SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/23/2017
8:32 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Reasons for Putting Sin to Death”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
3:7
Message of the
verses: “and in them you also once
walked, when you were living in them.”
I mentioned in our last SD that we will be looking at
sub-sections from this main section listed in the focus portion of this
SD. Today we are looking at “SIN IS A
PART OF THE BELIEVER’S PAST.”
I have to say that when I came to Christ, and I probably
mentioned this before, I could not control my swearing, and I knew that
swearing was wrong, I knew it was sinful, and so when I came to Christ He took
my swearing away, something that I could have never done on my own so I truly
can understand this verse stating that I used to walk in sin, that I lived in
sin.
We will look at a some similar verses: “1 And you were dead in your trespasses and
sins, 2 in which you formerly walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of
the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among
them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires
of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the
rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in
our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been
saved) (Eph. 2:1-5).”
Now the following is a
quote from C. H. Spurgeon who asks,
“Christian, what hast thou
to do with sin? Hath in not cost thee enough already? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the
fire? What! When thou has already been
between the jaws of the lion, wilt thou step a second time into his den? Hast thou not had enough of the old
serpent? Did he not poison all thy veins
once, and wilt thou play upon the hole of the asp, and put thy hand upon the
cockatrice’s den a second time? Oh, be
not so mad! So foolish! Did sin ever
yield thee real pleasure? Dist thou find
solid satisfaction in it? If so, go back
to thine old drudgery, and wear the chain again, if it delight thee. But inasmuch as sin did never give thee what
it promised to bestow, but deluded thee with lies, be not a second time snared
by the old fowler—be free, and let the remembrance of they ancient bondage
forbid thee to enter the net again.”
We conclude with Romans 6:1-2 “1 What
shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin
still live in it?”
4/23/2017 8:49 PM
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