Monday, January 19, 2009

Practical Atheist

In our Young Professional Class this month we are examining a study called Practical Atheist. Its a unusual title, but a very needed study in today's world. A practical atheist is someone who believes in God, but lives as if He doesn't exist. All of us at times don't actually live the life that a follower of God should live.

In our first week, we examined that many of us believe in God, but we don't fear Him like we should.

In 2 Timothy 3 it states..... There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-having a form of godliness but denying its power

How easy it is to believe in God but live an entirely different self centered life style.

When you believe in God and when you truly fear Him you will want to do two specific things. One is you will want to serve him wholeheartedly without any conditions.

The example that comes to my mind is the individual that we are studying on Sunday mornings during our assembly time......Abraham. He believed in God and he served Him without any conditions. He believed in His God with all his heart that he would even sacrifice His own son. God saw this faith in action in Genesis 22

"Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
Genesis 22:12.

The second thing that will happen when we fear God is we will be forever ruined.

Isaiah is a great example of a man that was ruined because he actually saw God in all His glory. When we allow God to change us and as we see Him we are ruined.

"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." Isaiah 6:5

True obedience is found in the love we have for our God and the love that is showered upon us each day. When we believe in Him and when we fear Him, the blessings continue to flow continually.

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