Monday, March 24, 2008
24 March 2008
As I read Acts 24 today, I felt God is telling me something. I was confined for falling in late. I was troubled and asked God to help me, at least to allow me to attend church on Saturday. Yet when I read on, the last phrase caught me: "left Paul bound." Am I planned to get confined? After reading that and somehow God comforted me, telling me that I can share the Gospel during my extra duty. Perhaps there is a plan, I shall not doubt but trust in God if that is really the case. Lord, the timing is Yours but I still want to pray for Saturday. Lord I know You have a word for me. Lord, I want to hear it, please allow me to come. But Lord, let Your will be done on Your own timing. In Jesus' most precious name, Amen.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Freed from Deception
Yesterday's sermon was part II for the previous week, telling us that satan uses deception to deceive us, then dominate us before destroying us. Part II showed me clearly on how satan deceive us: that is through psychological effect like that of a chained elephant.
FYI: When a young elephant is chained with metal chain by their tamers, and being unable to break the chain, she felt weak against it and eventually giving up breaking the chain. The chain is then replaced by a rope when the elephants grow up. However, with the mighty strength they now possess, they will never break the rope, thinking that they are still as well as the past. Now that they have been "set free" from the metal chain, they remain "chained" until they realize they are freed.
Satan uses this method to chain us up, causing us to be his slave of sin and death. When Jesus died on the cross for us, we have been set free from then on. Likewise to the elephants' case, we thought that we are still chained and not freed, we failed to walk out of it and continue becoming slaves to sin and death.
As I was searching for the verseThen you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." on www.bible.com, God showed me 2more verses.
First verse was Romans 6:22
"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. "
and second verse was Romans 8:2
"because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death."
Now I have the confidence, the truth and authority(Luke 10:19), I will be able to detect the deception of the evil and walk in light with God. Hallelujah!
FYI: When a young elephant is chained with metal chain by their tamers, and being unable to break the chain, she felt weak against it and eventually giving up breaking the chain. The chain is then replaced by a rope when the elephants grow up. However, with the mighty strength they now possess, they will never break the rope, thinking that they are still as well as the past. Now that they have been "set free" from the metal chain, they remain "chained" until they realize they are freed.
Satan uses this method to chain us up, causing us to be his slave of sin and death. When Jesus died on the cross for us, we have been set free from then on. Likewise to the elephants' case, we thought that we are still chained and not freed, we failed to walk out of it and continue becoming slaves to sin and death.
As I was searching for the verseThen you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." on www.bible.com, God showed me 2more verses.
First verse was Romans 6:22
"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. "
and second verse was Romans 8:2
"because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death."
Now I have the confidence, the truth and authority(Luke 10:19), I will be able to detect the deception of the evil and walk in light with God. Hallelujah!
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