6 Areas Even Where Christians Struggle

Idoltry Gossip Hypocrisy Unforgiveness Fear Pride Idoltry - God tells you to go read or pray, instead you decide to binge-watch an all-day marathon of Gunsmoke on Television. God knows our endurance our faith, our charity, He knows how we abhor evil, He has somewhat against us because we have left our first love. Revelation Chapter 2 There is nothing wrong with little tv, little music, little appropriate entertainment every once in a while, but when deciding to put that above our relationship with God we fall into idol worship. Gossip - Let's face it we've all been guilty of a time or two of spreading a rumor whether it was intentional or unintentional, sometimes we're like REO Speed Wagon we hear a word from someone and we take it on the run. You know, I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who, heard from another man you're bringing me down. The church is in a state where nobody wants to admit that they have a problem, nobody wants to confess their faults to one another because nobody wants to be the main headline for Social Media's Gossip Column. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. - Matthew 18:16-17 The song is called let us have a little talk with Jesus, not let us post a little post on Facebook tweet a little tweet on tweeter, but have let us have a little talk with Jesus. Hypocrisy - I can't understand why they did that, flips too I can't understand why people are criticizing me what's the big deal forget about the big deal for just a moment. Sometimes the very thing that you are or I am being judged for is the very thing we've been guilty of criticizing a person t for. Whether it is intentionally or unintentionally we all have been guilty of some form of hypocrisy. Come, brother, sister, or lost person posted a curse on social media word and we want to tan their hide while were home eating our bowl of crow, and sipping on our cup of hypocrisy watching Snakes on the plane. If something convicts you that bad for you to go and bash someone else, it out to convict you that bad to not watch it at home. You know what church sometimes we sit back and we eat a bowl of crow and sip on our cup of hypocrisy. Church if cursing convicts us that bad to call someone out for it for saying it, or calling them out on social media, we ought to be convicted enough not to listen to that type of language at home. In the book of Romans, Paul makes statements such as are you wise to the foolish or a teacher to the unlearned, thou who judgest another. Thou who preaches against stealing, doest thou steal? Thou steal? Thou that preachest against adultery, doest thou commit adultery? There is no point in preaching to people if we do not practice what we preach. Unforgiveness - Look I'm sure someone has wrong us one way or another, as well as I am sure we have been guilty too. We got to learn to forgive them and move on. Doesn't Jesus say forgive those as I have forgiven you? We're can't truly have revival if we can't truly forgive Fear- Church we got to get over covid 19. You know what I believe and I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, that some of you who are reading this online today aren't reading this by coincidence. I believe some of you reading today have walked away from God because you have let the fear of catching covid control your life. Lots of yall are missing out You're not living, If you want to take precautions fine, but don't let the fear of catching covid dictate your life. . Well, you say brother I can read at home I can pray at, I don't have to go to church. To be honest how many of us actually read and pray at home, maybe the elders seldomly us younger ones in Christ not always like we should and I am speaking for myself. I don't read the bible always like I should, not like I did when I first got saved. am I proud of that no, but I have to admit because it is true. We got too many distractions, we got the television, phone, internet, video games and we leave our Bibles on the shelf collecting dust, we don't pray, and when we ask for a word from God we expect God to give us a word. Look I understand that we are the church, the building is just a building, but there might come a day when churches will shut their doors down for good, while the doors are open we need to be here. I don't care if it's here, or there you need be somewhere where you can hear some sound doctrine some truth because you can hardly get any truth this from the world which we are living now. In the current present time in which we are living there has nothing been so much confusion, division, and deceitfulness. Older preachers will tell you I have never seen a time in my entire life as the hour that we are living in today. Pride - I am always right and they are always wrong or vice versa. No, sometimes they are right, and I am wrong. and sometimes they are wrong and I am right, and sometimes neither of us are right nor wrong we just disagree. There are some things that are okay to disagree with.