Topic: Sin---The Spiritual Bumps
Hosea 2:2-15---Please read these scriptures from the KJV...
By now most people that know me, know that my mind can come up with some weird things to think about...As I read the above scripture passage...LOL...I went back in time to the first flat that I had...
The tire was flat...as flat as could be...exposing the metal of the steel-belted radial...When I took the tire to have it repaired, I noticed the other tires were ok...No sign of any wearing down...I asked this question...How can that be that only this one tire, bought with the other three is so worn and the others aren't???The dealer explained that a nail had stuck in the rubber and transferred rust to the steel belts, weakening the interior of the tire...Just a nail, a little rust and blap, blap, blap caused the belt and thread to separate...
And, with that thought...I began to think of the Valley of Achor...
Bumps---spiritual ones can and will develope in your walk with Christ...Unconfessed sin in the heart is like the rust that destroyed my tire...At first nothing seems to be wrong, and may get by with no consequences...but, your love for God will dwindle...Your interest in God's word will slack up...You will eventually stop talking to your Father as much...life declines and church becomes unimportant...Your spiritual life comes to a bumping halt...blap, blap, blap...
Hosea reminds us of the dangers of unconfessed sin, and for the hope of repentance...
Achor means Valley of Turmoil, Misforutune and Trouble...I don't think I want to live in that Valley...
Place of Despair---Achan stole priceless treasure and a robe from Babylon and hid them in his tent...He stole from God...Will a man rob God??? Yes some do...
Stealing from God in the camp of His people is a serious NO_NO!!!Have we ever stole from God???The answer my friend is YES!!! ouch...that hurts, but it is true...We have done this by stealing time from Him...Having nothing to offer Him...finding excuses to not do what is asked of us to do for the Glory to God...I could go on and on with many ways we have stolen from God...Look folks, we are stewards and we must not neglect the Word of God...His Word is our text message straight from Heaven, written by men under the influence of the Holy of Holies...God Himself took time to record His Word for our learning on how to worship, honor, trust and love Him...not to steal His Word for our own interpretations, but to rightly divide It and really live by It...You will not progress with sin in the camp ...It should be confessed and left in the sea of forgetfulness...We will not see Heaven, or rather we will not go to Heaven with an Achan in the house...{heart}...
In some places they have so called strangler weed...It takes over like twisted vines and chokes up the beautiful things in its path, takes over and everything rots from the inside out...Dead...and Dead stinks...What this fig does to trees, sin does to a person...when the devil comes whispering...turn off your spiritual hearing aids and tune in to The Word of God...We cannot be blind to satan...if we turn our heads the other way to sin, then we are sinning too...Stand up to it, in the name of Jesus...Don't waste time on it...Nip it...Sin in the camp will rub off...everything grows negative...God wants lively stones...
Read Joshua 7:24---KJV---Sin was removed from the camp and put to death, only because it was confessed when caught...Don't be sorry just because your caught...be sorry because you know that you have sinned, that you have thought in your mind that you would hide it in your tent and know one would find out, that you would play around with stolen things, things that God forbids you to hold on too, and eventually you would let it go, be godly sorrowful that you allowed the enemy to trick you this way...Clean out the entire house....Sister Mary Shelton sang a song at Ladies Retreat about the hidden room in her heart that the person had under lock and key...but Jesus finally got the message across to open it up and clean it out...and I had to clean out that room...I want God to come at any time and my rooms be clean...nothing is hid from Him anyway...some of us even have stolen things that we hide from ourself...Create in me O God a clean heart...
Door of Hope---Today, we don't have to be stoned or put to death from sinning, but rather be made pure by His precious blood...perfect by the purifier...which is the Holy Ghost...When dealt with, confessed and true repentance, guess what???You will grow...Praise God!!!In His likeness...Don't that sound GOOD!!!
When you are hiding things...do you ever notice that your body starts acting sick...you just got to get to the doctor...and then your mis diagnosed...All the time, you know what is making you sick...and the doctor wants to put you on nerve medication or zonk you out with pain medication...when all along a good ole fashion trip to the altar and get a spritual healing from God will make you 150% better...
HIS WORD IS THE CURE!!! Go and tell the devil that you have hid all the sin you are gonna hide...that you have decided that serving God is the only way to keep you out of Hell...and it is the only way to keep you well enough to do what you were born to do to begin with...and that is To Serve God!!!
Turn to the Door of Hope, turn loose of weights and sins...OHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!Weights...Yes!!!If the burden you carry, not the sin, but the burden...then give it to the Maker...He already said He would carry it...
When you give everything to Him...then tell yourself..."Self, get up out of this Valley, Open the Door of Hope and LIVE!!!
Your choice---The Valley of Achor===Despair
or The Door of Hope===ETERNAL LIFE!!!
Praise God!!! I CHOOSE LIFE!!!
