These Shoes Do Not Fit Christians

• Love God’s man, and then they FLIP-FLOP and they are saying bad things about him

Illus: Listen, John Kerry might have been President if he had not made so many FLIP-FLOPS in his campaigning.

He would go one place and say ONE THING and go to another place and say just the OPPOSITE! So he ends up selling KETCHUP!!!

When people do this, we say they have NO CORE VALUES!

All their decisions are based on what is POPULAR AT THE TIME!

Illus: Jay Leno said this of John Kerry during his campaig:

• "You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows."

• "The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him."

But politicians are not the only ones who speak out of both sides of their mouths. So do a lot of Christians!

These are the ones who will look you in the eye and tell you something today, but in a short time they will FLIP-FLOP on everything they said.

We have today those in the church that are wearing LOAFERS, wearing SNEAKERS and wearing FLIP-FLOPS.

We need to look at one more kind of shoe, and this is the kind of shoe we all should be wearing. We all should be wearing -

IV. WORK SHOES

Illus: Listen, when a man loves his family he will willingly work for them. The law states he must provide for his family, but even if there were no law, he would still work because love will motivate him to work for them.

When a man or a woman loves the Lord they will work for Him. Some will say, “Well, I would be glad to work for Him but I do not know what to do.”

The Bible says, in Ecc. 9:10 “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”

It is interesting that in this verse that talks about what our hands find to do, but it also mentions the grave.

WHY IS THE GRAVE MENTIONED?

Because there is coming a time my friend when we will be in the grave and we can no longer work for the Lord.

There are some who would love to come back and be sitting where you are sitting today. And if they were here, they would have their WORK SHOES on and be working for the Lord.

None of us know how many more days we have to work for the Lord here on earth. We can’t afford to waste any more days.

Conclusion:

God told Moses to TAKE OFF HIS SHOES, BECAUSE HE WAS STANDING ON HOLY GROUND!

Listen, God has called every believer to WALK A WALK OF HOLINESS!

Some Christians are wearing -

I. LOAFERS

II. SNEAKERS

III. FLIP-FLOPS

IV. WORK SHOES