The Word of God explains to us today's Title verse regarding a double-minded man it says; whatever we ask God for we must ask in faith without any doubting, do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind! Is there anything more unstable?
Double-minded believers can't expect anything from God because to be double-minded is to have a divided loyalty and that will never be acceptable in God's sight. This truth is all over the Word of God, we are going to look at four examples.
God says that if we love the world, we will not love Him! "You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." James 4:4. The worlds ways and Gods kingdom way are diametrically opposed to one another. They repel one another like magnets. The world is attractive to the flesh and the flesh is hostile toward God. Read Romans 8:7-8.
"Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier." 2 Timothy 2:3-4. As a born again believer we are not to get entangled in the affairs of everyday life, entangled is the operative word here and in the Greek it means; to weave into. We are in the world but Jesus says we are not of the world, we are sojourning now, don't allow the worlds ways to weave you in!
A perfect example of getting entangled by the world is found in the parable of the seed as written in Luke 8:14 NLT; "The seeds that fell among the thorns represent those who hear the message, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the cares and riches and pleasures of this life. And so they never grow into maturity." Cares, worries, riches and pleasures of this life, (the world) be very careful not to get caught up in them for if you do you won't ever mature as a child of God. And why would you ever settle for less that the abundant life God promises while we are still in the world?
This last example is the same as one example of thorns we just read about, but because this is so insidious, so deceitful, it warrants another mention. Jesus makes it very clear in Luke 16:13 when He says; "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Wow! The world trusts in money, riches, possessions and Jesus said in Luke 12:34; "Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be." Money has the world convinced that it is the source of their security, that is a lie!
That is why God asks us to tithe, He does not need our money, He does that to break the entanglement that money has on people! And before you tithe you feel the pull for and against it, that is the hold it has on you, once you are obedient to do what Jesus says, the hold is broken! Money is not evil, the love of money is because of the bondage it places on us. God alone is our trust, our security and provider, once you tithe your eyes are opened to that truth, and you are set free!
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