The Default Settings: “Do not conform to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able
to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Romans 12:2
Pastor Rob – “all humans, babies are born and are hard wired
with the default setting of sin! He
reminded us do you have to teach children to say NO! – You have to teach them
to say yes…
This default settings came because of the fall of man,
because of Adam’s sin. Each of us and our children when we entered this world
came with that default setting to do sinful things, things that go against God’s
word, his glory. The sad thing is that most times we are so accepting of it and
we feed it. As we feed it our children and we ourselves grow and we continue to
say no to God’s way of doing things. We believe if we live a good moral life,
that that’s ok; the reality is we can’t. The ugly always comes up. You see the
ugly is easy, our default settings and our switches go there easily.
You say wow! Never
really thought about it, what can be done!
The bible in the New Testament tells us to renew our minds
and not be conformed to this world.
Prayer: acknowledge who God is. That he is the “I AM” and
accepting Him as your savior (you see we all need a Saviour) that He was born,
died, buried and rose again and is in heaven. “We all have sinned and fallen
short of the glory of God” ALL – of us need a Saviour
Teach: We are to teach our children who God is, what He has
done, what He will do! "You shall therefore impress these words of mine on
your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand,
and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. "You
shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and
when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.
"You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates….Deuteronomy
11:19-20
The bible says to “Train up a child in the way they should
go and when they are old they will not depart” Our job is to train them, they
may stray, you see the default settings that we all have, sometimes our switch
gets stuck there for a minute but then the truth kicks in; if we have Jesus as our
Saviour and we turn to Him, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
It’s easy to just accept the default settings, it’s really
does not require such work; it’s already there and set up but this default setting
can only bring death. Today is the acceptable time to change those settings.
