Jeremiah 23:14 (NIV)
And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: They commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah."

This spirit that strengthens the arms of the wicked can be so strong as we see in Proverbs 7, which speaks about the loose woman, luring and enticing. "Many have fallen to her flattery and her deception." Sin needs to be dealt with in the form of repentance. We cannot think that we can look beautiful and so white in our adornment on the outside but inside be full of fornication. To compromise God's ways will cause a church to have a form of Godliness but reject the power thereof.

Some people may think that no compromise is a bit too hard but why do you think that ninety nine point nine percent of the churches have not broken into revival? We all sin and fall short of the glory of God but we must repent. You can fall; failing doesn't make you a failure, living in failure makes you a failure.

Because of our emotional opinions and our desire to 'be kind', or 'not be too hard', we can be gambling with people's salvations. We must give people the authentic truth of God about repentance.
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