False Sense of Being Right!

 This episode addresses the subtle danger of spiritual complacency, emphasizing how comfort can replace conviction and lead believers away from true intimacy with God. It highlights the importance of self-examination, humility, and producing genuine spiritual fruit. Listeners are urged to seek God sincerely, allowing Him to expose hidden pride and assumptions, and to transform their lives into one of continual surrender and alignment with His will. The episode underscores choosing a life of true righteousness over a false sense of being right, calling for active, ongoing spiritual growth.

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Introduction: The Danger of Complacency

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 There's a subtle, yet dangerous place we can reach in our walk with God. It's the place where complacency sets in, where comfort replaces conviction, and where we quietly convince ourselves that we are secure simply because of what we know, what we've done, or how long we've been in the faith. This is where many believers unknowingly drift into a false sense of being, right.

Scripture commands us to build our lives upon the rock firm and unshakeable, but it also calls us to remain humble, teachable, and moldable in the hands of the potter. When we lose that posture, when we assume that our current understanding is complete and our growth is finished, pride creeps in. Pride blinds us, hardens our hearts, and keeps us from hearing God clearly.

The Illusion of Spiritual Security

It deceives us into believing we are in alignment when we are actually drifting the danger of spiritual complacency. Complacency in the life of a believer doesn't happen overnight. It builds slowly layer by layer, disguised as confidence in what we already know. We attend church faithfully, pray consistently, serve regularly, and check all the right boxes.

But somewhere along the way we start to substitute activity for intimacy. We assume our routines equate to righteousness and our works prove our worthiness. Yet here's the sobering truth. You can do all the right things and still be far from God's heart. Jesus warned of this in Matthew seven, verses 21 to 23, when he said, not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

On that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons in your name and do many mighty works in your name? And then will I declare to them. I never knew you depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. It's possible to serve in God's house yet not know the heart of God. It's possible to be busy with spiritual activity while being spiritually barren.

The Necessity of Self-Examination

 The necessity of self-examination. The Apostle Paul urges us in Second Corinthians 13 verse five. Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. This isn't a suggestion, it's a command. When was the last time you paused and truly examined your life before God? When did you last sit still in his presence?

And ask him hard questions like, father, am I in alignment with your will? Are there areas in my heart that grieve your spirit? Have I settled for comfort instead of transformation? It's not enough to ask. We must wait and listen for his answer. Many believers pray, but rarely pause long enough to hear what God has to say.

We assume silence means approval, but often silence means we've stopped listening. Self-examination requires humility. It demands that we allow the Holy Spirit to search us, expose us, and refine us. Without this constant posture of surrender, we begin to rely on our own understanding, and that is when a false sense of being right takes root.

The Evidence of Good Fruit

The evidence of good fruit, a dangerous sign of spiritual deception is believing we're producing fruit, when in reality we're only displaying leaves. Jesus said in Matthew seven, verse 16, you will recognize them by their fruits. It's not about how busy we are in ministry, how eloquent our prayers sound, or how often we serve.

It's about what our lives produce. Are we becoming more patient, more loving, more forgiving, and more Christ-like? Or are we simply maintaining appearances while remaining unchanged at the core? Many of us have been taught doctrines, traditions, and ideas that make us feel good, yet they haven't let us into deeper intimacy with God or lasting transformation.

We can recite scripture, but struggle to live it. We can shout Amen in the sanctuary yet remain bitter, prideful, and unrepentant and private when truth doesn't take root. When transformation isn't visible, when Revelation isn't changing how we live, we're walking in deception. This is the essence of a false sense. Of being right, believing we're aligned with God while our fruit tells a different story.

A Call to Return

 A call to return. This message isn't one of condemnation. It's a call to action, a call to return, a call to break free from the illusion of spiritual security and come back to the heart of God. Jeremiah 17 verse nine reminds us the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it left to ourselves.

We can't even trust our own hearts. We need the spirit of God to reveal the hidden places within us that are out of alignment. This means coming before him with an open heart and an honest prayer. Lord, search me and know me. Expose every area where I'm walking in. Pride, assumption, or complacency. Align me with your will and lead me into deeper obedience.

When we allow God to reveal the truth about ourselves, we position ourselves for transformation, but if we resist his correction, we remain trapped in deception, life or death. 

Life or Death: The Choice is Yours

The choice is yours. Deuteronomy 30 verse 19 says, I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, choose life that you and your offspring may live Every day.

We make choices that either draw us closer to God or push us further away. A false sense of being right leads us down a path of spiritual death because it convinces us there's no need to change, repent, or grow. A humble heart, a heart willing to be corrected, taught and refined chooses life. The question is, which will you choose?

Will you repent and allow God to break down the walls of pride and self-righteousness? Will you surrender your assumptions, traditions, and opinions for his truth, or will you remain the same convinced you are right while unknowingly walking in error.

Final Call to Action

 Final call to action. A spirit led life is a life of continual transformation. It requires daily surrender, constant self-reflection, and unshakeable dependence on God. Being right in our own eyes doesn't make us righteous. True righteousness is found only in submission to Christ and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit.

If you desire real intimacy with God, ask him to reveal the truth about where you stand. Let him break every false foundation and rebuild you upon the rock. The time to awaken is now. Don't settle for assumptions. Don't clinging to comfort. Don't confuse activity with alignment. Seek him, listen for him.

Allow him to change you, because in the end, it's not about being right, it's about being righteous.

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