Pure Christianity is Perfectly Non-Inclusive
Praise Jesus today everyone. I had a few minutes today, and I wanted to make a live video on something I've been thinking about the last couple of days, and that is the idea of how uninclusive or non-inclusive—or you could even say disinclusive, if that's a word—real and pure Christianity truly is.
And I want to explain what I mean.
God has made marriage on earth as a picture of what the marriage supper of the Lamb is like in heaven, because it's like an analogy. Now, when you are falling in love, you get engaged and you get your engagement ring, and then some time passes and you walk down the wedding aisle and you say your vows. And what you do when you're saying your vows is you're promising to be loyal to your spouse "till death do us part." And so, you're promising that you will disinclude or uninclude every other lover from your life.
Now, our culture in the world, they act like that is selfish and that's mean. They say you should be inclusive, and if you're not including all other people, you're being hateful. But we all know in reality that is a big fat lie. When you choose to go into holy matrimony, you are disincluding or unincluding everyone else from your marriage bed. You choose not to look at other women. You choose not to look at pornography. You choose to keep your mind and your heart pure. You choose to be loyal 100% to your wife.
And you know in your heart that if you are not loyal, and if you're not keeping your heart pure, then you're not growing in love with her. It unincludes you from a good marriage, a successful marriage, and it unincludes you from the kingdom of God. We know that it is written: fornicators, idolaters, sorcerers, those that are immoral, murderers, they will not inherit the kingdom of God. And so, if you participate in things that are pornographic and wicked, and things that are of adultery and fornication, you uninclude yourself from God's kingdom.
This we understand if we have a pure mind and a pure heart. But marriage is set up on earth between a husband and a wife to be an analogy, or a picture, of the marriage supper of the Lamb. That is the union—the connection—between God's people, the bride of Christ (He calls it His church or His body) and Himself, the bridegroom.
And we know the parables about the bridegroom. When He comes, He is coming for a holy and pure bride. He's not coming for a defiled bride with defiled garments; He's coming for a holy and pure bride. And we know also what happens to those that have defiled their garments: they get thrown out into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. We know what happens to the five foolish virgins. When those doors shut, they are closed, and they're not able to come in because they were not prepared. They didn't put on their white robes and have oil in their lamps in time.
Praise Jesus everyone. And so, we need to make sure that we are staying undefiled.
Now, a lot of Christians even think that they're going to make it into God's kingdom even though they have defiled garments. They are stained with the world. They have a perverted mind. They allow their eyes to feast on things that are wicked and their ears to indulge in all the impurities and the filth of the world. You can't expect to have righteousness pour out of you if you are inputting things that are of filth.
And similarly, if you are in a marriage, you can't expect for you and your wife or you and your husband to have a good marriage that lasts and is successful if you're cheating on your spouse. Cheating on your spouse is grounds for divorce legally, spiritually, and within the law. That's what Jesus said. And so, we need to keep ourselves holy and pure with our marriage, with our marriage bed.
But similarly with God, if you are cheating on God with other loves, and if He is not the only one you're living for, but you're living for a bunch of other false gods, then that's going to disinclude you in the kingdom of God. Why would you think that God is going to allow you into His kingdom when you served all these other things besides Him? Those that are His bride, that make it into His kingdom, are those that are 100% dedicated to His kingdom. They are sold out for Him alone.
You see a lot of Christians today that are sold out for a lot of things. They're sold out for sports. They're sold out for education. They are sold out for their own retirement, for figuring out how to do really good in the world. But we also know what Jesus said: you can't serve God and mammon. You can't serve God and money. So, how is it that we have this whole culture that thinks they can serve God and the gods of the earth, and that they will somehow keep themselves undefiled in the end? If it doesn't work with your wife when you cheat on her, it certainly won't work with God when you cheat on Him.
