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Loyalty: Do You Know Where Yours Is?
Contributed by Kelly Durant on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Time reveals a person’s loyalty. Today we must apply much precaution to whom or to what we are loyal to! Most people do not deeply reflect as to why, or from where, they get their loyal convictions to someone or something, be it a friend, sports team, political party, or a religion or church!
4. Your loyalty or identity with something or someone will either bring you praise and salvation or death and condemnation! Jesus said in Matthew 12:30 “He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.”
My first concern to know about a person’s soul is to question if they authentically have Jesus deep inside or not. With Jesus as the foundation, no other person of the world can be built upon in. Those of Jesus speak of Him and they are not swallowing, following, or being deceived by all the filth of the current culture. It is my job, and every true Christian’s job, to bring Jesus saving love to everyone and liberate each one from false prophets or oppressive leaders of horrific religions, and of wicked criminal empires reigning in high places. (Eph. 6:12)
Some people authentically are loyal to Jesus and by the fruits in their life we can see they are passionately seeking holiness, love, and God’s will. We can observe by their actions, words, and opinions that they are revealing the transform-ness, or lack thereof, by their heart simulating the mind of Christ. Loyalty involves imitation, the imitation of Christ! Loyalty requires obedience and loves!
5. I have covered how some people with misguided loyalties are hypocrites and betrayers but there are people who contrastingly display no solid values of loyalty to God or any mission at all, but rather they just go with the flow of whatever the worldly crowd is following. These non-committed, no loyalty types may say they believe in a God, they may even go to church once in a while to convince their selves that they are a nice person, but their scarce good actions are usually just to appease their deceived minds. James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
This kind of person usually makes excuses for their lack of dedication and loyalty to God’s cause in their church because someone did something they disliked. People who quit with complaints reveal that they are not serving for their loyalty to God, but rather serving for their own interests. Loyalty is a life-long commitment!
The disloyal lukewarm people who ride the fence and never choose sides often do not want to get identified with anything or any church and in particular be labeled for being a religious conservative Christian. In reality they do not have enough loyalty to God to prove that they are living repented, righteous, and compassionate selfless lives serving Jesus and others. Non-commitment is disloyalty.
6. Again, disloyal people are hypocrites and betrayers. Hypocrites often accuse everyone else of being a hypocrite while they are one big one their selves. How many times do we hear about people who dedicate little or none of their time, talent, and treasure to God then accuse that the church people are hypocrites not doing what they should but they are not doing it either. The reality is these disloyal ones deceive their own selves to think they are so good and nice yet they live self-serving having deep character flaws obvious to all. Do you know your character flaws? How much loyalty does God and others observe in you?
