Real Christianity in a Fallen World

God's word is His contract with true Christians. It is perfect, pure and flawless! However, we can contaminate God's word by our worldly thoughts and ambitions to the point that the Word has no affect on our lives, and His promises never reach His potential. By contaminate, I mean that we bring our beliefs and our desires that do not line up with God's word.

The cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. Mark 4:19

When we desire anything more than God, we are guilty of removing the power from His word. We can even desire the promises of God more than God and this infects His Word with our desires. God's first and foremost desire from us is that we “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” (Matthew 22:37 ) What would you rather do than spend time doing the things of God?

Furthermore, we see in Mark 4:19, that the care of this world can over-ride God's Word. The children of Israel were guilty of this and they did not get to enter into the promised land. (Numbers 13-14) God told the children of Israel to go and possess the land and they believed their natural eyes more than they believed God's Word or His promise to them. We do this by looking at the circumstances rather than what God said. When God says it and we are in line with His word, it is finished.

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