So, if we want to be the holy and pure children of God, if we want to be undefiled, we need to be like the five wise virgins that carried oil in their lamps. And of course, why they were virgins is that spiritually they were virgins. And that means that they were keeping themselves unstained from the world. They weren't worshiping idols. They weren't bowing down to false gods. They were keeping themselves pure for the wedding supper of the Lamb. Just as a bride needs to keep herself pure for her husband so that when they enter into matrimony, they have a pure relationship without it being defiled by other men already being in her.
Most people are breaking this commandment of Jesus. They're defiling their bodies. They're defiling their eyes and their ears—their eyes with pornography and their ears with every sort of wicked music. They have allowed evil into their life through all of their pastimes. And instead of keeping themselves pure for Jesus and being salt and light, they're totally choked out by all of the pleasures of the world.
Jesus talked about the four soils: the soil that doesn't produce; the seed that gets eaten up by Satan; the one that falls in the rocky soil that grows up and then is scorched by the sun because as soon as persecutions arrive, they don't want to follow God; and then you have the soil that has the seed that grows but then is choked out by all the worries of life and all the pleasures of life.
How many people can you think of, and include yourself, that are being choked out by the worries of the world? You're so worried about other people, so worried about your income. Where will you eat? Where will you sleep? What will you drink? How will you have a retirement? How will you have joy in this world? You're so worried about the things that the Gentiles worry about that you're not pleasing God and creating or instilling in even your own children the desire to live holy.
If we love Jesus, we will be making disciples. Think about it: when is the last time you had a heart-to-heart conversation with someone about the kingdom of God, about Jesus? When is the last time that you really cared for the things that are close to Jesus's heart? People talk about all sorts of things. They talk about their job. They gossip. They talk about the size of their vehicle tires and all these other things that are just things you have to do in the workplace and things to make your household run.
But when is the last time you were about your Father's business in heaven? When is the last time you were helping a sinner repent and come into the kingdom of God? Because those are the things that really matter. And if you are not doing those things, then likely you're being choked out by all the weeds of the world. That is the third soil. The third soil is the one that is being choked out because you're worried about all the different things of this life. You're engaged in all the pleasures of this life, but you're not speaking to anyone about Jesus. Maybe you're to the point where you're ashamed of Him, or you're too professional to speak out for Him.
Or maybe you've just lost your joy of the Lord. Maybe because you don't have that joy in you, you're not speaking about the Lord as much. Maybe you have lost your passion for Him, and so no longer are you really hearing from the Lord. You're losing your vision. You're losing your sleep at night. You're not hearing from God anymore when you pray.
That is a problem because you're being choked out by the world. And Satan desperately wants to take your light in any way he can, either quickly or slowly. He will deteriorate you to try to make your light less bright. He will try to drown out your light so that you can't shine for Jesus, so that you won't talk about Him, so that you won't have the joy of the Lord, and you won't be praising Him. Satan wants you just in the worries of the world, flooded with all the things of the world.
But if we want to be salt and light, and pure as a bride should be for her groom, then we need to keep ourselves unstained and we need to uninclude all the other lovers. A lot of us have problems with this. The world wants to be inclusive. And I look around and I see all of these churches, and I see all of life, and people want to be so inclusive of every religion, every tradition, every thought, every practice. They say every way probably makes it to God. And by doing this, they defile themselves and they are filled with filth.
Jesus is not coming for a filthy bride. He's coming for His bride that is unstained, that is pure, that has oil in her lamp—an undefiled bride.
So, I want to pray for those of you that want to keep yourself undefiled, your ears pure, your eyes pure, and your whole body full of light.
Lord Jesus, I pray for my fellow brothers and sisters. I pray for the church, the body of Christ, that someone may hear this message today and feel conviction in their heart, and that they may give their life to You and repent of following multiple loves. I pray they would learn what it means to really honor You by unincluding, by disincluding things that are evil and wicked. I pray that we would learn to touch nothing that is unclean and that we would just hold Your hand, Lord Jesus, and do Your will—that we would do what is perfect in the eyes of our Father in heaven. In Your name we pray, Lord Jesus. Amen.
