Deadly Compromise

Nothing is quite as deadly to spiritual power and anointing than compromise. When we compromise we have a hard time looking others in the eye and speaking life. One of the greatest areas of compromise in the church today is in the area of sexual sins. I know of a man who’s sons, although raised in the church and by all appearances by godly parents, turned out to be druggies, thieves and perverts. You can’t help but wonder where the breakdown was.

Upon questioning the father I found out that he uses pornography and masturbates on a regular basis. When I asked him how he could justify this he explained to me that he simply didn’t see anything wrong with it. But you can be sure that his sons did.

I have a theory that most children encounter their first tobacco, alcohol, pornography, and hypocrisy, etc. in the home they were raised in. I mean to say that the first porno a child will read will be that which he finds in his own home. The first alcohol he will drink will be his parents (if they drink alcohol) The first cigarette he will smoke will be snuck from his dad’s open pack. And this is strange because God promises us that, “no evil thing can come near our dwelling.” (Except those that we bring in ourselves?)

Pastors are without anointing in convincing the church of the value of life because they have advised their daughters to have an abortion. Mothers are unable to get respect from their children because they have no respect for their husbands. And so on, and so on.

Where does it end? It ends with you. It ends here and now.