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
Read: 2nd Timothy
2:22-23 (KJV)
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.
Bible in one year: 1st
Chronicles 13-15, Ezekiel 32:1-15, Hymn: Sing hymn 6
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.
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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