16/01/2020
Friends,if there's anything God wants to do for you, it is to *LOVE YOU* but the enemy is to *CONDEMN YOU*
I want us to look at *SIN*
*WHAT IS SIN?* *1st john:5 v 17 tells us sin is *ALL WRONG DOINGS, ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS*
I'll like us to look at what happened in *Gen : 3 v from verse 1* this is the story of Adam, eve, the serpent and the forbidden fruit... We all know the story.
God gave *INSTRUCTIONS* *A COMMAND* was given, GOD told them to eat any fruit they want in the garden except one, but they *DISOBEYED*
the enemy came and contradicted , the enemy came and influenced man not to follow God, and *when. You don't obey you have authomatically disobeyed* So man disobeyed the instructions.
So who gives the measurement to tell what and what not is SIN?? *how do we know what sin is?*
Beloved, sin is not stealing, fornication, adultery, lying, umforgivness, etc...
*SIN IS DISOBEDIENCE* but the fruits of that disobedience is the list we have above.
God gave us instructions, command to keep and up till date many of us still do not obey. When God gives you a word, he expects you to keep it. If your actions is in disobedience to the word of God, if what you are doing is against the word of God, IF the word of God says don't cheat, don't gossip, don't slander your fellow man, do this tell lies, love your neighbor just like you love yourselves, don't steal, don't have s*x with a person you are not married to, or as a married person do not have s*x with anyone other than your wife.. And lots more, where you disobey and do them *THEN you are a SINNER!!!*
So let us ask ourselves, *HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE SINNED??* it is not about a person condemning you, it is you asking g yourself *AM I IN DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD?*
adam and eve did not become sinners by talking with the devil, *we have followed the lies of condemnation to forget the light* but when you totally come to God, he doesn't leave matters to pursue shadows.
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SIN?
*(1)* Roman's 6 v 23 tells us the wages of sin is death.. Wages simply means payments, reward, It is personified, wages can be per hour, daily pay or weekly pay.
Your salary is monthly.. THE PAYMENY YOU GET FROM COMMITTING SIN IS DEATH.. death might not necessarily mean physically but also spiritual.. Death in your finances, death in your academics Death in your health. Etc.
Beloved, sin pays debt and SIN DISCONNECTS YOU FROM GOD.
*(2)* Roman's 3 v 23 says for all have sinned and come short of the glory..
Friend, God's glory is like a covering and when one has fallen out of it, when one is no longer in that covering it simply means shame has taken over.
*(3)* Sin stands or interferes with your functionality.
*what is functionality?*
This is the ability to act or flow and produce results with ease with all God has called you to do.
When God calls you to do something, he gives you the power.
DO. YOU KNOW WHAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO DO?
There is a general call and a specific call.
*(1)* Generally God has called us all to be his children, to act and flow and produce results like him
*(2)* God has called us to be like Jesus
*(3) God has called us to follow jesus
*(4)* God has called us to win souls.
Lastly but not least friends, it is left for us to act, the Holy Spirit will flow and God will bring the results.
When a man is sinning, he will stop shinning bit when sin goes, shine flows..
FRIENDS, SIN, INTERFERES WITH YOUR DAILY BENEFITS.. ALL YOU NEED IS THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE WILL MAKE IT EASY FOR YOU... i pray You will not just be readers but doers of the WORD!!!!