DON’T RESIST; RUN! – Sunday August 27th 2017
Memorise: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1st Corinthians 6:20
2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
MESSAGE:
While
it is important for you to admit your mistakes with sorrowful heart, it
is also important that you learn from these mistakes.
Ask yourself:
“How did I get here? What did I do wrong? How could I have avoided this
outcome?” To live triumphantly in this world, you need to pay very close
attention to what the word of God says and follow it to the letter. 1st Peter 5:8-9
says you should steadfastly resist the devil, so if you resist, but do
not steadfastly resist, you will surely fall. On the other hand, in 1st Corinthians 6:18,
we are commanded to flee fornication. In this case, God does not
require resistance from you, but that you should take to your heels! If
you then try to resist instead of running, you will surely fall.
Similarly, 2nd Timothy 2:22 says,
“Flee
also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace,
with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
Clearly, there is a time to stand and a time to run. If you stand when you should run, you will most likely fall.
Sometimes
ago, I told male pastors not to have female secretaries, but some of
them who thought they were wiser than I, called it gender
discrimination. I told them that after they had become causalities of
their wrong decisions, they would remember that I had earlier warned
them. One of my very good sons, who knew the Bible very well, hired a
female secretary. I asked him, “What are you doing? How can you be in
the same office with this lady smiling at you? Eventually, you will end
up working late with her. Go and ease her out.” He dragged his feet on
this. Today, this same person is out of the ministry, out of his home
and jobless. If not that he lives in a country where the government
provides food for the jobless, he would have starved. Some leaders are
still toying with danger. Some piglets once asked the mother pig, “Why
are you always grunting? “The mother pig replied, “When you are as old
as I am, you will know why.” Avoid any source of temptation! Resist when
you should and run when you should. Some people take it as an act of
cowardice to run from those they feel sexually attracted to. No! It is
not cowardice, it is wisdom! God knows how He wired your body, so if He
says you should run in a particular situation, please run for your dear
life!
Action Point
The Bible has the antidote to every situation; apply it diligently and you will never fall.
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Heavens Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the
largest evangelical Church in the world and also the President of Christ
the Redeemer's Ministries.
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