“And be not conformed to this world.”-Romans 12:2
If a Christian can by possibility be saved while he conforms to this world, at any rate it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to be dreaded as desired. Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the darkness of a desponding death bed, and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner climbs the rocks of his native country? then be worldly; be mixed up with Mammonites, and refuse to go without the camp bearing Christ’s reproach. But would you have a heaven below as well as a heaven above? Would you comprehend with all saints what are the heights and depths, and know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge? Would you receive an abundant entrance into the joy of your Lord? Then come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing. Would you attain the full assurance of faith? you cannot gain it while you commune with sinners. Would you flame with vehement love? your love will be damped by the drenchings of godless society. You cannot become a great Christian-you may be a babe in grace, but you never can be a perfect man in Christ Jesus while you yield yourself to the worldly maxims and modes of business of men of the world. It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier is too intimate with his king’s enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous. Little thorns make great blisters, little moths destroy fine garments, and little frivolities and little rogueries will rob religion of a thousand joys. O professor, too little separated from sinners, you know not what you lose by your conformity to the world. It cuts the tendons of your strength, and makes you creep where you ought to run. Then, for your own comfort’s sake, and for the sake of your growth in grace, if you be a Christian, be a Christian, and be a marked and distinct one. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
http://bible.christiansunite.com/Morning_and_Evening/chme1014.shtml
He Hath Said 
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Thanks for the reblog! God bless you~
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This post was the most viewed one of 2013. I am thankful but I also see a lot of irony. What I am about to say is spoken with love and let it be known that my heart breaks to see such things committed by brothers and sisters in Christ.
The irony: The majority of you celebrated the birth of another “Jesus.” The “Jesus” of the Eucharist (Christ Mass). Along with the majority of the world you practiced pagan traditions and rituals, those things God said not to do in worship of Him. Many of you twisted the scriptures and made Paul out to be one who would approve of christianizing pagan worship to the sun-god to honor Christ Jesus with. You were of the world doing as the rest of the world in the pagan/papist celebration of the birth of the sun-god (you can call that babe “Jesus” but God sees who it really is and calls your worship vain). This is serious before God. He only sees two types of worship-the pure, unsullied worship of Him and the unholy Baal worship of the sun-god. Israel mixed pagan worship with the ways they were commanded by God to worship Him and God sent them His judgements. Can you escape God’s judgement for doing the same? As Matthew Henry said, If Satan has half of you, he has all of you. If God get but half of you, He will have none of you. One day He may say to you, I never knew you, because you insisted that what you were doing every December 25th was with His approval. You say you did it in faith, but it is not of the faith that was delivered to you by the apostles once and for all. Anything done that is not of that faith is sin. May God help you to see the truth and to come out from among them. In 2014, may you have a greater heart’s desire to know Him, the only true God, and His Son, Jesus, the Christ, for in this is eternal life. God bless you
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