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Matthew 6:24 KJV

24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Romans 1:28-32 NIV

28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 13:11-14 NIV

11 And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

In the Church today, we have a critical situation plaguing believers and Church leaders at all levels of ministry.

In the top two scriptures shown above, you cannot serve two masters, nor can you participate in any of the sins listed in Romans 1, but yet many are doing these things and attending church each Sunday or Saturday with unrepentant hearts, calling themselves Christians and not seeking the Lord to clean themselves of sin.  We are supposed to be a people set apart in this world for Christ (a light unto the world); having a heart patterned after Jesus’ own heart and clean life.

When we do a particular sin long enough, God will turn us over to a reprobate mind so we no longer see the practiced sin as wrong, leading us into deeper sin and furthering our fall away from Jesus into calamity.  Jesus tells us that no sin will go unpunished, if not repented from, and that calamity will befall us if we continue in the sinful way we have chosen - Calamity Comes!.

What we don’t realize is the affect it has on not just us, but the Church as a whole.  If you are a minister serving Jesus, and yet keeping a foot in satan’s territory, your church flock, organization, or ministry will suffer for that sin, because sin introduces unclean spirits and calamity, creating an overall destructive effect, just as adultery in a marriage can cause all in the family to be affected painfully and maybe even destroyed spiritually.  One thing to always remember is:  People might not see you, the world might not see you, but Jesus always sees you and He will give the final judgment in the matter, so clean yourself of any sin and reprobate mindset, that way your actions will glorify God and you, your ministry, life, and family will be blessed.

One of the best examples in the Bible, with regards to sin in the camp, is found in Joshua 7.

In this passage of scripture, Joshua and all of Israel were defeating kings in order to take the land that God had promised them, and in the battle of Babylonia, Israel was commanded to not take any spoils from the victory, but when a member of the tribe of Judah did, God’s anger raged against Israel and they began to lose in battle.  When Joshua cried out to the Lord before the Arc of the Covenant until evening, the Lord spoke and told Joshua that there was sin in the camp and Israel would not be able to have victory and continue, until the sin had been dealt with, so Joshua followed the instructions of God to call out the tribes by each family, and then by each man to narrow down the one man who disobeyed God.  Achan from the tribe of Judah came forth admitting his guilt of taking valuable items from the Babylonian victory, and because of this, he and all his family were stoned to death and burned, along with all their belongings, in the Valley of Achor, with a reminder of a large pile of stones heaped upon Achan.

This message summed up:  Turn from your hidden sin and keep calamity from coming to your life, ministry, and family.

2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV

14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Blessings,

Christopher Moss

I am a vessel of the Holy Spirit.
A vessel is useless unless it is filled, and a vessel can do nothing as of itself, so as this vessel is poured out, I pen its contents as it flows. - Christopher Moss

Matthew 13:24-26 NIV

24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

Proverbs 22:5 NIV

5 In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares, but he who guards his soul stays far from them.

As I was walking through the garden the other day, after a nice summer rain, I noticed that weeds had sprouted up around all the vegetable plants and it occurred to me that this situation had an important message to convey.

Each one of us has a particular variety of fruit that the Lord has planted us to produce.  You think of all the great tasting entrées and food dishes that can be created using the many different fruit and vegetable varieties, and with this you start seeing the part God intended each of us to play in the big picture of the Church.  Now, can you imagine ketchup not having tomatoes and the various spices mixed in?  It would not be ketchup at all, and with this example, you can see how important each of our roles are in the overall makeup of the Church.  What if your plant does not produce fruit or dies, because of the weeds growing and tangling up your roots?  Would God’s plan for your life produce the required fruits needed for the Lord’s entrée, used in feeding the Church body and the Kingdom of God?

In this blog posting, the weed is sin, and a weed grows twice as fast as the good plant it is attempting to entangle and cut off, and therefore the plant (you) that God has established for His Kingdom garden.  The importance of de-weeding yourself cannot be stressed enough, yet many ignore the weeds and think that their plant (themselves) will be able to produce the fruit or vegetable required in all abundance, while letting the weeds grow along side of the good plant, but this will not be the end case.  Some weeds may seem small, but they will grow and they will stop the plant from growing to full maturity by cutting off the nutrients and life giving water the plant needs for abundant growth and fruit production.

The Correlation Between Weeds And Sin

1. Weed: Starts from a small seed.
2. Sin: Starts from a small sinful thought or action having a sinful motive.

1. Weed: Grows quickly when fed and not removed.
2. Sin: Grows to full blown maturity, when its practice is not stopped and taken to the Lord for removal.

1. Weed: Will grow, corrupt, and destroy the plant it is entangling.
2. Sin: Will grow, corrupt, and destroy the character and life of the individual affected.

1. Weed: Can grow so tall that it cuts off the sun, an important ingredient, from reaching the good plant for it to grow and thrive.
2. Sin: Can get so full blown that it cuts us off completely from the Son of God - A reprobate mind.

1. Weed: Stops the flow of nutrients and life giving water to the good plant, inhibiting fruit production and can possibly kill the plant altogether.
2. Sin: Stops the flow of God’s Word being produced in your life, and chokes off your root in the Lord, therefore stopping growth in your spiritual walk with Jesus and eventually ends the fruits of the Holy Spirit in your life.

If we do not de-weed ourselves of sin and protect ourselves with the Word of God, the enemy will come and plant the seed of sin in our lives to cutoff our growth and production, and if the weeds are already present, he will manifest them and exploit them in order to choke you off from the Kingdom of God, leaving you barren, non-producing, and never reaching your full maturity in the Lord, so brothers and sisters in Christ, start de-weeding and become all you can be for the Lord!

James 1:21-25 NIV

21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

Blessings,

Christopher Moss

I am a vessel of the Holy Spirit.
A vessel is useless unless it is filled, and a vessel can do nothing as of itself, so as this vessel is poured out, I pen its contents as it flows. - Christopher Moss