{"id":44048,"date":"2018-07-16T05:06:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=44048"},"modified":"2018-07-16T05:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:06:55","slug":"sin-is-crouching-at-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/16\/sin-is-crouching-at-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin is crouching at the door"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c<\/span>Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin\u201d<\/p>\n

Genesis 4:7<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes 8:12-13<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.\u00a0\u00a0But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 3:10-11<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds\u00a0\u00a0Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.<\/p>\n

Romans 2:7-10<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;\u00a0\u00a0but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.\u00a0\u00a0There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,\u00a0\u00a0but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.<\/p>\n

Romans 12:1<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.<\/p>\n

Desire, want, pride, coveting, self-seeking all have root in our very nature.\u00a0 We are born with this and it is never far from coming to the surface.\u00a0 Even when we seek to do good there can be wrong motives.<\/p>\n

How do we become aware and expose these.\u00a0 It is hard when the culture we live in lives by different rules and expectations.\u00a0 Pornography is labeled adult entertainment, abortion is legalized and a right, and christian values are mocked.\u00a0 Though these are easily recognized as wrong by many with a background of bible teaching, they are not even close to being seen wrong by the culture that has no background of the bible.<\/p>\n

Scripture speaks of both sin and righteousness.\u00a0 The difference though should be clear as night and day, are not when God is not placed number one in our heart mind and soul.\u00a0 When humbly serving, honoring, following and obeying God is not a desire everyday we are easily influenced by what seems right in our own eyes.<\/p>\n

We can not rightly fight sin in our lives without a basis of knowledge and understanding of what it is.\u00a0 Our thoughts, intents, and actions are all places where sin takes root.\u00a0 How can we grow in this understanding of sin? Only by an understanding of God’s Holiness, grace, mercy, patience, justice, anger, wrath, and steadfast love.<\/p>\n

As we read God’s word it exposes more and more of His holiness to us.\u00a0 It peels away layer upon layer of false truths, fake lives, and self centered lukewarm living.<\/p>\n

Do not neglect His word.\u00a0 Do not become complacent in living each moment for His service and direction.\u00a0 Godly and holy knowledge and understanding do not just happen without effort.\u00a0 Effort does not exist when there is no desire.\u00a0 Where there is no desire the heart, soul and mind starve of the very essence of life.\u00a0 Choose to live this and everyday with His word in your heart, mind, and soul, to grow in your understanding and knowledge of serving and obeying Him.<\/p>\n

How sad is the state of the culture when God’s word is at each person’s finger tips 24\/7 and it is neglected days on end.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThen desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin\u201d Genesis 4:7\u00a0\u00a0If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.\u201d Ecclesiastes 8:12-13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and … Continue reading “Sin is crouching at the door”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5414,2688,382,4188,1670,5677,7489,7488,7491,2277,95,158,531,164,393,3742,530,171,1575,80,309,36,7492,5430,205,4943,7490,7467,120,7493,3739,2094,1604,270,3681],"class_list":["post-44048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-accepted","tag-according-to-their-work","tag-believe-him","tag-birth","tag-blessed-is-he-who-trusts-in-the-lord","tag-conceived","tag-contrary","tag-crouching-at-the-door","tag-dealt-out","tag-deceiving-yourselfs","tag-desire","tag-distress","tag-eternal-life","tag-evil","tag-fear-god","tag-fruit-of-their-deeds","tag-glory","tag-good","tag-holy","tag-honor","tag-immortality","tag-life","tag-mercies-of-god","tag-obey-him","tag-patience","tag-preach-the-gospel","tag-rule-over-it","tag-seek-peace-and-pursue-it","tag-sin","tag-spiritual-worship","tag-storing-up-wrath","tag-tribulation","tag-unrighteousness","tag-wicked","tag-wrath-to-come"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44053,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44048\/revisions\/44053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}