Multitudes Saying They Are Walking With God -

But Are They?

 

 

How many people are really walking with God?

What does it entail?

Are you one of them?

May this message shed some light on this subject for all.

 

What does it actually mean to walk with God?

 

The Scriptures tell us that "...Enoch walked with God..."(Genesis 5:24) and also that "...Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."(Genesis 6:9)

In Deuteronomy 13:4, Moses exhorted the people with these words - "Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him."

In Psalm 128:1, David called the man "blessed" who did so - "BLESSED is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in His ways."

The Prophet Micah instructed us on what to look for in a man confessing a right relationship with God - "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"(Micah 6:8) 

 

Walking with God is a constant and habitual thing. It can be best described as a traveler on a journey who is in continual motion. This can be seen in Genesis 13:17 where the Lord God told Abram to "Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it..."

 

In other words, when we are walking with God, we are in motion. He is taking us somewhere. Even though - at times - it may seem as though we are going nowhere or that we are not moving at all - the opposite is true. 

 

Walking with God is walking "even as He walked"(1 John 2:6).

Since He is a Spirit, it definitely includes "walking in the Spirit, and not fulfilling the lust of the flesh."(Galatians 5:16).     

 

How do we "walk in the Spirit" so as to please God?

 

Our every thought, word, deed, and attitude must be in accordance with His Holy Word and Will.

Being entirely dead to the world and the things of it, we set God always before us...make His Word our rule and His Glory our aim...endeavor to always please Him and avoid all that which would offend Him... follow, imitate, and comply with His wishes.

 

It is imperative to understand that these practices cannot be found in a believer's life only on Church days. It is absurd to say that one is walking with God on Saturday, Sunday, or Wednesday - but then go the way of the world and the flesh on the other days.

 

This is not walking with God!

 

Sad but true - there are many confessing to a relationship with the Almighty when all along they are "walking in their own counsels"(Psalm 81:12). They are willful, stubborn, hardhearted, and rebellious to the things of God. They do not pattern their lives after the counsel of the Scriptures but after the way of their own wicked hearts and the sight of their eyes. Because they live in opposition to His ways, He has given them up "unto their own hearts' lust" (Psalm 81:12), and they don't even know it.    

 

Because they live contrary to His truths, laws, and counsels, Leviticus 26:21 describes them as "walking contrary" to God. And whether they realize it or not - He, in turn, is "walking contrary" to them.

 

Many are "walking with vanity"(Job 31:5). Instead of living sincerely, uprightly, and honestly in their dealings with others - they are guilty of misrepresenting things for their own gain and defrauding others. In order to get a "good bargain," they lie and cheat. 

 

Some are "walking in the statutes of their fathers"(Ezekiel 20:18). Their reasoning is that Grandpa and Dad seemingly got away with a certain sinful and compromising practice and yet were upstanding citizens who were active members in their Church. Never mind the fact that what Grandpa and Pops did were anti-Scriptural and ungodly!

 

If what others do is against the principles of the Bible, they are not "walking with God" - no matter what position they hold or held in the Church. God will not be mocked! Not every one who admits to being in communion with God is! Let's face it, folks!  

 

Look around you and you will see that some people confessing a right relationship with God are actually "walking in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries"(1 Peter 4:3). They walk continuously in the indulgence of their corrupt passions...their behavior is shameless, insolent, immodest, and goes on unchecked and unbridled...their looks and gestures are very lewd...they are wine-drinkers - drunkards if you will - who love to go to parties or feasts where others are gathered together for the sole purpose of  drinking and committing all kinds of acts of impurity and immorality.

 

How can it be possible for a people to walk in such a manner and yet profess to be "walking with God"? Even though it may be hard to believe such a thing is possible - it is happening nonetheless!

 

Homosexuals and Adulterers are singing about a Heaven they will never see or talking about a Rapture that they will never experience - that is, unless they repent.

 

No one - absolutely no one - no matter what their position in the Church or in society - is "walking with God" who is walking in sin or after the ways of the world and the flesh.

 

It is time - like never before - to get real!

 

Look around you and see the events that are happening. Seemingly, God has pressed the button called "Fast motion" towards the Greatest Event of all - the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus.

 

We can confess that we are "walking with God" all day long. We can lie and even convince those around us that we are doing so. But God knows! He knows those who are truly "walking" with Him - as Enoch and Noah. Time will tell!

 

May it be that everyone reading this message today will get enough "fear of the Lord" in, on, and around them that they will - if need be - stop playing games and get right with God.

 

Game-playing has been over a long time now!

 

It is time to get right with God - no matter if you are a Pastor, Deacon, Sunday-School Teacher, Superintendent, Bishop, or Minister of Music.

 

God is not clowning around. This is serious business.

 

Let's be sure that the words of our mouths match our lifestyles.

 

2 Timothy 2:19 says - "...And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity."

2 John 4 concludes with these words - "I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father."