Move Out!

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word.

 

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared (reverenced) God and shunned evil.

 

Just started going through the Book of Job again and one thing we can garner from this book, is “The struggle is real!” And the struggle is intense! It’s a battle for souls between God and Satan, between good and evil.

 

God wants us to see the struggle, and He wants us to learn like Job did, to persevere through it.

 

Jesus told His followers point blank,  in Joh 16:33b". In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

 

And, Mt 24:13 "But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

 

The book starts out with the fact that Job feared God and shunned evil. It’s what God’s children do we seek to live in accordance with the Word of God. Evil (sin) is shunned (turned away from)

 

Put in another way, we no longer want fellowship with sin.

 

Let’s start with an obvious sin, one that the world has fully embraced, and you are considered terribly old-fashioned if you refuse to do it. It is played out in having sex before marriage. It is called the sin of fornication.

 

1Co 6:18 is rather blunt here, but you can’t ignore it, two words for those who claim Jesus as Lord, “Flee fornication”

 

Do you desire to demonstrate reverence toward God and His Word.  Then obey it! In the case of fornication, move out!

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word