I don’t usually blog on Sundays… so today we will close out our study/focus on Psalm 101 and our October Song with Psalm 101:7-8…
He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.
Psalm 101:7-8
Let’s first look at Psalm 101:7,
He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
Now compare this with Revelation 21: 23-27
And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it…
There will be no liars, no one who practices falsehood, in the house of God… so we should not tolerate it in ourselves. We live in a day where liars are brushed off or laughed off, but to God lying and falsehood is no laughing matter. He expects our yes to be a yes and our no to be a no. We are not to make stuff up to get our way… and we are not to speak falsehood… We need to be very careful to make sure that the words that come out of our mouths are truth and that they are reliable. When we catch a lie or falsehood coming out of our mouths, we need to go boldly before the throne of grace and seek the mercy of our God. We are to be people of truth if we represent the Truth.
We should not tolerate lies in ourselves and we should not tolerate it in our homes by others… Are there things that you lie about? To others? To yourself? To God?
Take it to Him now… don’t wait. You will not maintain your position before Him if you choose to remain in the practice of deceit and the speaking of falsehood. Precious one, He will deal with you… be sure your sins will find you out and your lies will entangle and trap you and trip you and the consequences of them will bring you to your knees. It is so much better if you justt choose to go there now on your own.
Now as we look at Psalm 101:8
Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.
I am in the middle of a study in Ezekiel so as I read this verse I immediately went to Ezekiel 9
The Lord said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.” But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare. Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.” So they started with the elders who were before the temple.
God was not playing with Israel and He is not playing with us…
So every morning when you awake you are to be ready to destroy every wicked way in you… Every morning be aware that you could fail today if you are not ready, prepared, blameless, living in integrity, walking in truth…
Every morning let your feet hit the floor and place on them the gospel of peace. Stand up out of the bed and gird your loins with truth, and slip into your breastplate of righteousness, cover your bed head with the helmet of salvation, slide on that shield of faith, and take hold of the sword of the Spirit…
Every morning get ready to stand. Stand firm. Get ready to stand and get ready to slay…
Walk through the land of your daily life and destroy the wicked that is among you and cut off all that does iniquity…
What is in your daily life that God would never allow to take place under His roof?
October is the eighth month and Octo means eight. It was on the eighth day that God said be circumcised. Circumcision is the removal of the flesh…
Let us spend the remainder of this month focused on the removing of the flesh from our lives.
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers,
beware of the false circumcision; for we are the true circumcision,
who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus
and put no confidence in the flesh,
although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh.
If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:
circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel,
of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews;
as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church;
as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.
But whatever things were gain to me,
those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
More than that, I count all things to be loss
in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things,
and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,…
Philippians 3:2-8