Good morning Lord Jesus, kindle in me this morning the fire of your love…
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires.” (Romans 7:7-8)
Suppose you were having trouble breathing and are feeling so you go to a doctor. After examining you the doctor say’s he wants to test you for cancer. So he sends you to have a CAT Scan and other tests. The images of your lungs show you do have cancer tumors in your lungs. They do a biopsy of them and the tests come back it is cancer. The doctor calls you into his office to share with you the findings. He takes time to show you the images from the CAT scan and biopsy results. When he finishes he asks if you have Any questions. You tell him, I do not believe it. I do not the cancer, the machine that took the images is defective and is wrong and not reliable.
So you go to another doctor for a second opinion. They do the same imaging and tests that again show you have cancer. At the consultation, you again deny you have cancer, and claim the machine is wrong and un-reliable. So you go to doctor after doctor until you finally find some so called “doctor” who tells you, you do not have cancer. You listen to them, and instead of getting treatment, the cancer is slowly killing you.
Romans 7 speaks into this. Except the “cancer” in your is sin, the doctor is a faithful man or woman of God, and the CAT scan machine is The Word of God in your Bible. A person knows in their heart they are “sick.” Their heart is not right, their life is a struggle, they are depressed, have anxiety, and suffering from symptoms of the consequences of their sin. So they seek out consultation and advice from a Cristian friend or pastor. They sit them down and speak the truth of God found in scripture into their life and reveal their sin. The instead of admitting their sin, confessing, repenting, and beginning to heal, tells their friend, they do not believe they are sinning. That the Word of God in The Bible is wrong, unreliable, inaccurate, and outdated. So they seek out another Christian friend/pastor who again speaks the same truth of God over the sin in their life, and they again deny they are sinning, and claim it is the Bible that is wrong and inaccurate. So they keep seeking consultation and advice from others until he finds a “Christian” friend or pasture that tells them their actions, life style and choices, attitudes, or beliefs are not a sin, and they listen to them. And they continue on sick in their sin, living in the consequences of their sin.
Before you say “amen” and let your mind think of the spec in the eyes of others, remember the plank that is in yours. We Christians do this to different extents as well. We tell ourselves when we are dishonest filling out our taxes, when we are cohabitating with a member of the opposite sex outside of marriage, when we enter into gossip about someone, when we refrain from gathering with others in the body of Christ regularly, when we are hurtful in our political stances, when are attitudes towards our spouses or children is not one of humility. We claim that the truth of the Word of God does is inaccurate or does not really apply to “our sin.”
My family, before the Holy Spirit can be the Holy Comforter to you, He is always the Holy Confronter of your sin. I pray you will allow the Holy Spirit scan your life today with the truth of God’s Word to reveal areas in which sin is making you sick and preventing you to live a full healthy life, then honestly claim it, repent from it, and let God heal and restore you to health, by and in Jesus’ name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you my friends!
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