Morning Devotional August 2nd, 2017

Colossians 2:8

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

Yesterday we discussed following horoscopes and other religions. Today let us look at “Modern Christianity”.

We see so many pastors and teachers today following after the motivational speakers of the business world. My thought on this? I believe these pastors and teachers see the fame and fortune these speakers have and began to lust after those things. We see so many “churches” following after the modern business models for growth. They seek to grow the church role by the latest tricks and fancies and schemes of the business world. All to add to the church coffers and to build up the fame of the pastor. And all this they do in the name of Christ. Or so they say.

Here is a few verses from our Lord on this matter:

Matthew 6:24

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

1 John 2:16

“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.”

James 4:4

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”


These are just a few. There are many more verses where our Lord warns us of following after the world and not after Him. The philosophy of the world has no place in the churches of our Lord. Yet we see so many turning from the Word of God and seeking after the ungodly. Yes, their quotes and ideas sound nice and promising. But consider the source. Are they of God? If they are not of God then why follow them? Why waste time preaching and teaching something other than God's Word?
Some will say we need to be on the same level as the lost so we can reach them. According to God's Word, how does that make any since at all? Is it not God who gives the increase? Is it not God and only God who has the power to save lost souls? Then why seek methods and ideologies outside God's Word? God plainly tells us in many places how to reach the lost. The best way is to simply preach the gospel. Why not just follow the Great Commission and preach the gospel to the whole world?
Is God's Word so out dated that it is no longer effective? How arrogant for us to think our ideas and schemes are better than God's plan. What a shame for God's people to think their ways are better than His. No wonder our nation is in the shape it is in today! No wonder the Lord's churches are slowly dying. God's own people have turned their backs on their Lord and Savior and followed the lust of the world. We are seeing first hand the great falling away Paul spoke of.
I believe it would do us all good to go back and read the book of Jeremiah. See what happens to a people who turned their backs on God and refused to repent. Do we think we are better than they?


Praise ye the Lord!!!