I Will Set No Wicked Thing...

It's amazing how often Christians can become so innoculated that we fail to realize just how much sin we condone in our lives and entertainment. I was just watching a movie that I absolutely loved, and was shocked at the amount of times a curse word was uttered or the Lord's name was used in vain! I have watched this movie over and over again and never realized it! The problem was I was hearing it, but just didn't care. And thats theproblem with so much of our lives today. we, as Christians, just don't care. If we are going to bring our thoughts under captivity to Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5), we have to understand this takes place in every aspect of our lives and we must care!


The Psalmist teaches us such a wonderful lesson in Psalms 101. Please read this!
"I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD."

I will set NO wicked thing beofre my eye... I HATE the work of them that turn aside...I will destroy ALL the wicked of the land.
Notice that... NO wicked thing, I HATE the works of the evil one, I will destory not some but ALL the wicked. How many times have we applied that to our lives! If we claim to be a follower of God, whose side are we on! Who is determinig our thoughts, our entertainment, our lives! Jesus says we have only one master. We can't please one if we serve the other. It's one or the other. Please, please, please please please! Take this to heart. If you care about your Christianity, let us "Be holy for He who calls us is Holy" (1 Peter 1:16) Let us realize that "we are not ourselves! But we have been bought with a price, let us glorify God in our bodies!" (1 Cor 6:19) If we truly want to serve God and be close to Him, we must realize that sin seperates us from Him! we can't condone it in any way shape or form. We must allow God and Jesus to be captain over our thoughts, our actions, our lives.

What will we do? "For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we."

Please, be challenged by Pauls words here in 2 Corinthians 10:5-7, to take every thought captive to obey Christ, to remind ourselves that if we are confident that we are Christ's, that we are to live as He.

What shall we do?