HOW SIN BEGINS
HOW THE DEVIL TRAPS
PEOPLE IN SIN
If
you know how the devil traps people in sin and had trapped many in sin, perhaps
you might be able to overcome him. Christ revealed to us the strategy of the
devil and the antidote for him
Temptation
comes when we become anxious of these things?
What to eat: when we start bothering
ourselves over what to eat when we are yet even hungry, we anticipate the
hunger and become so engrossed in seeking out the solution to the problem that
hasn’t come. When the desire to gratify our body begins to overwhelm us, then
we are at the verge of falling into the trap of the devil. Be careful when your
desire for sex starts intensifying when you are yet married and, when your
desire for dainties begins to increase when you are yet hungry, you are about
to fall into the pit of the devil
What to drink: the ideal of enjoying
great wines and the overwhelming urge to indulge in it is the devil’s strategy
to entrap you forever ever. Alcohols are addictive thus God warns us about the
thought of ‘what to drink’
What to wear: are you a fashion freak?
You want to wear the latest in town even when you can’t conveniently afford it?
You condemn yourself daily because you aren’t putting on the latest of
fashions? When what to wear becomes your daily thought, you’ve lost your way in
life.
The
devil comes and fills us with the thoughts and desires for mundane things and
when we allow such desires to overwhelm us, we have started our journey to
destruction
Christ
warns us ‘Therefore
take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or,
Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Matt. 6:31-32
The reason
why the devil had succeeded in making sinners of saints it’s because they seek
for all these things thereby forgetting to seek God first. You can’t be seeking
for what to eat, drink and wear and at the same time seeking first the kingdom
of God. It’s either God first or nothing.
Are you so
engrossed in you desire for mundane things? If you are, then you are already a
gentile (unbeliever) because gentiles seek these not believers
God bless
you
Pastor Promise
Ikpe
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