Living
Close is for my Protection
Exodus
32:15-19 (KJV)
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
The closer I get to
God the level of my love for him elevates in intensity while simultaneously, my
hatred for sin will intensify. Holiness and sin are polar opposites. The closer
you get to the one, automatically, the further you get from the other.
Look at Moses - he
has been in a complete holy environment for 40 days. There has been no contact
with sin or its effects for forty days. Moses has been in the presence of truth
and this all he has heard for this entire time with the Lord. He now walks
right into an environment of total depravity and debauchery. Moses is radiating
the glory of God, and it reacts violently to sin.
This is a normal response
when a person is living close to the Lord. I wonder, is the opposite happening
to the American church which is embracing compromise and ultimately dangling
itself over the pits of confusion. It seemingly is staying just far enough away
from God in creating an atmosphere of acceptance to sin. The church leans right
but not far enough to break all connections to sin. Our attitude towards sin
will be an indicator of our proximity to God in relationship. Look at the
following:
Hebrews 1:9 (KJV)
9 Thou hast loved
righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy
God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Living close to God
is for our own protection, because it will keep us far from sin. This close relationship
will produce not just an emotion but an accurate understanding of how
devastating sin really is. We begin to realize that sin is not simply a
mistake, a mere negative thought, or an act, but treason that lampoons the
heart of God every time it is committed.
When we love
someone, we won’t be able to bear the thought of hurting the one we love so
much!
I.
Your ability is what you are capable of
doing, your motivation determines what you do, and your attitude
determines how well you do it. Mickey
Hale.
II.
Romans 6:12-15 (KJV)
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
A. If I am a diabetic
& the doctor says, “If you eat these sweets you will die.”
1. I then have a
choice, no one forces me to eat them, I might be tempted, but it is my choice.
2. That is the way with
sin, no one forces you to sin it is a choice, you can be tempted, but you don't
"have to sin".
3. The bible is clear
that sin shall not have dominion over us, when we know the truth & ignore
it, it then becomes willful sin, & the wages of sin is death. Let us walk
& live in the victory
III.
Hatred is an attitude
A.
Hebrews 1:9 (KJV)
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
B.
We are not to hate people but iniquity or sin.
C.
This hatred is an attitude which brought motivation
to exercise the ability to avoid it and/or deal with it.
D. That attitude begins at the new-birth experience when the our nature is
changed by Jesus Christ at the Cross.
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