Part 1 – WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

We’re flirtin’ with disaster, ya’ll know what I mean 
And the way we run our lives it makes no sense to me 
I don’t know about yourself or what you wanna to be, yeah 
When we gamble with our time we choose our destiny…(Molly Hatchet, 1979)

Thus began one of the more popular Southern Rock songs by Molly Hatchet. It is pretty interesting that the first line of that song ends with “ya’all know what I mean”! No we don’t! What do you mean? This is the issue with Flirting, whether it’s with disaster or destiny! We know where it could lead – DISASTER! Before we go any further, let’s define what flirting is.

Webster’s Dictionary says it is “moving erratically; behaving amorously without serious intent and showing superficial or casual interest or liking ( i.e. flirted with the idea ). It can also mean “experimenting and/or to coming close to reaching or experiencing something —used with with “flirting with disaster“!

At some point in our lives, we have all this. We are liars if we deny this. Most times oft flirting is used in relation to expressing interest with a member of the opposite sex. It can be a superficial or real, but unless you put a stop to it, a person really is “Flirting with Disaster”!

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And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind… (Ephesians 2:1-3 ESV)

There is too much talk of alternate lifestyles with so-call Christian ministers of the Gospel, standing up in public, wrestling with whether they will vote for this political candidate or that. Both black and white preachers are debating with themselves on TV, if God meant what He said or not…and whether they are on the wrong side of History or not…blah blah blah…

I saw a black baptist minister from Maryland on the O’Reilly Factor a few nights ago who backed off voting for a person who supported gay so-called ‘marriage’ because his “BASE” was against it?! What??!! His base? That is the so-called flock that he is supposed to be under-shepherd for as pastor, supposedly under Christ!!! This is what we are dealing with in the church, with alleged men of God, walking in their old nature and following the World rather than the Spirit Who saves.

God does not care about all of this twisting oneself into a pretzel to satisfy this or that group. We have all sinned. They are compounding it and sealing their own fate…including those preachers.

Therefore, rather than these people and their kind shaking their fists against God, demanding that He condone their sins and lifestyles, they need to pay attention to this verse above and beg forgiveness and repent for offending Him. This way, it will not go so bad for them on Judgment Day!

This is not a matter of selective outrage over one issue but just one example.
For instance, Dr. Jim Daly of Focus on the Family reports that almost 40% of their calls on their Pornography Addiction hotline is from pastors (anonymously).
Adultery and divorce are higher inside the church than the secular world outside the four walls…..

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