Have you experienced it? Once the craving comes upon you there is no
release until you do it even though
your conscience tells you it is wrong. For I do not
do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing Rom 7:19. You have asked
yourself why it must be so with you and now you
rationalise it. “I’m not hurting anyone”. On the inside you admire goodness and
purity but that is not your life. For I know
that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to
do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out Rom 7:18. It is true with you that once
a set of conditions happen you do evil. “Everyone
does that now, na condition make crayfish bend” you say.
Have you felt it? Once the provocation comes you react and retaliate.
Immediately if you can or later but you will do for sure. You just can’t let go
when insulted. It is said of you “That
one? Don’t go near. Revenge will surely take place”. Extorting money when
people are at your mercy is sure. Unless, until you are settled nobody goes
anywhere. It is a law with you. This law of sin and death holds you like a vice
and won’t let go. So I find it
to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand Rom 7:21. Now you claim “It is my nature. That’s how I was born.”
But you are a slave to these things. They promise
them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever
overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved 2Pt 2:19. The more you struggle the more
you see bondage. You can be set free.
You must be set free; otherwise a sure death awaits all held by this
law, a death that lasts forever. This law of sin and death which holds you
captive and makes sure that you sin again and again has been overcome. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free
in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death Rom 8:2. Jesus Christ overcame
it by dying on the cross for you now He offers you freedom. Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I
say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. So if the Son sets
you free, you will be free indeed” Jn 8:34, 36. God has also promised I will give
you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the
heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Eze 36:26, 27 This promise is
yours through Jesus Christ.
Welcome Jesus into your heart. When Zacchaeus welcomed Jesus he was
free from enslavement And Zacchaeus
stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to
the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it
fourfold." Lk 19:8. It was the power Jesus freely gives that
did that. Paul the apostle experienced that too. He then began working no
longer with his own power and energy but the one that comes from Jesus Christ. To get this done I toil and struggle, using
the mighty strength which Christ supplies and which is at work in me Col 1:29 . Ask Jesus Christ to set you free now and
give you that power. I know He will never refuse you. O come to Jesus Christ
today and be free from the law of sin and death! Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn
away anyone who comes to me
Jn 6:37
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