23 Feb From Here (How to turn your Setback into a Comeback) part 13
Over the last number of months, we shared with you our key scripture from I Thessalonians 5:16, “Rejoice evermore.” In this short but powerful verse, we discovered the Greek word translated “evermore” literally means “from this point on”. In everyday language, it means “from here”. Then we began to share with you “13 Facets to Live a Constructive Life”:
- Part from Pity (Phil. 2:14).
- Never let your tragedy become your identity (Mark 5:26).
- You can’t unscramble eggs (Eph. 5:16).
- What we know is always more important than how we feel (Eph. 6:13-14).
- Never let go of what you do know because of what you don’t know (Matt. 11:5-6).
This month let’s continue…
6. Never compound bad decisions with more bad decisions (Rom. 6:19).
Here the Bible tells us, “I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”
Notice the phrase “iniquity unto iniquity”. That is the problem with sin…it leads to more sin. Let me explain. My precious mother is a very clean person! (To this day, you could eat off her floors.) Being boys, growing up my brother and I would very frequently track mud into my mother’s house. She would see us track in mud on her very clean white carpets and yell for us to stop in our tracks. However, you know how this goes, as soon as you hear this you back track and every step you take it only gets messier and messier!
That’s how sin is…it seems once you start you just can’t stop and things get messier and messier. You eat one cookie and before you know it, you’ve eaten the whole box!
Join us next week as we continue our series…