There are some really bad teachings out there that do all they can to separate your "who" from your "do". Making an excuse for sin. Now I know that believers are righteous positionally in Christ, but the believer has also been converted into a Child of God. This "conversion" produces a change in your lifestyle. There will be an eventual change to someones life who comes to Christ.
That being said, we can go to church, prayer meeting, and Bible studies but if we do not have a life of personal purity then all is lost. The prophet Isaiah spoke concerning this in Isaiah 1:13. He wrote:
"Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies-- I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting."(NKJV)
E.M. Bounds wrote concerning this verse:
For praying men and holy men we are looking—men whose presence in the Church will make it like a censer of holiest incense flaming up to God. With God the man counts for everything. Rites, forms, organisations are of small moment; unless they are backed by the holiness of the man they are offensive in His sight....Why does God speak so strongly against His own ordinances? Personal purity had failed. The impure man tainted all the sacred institutions of God and defiled them. God regards the man in so important a way as to put a kind of discount on all else.
Let's live out the change that has been made in our hearts!
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The lack of teaching on personal purity is the major failure of the modern day American church. When people believe that salvation consists of a short prayer with no resulting change, they have received a potential vaccination from the truth. They will have "tried" religion but will fail to see the merits of a tue faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Keep preaching the truth!
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