Wednesday, September 27, 2006

The Ultimate Deception



Before concluding our series on sin, let's recap...
  1. Sin's endgame is to kill you. No matter how harmless, riskless, or secret the wrong doing is, sin wants to tangle you up and ultimately kill you. Sin is ruthless, toxic and focused.
  2. The right YES gets you success; The wrong YES gets you a big mess. When you are faced with decisions, you must choose the right YES. Everyone is tempted and people have said no to temptation and God promises us to help us when we are tmepted. We just have to gathe renough courage to walk away from it.
  3. Last one: The right NO makes room for the big YES.
Sin wants to get you to say "Hell yes." Meaning? That instead of life everalsting, life with out end with God, Jesus in a Heavenly place prepared for us, sin wants us to join it in Hell. Hell is a real place. Prepared by God for the devil, a former angel kicked out of the presence of God along with a third of the angels becuase of pride. God didn't prepare hell for humans. His intentions were that at the right time, he would send the devil to hell with his followers and we would join God in heaven. However, sin is on the loose tryingto get as many as it can join it in Hell. But we must change our "Hell yes" to a "Hell no."

In life the right NO's make room for the bigger YES's. Sin tricks you into thinking that you are powerless and can't say "NO." But with practice and true friend's encouraging you, you can definately say "no" to wrong doing and make room for the big "YES" in life.

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