Sunday, November 15, 2015

The Seven Deadly Sins - Part 7 GREED



“So the un-wanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants or thinks it needs.”


Heb 11:1 Faith is the essence of what we hope for and the evidence of what we cannot see.


Without Faith, it is impossible to see God. Heb. 11:6


Faith > Flesh = Godliness

Faith < Flesh = Separation


Matt 9:16-25 The Story of the Rich Young Ruler. The “hole in his life” was being filled with everything but God. His possessions, his actions and his way of thinking (selfish thinking).


Greed is a sin that infects us to the place where is becomes something that blinds us from the truth that we too need to SELL OUT and turn from the path we are CHOOSING to walk on and give our WHOLE selves to Jesus.


“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”


2 Chronicles 7:14 if MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES… and PRAY… and TURN FROM their wicked ways… THEN I will hear their cry and will HEAL their land.


Our Land is “our own heart”. God is calling us to make our Faith GREATER THAN our Flesh. We must pray and invite the Holy Spirit to do what we cannot. We have to CHOOSE (moment by moment) to TURN from the OLD WAY of thinking and doing! We have to TRUST GOD to create in us a CLEAN heart and to renew a RIGHT spirit within us!  Remember though… HIS GRACE IS GREATER THAN ALL OUR SIN! Go and sin no more!

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