Hosea 2:2-15---Please read these scriptures from the KJV...
By now most people that know me, know that my mind can come up with some weird things to think about...As I read the above scripture passage...LOL...I went back in time to the first flat that I had...
The tire was flat...as flat as could be...exposing the metal of the steel-belted radial...When I took the tire to have it repaired, I noticed the other tires were ok...No sign of any wearing down...I asked this question...How can that be that only this one tire, bought with the other three is so worn and the others aren't???The dealer explained that a nail had stuck in the rubber and transferred rust to the steel belts, weakening the interior of the tire...Just a nail, a little rust and blap, blap, blap caused the belt and thread to separate...
And, with that thought...I began to think of the Valley of Achor...
Bumps---spiritual ones can and will develope in your walk with Christ...Unconfessed sin in the heart is like the rust that destroyed my tire...At first nothing seems to be wrong, and may get by with no consequences...but, your love for God will dwindle...Your interest in God's word will slack up...You will eventually stop talking to your Father as much...life declines and church becomes unimportant...Your spiritual life comes to a bumping halt...blap, blap, blap...
Hosea reminds us of the dangers of unconfessed sin, and for the hope of repentance...
Achor means Valley of Turmoil, Misforutune and Trouble...I don't think I want to live in that Valley...
Place of Despair---Achan stole priceless treasure and a robe from Babylon and hid them in his tent...He stole from God...Will a man rob God??? Yes some do...
Stealing from God in the camp of His people is a serious NO_NO!!!Have we ever stole from God???The answer my friend is YES!!! ouch...that hurts, but it is true...We have done this by stealing time from Him...Having nothing to offer Him...finding excuses to not do what is asked of us to do for the Glory to God...I could go on and on with many ways we have stolen from God...Look folks, we are stewards and we must not neglect the Word of God...His Word is our text message straight from Heaven, written by men under the influence of the Holy of Holies...God Himself took time to record His Word for our learning on how to worship, honor, trust and love Him...not to steal His Word for our own interpretations, but to rightly divide It and really live by It...You will not progress with sin in the camp ...It should be confessed and left in the sea of forgetfulness...We will not see Heaven, or rather we will not go to Heaven with an Achan in the house...{heart}...
In some places they have so called strangler weed...It takes over like twisted vines and chokes up the beautiful things in its path, takes over and everything rots from the inside out...Dead...and Dead stinks...What this fig does to trees, sin does to a person...when the devil comes whispering...turn off your spiritual hearing aids and tune in to The Word of God...We cannot be blind to satan...if we turn our heads the other way to sin, then we are sinning too...Stand up to it, in the name of Jesus...Don't waste time on it...Nip it...Sin in the camp will rub off...everything grows negative...God wants lively stones...
Read Joshua 7:24---KJV---Sin was removed from the camp and put to death, only because it was confessed when caught...Don't be sorry just because your caught...be sorry because you know that you have sinned, that you have thought in your mind that you would hide it in your tent and know one would find out, that you would play around with stolen things, things that God forbids you to hold on too, and eventually you would let it go, be godly sorrowful that you allowed the enemy to trick you this way...Clean out the entire house....Sister Mary Shelton sang a song at Ladies Retreat about the hidden room in her heart that the person had under lock and key...but Jesus finally got the message across to open it up and clean it out...and I had to clean out that room...I want God to come at any time and my rooms be clean...nothing is hid from Him anyway...some of us even have stolen things that we hide from ourself...Create in me O God a clean heart...
Door of Hope---Today, we don't have to be stoned or put to death from sinning, but rather be made pure by His precious blood...perfect by the purifier...which is the Holy Ghost...When dealt with, confessed and true repentance, guess what???You will grow...Praise God!!!In His likeness...Don't that sound GOOD!!!
When you are hiding things...do you ever notice that your body starts acting sick...you just got to get to the doctor...and then your mis diagnosed...All the time, you know what is making you sick...and the doctor wants to put you on nerve medication or zonk you out with pain medication...when all along a good ole fashion trip to the altar and get a spritual healing from God will make you 150% better...
HIS WORD IS THE CURE!!! Go and tell the devil that you have hid all the sin you are gonna hide...that you have decided that serving God is the only way to keep you out of Hell...and it is the only way to keep you well enough to do what you were born to do to begin with...and that is To Serve God!!!
Turn to the Door of Hope, turn loose of weights and sins...OHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!Weights...Yes!!!If the burden you carry, not the sin, but the burden...then give it to the Maker...He already said He would carry it...
When you give everything to Him...then tell yourself..."Self, get up out of this Valley, Open the Door of Hope and LIVE!!!
Your choice---The Valley of Achor===Despair
or The Door of Hope===ETERNAL LIFE!!!
Praise God!!! I CHOOSE LIFE!!!
