THE BATTLEFIELDS SAFER THAN BATHSHEBA'S BEDROOM!

"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).

The word walk here is also found in Galatians 5:16: “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” Put the two together and you get: “Walk in the good works ordained for you to do and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.” To walk in the Spirit is to be occupied with your Heavenly Father’s business; to walk in the flesh is to do everything but that.

Steve Pettis once preached a message along the lines of the safest place to be in God was in the middle of the storm or on the battlefield. The old saying was “idleness is the devil’s workshop.” The wisdom David learned was the battlefield was the safest place to be: Far safer than the roof of his house! When he should have been doing the King’s work by going to battle—walking in the Spirit—instead he “walked” in adultery with Bathsheba. Had he walked in the Spirit he would not have fulfilled the lusts of the flesh.

The greatest sin in this last hour is not adultery, idolatry, or covetousness; the greatest sin is the deception of hearing the word and not doing it. We are called to do the great work of making disciples and this battlefield for souls is the only safe place to be in the coming storm. To not answer the call of the Lord of the harvest now is to commit fornication with the “Call Girl’s” of this world.

The good work that God has prepared for you to do is that of a soul winner. As a born again believer under the New Covenant, God has made you an “able minister” of the Living Word. As B.H. Clendennen says, “Any man or woman that becomes pregnant with the Word of God can birth a church.” God has written many souls upon your heart: It is time for these “children to come to birth.” What greater work could there be than to raise the dead in sin to newness of life in Christ?