FAITH CAPSULE: What kind of church are you answering before God?

1 Corinthians 3

What kind of church are you answering before God?
Is the church (temple of God) for real today or only receding from what the word of God calls for the church to be? 
Bible identifies the church, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16) 
Today many answers to be for Christ (believer) with titles but not do according to the word of God. 
However, sin and sinning build distance between man and God.
How far are you from God that is never far from all?
Growing in sin and sinning will be far from God. 
God does not tolerate sin but withdraws God from man. 
Roman 3:23 buttresses, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” 
To avoid living in sin is giving self to the word of God, the evidence of standing in faith before God.
Having faith is a determinant not to be living in sin but of living by the word of God that is source of having faith. 
Jesus once asked in Luke 18:8, “…when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8)
Are you hearing and hearing by the word of God to keep away from sin by living by faith?
Give self to the word God, come out of religion; enter into the reality of Christ to become established on a ground (a position) of receiving revelation from God. 
As a believer (a Christ reality), live faithfully like Abraham. 
Know that to be faithful is a sacrifice that demands commitment with not of convenience that is not costly. 
To be faithful should be a lifestyle that is walking before God. 
Today, the church has taken the opposite direction by turning away from the word of God to the world. 
Turn away from the world of sin and turn to God.
What kind of church are you answering before God?
Are you answering as a church of God that is not rooted in the word of God?
Sin and sinning are not of God.
Proverbs 1:10 warns, “My son if sinners entice you, Do not consent.”
Proverbs 28:13 records, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” 
1 Peter 4:18 make it known, “Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
Sin is not of God but will hinder praying before God when there is no prayer for forgiveness and abstaining from the life of sin.
The psalmist asks for forgiveness to gain the mercy of God. 
Psalm 25:18 records, “Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive all my sins.”
Live life for God, stay away from sin, be near God, and let the mercy of God answer in your life.
Answer as the church of God, a temple where the spirit of God resides.

Prayer for today: Ask God to direct your heart not to live a life of sin.