How to stay right with God. Number one is be proactive in the Christian life, okay.
And I've said this before but you know the Christian life doesn't happen by osmosis.
You can't just come to church and expect to be a great Christian overnight just because you're
in church. You have to actually do something with the information that's being given to you.
You actually have to do something with the examples that are being shown to you by others.
You have to be proactive in the Christian life. This is why David said,
one thing if I desire to the Lord that will I seek after. So you actually have to seek Christian
success. You have to seek the Lord. You have to be proactive in being right with God and staying
right with God. It's not like well I'm in church so therefore I'm just going to keep doing this,
not pay attention in church, not obey the commandments of the Lord, not go sowing,
not read my Bible. Just being in these walls is just enough for me. It doesn't work that way.
You have to be proactive in your Christian life. Examine yourself and see what areas do I need to
work on. You understand? Look at James 4 verse number 7 it says, submit yourselves therefore to
God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. Look what it says, draw nigh to God and he'll draw
nigh to you. So what is the equation? The equation is this, what's the formula? If you want to get
close to God you physically or should I say spiritually need to get close to God. You need
to draw nigh unto the Lord right and the byproduct of that is that God will draw nigh to you. Now in
a practical sense how do you do that? Well look what it says, cleanse your hands ye sinners and
purify your hearts ye double minded. In other words start getting sin out of your life.
You know once if you want to get close to God you want to draw nigh to the Lord you don't need
to put on some CCM song to help you to get close to God because actually CCM gets you further from
God because it makes you sensual fleshly you know it pushes you away from because here's the thing
is God is the spirit so they that worship him must worship him in the spirit and the truth.
You understand? But if we want to draw nigh to God the way God filters that is by how you clean your
heart up and how do you clean your heart? By cleansing your hands. Examining your life thinking
to yourself well what sins do I have am I regarding iniquity in my heart? Is there something in my life
that I know that's not pleasing unto the Lord? And seek to fix those things in your life.
He says draw nigh to God he will draw nigh to you cleanse your hands ye sinners so it's not
complicated you don't have to climb a mountain to get right with God you don't have to you know go
across the sea to find the Lord all you have to do is cleanse your hands all you have to do is purify
your heart and you think of purifying your heart it could be an attitude problem you know sometimes
people are not right with God because of their attitude they have a bad attitude towards their
husband they have a bad attitude towards their wife they have a bad attitude towards the church
they have a bad attitude towards spiritual authority towards just the Christian life
and that will cause them to not be right with God. You understand? Because along with being
right with God is knowing God's order.