“A Picture of Mixture in the Church Today.”

Nehemiah 13:23-24




In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:



And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.



God’s chosen people had gone outside of God’s prescribed way and made relationships with those that rejected them bread and water when God was bringing them into the land of promise.



They were to be a separated people unto God. When God called Abram (Abraham) out of Mesopotamia, God began first by calling a man out to separate himself from where he was to the place where God would show him, Abram had nothing but a promise from God and God who is faithful to His’ word.



The scripture above in Nehemiah chapter 13:23-24, is a type or a picture out of a real Old Testament account of how God’s people through their own disobedience to God’s word caused them the ruin of many lives and ultimately the ruin of their nation which brought them into captivity by the heathen (unbelievers) nations around them.



These that had married these wives outside of God’s way had children born that spoke the voice of the heathen. They knew nothing of language of the chosen people of God. They had become the influence to those that married them instead of being the influence of God to them.



This is a picture of what has happen in the churches today! Now this is not about any man who is washed in the blood of Jesus Christ who has married any woman washed in the blood of Jesus Christ, God blesses these two people, regardless of who they are.



This shows us how when we take the world into His’ Church we are asking for trouble. Who is the Church? Washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ believers are!



Who’s building the Church? Jesus is! Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18



We’ve got people today that know all about the world, they can tell everything about all the idols or icons of this world have attained to but they won’t pray, they don’t get into God’s word. They really don’t love God because Jesus said: If you love Me you will keep My sayings. John 14:21

They really don’t love Jesus! They say “I love Jesus,” But they don’t love Him! How can you say that? I can say it simply by their life, it’s speak so much louder than all the “I love Jesus” we can say! Jesus said: Matthew 14:23-24 When our flesh leads us and we follow, we can be certain that God will not be glorified and there will be lasting consequences!



Nehemiah separated the people in his day for God. And now, we are to separate ourselves unto God from the world, flesh, and the devil by as God’s people, walk as dear children. Ephesians 5:1-21



“That’s the Church that Jesus is building and the gates of hell can’t come into it or prevail against it!”

The only way that any can enter in is through the Cross of Christ and that means certain death to those that choose to do so!



But praise God! He raises us up when we are willing to die!



God forbid if I preach any message other than the Cross!