Sin’s Purposes

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Good morning and Greetings in Jesus name, welcome to this amazing new day today. Just like God has plans for you, the devil, he has arranged traps, he has arranged deceptions, he has planned temptations that are going to drown you, that is going to disconnect you, that is going to cause you to be isolated and alone in the world around you. But today, by the Grace of God, with the strength that He has given you, you need to rise up. You need to conquer the enemy.
You need to experience total dominion over every temptation that comes against you. When you are weak, you cannot bend down and let the evil one have the upper hand. The danger with a Christian, with a believer, with somebody who is being taught the word of God, who has been exposed to the word of God, when we give into sin, the danger is much more greater than somebody who doesn’t have God’s word, who doesn’t have the law and the oracles of God.

Let me read Romans 7:13. It says, “But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.”
Did you understand the heart behind what Paul is speaking here? He’s saying that sin, it has a way of using the good commands that God has given us the good instructions, that God has given us the good revelations that we have received from God to bring forth sin’s own evil purposes. So when a child of God, somebody that is constantly exposed to God’s word, God’s voice, when he continues to live in sin, that sin is now going to manipulate God’s voice to hurt you. That sin is now going to take advantage of the instructions that are spoken over your life and constantly draw you away from God and into death and into decay and into condemnation.

When Jesus was referring to the man who would betray him, Judas’s Iscariot, He made this particular statement that I used to wonder and ponder upon. He said it would have been better that this person was not even born. And I was wondering, why would Jesus, the all knowing King of Kings, the One who knows the beginning from the end, why would He say that about Judas, that it would have been better if he had not even been born? Because what Jesus saw was sin that was growing on the inside of him. Sin that was now working parallel with the word of God. Jesus was the word of God. Jesus was the incarnate word of God. The Word became flesh. The Law of God had become a person. His name was Grace. And He came to reveal to us the heart and the mind and the perspective of the Father. And yet there was somebody in his team who grew in sin, who tolerated sin, who continued to live in sin. And now there is a combination of sin and God’s word, sin and God’s voice, sin and the Rhema of God because at a certain point this sin is going to become so bad that the sin will now use the word of God for his own advantage. Now, the sin of Judas that I’m talking about, he was now using the word of God, the voice of God, the beloved of God, for his own personal gain. Now he is making money out of it. He’s stealing from the treasury of the people that are giving into that treasury. Now he is doing everything possible to make sure more people don’t give money to Jesus, don’t worship Jesus. Now, this sin, he’s going to the extent of betraying the word of God, betraying the logos of God so that he can gain 30 pieces of silver.
Do you understand the seriousness of the sin and the word of God growing parallel together? Because at one point or the other, this sin that is loved to grow, this sin that is allowed to be nourished and cared for in the atmosphere of God’s word, at some point, the sin will begin to take advantage of God’s law. It will take advantage of the commandments that God has given us.

So my advice is this, if there is any area of your life that needs a fixing, I want you to take a break from whatever you are, if you’re doing any kind of ministry, any kind of serving, any missionary work, anything that you’re doing to build the Kingdom, take a pause, hit a pause button, go sort out that sin.
Jesus said when you’re at the altar and you’re reminded that there is something in your heart against another person, another brother, leave your gift at the altar. Go and settle scores. Go and fix your heart, go and get reconciled and then come back to worship because when you worship in a state of impurity, that impurity will now take advantage of that worship. That impurity will now take advantage of God’s word. We can reach a place where our consciences become numb to sin. May we never reach that place.

We cannot become comfortable to sin. We cannot tolerate sin anymore. I hope this word spoke to you. Take a moment after the podcast is done to just inspect your heart and allow the law to reveal anything that is working as a stumbling block and make sure to cut that out of your life before you move on. Thank you for tuning in. Have a blessed and a beautiful day ahead.