Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you.”
- Joshua 24:19-20
“Have you ever been convicted of sin by conscience through the Spirit of God? If you have, you know this-that God dare not forgive you and be God. There is a lot of sentimental talk about God forgiving because He is love: God is so holy that He cannot forgive. God can only destroy for ever the thing that is unlike Himself. The Atonement does not mean that God forgives a sinner and allows him to go on sinning and receiving forgiveness; it means that God saves the sinner and turns him into a saint, i.e. destroys the sinner out of him, and through his conscience he realizes that by the Atonement God has done what He never could have done apart from it. When people testify you can always tell whether they have been convicted by the Spirit of God or whether their equilibrium has been disturbed by doing wrong things. When a man is convicted of sin by the Spirit of God through his conscience, his relationship to other people is absolute child’s play. If when you were convicted of sin, you had been told to go and lick the dust off the boots of your greatest enemy, you would have done it willingly. Your relationship to men is the last thing that bothers you. It is your relationship to God that bothers you. I am completely out of the love of God, out of the holiness of God, and I tremble with terror when I think of God drawing near.”
- Oswald Chambers, Daily Thoughts for Disciples (February 12, from The Philosophy of Sin)
There are these bumper stickers about Coexist. It is a major movement, but if you asked the people represented by the symbols that make up the word Coexist, they would dishonor the God they believe in, or the god they believe in, or the god that they do not believe in, to coexist with at least one of the other groups represented by the others that this organization is telling to coexist.
Can we coexist? Probably not, but if we could, it is because we are broken and fallible. If we were fully sanctified as Rev. Chambers speaks, we would not be able to be in the presence of sinners. I do not think we will be there in this lifetime. I think that part of sanctification comes when we die and then rise again in an uncorruptible body.
Do I have any animosity with anyone of those “other” symbols? Not really. I include them in my prayers.
Can we peacefully coexist for brief periods? That strangely may be possible. I accepted an ROTC scholarship and was commissioned as an Army officer when the last of the troops had just been removed from Vietnam. The Army suggested that I go to graduate school. Roughly three years later, minus a couple of months, I reported to military duty for four years, three in West Germany. While we were issued arms on many occasions in fear of the Russians attacking, I served in peacetime, not considering the Cold War as an active war.
So, we can play nice for a while, but the voters of most countries get bored. They believe a pack of lies and they elect the wrong person and there goes that coexistence.
But have you noticed that since the Coexist bumper stickers have started appearing, the world is less inclined than ever even considering anyone other than precious self to be a human being? We are in constant protest mode, usually fueled by the media. I still want to know who is profiting by the anger in the world today. If we can bankrupt that sick so-and-so, we might be able to coexist, but that sick “it” feeds the anger in the media. We have always had disagreements, but there was some civility. No more.
But I might find it uncomfortable to sit down with some groups of people, but as long as the conversation remains civil, I can coexist with them.
But I cannot knowingly coexist with anything that God has called a sin.
Soli Deo Gloria. Only to God be the Glory.
Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley 
With Jesus as our example, we should really coexist with every one. He dined with sinners, tax collectors and prostitutes. He healed those who were deaf, blind, those with serious illnesses and those who simply asked for healing. He conversed with all different classes of people, the higher ups in the church, merchants and the poor. What an example he was, but of course he was sinless and we aren’t. This is something we miss when we try to outreach. We put limits on those we tell about Jesus, but at the same time we are making judgements about those we try to reach
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I agree with Jesus who lived among us, but our sanctification needs to be complete before we go before the Father. Remember how Moses was hidden in the cleft of a rock or he would have died seeing the full glory of God. At that point, we must be washed in the blood of Jesus. What we are doing here on earth is to excuse sin rather than call it sin and repent of it. That will catch up with the church at some point and with some denominations, it has already in their lower and lower attendance. Sorry, I may not have made myself clear.
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