06/22/21 ALARMS THAT SHOULD ALARM YOU

06/22/21 ALARMS THAT SHOULD ALARM YOU

 God designed us to be alarmed when certain things take place in our lives. God created Adam with body, soul and spirit.

Through Adam's sin, each of these components have been corrupted and deadened. Five components of the SOUL are Reason, Desire, Emotion, Conscience and Will. We did not lose these five components, but we lost the Edenic qualities that God imparted at creation. Still, we have these qualities, through which God communicates with us. Since we are conceived as fallen, corrupted, sinful people God has set up a warning system, designed to alert us to dangers of various kinds, including dangers to our inner man.

Here are two of the dangers and alarms that God uses to save us from spiritual losses.

SINNERS SHOULD HEAR AND HEED GOD'S ALARM
God warns the SINNER (person without Christ) that he is lost in sin. All have sinned and all are dead (separated from God) in their sins.

Since God does not want anyone to be separated (at the present time or in eternity),

God enlightens every person who comes into the world with a sense of right and wrong from the time of their childhood. God communicates this understanding through the Conscience.

Little children, worldwide, from every race, culture and religion, innately realize that there is good and evil.
Then as the child chooses to submit to evil, God "convicts" them of their wrong doing.

Conviction, awareness of sin and guilt; the dangers of a sin and guilt are made more understandable through the enlightenment of the word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit.

Those who are exposed to the word of God are made aware of their need for reconciliation with God, the need for forgiveness, the need to believe on Christ, the need to confess their sins, the need to repent (turn from sin and turn to Christ), the need to follow Jesus.
These are basic steps to salvation that Jesus taught.

However, sinners resist the enlightenment of God and reject God's offer of salvation, but God continues to convict and call the sinner to conversion. The longer a sinner refuses God's love, mercy, grace, the more they harden their hearts. Resisting the warning of God and the offer of salvation is a dangerous thing to do.

Everyone needs salvation and Jesus is the only way to salvation. To neglect or reject God's call to salvation is to cut yourself off from the only hope available. When you sense your sin, guilt, it is God speaking to you and calling you. Refusing God's call will result in further sin and eventually can end the call of God.

Children need to hear the word of God and be made aware of their sins and God's salvation. Children are more sensitive to God, however, regardless of a person's age, repeated rejection of God's call leads to a seared, hardened conscience, which cuts off the call of God.

BELIEVERS SHOULD HEAR AND HEED GOD'S ALARM
After a sinner hears and heeds the call of God to salvation through Christ, that person becomes a New Creation in Christ, God imparts to them Newness of Life through the New Birth and gives them a New Man (created in the likeness of Christ). The believer enters into a right relationship with the living God and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, who then guides us into the way of righteousness.

God enlightens and leads the believer. This includes leading them into greater light and warning them when they are about to walk out of light into darkness. As Jesus taught us to pray, "... Lead us not into temptation." and as the Psalmist said, "... lead me in the way everlasting." God leads us with His word, His Spirit, in His Light, in His Truth, in His Way.

However, hearing and heeding is our responsibility. If we come to a point that we are not following fully, then the Holy Spirit warns us, leads us, calls us. If we will not hear God's call to us as believers then we will disobey Him, walk in darkness, separate ourselves from Him through sin.

The Christian experience, relationship is a life, a walk, a continuous submission to God. When we start to drift, stray, slip from the way of God, then the Holy Spirit convicts us and calls us to a life of faith and faithfulness. To reject His call is to become more rebellious, hardened and without Christ.

Christians must maintain a right relationship with God, through prayer and Scripture reading and heeding, and meditation and and submission.
Jude 1:20-21
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Romans 8:12-14
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Galatians 5:16-25
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

DO NOT IGNORE OR REJECT GOD'S ALARMS.
THEY ARE HIS EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE.
THEY ARE WARNINGS TO SAVE US FROM DISASTER.