WE ALL have AM and FM on our radios. Those are two different frequencies. There is no such thing as \u201cAM-FMish.\u201d Each frequency is separate and distinct. When riding in the car, you can only listen to one or the other. You can\u2019t have both at the same time, even though both are there. We come to church for the \u201cHeavenly Broadcast Network.\u201d We leave church for the \u201cFlesh Broadcast Network.\u201d Flipping frequencies like this is double-mindedness.223<\/p>\n
[Worldliness, Concept of]<\/p>\n
MOST of us are double-minded and attempt to think two ways at the same time. We come to church for the wisdom from above. We go back out of church and get the wisdom from below and we try to mix them.<\/p>\n
If a woman is making stew for her family, she\u2019ll probably put in some meat, potatoes, and some seasoning. However, if she decides to add just a tad of arsenic\u2014just a little bit to \u201cspice it up,\u201d that cook will have just killed her family. Attempting to integrate two contradictory realities doesn\u2019t work.224<\/p>\n
James 1:6\u20138<\/p>\n
YOU CANNOT mix unleaded and diesel fuel and still think you\u2019re going somewhere. The moment you introduce diesel and unleaded into the same \u201cunleaded-only\u201d engine, you have canceled the unleaded by the fact of diesel. Just because it looks like gas doesn\u2019t mean it is going to help you. What we do as Christians is we come to church to get unleaded, then on Monday go to the world and get diesel and wonder why we\u2019re only chugging along.225<\/p>\n
[Worldliness, Concept of]<\/p>\n
1 John 2:15\u201316<\/p>\n
THE FIRST time I rode a horse, I figured I\u2019d watched enough cowboy pictures to know how to do it. So I jumped up on the horse and said, \u201cGiddyup.\u201d The horse would take two steps forward, then back up three steps. I assumed I had a crazy horse. In fact, I told the attendant that I needed another horse. He let me know that my horse was fine, but that he needed another rider.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t understand the problem with my riding. I was making all of the sounds that I\u2019d always heard on TV and kicking him like I\u2019d seen on TV. The attendant told me that all those sounds and kicking were fine but wouldn\u2019t work at the same time that I was pulling back on the reins. The horse was thoroughly confused. He didn\u2019t know whether I wanted him to go forward or step backward. Many of us are going two steps forward and three steps back and we wonder why we\u2019re not making progress.226<\/p>\n
AN APPLE A day keeps the doctor away. But I don\u2019t like apples. They tell me apples are very nutritious. I just don\u2019t like them\u2014except when I go to the Texas State Fair. At the fair, I get candied apples. They take the apple and they dip it in liquid sugar. Then, me and apples, we are all right. The problem is that the way the apples have been prepared, the nutritional value has been destroyed. By mixing the apples with the sugar, things are now kind of messed up. The apples will hurt me now, not help me. When you mix human wisdom with divine wisdom, you cancel divine wisdom. All you have is human wisdom. That\u2019s what the Bible calls being double-minded\u2014being secular and sacred at the same time.227<\/p>\n
[Wisdom]<\/p>\n
Col. 2:8; James 1:6\u20138<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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