03/08/2021
*YOUR POTTER’S HOUSE*
*Date*: Monday, Aug 02, 2021
*Text*: 2 Corinth 4:1-11 (Please Read)
*Golden Text*: “But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully...” (2 Cor 4:2).
_*Discovering Hidden Things of Dishonesty 1*_
In this text, Paul said, for he and his team to do acceptable ministry unto God, they had to renounce hidden things of dishonesty. Our focus today is to help you discover and renounce the hidden things of dishonesty in your life, so that you can shine your light in this world of darkness.
Things of dishonesty are the actions that make you lack honesty before others. They include acts of lying, cheating or stealing, while you present yourself as a child of God. They corrupt you and make you deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat, defraud. They make you claim to be what you are not, or preach what you are not doing. *Hypocrisy!*
Hidden things of dishonesty are the things of dishonesty that are *hidden* in your life whether you know it or not. They are *hidden* in your life, not easily noticeable to people, and sometimes hidden to you too. They are *hidden* somewhere in you until something triggers them into action.
Anger is one example of hidden things of dishonesty. It may hide in you while people have pleasant impression of you for a very long time, simply because they have not provoked you enough to trigger the anger hidden in you.
The day people successfully triggers the anger in you, you show them the other side of you. In that case, anger is one of the things of dishonesty hidden in you.
In like manner, other things of dishonesty can successfully hide in your life until they are triggered. Examples are covetousness, envy, lust, impatience, fear, unbelief, hatred and malice.
The aim of the devil is to use it as a secret weapon to destroy someone who wants to seek God’s kingdom and His righteousness at his work, or even on the pulpit. The devil, the accuser will arrange a trigger to activate it in you.
Therefore, if you do not *discover* and *renounce* them through progressive discipleship, they will be dark clouds covering your shining light.
If any of the hidden things of dishonesty reach the top with you, it will be a snare to prevent you from finishing well, like anger did to Moses (Num 20:7-12, Deut 3:23-26).
Brother, Sister, discover them *NOW* and get rid of them.
*Ice Breaking*:
# Discuss how you discovered one thing of dishonesty which you did not know was in your life, and how you renounced it.
*Prayer*:
# Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults (Psalm 19:12).
# Keep me also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression (Psalm 19:13).
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