We're going to say follow peace with all men in holiness without which no man shall
see the Lord, looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any root
of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby amain be defiled.
What happens if you choose not to repent?
Well, you become bitter.
See there's two options.
You either become better or you become bitter.
You could become better by being a partaker of God's holiness or you could just be flat
out mad at the things of God.
You don't go to church and you hate the sermons and you hate the pastor and everyone's against
me and you have this victim mentality.
You know?
You have this victim mentality.
You think that everyone's against you, no one's on you, no one's for you.
You know, woe is me under the juniper tree and you just become bitter.
And guess what?
If you have a family and you have a wife and you have children, if you have a husband,
you defile them as well because bitterness begets bitterness.
You ever been around a bitter person?
You know, it's irritating.
But imagine living with them, you'll become bitter too.
You'll become critical of everything.
You know, you can't smile, everything is woe, nothing is good.
You defile a lot of people because of that.
And it's unfortunate but Christians get chastised by the Lord and they become bitter towards
God unfortunately sometimes.
I'm not saying they hate God but they're almost like, it's God's fault, you know, God's doing
this to me.
Well yeah, God is doing it to you.
But the option there is that you just get right with God.
God bless!