THINGS GOD WANTS YOU TO KNOW (No. 06)

Post date: Jan 29, 2019 4:46:40 AM

No.6. God wants you to know what sin is, He wants you to know what the consequences of sin are, He wants you to know the various ways that sin imparts godliness, faithfulness, obedience, and lives generally, He wants you to know how to identify sin and how to avoid it or avoid them. Did you know that many believers and followers of Jesus Christ are living in sin and practicing sin and actively participating in sin without knowing? That is ignorance in its highest form and it is the handwork and desire of the devil to let that happen and continue. God wants all Christians to know that all forms of sin has consequences and are punishable. Sin is a setback, a hindrance, a roadblock and a wrong way in everything to everyone. Everyone who lives in sin continues in sin, and practices sin with or without knowledge is out of God’s will, out of God’s ways, out of God’s plans, and out of God’s purpose for his or her life despite desiring them.

This is what the scripture says of sin. “Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness, ignoring God’s law by action or neglect or by tolerating wrongdoing being unrestrained by His commands and His will. You know that He appeared in visible form as a man in order to take away sins, and in Him, there is absolutely no sin for He has neither the sin nature nor has He committed sin or acts worthy of blame. No one who abides in Him, who remains united in fellowship with Him deliberately, knowingly, and habitually practices sin. No one who habitually sins has seen Him or known Him. Little children, believers, dear ones, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who practices righteousness, the one who strives to live a consistently honorable life in private as well as in public and to conform to God’s precepts is righteous, just as He is righteous. The one who practices sin separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion is of the devil and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God deliberately, knowingly, and habitually practices sin, because God’s seed, His principle of life, the essence of His righteous character remains permanently in him who is born again, who is reborn from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose; and he who is born again cannot habitually live a life characterized by sin because he is born of God and longs to please Him. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are clearly identified: anyone who does not practice righteousness, who does not seek God’s will in thought, action, and purpose is not of God, nor is the one who does not unselfishly love his believing brother.” 1 John 3:4-10

God wants us to be physically and spiritually enlighten concerning all forms of sin and to be on guard concerning its source and activities against our growth, our effectiveness and our progress and our desires despite our prayers. He wants us to be enlightened and not be ignorant again or be in the captivities of sin the rest of our lives as we walk with God and desire His blessings. The power of sin is strong and taking the ignorant ones into its captivity and Pau said the following in his prayers to Christians in Ephesus; “I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers; I always pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation that gives you a deep and personal and intimate insight into the true knowledge of Him for we know the Father through the Son. And I pray that the eyes of your heart the very center and core of your being may be enlightened flooded with light by the Holy Spirit, so that you will know and cherish the hope the divine guarantee, the confident expectation to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints God’s people,” Ephesians 1:16-18. The consequences of sin destruction and uncertainty and fear and all forms of evil “For the wages of sin is death.” Romans 6:23. Prayer Request Click here