The Cost of Mingling by Dr. Warren Wiersbe Read Psalm 106:34-48 It has been well said that the one thing we learn from history is that we dont learn from history. Anyone who has raised children or is trying to help raise grandchildren knows this. Somehow the new generation doesnt believe that the older generation knows anything. Psalm 106 certainly bears this out. It is a record of how the people of Israel were blessed and then sinned. God helped them repeatedly, and they repeatedly sinned. We see one cause of their sin in verse 35: But they mingled with the Gentiles. Theres step one--they started mingling and breaking down the walls of separation. God had warned Israel not to mingle among the nations. They were not to get involved with them, but as verse 35 says, they learned their works. First we mingle with the world, and then we start learning the worlds way of doing things. And before long, Israel served their idols, which became a snare to them (v. 36). They mingled, they learned, and they served. The tragedy is that the families suffered the most. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons (v. 37). Thus, they lost the next generation. Many Christians today have broken down the walls of separation. They are mingling with and serving the world and are figuratively sacrificing their own children to demons. Thus they were defiled by their own works, and played the harlot (v. 39). Israel was married to Jehovah God, but she was unfaithful to her marriage vows. Dont be defiled by the world. Keep your walk with the Lord holy. Sin contaminates. Thats why you need walls of separation. Dont mingle with the world, for one step of compromise will lead to another. Keep your heart clean of sin and do not entertain temptations. Let nothing come between you and your relationship with God.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:50:49 +0000
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