Our Saviour taught that we must be severe with ourselves when it comes to sin cp Matthew 18 v 7-9, it is Oswald Chambers,who writes,/ What does this mean?it means absolutes,unflinching sternness /How severe are we with those sins that so easily beset us?,remember if I play with fire , I will get burned,if I play in the dirt I will get dirty. How far are we prepared to go?, to be holy.in putting to death those lusts that war in our members.How prepared are we to cast of every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us ? [Hebrews 12 v1 ]./ Consider these important words in Matthew 18 vv 8/9, Better for Thee,we think we know what is best for us,we dont, He does .Although I have been applying these words in Matthew 18 to the Christian , I believe they are being spoken to the unconverted,to those who have not trusted Jesus,men love their sins,their lusts,the list is endless, but it boils down to this,are we prepared to deal severely with those things that will damn us to hell. Again Oswald Chambers writes,/Jesus Christ talked rugged truth,He was never ambiguous, and He says it is better to be mained than damned./ How men /women will one day curse their sins,those things that they choose to hold unto that they loved,Esau will curse the wrong choice he made, [Genesis 25 v29-34 / Hebrews 12 v16]. Judas will lament for all eternty his love of money, that led him to betray our Saviour for 30 pieces of silver.There is nothing we value,be it a person place or thing that is worth going to hell for,Jesus made it clear when He said ,/What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul .[ Mark 8 v36 ]
A prayer.../ Dear God help us to see the seriousness of sin, and its consequences,grant us the grace to make the right choices in Jesus name Amen/
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