What is the definition of the word neutral?
Neutral:
-impersonal: having no personal preferance.
-not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest.
-possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics.
-one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute.
In todays society we are taught to take a neutral stance on very heated and debated topics. Topics that Christians of all people, should be shining their lights & standing up in the way of holiness & speaking out against sin. For instance, the topic of homosexuality. We are not supposed to condone it but we are not supposed to speak our mind & voice our opinion & what the Word of God says about this abomination. We are stuck in a "middle ground" if you will. Where we are against these things but yet when faced in a situation to stand up for what is right we place our "tail" between our legs & we run from it. We are afraid of hurting someones feelings. Or worse yet we "go along" with it because it is the worlds idea of the nice thing to do or it is what the majority is doing.
God said there is no middle ground! Either you are for Him or against HIm. We can't have one foot in the world & one foot out. When we are out in the world, we act as those who are in the world. Then when we are around church folk, we act all holy. The bible says in Joshua 24:15 "...choose you this day whom ye will serve;" We can't be going in & out, only serving the Lord when we feel like it or when it is convenient for us. Either you love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul, & strength. And you want to serve Him & want His will in your life. Or you just simply don't! There is only two choices. There is no middle or neutral ground.
We as Christians should be standing up & proclaiming Jesus Christ, no matter how much criticism we receive. No matter if it isn't the popular "vote" of the people.
If we go around acting as the world acts & living the way the world lives, yet we confess we are Christians, What affect does that have on our testimony?......It makes it void!!!
Jesus said in Matthew 6:24 & Luke 16:13 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, & love the other: or else he will hold to the one, & despise the other...."
THERE IS NO NEUTRAL GROUND!!!!!!!!!!
Not only will the things we speak & the way we live determine the side we have chosen but our thoughts as well. Are we thinking one way & speaking or doing another?
We are according to 2 Cor. 10:5 supposed to "Cast down imaginations, & every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, & bringing into captivity every, thought to the obedience of Christ;"
We are not to entertain evil thoughts. As soon as a thought pops into our mind, that we know is not of God, we are to cast it down.
Also knowing to do something that is right & not doing it but doing the complete opposite, that is rebellion.
James 1:8 says "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."
We need to choose Gods righteousness or mans righteousness.
We need to choose relationship or religion.
We need to choose holiness or vanity.
If we don't make a decision to walk in the ways of the Lord to stay in the ways of true holiness but we continue to one day serve God then the next day not to serve Him, the Lord says, "I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art luke warm, & neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Rev. 3:15,16)
It's time we get on fire for God. We are living in the very last days of the end times. We either get on fire for God now or burn in the lake of fire later.
Let's use the time we have left wisely. Use our time to promote Gods kingdom & bring in lost souls who do not know our merciful God & Heavenly Father.
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