Beware

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. – 1 Corinthains 15.33-34

Right in the middle of the greatest teaching on resurrection in the entire Bible Paul takes time to address the topic of how we are supposed to live in the light of the resurrection.

Here Paul warns us that there are some things need to think about as we go about our daily lives in this broken world.

The KJV word communcation is better understood today as lifestyle. It has the notion of communing with other people. The warning here is that we live in a broken world full of broken people. We need to be careful living in that kind of daily communion because if we are not careful it will rub of on us. An evil world will affect us if we don’t take some steps.

Paul says that we need to ‘awake to righteousness and sin not.’

In this world we need to constantly aware of our need for righteousness. We need to be aware we were made righteousness of Christ. However, we don’t always act like it so we are called to exercise righteousness in our lives and we await the perfect righteousness that will only come when we get to heaven.

Ba aware of righteousness – and do not sin. Our daily living must reflect our righteousness to the world around us. So we simply choose to not sin. Now, it is obvious that we are not going to be perfect, but of goal as we make choices through the day should be to not make the sinful choices because a rotten testimony is going to have an impact.

How do I know that? Paul says that the reason we need to live this way is that some ‘don’t have the knowledge of God’ and ‘I speak this to your shame.’

Our lives do matter. No matter how much liberty we have we need to be aware that our actions are going to impact those around us. Paul says here that some may not be saved because of the way we live!

We can’t help the fact that we have to live in an evil world – but we can be careful that we live lives that show a difference.