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⁷ When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in both heart and flesh, to occupy my sanctuary, you defiled my temple while you offered my food—the fat and the blood. You broke my covenant by all your detestable practices. ⁸ You have not kept charge of my holy things but have appointed others to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.’^CSB (Ezekiel 44:7).

This is an Old Testament law for sure, but it has a New Testament application. It is referring to the physical temple first built by Solomon, then destroyed by the Babylonians, rebuild by Nehemiah, refurbished by Herod, and later destroyed again by the Romans in AD 70. This verse is God Himself speaking to His people, the Israelites. They were allowing, but not just allowing, they were actually bringing uncircumcised, non-Jews into the Temple. The law only made allowances for circumcised Jews to come into the Temple. So, when they did that, they broke God’s covenant with them, because they defiled the holy Temple, where the presence of God aboded.

The Scriptures state that we are now the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is, Himself, God. So, when we apply this law to our day, it looks like this. When you watch unwholesome movies with cussing, and excessive violence, nudity, and other ungodly stuff in it, or when you tell crude jokes, or partake in other unwholesome activities you are bringing uncircumcised things into the sanctuary. In so doing, you are in fact defining God’s sanctuary, which is us, our hearts, our minds, our body. We defile God’s temple while saying that we are worshiping God. We offer praise with defiled minds, and lift up defiled hands. Our worship is defiled when we watch porn on our computers, cellphones, or on TV.

Here is the problem. When we partake in such things, it is not just a one time thing. That thing comes in and occupies the sanctuary. It takes up residence in our minds, and in our imaginations, and they become corrupted. It will take only God and the blood of Jesus to sanctify them again. Therefore, God is not pleased with this type of detestable practices. He commanded us to be holy just as He is holy.

So, let us determine that this New Year we will seek Him with everything in us, and live holy, righteous lives. Let us forsake the detestable practices and seek the face of God, so that we might live and not die.

Heavenly Father, please help me to live righteously for You. Strengthen me when I’m weak as You lead me in the path of righteousness. In Jesus’ Name I pray, amen.

¹³ Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. ¹⁴But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. ~ Matthew 7:13-14^NIV

Jesus said there are only two roads you can travel through this life on: the narrow road and the broad road.  So, what is the difference between these two roads, and how do we get on one or the other? I’m glad you asked.

Jesus said wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. It seems to me that the broad road is the default road. In other words, it is where everyone starts from. You don’t have to do anything special, or different, it’s the default road. It is the most beautiful road. It is the easiest road. It is the biggest road. And contrary to what Texas might believe, bigger is not always better. Yes, it might be easier, you don’t even have to look for it, cause it’s just there, but it’s definitely not better.

There are huge lanes you can drive on, making it feel good. But Jesus said at the end of it is destruction. The world will promise you many things in this life that will feel good for the moment, everyone else may be enjoying it, but the end is death. So many people enjoy quoting Mark Twain saying, “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company” not fully realizing what they’re saying. Though many travel the road to Hell, there’s no parties in Hell. There’s no company. It’s loneliness, fear, pain, suffering, and agony. That’s all Hell is. It’s the complete and total separation from God and all that He has for us.

Yes, the road is broad, looks fun, and many travel it, but in the end, it’s just destruction, pain, and suffering. Therefore, choose the road less traveled. Choose the road that may be difficult, few find, but that leads to Eternal Life, joy, peace, and company with the LORD God who created you.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Choose Narrow.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, for His wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him. ~ Psalms 2:12

Psalms chapter two is talking about God the Father and His Anointed, His One and Only begotten Son whom the nations rage against, the peoples plot in vain against, the kings of the earth set themselves against, and the rulers take counsel together against. His Name is Jesus.

The Holy and Anointed One. The One born of a virgin, who lived a sinless life. Who was crucified, died, and was buried for three days and three nights. Who rose again on the third day never to be killed, or to suffer, or to be abused ever again because He is seated at the right hand of power, and He is coming back to judge the living and the dead.

Yes, His name is Jesus. He is the first, and He is the last. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Beginning and the End. The One and only true God. Therefore, kiss the Son. Cling to Him, for He alone can save you.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Embrace The Son.

¹⁰ You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” ~ Isaiah 47:10

The Scripture says that ‘you felt secure in your wickedness.’ That word wickedness pertains to that which is not morally pure or morally good, nor is it morally right. It further implies that this evil hinders or severs a relationship with a person or principle that is proper or has morals.

For instance, it is morally wrong to take the life of a defenseless little baby still safe and secure in its mother’s womb. Yet, some in the Church will fight you tooth and nail to defend a woman’s right to murder her own child. It’s her body, after all. But I digress.

Now, according to the definition of wickedness that we just read, it should, at the very least, hinder a relationship or, at best, sever the relationship with those who have proper principles or good and proper morals. Yet, that is not what we are seeing in the Church today. Morals are thrown out the window, and identity politics are led in the front door.

It’s not what you stand for, it’s how you look, or what party you associate with. The Scripture implied that those who felt secure in their wickedness felt like they would never get caught. No one will ever know because “No one sees me,” they said. But, rest assured, God sees. Therefore, cling to righteousness, lest you be separated from Christ for all eternity because of wickedness.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Remember God Sees.

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¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, ²⁰ loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. ~ Deuteronomy 30:19-20

God does not send anyone to hell. Each one must choose for their own selves where they will spend eternity. Either they will spend it in the Lake of Fire or in eternity with Jesus in blissfulness, with every need and desire supplied.

With no more fear, worry, hot sun burning you up, hunger, thirst, weariness, lack of anything because all poverty will be vanquished, all hate and deception gone, all wars will cease, and eternal peace shall reign. All oppression will be a thing of the past. Imagine a place where you are free and truly loved for who you are. No hidden agendas, only truth and love. This is a true utopia promised to those who God and follow Him.

I know it is a hard concept to imagine (for some), but God has promised an eternity of love, joy, and peace, never again knowing pain to those who believe in His name, have held on to His promises, and have obeyed His commands. It’s an eternal paradise or eternal damnation. It’s your choice. How? Because we choose with our actions, our words, our decisions, what we support and don’t support. The way we live this life on earth will directly affect the way that we will live our lives in eternity.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Make Your Choice.

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¹³ Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. ¹⁴ For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? ~ Esther 4:13-14

When we stand silent as others are persecuted because it does not affect me, so I don’t want to get involved. I’m not political, but what you don’t realize is that it will affect you eventually.

Martin Niemöller, a prominent German Lutheran pastor who sympathized with many of the Nazi ideas and supported radical right-wing political movements in the 1920s and early 1930s, said:

First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

Niemöller spent eight years of his life in Nazi prisons and concentration camps because by the time he realized that the noose was also tightening around his own neck, it was too late. Open your eyes to the direction the world is moving in. Don’t believe that you alone will stand because you’re not currently being affected. Don’t believe that they will somehow find you favorable even though you no longer identify with what they are doing because it now affects you and your family. Don’t wait for it to be too late to make a stand because when it affects you personally, that changes everything.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Make A Stand.

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