James 4:4 “You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

We live in a world where darkness is being celebrated over light in the name of civilisation.

Immorality is seen as the norm and standard of living, while morality is seen as extremism. In a world like this, the believer is tempted to conform to the culture of darkness.

He is tempted to conform, because, if he doesn’t, he’ll be persecuted.
He wants to imbibe the world’s culture, because if he doesn’t, he’ll be ridiculed and denied certain offices.

Hence you see believers, who once began as Gospel musicians, filled with the Spirit and addicted to God, but as they journey to fame, they start sliding into secularism as well as making close companionships with worldly musicians.

The temptation to conform to the standard of the worldbis what will make a young, beautiful saintly lady, put on a dress tht exposes the sensitive part of her body, and still show it off proudly.

Dear Reader, we are in the Season where many shall fall away. The love of God shall wax cold in the heart of many.

But God’s word remains the same and God’s standard remains the same.

God has called us out of darkness into Light. We are different from those who live in the world. We have a different culture from them, we belong to an entirely different kingdom.

We cannot make the culture of the world our culture!

The word, Church, means called out. God called us out of sin unto righteousness, out of living in rebellion, onto living in Holiness unto the Lord.

God called the Israelites out of Egypt. But He didn’t take them to the Promised Land at once. He led them through the wilderness.

For years, all God did with the Israelites was to give them commands and instructions through Moses. But God’s intention was to imbibe His own culture into the Israelites.

The Israelites had left Egypt, but they still had the Egyptian mentality. In order to get them into the Promised Land, God needed to reshape their mentality and refine their culture.

Take a good look at this:

Leviticus 20:26: “You must be holy to me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from all other peoples to be my own.”

This is God speaking to the Israelites. God separated them; He severed them from the other nations. He placed a line that separated them from other nations (metaphorically).

This is a type of God’s dealings with the New Testament Church. We were delivered from slavery to sin (Rom. 6:7) and we’re Pilgrims (1 Pet 2:11) on our way to the Heavenly Canaan.

God is saying to us today, in the thick of the rise of Satanic civilization in the world, be Holy and separate from them.

WHAT GOD’S WORD SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY

The World believes in Homosexuality. The world believes there is nothing wrong in gay and lesbian marriage.

The world believes there is nothing wrong in gay and lesbian lifestyles. They believe in sexual perversion, all in the name of Human Rights.

It is wrong for a Christian to accept such. We are not governed by the opinions of the world, but by the Instructions of God. This is the truth that every genuine Christian must stand for.

Leviticus 18:22 “Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin.”

Leviticus 20:13 “If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing”

God detests Homosexuality. He was against it and He is still against it.

The opinions of the world, will not change this!

What about those Saints who are struggling with living contrary to worldly culture?

If you find yourself in such situation, where you find it difficult to live as a Christian and very easy to live as an unbeliever.

Do the following consistently,

1. Study God’s Word and Declare your Identity daily. Let a consciousness of who you are be formed in you. When this Consciousness is ever active in you, it will restrain you from following the path of the world.

2. Filter your association. In your professional work, relate well with as much people as possible, whether gay, lesbian, good or bad, but be careful those who you allow into your private space. Thy have a way of greatly Influencing your lifestyle.

3. Hate sin. See it as what it is. A pollution of the mind and defilements of the spirit.

4. Filter what you watch, Read and Hear. In every human, Christian or non-christian are lustful propensities and desires.

But the Christian has his own mortified by the power of the Holy Spirit, while the unbeliever has his own, fully developed by the working of the spirit of disobedience.

Yet, a Christian can also get himself enslaved by lust if he keeps feeding those desires by consistently exposing his mind and eyes to pornography.

Expose your mind and your eyes instead to godly content such as this, and in time, you’ll be free from being ruled by lustful desires