DISCIPLE

  World Cup???? A modern idol?  Why would anyone who follows the Lord Jesus Christ want a " world cup"?  Scripture clearly warns us about the world, what it is and what it offers!   1 John 2.15-17  15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  Demas loved the world and turned away from serving the Lord with the apostle Paul (2 Tim. 4.10). Many other potential disciples have been lost to the world, enchanted by it, taken up with it, seeking  happiness and fulfilment in it. Are you one? God says that t he whole world lies in wickedness (1 Jn. 5.19). Not a pretty picture. Do you agree? The world is a vain, dec...

     Scripture declares that "the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts" (1 Chron. 28:9). Is it any wonder that He declared that the thoughts of man are "evil" (Gen. 6:5), "vanity" (Psa. 94:11), "an abomination" (Prov. 15:26), "of iniquity" (Is. 59:7), "sin" (Prov. 24:9)? God declares that He is not to be found in any of the thoughts of the wicked (Psa. 10:4), that their thoughts are against Him for evil (Psa. 56:5). God says that His thoughts are higher than human thoughts even as the heavens are high above the earth (Is. 55:9), and that the unrighteous man is to forsake his thoughts (Is. 55:7). The Lord Jesus declared that the evil thoughts of men proceed out of their own hearts (Mark 7:21). The Holy Spirit declared that the Bible is the critic, the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Heb. 4:13).      Therefore, when there arises a question ...