The Battle OF Sin

Planting and Sowing

What ARE we Growing?

To which spirit do we lend our ways?

For there IS A Battle to win

Against disobedience of sin

Proving our walk through our earthly days.

Clearly there IS A Battle to be fought, every minute of every day that we live upon this earth in these old fleshly bodies… AND ~we~, ALL OF US, must fight IT continually.. Men, women, and children, for the adversary Satan the Devil IS not resting on his laurels, but rather he is busy as he can be, going about this earth as a ~roaring lion~ seeking whom he may destroy…
(I Peter 5: 1-11).. The elders among you… feed the flock of God, taking the oversight…being ensamples to the flock.. Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder, yea, all of you be subject one to another, AND BE clothed ~with~ humility: FOR God Resisteth The Proud, & Giveth grace to the ~humble~.. Humble yourselves *Under* The Mighty Hand OF God that HE may exalt you ~in due time~… ~BE Sober, BE vigilant:~ Because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith…
So there IS A Battle to be won, and IN order to win a battle the soldiers must be equipped with the proper weapons for the fight… Something that many children learn young, from the games of war that is presented to them, the heavier and stronger the weapon, the better your chances of winning… For instance, you don’t ride off into battle against a giant, equipped with a feather and a piece of cake… BUT you carry A ROCK, and a sling….
Neither can you suit up in the Protective Armor of battle, with a hoola hoop, or be mentally prepared to fight the war, by singing happy birthday, OR serve up the food that strengthens for ~The Battle~ by passing out hotdogs and hamburgers, dyed eggs… and such things of the this world… BECAUSE!
Simply put, that IS The equipment that Satan the Adversary uses… NOT that any of this IS Evil, just as a pencil made to write with IS NOT A gun or a weapon of destruction, BUT IT CAN BE USED TO KILL… IT can be used to destroy, in more ways than one… ie “the pen IS Mightier than the sword”! In that it can bring about the cessation of one’s earthly life by using IT as knife for stabbing the victim, or by writing vile and untrue things about a person destroy their reputation… BUT
ANYTHING that IS put into, the Truly Written Bible account of: Jesus Christ IS Just AS destructive as the pen… IT can and often does lead to spiritual death, in the hands of Satan because, we, who call ourselves with the service of our lips, followers of Christ, placed IT there…. Instead OF using God’s Unadulterated Holy Written Accounts of HIS Only Begotten Son IN THE Truthful Content AS IT IS Written, we have made a game of it, a fun time in the world, adding to IT the customs of the people, AND promoting them in our services where we are gathered to ~Honor~ The Memory of Jesus and what He did for us…
NOT Only that but we make a party out of just about every meeting with something of the world, of the flesh, anything to keep Satan happy we figure out a way to do, rather than demand as Jesus did not yield to the flesh BUT HE SAID:
(Luke 4:4-12)… “IT IS Written, thou shalt not live BY bread alone, BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD”… “GET thee Behind Me Satan: FOR IT IS Written, Thou shalt worship THE LORD thy God, AND HIM Only shalt thou serve…” “IT IS Said, thou shalt not ~tempt~ the LORD thy God”…
AND with some of the simplest, most innocent looking things we do all the things above that Jesus rebuked the Devil for… We tempt The LORD, when we step out in our ~own~ thinking, by deciding that it looks good and IT seems harmless, and IF we put God into IT, add a few Bible verses in IT then that makes IT good and we can us IT TO Teach the children with and they will enjoy IT and learn while they are having fun…. Nothing wrong here, this IS Good thinking of young modern day folks… Times have changed, and people don’t walk where they need to go, and the burdens have been lifted that were placed on their shoulders. Man has invented modern convinces and made life easier and so we don’t have to live like they did… God Understands, HE Knows that our thoughts are in the right place…. BUT,
IS that what HE HAD Written for us to follow? Modern time’s way of thinking? HAS God Changed to reflect ~Modern Times~ Life styles? Does HE Approve of women running around half naked? OF playing voodoo games, horoscope reading, witchcraft, vampires, spirit seeking, tattoos, seeking the things of and taking part in the nations of this world that are lost and dying? OR did HE have warning written: TO Come out from among them and *Touch NOT*, the unclean thing…(Corinthians 6:17) .. . Certainly HE did not say mix the unclean thing in MY way and all will be well…. AND THE BIGEST MISTAKE That folks make IS IN Thinking that they can ~JUST PUT~ God where they want HIM… Folks IT Ain’t never worked that way, NOR Will IT Ever, According TO: God’s Written Word… The clay can never mold the potter…. Thus we can’t put God any where, BUT we must be where HE IS, we MUST Follow HIM, HE Does NOT Follow US…. (Isaiah 64:8) & (Romans 9:21)
(Hebrews 13:8-9)… Jesus Christ THE SAME yesterday, today, and forever.. Be Not ~~Carried~~ About with divers and *Strange* doctrines, FOR IT IS A Good thing that the heart be established ~WITH GRACE~ *NOT* ~With meats, WHICH HAVE NOT Profited them that have been occupied therein…
SO while we are spinning our wheels or webs of entanglement in Satan’s world of pleasures, trying to make a game of fun out of learning or teaching, What IS Written for us to follow, IT Might do us well TO Read and Learn a bit of Instruction, Exhortation IN Truth… BECAUSE
This IS where HE gives us choice STILL… there are ~TWO~ paths, and there IS NOT A Gray area in between them.. Where we may walk, BUT many Churches have attempted to invent a gray area… a place where the members can have their cake and eat IT TOO… Where folks can straddle the fence and claim Christ, while living ~WITH~ the world… BIG Difference.. We must walk through this world, we must live in this world until our earthly life IS Done, BUT, we are not to be a part of this world… we are nothing more than strangers passing through a foreign land, IF we are truly followers of Christ…
The only way to Follow Christ IS TO Learn OF Christ.. And when we feel the urging of the Spirit to humbly repent and accept that walk with Christ, accept Jesus into our heart, to let the Holy Spirit Guide us, we gotta then and IT IS ours to learn to resist, the spirit of evil that pulls us into the world… IT IS ALL Written in the Bible, THE Book of All Instruction that The Father Had written and preserved for us to use as a Guide through this life… WE gotta be Interested Enough to seek IT out for Instruction… For proof, For protection against making the Wrong decision in matters of this life…
(Ephesians 6: 11-18)… Put on the whole armour of God.. (v.17).. AND The Sword OF the spirit which IS THE Word of God….
WE have a duty, a decision to make, a choice IS given us BY God, every day as long as we live in these fleshly bodies… That choice IS: to serve God IN Truth and honesty or follow the ways of Satan… Jesus will not hold us IF we want to look back into the world… The Spirit will convict us ~~IF~~ we are paying ~Attention~~ TO the right spirit…. REMEMBER… there are two spirits biding us follow… AND we have to be equipped to KNOW Which IS The Right Spirit! How do we do that? BY staying ourselves up in the: INSTRUCTIONS Written In the Bible, Gods Book of Instruction, BY Walking about with a prayer in our hearts instead of the ways of the world… BY Keeping our thoughts focused on the things above, not on the things of this world…. AND IF we can’t see the difference, we may be walking on the wrong path…