WALK THE TALK
By Rick Mathes
Ephesians 4:17 (NASB77) 17 This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
Most people will believe your walk before they believe your talk. Talk is cheap but let me have a close relationship with someone for a reasonable period of time and I will really be able to size them up. So I just jotted down a few of the flashing red lights that might be on your path and you need to pause and consider:
- Don’t try to get rich quick.
- Don’t follow the crowd.
- Be subject to authorities.
- Seek good for others.
- Don’t be enslaved to anything.
- Glorify God in everything.
- Don’t give Satan a chance.
- Use your tongue to edify.
- Work hard for Jesus
If you continue in the futility of unbelief, you will sin and fall from grace. That’s like running through an active mine field naked. You are open to huge disaster and you have no relief in sight. When Jesus holds back the Holy Spirit to make you open game for any demon in Hell: to alienate you from any form of a godly life not to mention eternal dying, crying and sizzling in the endless flames of Hell. Do you want an example? Put a blow torch down your throat!
To walk contrary to the Lord, for a believer, is a dereliction of duty. This can be expressed as follows:
- Commission______________________ this is a blatant, in your face, willful sin.
- Omission________________________ this is telling a lie with enough truth to make it believable
- Permission_______________________ when you don’t do anything about your neighbors sin
Don’t be vain in mind, body and soul!
Don’t be vain in mind but humble yourself to your ignorance so as not to blind your heart with worldly lust that you find in those to associate with that are unclean and greedy. Walk in the presence of God seeking His approval and the shadow of death will never catch up with you.
Rick Mathes 