Open Heavens 24 June 2017: Saturday daily
devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye- Consequences of sin
CONSEQUENCES OF SIN – Saturday June 24th 2017
Memorise: The wicked man travaileth with
pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. Job
15:20
Read: Genesis 3:8-19 (KJV)
3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
3:13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?
And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou
art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly
shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel.
3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and
unto dust shalt thou return.
Bible in one year: Judges 19, Jeremiah
51:59-52:11, Hymn: Sing hymn 11
MESSAGE:
Sin can bring
unimaginable consequences upon the sinner. Some years ago, I visited the
maximum security prison at Kirikiri, Lagos, where I met a man who had been
condemned to death. For 27 years, he had waited for the day the executioner
would come for his head. While we discussed, I trembled at the repercussion of
sin. [Saturday June 24, 2017]. He said to me, “Even if I am released now, where
do I start from, having wasted 27 years of my life?” Do you expect such a man
to be joyful during all that period of waiting? No way! He must have been sad
for 27 years! Psalm
16:4 says,
“Their sorrows shall be multiplied that
hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor
take up their names into my lips.”
According to
this scripture, sin and sorrow go hand in hand. If you are living in sin, you
cannot be separated from sorrow. If you enjoy sinning, you will be compelled to
enjoy sorrow as well. If you are always sorrowful, examine your ways: it is
possible your life of sorrow is the product of a sinful life.
Similarly, sin
is linked with pain, struggle and tears. Job 15:20 says
“The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.”
This scripture
simply means that if you sin and continue in it, get ready to suffer for a long
time, possibly throughout life. These repercussions of sin did not just start
today; they have been there from the beginning. In today’s Bible reading, after
Adam and Eve sinned, the serpent was cursed above all other creatures and lost
its legs. Open Heavens 24 June 2017: Saturday daily devotional by Pastor E. A.
Adeboye- Consequences of sin. For the woman, the process of conception and
childbirth became an issue of life and death, while the ground was cursed for
man’s sake. Since then, it has been a struggle for man to enter into his
harvest. Before you take out your harvest from the fields, you have to sweat,
suffer, weed out what you did not sow, and so on. Are you going through a lot
of struggle, pain and tears over your efforts to move to the next level? First
crosscheck your life to find out if these are caused by sin. If there is sin,
confess it to God, ask for forgiveness and beat a fast retreat. Follow after the
path of righteousness, because righteousness will ensure sorrow stays far from
your life.
Prayer Point
Father, in any way I have brought sorrow
into my life because of sin, have mercy on me and deliver me today.
Open 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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