FAITH CAPSULE: Compromising the word of God is a failure to restrain.

1 Samuel 2:22-36, 1 Samuel 3:1-13

Compromising the word of God is the evidence of lack of fear of God, lack of understanding among believers and unbelievers.
Are you compromising the word of God by choosing against how He wants all to live life?
Compromise exists in the church and outside of the church. 
A believer that is serving God as it pleases self is against the word of God. 
Compromising the word of God is a lack of faith. Without faith, God is not pleased. (Hebrews 11:6) 
Compromise is not of God. 
Compromising the word of God is the tool of the devil to confuse believers and unbelievers to corrupt the journey in life. 
Compromise is a conscious or unconscious way of embracing evil and not living life to fear God. A believing believer that does not restrain wrongdoing is taking to a position of compromise, not to do right.
James 4:17 buttresses, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
Are you compromising the word of God to impress your member, your pastor? Are you compromising the word of God to be complementing an eminent member or to avoid eminent one from departing from your member?
Also, compromising wrongly between parents and children is not of God. Eli and his sons compromised the word of God. The Bible records the corruption of the sons of Eli in 1 Samuel 2:12-15, “Now the sons of Eli were corrupt; they did not know the Lord. And the priests’ custom with the people was that when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fleshhook in his hand while the meat was boiling. Then he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; and the priest would take for himself all that the fleshhook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat for roasting to the priest, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”
Compromising the word of God by the sons of Eli was recorded as great sin before God because Eli did not restrain his children. (1 Samuel 3:13) God called on Samuel to identify Eli’s son sin and His judgment of Eli, “In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.” (1 Samuel 3:12-13) Eli compromised before God, and it counted as his sin before God. 
Eli’s compromise was his corruption before God, while his sons were terminated.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to deliver you from every ground of compromising His word.