How 'tidy' Is Your Spiritual Bedroom Series

Flirting with the world is being unfaithful to God, no matter how innocent you believe it to be, it can and DOES damage your relationship with God.

Having something so important it distracts you from your walk with Christ… no matter how good or important IT is, that is being unfaithful to God!

Demanding ‘me time’ from God is being unfaithful, when we come to Him for salvation, our lives have been crucified in Christ and we no longer live for ourselves but for Christ who lives within us… it is NOT about me anymore… it has to be about HIM!!

There are many sitting here today who have been unfaithful to God in their walk, but many would tell you, “No, I haven’t”, or they would begin to rationalize their behavior.

Some would be honest with you, but most would try their best to make themselves look better.

Did you know that…

1. NOT reading your Bible is being unfaithful to God!

2. NOT praying with a broken heart and submissive spirit is being unfaithful to God!

3. NOT giving your tithe as God commands and not giving sacrificially and with a cheerful heart is being unfaithful to God!

4. NOT teaching and mentoring the next generation of believers is being unfaithful to God!

5. NOT coming to church because you are tired or because it is inconvenient or somebody hurt your feelings or it is your only day off… is being unfaithful to God!

6. NOT submitting to authority that God has placed over you is being unfaithful to God!

7. Doing something in your Christian walk half-heartedly or just going thru the motions of your Christian walk is being unfaithful to God!

8. Having a prideful and haughty spirit is being unfaithful to God!

And the list could go on and on, but the point I am trying to make is that as believers we fail and are unfaithful to God on many fronts! It doesn’t have to be a moral failure that the world knows about, but it is usually something within our heart that is unfaithful to God!

So this morning when I ask the question, “How tidy is your spiritual bedroom?” I really want you to think about your faithfulness and fidelity to Christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

When we look to Scripture, we can see several commands that speak to the faithfulness required in marriage when it comes to the bedroom.

In Ex 20:14, the 7th commandment commands us, “…thou shall NOT commit adultery…” And in Hebrews 13:4 we read that marriage must be respected by all and that the marriage bed must NOT be defiled.

Christ is depicted as the groom and the church is the bride, and when we accept Christ as Savior we enter into a relationship that is founded on faith and can only work when we practice faithfulness to that relationship.

Christ has promised to be faithful to us and has proved this over and over again, we must remain faithful to Him, just as we are expected to remain faithful to the spouse we have entered into a relationship through marriage.

In that marriage ceremony, we make promises to each other, those promises are called vows. We vow to take care of each other, through sickness and health, through good times and bad, through richer or poorer, til death do us part!