S4-144 ELDER'S EXHORTATION (Br. Sam, 12-02-23)

Brother Sam's stellar encouragement challenges saints to anchor their thoughts in the lessons of the church to ride out the storms of life safely. Our minds are the main entry point for the enemy's distractions. While sanctification is progressive, so too is the deterioration of our faith. Deuteronomy 29:18 warns God's people against allowing their hearts to be distracted from the Lord our God to go after other gods of the heathens and the ungodly. He ties this passage to Romans 1:24-25. We can drift so far that we become God-haters, so He abandons us warped thinking, for we change the truth of God into a lie, worshipping the creature more than the Creator.