Brothers and sisters,
I invite you to share how this message has ministered and impacted your life to go deeper with God. And also to share any more nuggets that you gleaned from it.
[b]The Compromising Church
Keith Daniel (Video)
https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=16006
I have had the blessing of hearing it preached twice this fall, first at Maranatha Baptist Church, and the second time at the Revival Conference. I have compiled my notes from both times and am sharing some of them here. If you have not listened to this message, I highly recommend it. It is a staggering message and very challenging for us to examine our lives for [i]any
[b]Compromising Christianity[i]Keith Daniel
The greatest tragedy of today is compromising Christianity.
Break up your fallow ground that enables you to live a shameful life of compromise.
Expose your heart carefully and prayerfully to what this holy Book declares of when a Christian lives in a continual state of compromise:
When a Christian continually fails God with his:
1.\tEyes
a.\t“I made a covenant with my eyes to not look upon that which would defile me.”
2.\tThoughts
a.\tYour thoughts determine your life. What you think you are.
b.\t‘Whatsoever things are pure…’ Phil. 4:8, allow your mind to be occupied with.
c.\tWhat are you filling up in the reservoir of your heart?
d.\tYou can bring every thought into captivity.
e.\tYou are as holy as you want to be.
f.\tIs being entertained worth being defiled?
3.\tLips
a.\tLies – do these lips lie in prayer? If you are not faithful in your private prayer, your public prayers are evil hypocritical lies.
b.\tOaths
c.\tBlasphemy – Don’t ever use God’s Name irreverently.
d.\tFilthy communication
e.\tMurmurings – in everything give thanks, not for everything but despite everything – 1 Thess. 5:18. It is in the midst of the hardest time that it is the sacrifice of praise. Are you a perfect murmurer or perfect worshiper? Don’t stop thanking Him if you have one problem.
f.\tWhisperings – Proverbs 10:18
g.\tEndless Babbling – empty talk.
h.\tA man hath joy by the answer of his mouth (Prov. 15:23). The Holy Spirit has joy when you past the test. There is grief on the face of a person who fails continually with his mouth. With God it’s joy unspeakable and it is possible with Him.
i.\tIf you have no control with thy tongue you have no victory in any area the devil wants to come into.
j.\tPsalm 141:3 – Set a watch…cry this every day to God.
4.\tReactions
a.\tThe evidence that the Holy Spirit is in you is self-control. Prov. 14:29; Eccles. 7:9
The greatest single tragedy this world faces is compromising Christianity, beginning in your home. It will undermine the effect of the Gospel in the world.
Don’t allow other people’s failures to cause you to be an even greater failure.
“O to be like Jesus, for apart from that I have nothing to offer others apart from Christ.”
Christians must (the bulk are compromising, the world looks at what we’ve got and they don’t want it) seek God for this standard, and change. Christians on their knees is the only hope America has.
If the Christians turn back to what they should be, then the world will tremble.
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[i]I hope to do this with all the Keith Daniel messages I have heard over the past couple of months. And it would be wonderful to see discussion on all the messages from the revival conference, especially now that they are available for downloading. :)