As for me, I ain't winking at sin no more!

So I watched a preach the other day from the Brownsville revival and it was called God ain't winking at sin no more. This whole summer God has been teaching me about not compromising and he has been examining my heart and revealing ways that I have compromised my faith and been completely blind to it. This preach was just another part of that, more if the refining flames, burning up the dross, burning up the compromising and refining. It talks in the Word about how there was a time where God over looked our sin, he over looked our ignorance. He winked at our ignorance and because of that overlooked our sin. But that time is over, God is not winking at sin anymore, he cannot over look our ignorance because we are not ignorant! We know. Whether it is that we have heard the gospel preached, whether it is that we have read the Word, whether it is that we have experienced the reconciliation with God and his friendship ourself..... whatever it is we are not ignorant. We know and when we wink at sin we know what we are doing. If you are married man and working at your office and wink at a lady and she winks back, you are winking at sin. There is a message going out saying ' i see you, i am interested in you, you see me, you are interested in me'. It is dangerous waters, it is stepping out of faithfulness, it is winking at sin. And so often we do this we wink at sin. The church in general is winking at sin. And God is saying there was a time where I saw you winking at sin and i overlooked it, i winked at your ignorance but not any more! The compromising has the stop! The winking has to stop! Some things are obvious, smoking, getting drunk, sexual impurity, course language, inappropiate clothing etc. Lots of us have no problem keeping those kind of things. The obvious things, the 'big' things, the things we have been brought up being told not to do. See, those things are more obvious they are more like is you are married and you kiss the woman at the office. Obviously you cheated on your wife. But winking, winking is more subtle, winking can be covered up or 'justified'. It's like that with us and God. These are some sins that we commit and it's obvious that we were unfaithful, that we cheated on God. But what about the more subtle winking? When we allow ourselves to wink, just a little wink at sin thats's where the compromising starts. The world is so compromised and the church is so compromised that we often don't even realise that we have been compromising. That's why we are called to renew our minds. Our minds need renewing, they need wash, to wash away all that we have thought is ok, all that we have justified. What about movies? What about music? What about friends? What about going to a club, being surrounded by sin- the sexual dancing, the drunkness, the ungoldly music and just just going for fun, for a nice night out and not getting drunk- can you really say you are not winking at sin? Can you really say you are not comproming, can you really say that while you are there your mind is still being able to continually being renewed and to become into more and more alignment with God's own thoughts? ( by the way i used to go clubbing, i used to drink and not get drunk, and in all that i was winking at sin, and it is only recently that I realised this and have stopped). What movies, do you watch? What music do you listen to? What places do you hang out at? And what does all this say about you? do the standards that you have show your faithfulness to God or does it show compromise? At the moment I am rethinking my own standards- the movies i watch, the music i listen to etc. What areas of your life do you need to rethink? Are there places where you have been winking at sin? As we live in a corrupt and compromised world are there areas of your life that you have allowed to be compromised?