Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

God doesn't want us to compromise the ten commandments:

- He doesn’t want us to have any other God before Him

Jesus said,

Rev 2: 21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. 22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

If you are involved with a Jezebel, it is time for you to repent and turn away from her evil deeds and run before it's too late!

This spirit of compromise can enter into any relationship if we are not careful:

- We need to discern this spirit and destroy it from the beginning in order to continue.

At times it is so sad to see some of the loved ones and the children of God are used by the enemy as a tool by this evil spirit called the spirit of Jezebel.  But you and I need to take steps to protect our family our society and our church from being deceived and destroyed by bringing in such compromises of destruction.

In this sermon, Pastor Balan talked about three compromises that can come on our way if we don't deal with the devil as Jesus did.

- If the first temptation was to compromise in our motives - due to lust of the flesh,

Achan compromised by:

- Taking what was considered cursed into his house

We tend to compromise not only in money, even in other type of giving:

- Giving our time to the work of God, do not hold on to what belongs to God

Jehoshaphat, son of king Asa was the 4th king of Judah the divided kingdom after the days of king Solomon.  

God has spoken to us through the life of Jehoshaphat:

- God has spoke to us saying that we can't compromise in our marriage relationship by marrying an unbeliever.  Because probability of we losing our faith in God is much higher than leading him or her to Christ

Listen to the sermons, both Part 1 and Part 2, to know more about how King Jehoshaphat compromised in his life. 

The life of Jehoshaphat is a good example of a believer who would like to live Godly.   Many times we are very careful in our living not to allow sin in our lives and displease the Lord.  When everything is going on well in our lives suddenly in one area of our life we compromise with the world and bring disgrace to the Lord.  We are going to talk about four such areas from the life of king Jehoshaphat. 

Listen to the sermons, both Part 1 and Part 2, to know more about how King Jehoshaphat compromised in his life. 

The devil just like Pharaoh is often relentless and is willing to compromise.

He says, It doesn't matter where you worship, it doesn't matter which God you server, its all the same, people serve God in different ways.  He makes us to compromise with the place of worship.

It doesn't matter if you don't be baptized, it doesn't matter even if you don’t receive the anointing of the Holy Spirit, it doesn't  matter even if you don't speak in tongues, you can go to heaven. He makes us to compromise with the spiritual things of God.----more----

It doesn't matter even if your son doesn't go to church on Sundays, it doesn't matter even if you work on Sundays, it is enough if one of you go to church, or it is enough if you go to church in one Sunday of the month.  He makes us to compromise our family for the Lord.

It doesn't matter even if you don't give tithes and offerings to God, He still loves you.  It doesn't matter even if you don't dedicate your children to God, let them decide when they grow.  It doesn't matter even if you delay the call of God in your life to serve Him. God can still wait. He makes us to compromise our giving.

He takes us away from the ordinances of God.

He makes us to see the grace and compassion of God and makes us ineffective for God.

It is time to say like what Moses said, "It is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God".  Amen!

Someone said that the church will continue to compromise with the world.  Compromise is slowly growing with the churches. We failed to make young Christians our priority. We think we are addressing the need of young people.  But try removing the fun out of the church today. That will tell how many of the youth and young adults will come to the church as they really love to study and follow the scripture.----more----

Look at the problem.  Young people leave the church because they don't believe in Christianity.  When they come back, the majority of them come back in their adulthood because of the benefit aspects of the church.  They came back because church is a great place to get married, find community, and raise our kids. They return not because now they believe in the Bible teachings and its truth.  Also they come collecting their experience in the world and try to apply to the church. Compromise automatically comes inside the church.

There is no doubt that church is facing a challenge on how to prevent compromise. Listen to the sermon to get more insight into this problem of a compromised church. 

- A church that has compromised appears to be a church, but God had already left the church

Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

Roman governors had authority to execute people.  But here Christ tells the church, if you don’t cleanup the mess I will come to execute judgment.