Mingling
among the heathen is disobedience to Jesus
Psalm 106:34-35 KJV
They did not
destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: But were mingled
among the heathen, and learned their works.
Jesus demands total obedience from us why because a partial
obedience is still disobedience. When the Israelites were on their way to the Promised
Land, God gave them the command to utterly destroy the nations and not to make
any covenants with the heathen. He also gave them more victories over their
enemies even though they were outnumbered; yet they disobeyed and learnt their
ways therefore their hearts were turned away from God. Deut.
7:2-4 (KJV). This is exactly what the sons and children of God are doing in
these last days. Jesus said in John 14:15-17 (KJV) that “If ye love me, keep my
commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom
the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you”.
Disobedience: is not actually responding to the commands of your superior rather it is an action actively refusing to act according to the commands of your superior a form of disrespect for authority. You see, he who disobeys cannot command period.
Heathen: refers to any person who does not acknowledge or believe in the one and only God of the bible Jesus Christ of Nazareth the Son of the Living God. Another definition is a person who does not belong to a widely held religion (especially one who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim) as regarded by those who do. Note that Christianity is not just a religion but a way of life or life itself. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. You cannot bypass Him and go to the Father because they are one.
Mingle: to mingle is to mix together, to join or unite. This was exactly what the Israelites did as stated in verse 35 of ps. 106. (But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.) KJV.
Mingling has its own positive and negative sides as
such the sons of God must keep their identity and loyalty to God by avoiding
mingling with the heathen as the Israelites did. You cannot mingle among people
and not having part of them influencing you. The Israelites copied and adopted
the life styles, customs as well as the religions and ways of the heathen. We
are facing the same challenges today because of our human nature. It has become
very difficult to differentiate the Christian from the heathen. We have strayed
from obeying the commands of God because their ways have become a snare or trap
unto us. Christians must note that disobedience to God in itself has
consequences. The world's ways are attractive to our human nature. Although we are to live in the world, we are
not to adopt the ways of the world. The more we adopt the world's ways, the
further we stray from God.
Some of the ways of the heathen in these last days:
1. They dress or wear little or no clothes sometimes
very short skirts and trousers hanging on their buttocks instead of waists
2. Some of the men pierces their ears, wear rings on
their toes and ears and also practices homosexuality. You find them wearing
pampers as babies.
3. They treat human life lightly and are frequently violent
like you find people shooting people without any provocation in America and
other parts of the world.
4. They are sexually loose and promiscuous and you
cannot leave out some of those pretending to be believers.
5. They make vulgar movements and gestures to
attract the opposite sex.
6. They drink concoctions that make them tipsy and
irrational.
7. They utter profane and angry speech
8. They sacrifice their children to devils.
9. They pass laws to legalize homosexuality which
animals do not even practice.
10. They Dance and gyrate in obscene fashion.
Consequences:
Every action has its own consequences and our
disobediences to God calls for his wrath like what happened to the Israelites
(ps106:40)kjv .
We must not learn from the heathen and must obey God
for the whole duty of man is to fear God and keep His commandments.
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