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Vanity is idolatry
It is all about self
Whether it is about sitting in front of a mirror painting your face
or going to the gym and body building so that you can impress people
or wanting to have nice abs
so that when you wear a swimming costume you attract some women
Dear friends, that is not to the glory of God, that is idolatry
that is the flesh
Many Christians are prey to vanity
One night the Lord gave me revelation of one of the famous television preachers
The Holy Spirit told me that this man spends more money on make-up than the average household income
And that money is money taken from people supporting the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Dear friends, the flesh cannot please God
If we aspire to the things of the world and seek to be conformed to the world
then the love of Christ is not in us
If we idolize our own bodies then we are not glorifying Jesus Christ
We are only seeking to satisfy the flesh
and we need to repent of it
As disciples and followers of Jesus Christ we must take on His example
I read from Isaiah 53:2 about Jesus
"He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
:3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Dear friends, if we are seeking for the esteem of men
we are not seeking for the glory of God
If we are full of self pity and we want to vindicate, justify ourselves
then it is about self, it is not about the Kingdom of God
Then we need to repent of that
As followers of Jesus Christ, we must be like Jesus
We must aspire to be like Him
If we follow Jesus Christ, we deny ourselves, we pick up our cross and we follow Him every day
We share in His sufferings
because if Christ lives in us we will also be rejected and persecuted
but for the right reason
We will be persecuted because we are rejected by the world
not because we've become conformed to this world
Dear friends, we've got to be pure and holy and obedient to Jesus Christ
The flesh cannot please God
We must not try and build up this flesh
Jesus said: The flesh is useless
It is not by power, nor by might, but it is by the Spirit of God that people are brought into the Kingdom of God
It is not by rock music it is not by our appearance it is not by our nice words
it is not by putting up all the lights, and the smoke and the things of this world that we attract people to Jesus Christ
but it is because we are men and women of God in which Jesus dwells
We will be rejected by men but if we lift up Jesus, we will draw men unto Christ
Jesus Christ must shine through us dear friends not the flesh, not ourselves.
We must not build up ourselves
we must not be idolaters
We must be sons of God in whom Jesus Christ lives
and if He was rejected, we will be rejected
Let us share in the sufferings of Christ and not become conformed to this world.
May Jesus bless you. �