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KNOCKING OUT OUR ENEMIES, Part 3
The following are some of the personal enemies in our lives that we must CONFRONT, CHALLENGE, and SLAY!1. MEDIOCRITY
This means the state of being neither good nor bad, average, ordinary, commonplace, halfway up the mountain, fence sitting, half-heartedness.
Jesus called it LUKEWARM!
Revelation 3:15, 16 “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot . . . So then because thou art LUKE-WARM, AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”
Mediocrity does not belong to evil-slayers!
2. TOLERANCE
This is the practice of allowing or respecting the natural beliefs of behavior of others. The enemy wants us to be desensitized to sin and evil. The devil wants us to be tolerant of homosexuality, pornography, abortion, adultery, fornication, false religions, and horoscopes etc. We dare not allow it to entertain us on the movie screen.
Whatever God does not tolerate, we must not tolerate!
We must be those who stand up and speak up. We must not lie down. We must pray, intercede, and blow the alarm in God’s holy mountain!
3.COMPLACENCY
This means feeling contented, satisfied, and self-righteous. It’s the sitting around and “do-nothing” attitude.
Complacency does not rise to the need of the hour.
Complacency does not care that we are weak and needy.
Complacency does not care about how the government is ripping people off.
Complacency does not care about the staving, homeless multitudes. Matthew 14:14 tells us that “Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.” Read also Matthew 9:36; 25:31-46; Mark 1:41; and 6:34.
The most evil and dangerous thing about complacency is that it will not engage in battle.
Complacency is like cement for it hardens the heart to make us indifferent and unmoved by needs around us.
Complacency may allow us to complain and disagree with current trends but in the end, we do nothing about them. May God have us from this selfish do-nothing spirit.
Judges 5:23: ‘Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof: because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.”
Nehemiah 3:5: “Their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.”
Although God is certainly capable of fighting our enemies, He always enlists the help of His people. On the other hand, we read how God blessed Phinehas and his posterity because he was prepared to stand up against evil.
Numbers 25:6-11: “. . . And when Phinehas . . . saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. . . . And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Phinehas . . . hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel, while he was ZEALOUS FOR MY SAKE among them . . . Wherefore say, Behold I give unto him my covenant of peace: And he shall have it, and HIS SEED AFTER HIM, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was ZEALOUS FOR HIS GOD, and made atonement for the children of Israel.”
Which is our testimony? Complacent or zealous?
More to come in the next post.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
