THANK YOU FATHER GOD FOR TRUTH Amen ! Until the day God intervened and apprehended me sovereignly by His Spirit I was in no way responsible for my actions and, try as I might, I could never have been different that I was, and neither could you. If this is not the case then the apostle lied when he said, And you He made alive, when you were dead, slain by your trespasses and sins in which at one time you walked HABITUALLY. You were following the course and fashion of this world - were under the sway of the tendency of this present age - following the prince of the power of the air. You were obedient to him and UNDER HIS CONTROL, the demon spirit that still constantly works in THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE...who go against the purposes of God. Among these we as well as you once lived and conducted ourselves in passions of our flesh - our behavior governed by our corrupt and sensual nature; obeying the impulses of the flesh and the thoughts of the mind - our cravings dictated by our senses and our dark imaginings. WE WERE THEN BY NATURE THE CHILDREN OF WRATH...like the rest of mankind (Eph. 2:1-3, Amplified Bible). Surely this explains why the day-old infant in the crib gets mad, turns red in the face, screams to the top of his lungs capacity, and the only reason he doesnt cuss is because he hasnt learned the words! Have you not observed that in this world children do not have to be taught to do wrong - it comes naturally! You dont have to teach little Johnny to sneak around and disobey - and then lie about it. He will do it naturally, out of his own heart and mind, without ever being taught. Johnny will steal cookies out of the cookie jar and then look you straight in the eye and swear he hasnt been near the cookie jar - while the telltale cookie crumbs around his mouth give the lie to his affirmations! Ah, children only have to be taught to do right - never wrong! Men have, in their very blood, been saturated with sin, with lawlessness, with nervous temperaments and diseases WHICH HAVE BEEN THE DIRECT CAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION. God in His great mercy knows this, and thus it is written, And the Lord said in His heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for mans sake; for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every living thing, as I have done (Gen. 8:21). I do not hesitate to say that all the multiplied sins upon earth today ARE THE RESULT OF HEREDITORY WEAKNESSES - inherited from Adam! Ah, beloved, such is the unspeakable POWER OF DISOBEDIENCE, a power beyond the scope of human imagination. I now invite you to meditate deeply upon these inspired words penned nineteen centuries ago by the consecrated hand of the apostle Paul. Well then, as one mans trespass - one mans false step and falling away - led to CONDEMNATION FOR ALL MEN, so one Mans act of righteousness leads to ACQUITTAL AND RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD, AND LIFE FOR ALL MEN (Rom. 5:18). Can we not see by these words what a mighty power there is in both obedience and disobedience?
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:26:39 +0000