Flee Evil Desires and Pursue Godliness

When it comes to the things of God, when you stop doing one thing, you must start doing another. When you stop sinning, you must start doing righteous things. When you run away from one thing, you must run towards another thing. 2 Tim. 2v. 22 commands that we flee youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, love, faith, and peace. You do not just run away from evil youthful desires and run to nowhere. As you flee evil desires, you run embracing godly desires. And you pursue righteousness, love, faith, and peace WITH THOSE WHO CALL UPON THE LORD OUT OF PURE HEARTS, NOT JUST ANYONE!

One of the palces we pursue these virtues is in a local Church. If the local Church does not comprise people calling upon the Lord out of pure hearts, keep off that congregation. It is better to be alone with Christ than to be in company with the servants of the devil. 1 Thess. 5v. 22 commands you to abstain from all appearance of evil. Any place where evil is, even if it is in a person or a group of people, you stay away from. Bad company destroys good character. And the worst people are the pseudo-Christians. They use the things of God in a twisted way with the aim of misleading the unstable. Their father the devil quoted Scriptures to Jesus in a twisted way with the aim of misleading our Lord.

We are commanded not to give up meeting together to worship and encourage each other in Heb. 10v. 25. There is no need of meeting together in a place you will not be encouraged. If the people do not call upon the Lord purely, avoid their congregations. Philip. 2v. 12 commands you to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. You do this by keeping the word of God fully. Prov. 6v. 5 commands you to save yourself like a bird from the hand of the fouler. Do this by avoiding false Christians and their congregations. We are in the days when, based on 2 Tim. 4v. 3, people are not putting up with sound doctrine but are amassing teachers around themselves to say what their itching ears want to hear. Come out of such gatherings and our God will receive you. Amen.

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