The Devotional - R009

The Devotional

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I was away Thursday and Friday of last week and I failed to mention this in the Wednesday devotional, I do apologize for that. Now that all is back to normal, that is; whatever normal is, in these days of our lives in the United States of America I will continue with the morning messages until the LORD decides differently. God in His Infinite Wisdom is PERFECT, PURE and HOLY in all that He does, History is His-Story even when we believe that we have snuffed Him out of our lives with our unrighteous acts of sin in the human heart. 

What better timing for us to be looking at Romans Chapter 1 verse 18-32. I struggled in the Spirit all last week with wanting to write about the Judgment of God on certain ungodly people who are like a “steering committee” of political evil in our nation. Now that does not excuse us “We the People” since a growing number of us approve of this degrading collapse within our judicial system. We have radically rejected God’s Righteousness. What does this implosion look like? One might dare to ask!

Challenge: Romans 1:20-32

The answer to that question is the word SIN, but I believe that we in our nation have banned this word from our schools fifty or more years ago along with the Ten Commandments; so can you believe it? There are people 45 and 50 years old in our nation who cannot define the word “sin” “sinner” (nouns) or “sinful” (adjective). In this, people 45 to 50 years old have replaced the Glory of the incorruptible God into an image of corruptible man, Romans 1:23. Well what does this mean? It means that God is Holy and Eternal (incorruptible) and Man is unholy (corruptible) and will die. We are reaping the harvest of this trade off in our current today.

Still I have not identified what sin is. Sin is what corruptible mankind does; now this is not pleasant for me to write, nor will it be pleasant for you to read. I have an out; these are not my words because I am merely a corruptible being just like you, male and female alike… all of us fall into the following definitions of sin, making us sinners and sinful in the face of a PERFECT, PURE and HOLY GOD.

By our willful exchange of the truth of God for SIN (all sin is a LIE) God says “enough” enough of your treachery and infidelity. Your priests, your churches, your cities, your country and your politics are filled with SIN, thus I will turn you over to this way of life. From now on you will worship and serve your human natural mind in place of ME, your Creator. Your sin will be identified this way as good and your good will be considered as evil.

Women will exchange the natural use of their body for what is unnatural and against nature, likewise also the men will leave the natural function and use of women. They will burn in their lust for other men. Men with men, women with women, committing what is SHAMEFUL in the eyes of their Creator. Not liking to retain God in their natural mind, God reluctantly gave them over to a debased mind (a mind of lower value).

Maybe the focus of sin is still a bit blurred to us, okay! Let’s turn up the heat just a bit. Being now in the basement of our natural mind instead of the attic and seeing sin for what it is. Let me open the cellar door and we will see our personal sinful pattern. Maybe one, two or several sins that we take pleasure in doing with no thought that it is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God of whom must all give an account… some SOON day, Revelation 20:11-15.

 We find the sins listed in Romans 1:29-32 – Immorality, wickedness, covetousness (greed), maliciousness (malice), envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness backbiters, (whispers), haters of God, violent minded (hot headed), proud,, boastful, inventors of evil things, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS, undiscerning (numbskulls), untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving and unmerciful. THESE ARE THE MAJOR sins we commit against the RIGHTEOUS standard of God. God calls these unrighteous acts SIN, now you know what sin is and now you KNOW that you have no excuse, the truth is that there has never been an excuse for sin, only forgiveness.

John 3:16 – 18 – For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For god did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he or she has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

So along with all the rest of the world around you, SINCE YOU ALREADY KNOW, there is a Righteous Judgment of God on all of those who practice such things and no doubt I am not the first one to tell you, you who practice unrighteous living and know it, also know that you are giving approval of this conduct to everyone around you that it is okay. What a shameful Nation we have become and it is ALL BECAUSE OF THAT LITTLE THREE LETTER WORD, SIN.