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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"WE ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
DID YOU KNOW THAT AS CHRISTIANS, WE ARE IN THIS WORLD BUT NOT OF THIS WORLD. WHEN JESUS WAS PRAYING FOR US IN JOHN 17, HE SAYS THIS IN VERSE 14, "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." THE WORLD DOES HATE US AND THIS IS ONE REASON THAT WE HAVE TO STAY AWAY FROM RELATIONSHIPS THAT INFLUENCE US NEGATIVELY MORE THAN WE CAN INFLUENCE THEM IN A POSITIVE WAY.
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TOLD SOME PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE THINKING ABOUT GETTING MARRIED. DON'T BE UNEQUALLY YOKED. I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT EVEN THOUGH ONE MIGHT BE A CHRISTIAN AND THE OTHER NOT, THEY USUALLY HAVEN'T LISTEN TO ME. THEIR STATEMENT IS ALWAYS THE SAME, "I CAN CHANGE HIM/HER". I JUST HAD TO LET IT BE AND PRAY THAT THEY DO. BEFORE I GAVE UP, I SHOWED THEM THE VERSE IN 2ND CORINTHIANS 6:14 WHICH SAYS, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" IT STILL DIDN'T DO ANY GOOD ON MOST OF THEM.
THIS IS ALSO TRUE ABOUT SOME OF OUR FRIENDS. I AM SURE THIS HAS HAPPENED TO A LOT OF YOU, AS IT DID WITH ME, WHEN I GOT SAVED. I KNEW I DIDN'T WANT TO DO THOSE THINGS I HAD DONE WITH THEM IN THE PAST. I HAD TO DISTANCE MYSELF FROM THEM AND IT WAS HARD TO DO. HOWEVER, SOMETIMES THEY WOULD DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM ME BECAUSE I WANTED TO TELL EVERYBODY WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ME AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT JESUS. I KNOW THERE ARE SOME THAT CAN'T DO THIS BUT I BELIEVE IT HAS TO BE DONE. SOMETIMES WE JUST HAVE TO PRAY FOR THEM AND LET HOLY SPIRIT DEAL WITH THEM.
I WILL PRAY FOR YOU WHO MIGHT BE IN THAT TYPE OF A RELATIONSHIP, WHETHER IN MARRIAGE OR WITH FRIENDS, THAT YOU WILL ASK HOLY SPIRIT TO GUIDE YOU WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.
HE WILL MAKE THINGS RIGHT IF YOU WILL JUST TRUST HIM AND OBEY HIM. HE LOVES YOU AND WANT THE BEST FOR YOU. I KNOW WE ALWAYS TRY TO MAKE SOMEONE SEE THE TRUTH BUT JUST REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID IN JOHN 6:44 AND I QUOTE, "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." IF GOD DOES NOT DRAW THEM, ALL WE CAN DO IS PRAY FOR THEM.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
