CHILDREN OF THE DAY

The Prophet Isaiah's statement "Line upon line, precept upon precept" relates to God's absolute correctness in symmetry and law.   "I have set in Israel a plumbline, and I'll pass by no more" by the OT Prophet Amos, declares that God's laws once set are not likely to be revised.

While there's a lot of playing around with the Word of God by every whim of denomination, church, and individual, in the showdown, there will be no change in God's demands.   Be assured and beware of this one fact, "God is not slack concerning His promises."

Two words that should be very familiar to every apostolic Christian are; sin and holiness.   These are indispensable terms to the child of God.   They are inseparable from the Word of God.   They are primary, and of extreme importance to God Himself.   These two words give the opposing headings to "evil" and "good."

In the March, 1992 edition of Charisma magazine, Leonard LeSourd said, "I asked the Lord, 'How do I pray for those hooked into this four-letter-word culture we live in - what is the positive opposite to this darkness and degeneracy?'   The inner answer," he said, "was almost a shout: Holiness!"   he then confessed, "But we Christians, even many deeply committed ones, tend to shy away from the 'holy' label."

Then, is it any wonder that Satan seeks to intimidate God's ministers - making them fearful to preach about those two powerful subjects, "sin" and "holiness?"   There is an ageless, relentless struggle between righteousness and evil.   In eternity past, the struggle effectively robbed Lucifer of the meaning of his name "Sun of the Morning" tagging his "Satan," "Adversary" - forever alienating him from God.

Notice God's regard for light: "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.   And God called the light Day, and darkness he called Night." (Gen 1:4-5)

Using this background, Paul declared, "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.   Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day:   we are not of the night, nor of darkness.   Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.   For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken in the night.   But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." (1 Th 5:4-8).