t turn from them
You are like Neo from Matrix…the Chosen one
My child, listen to me and do as I say,
For I am the truth, the Life, and the Way
Refrain from anger and forsake wrath
Let wisdom lead you down the narrow straight path
Every word of God is pure: a shield unto them, that put their trust in him.
Why fake the word of knowledge, deny it-just to please a friend
Don’t do as the wicked do; don’t follow the path of evildoers.
Those that love conflict, those trouble brewers’s
Don’t even think about it; don’t go that way.
But you wouldn’t listen had to have your way
Turning away from righteousness, those were the seeds you sowed
Eating food of wickedness – drinking wine of violence
Being touched and displayed like a local convenience store appliance
The Word of truth approaches you – you duck and hide
And when you cry out, God does not answer because of your pride.
In too deep, gotta keep it moving
Your sidetracked now…but who’s doing the approving
Your feet race to do evil your mouth quick to speak lies
Could have been a glorious wife but you chose to be a concubine
Trade in your anointing for the love of man
Let em’ do you wrong and expect God to understand
Altering the Word of Life- using arrogance as your guide
But the way of the wicked is like total darkness – you can’t see
Turned your back on wisdom, now she can’t protect thee
Could have been in the ark but you chose the flood
Then He passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood
My covenant which you broke, now I shall renew
A lost child has been found – I claim you as mine
Just like the days of your youth – to you – I say live.
You are a child of promise not compromise
A peek at you should show God’s Glory in your eyes
Colossians 2:8 ESV:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
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