MY FRIENDS, CAN WE ELIMINATE THOSE SINS WHICH SO EASILY ENSNARES US?

Jan. 4, 2015

MY FRIENDS, CAN WE ELIMINATE THOSE SINS WHICH SO EASILY ENSNARES US?

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Matt. 5:48 (KJV)

“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” Heb. 12:1 (NKJV)

My friends today, let’s talk about those sins “which so easily ensnares us. Those are the sins that we consider grey area’s or “socially acceptable sins,” but if we seek God’s kingdom, there can be no grey areas in our life, everything must be cleansed by the blood of Christ.

A few months ago I was driving my mother-in-law to Sabbath school, we were late, so I ignored the speed limit and of course got stopped for speeding. Trying to get to church sir, I told the policeman, he checked my license, gave me a warning and off I went.

This past Sabbath evening, same location, speeding trying to get to church, only this time I was only going to the church to pick up a DVD to take it to a sick friend before it got to late, got stopped again. Once again, trying to get to church sir, was my response. He checked my license, let me off with a warning and off I went .

My friends, I hope and pray each of you can see the difference in what I told the policeman each time I was stopped and why the road to the kingdom is so narrow, and why very few will make it. There is a thin line between perdition and eternal life that we must recognize if our destination is God’s pure and holy kingdom.

We must stay in the presence of God at all times while “praying without ceasing” for the outpouring of God’s Spirit as we allow self to die daily, not only in the large, but also the small seemingly insignificant areas on our journey.

Hand’s up and I can’t breathe, both cases shows that a black man’s life is not worth very much to some who still recognize blacks as three fifths of a person. But suppose, Michael Brown, and  Eric Garner had left the house that morning, with only one goal and that was, Lord not my will but thy will be done.

Or “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Gal. 2:20 (NIV) My friends, because mans sins has abounded to such an astronomical level, they could have still been killed just stepping outside.

But most likely it would not have been because of a bad choice they made as they started their day. My friends sin is an abomination to God whether you are Isis who kills thousands, or a policeman, who kills a black man simply because he is black.

Or a kid who stills cigars out of a store, or cooperate America who robs poor Americans out of billions of dollars each year or the man who sells cigarettes on a street corner, telling himself it is an honest loving, or the prostitute, or pusher man who sells dope on the corner.

Or everyone who buys on the street, or illegally downloads music and movies from the internet, or the man who gives a policeman the impression he is going to church for church service when he is going only to pick up a DVD for a sick friend.

They are all sins, which so easily ensnares us. and they will all lead to perdition because all sin is an abomination to God. My friends we must begin to focus on our Salvation and what changes we must make in our life to finish this Journey Christ has placed us on.

The closer we get to Christ soon coming, the busier Satan seems to be getting in shielding us, from what appears to us, to be right or wrong in the sight of God. So today stay focused, remember not our will but God’s as we seek His Spirit while keeping “God’s word hid in our heart, that we might not sin against Him. Ps. 119:11 (KJV)

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY