Nancy Lee-Demaw says, if churches value relevance to the world over holiness, then I believe

we're ultimately going to do some things that will forfeit the presence of God. I am saying

that sinners ought to be uncomfortable in the presence of a holy God. I'm saying that sinners

will never be truly converted until they have experienced the conviction of God's spirit over their sin, and that is not comfortable. This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Le DeMoss for Tuesday, October 16th. It seems like everybody wants to be relevant, but how many want to be holy?

Nancy's going to talk about it in a series called Seeking Him, 12 Weeks on Personal Revival.

This week's focus is holiness.

Here's Nancy.

We've been talking about how there's a tendency in our generation for the world to filter into the church and for the church to become more like the lost world outside.

We're supposed to be influencing the world, but so often it's the case that the world, the secular world,

the world that doesn't know God, is influencing us with its values, its ways of thinking, its standards.

And there's a man in the Old Testament that I really admire.

And the reason I admire him is he was a man who refused to get sucked in by the allure of the world.

His name was Nehemiah.

And Nehemiah never got accustomed to sin. You know, you've heard the story about the

frog in the kettle and how if you throw that frog into a pot of boiling water, he will hop right out.

But if you put him in a kettle of room temperature water and then slowly turn up the heat,

you can cook that frog to death because he gets accustomed

to it. He's used to it and he doesn't realize that he's being cooked to death. And I think the frog in the

water that's getting gradually heated up is a picture of how so many of us function today. We've just

gradually, our eyes have grown accustomed

to the darkness around us. And then we tend to fit in and to adjust to it. Nehemiah never got

adjusted to the darkness. He never got accustomed to sin. Even when everyone else around him

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