THE WORST SIN
Robbie L. Rogers
ISAIAH 14:12--17. "How you
are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have
been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the
world. For you said to yourself, 'I will ascend to heaven and set my
throne above God's stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far
away in the north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the
Most High.'
But instead, you will
be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths.
Everyone there will stare at you and ask, 'Can this be the one who shook
the earth and the kingdoms of the world? Is this the one who destroyed
the world and made it into a wilderness? Is this the king who demolished
the world's greatest cities and had no mercy on his prisoners?'"
ENVY, OR TO PUT IT IN OTHER WORDS INSECURITY- that is what caused
Lucifer the prettiest angel to fall into the depths of shoal. But ,I am
sure he uttered these familiar words, I knew you to be an unjust God
reaping where you did not sew, a familiar line to us all no doubt.
The great deceiver caught in his own trap, Babylon
too sank beneath the
sands of time as we seem to know through science of today. Obviously there lies
a great controversy over Lucifer's or Satan's reign over Babylon as to
whether or not he was in fact Satan on earth, we will not get into those things for we will be talking
on the sins that created the fall of Lucifer or Satan.
GENESIS 3:1--5 "Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all
the creatures the Lord God had made. "Really?" he asked the
woman. "Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the
garden?"
"Of course we may eat it," the woman told him.
"It's only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that
we are not allowed to eat. God says we must not eat it or even touch it,
or we will die."
"You won't die!" the serpent hissed. "God
knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat it. You will become
just like God, knowing everything, both good and evil."
If you can see this you will note also Adam and Eve's fall comes from
the same root of sin. ENVY has caused most of the trouble both in heaven
and on earth. Satan seems to be able to attack us freely as he did
with Job; but it was also a factor in Gods heavenly kingdom as well.
Now of course, God sent
Christ into the world to show the angels and His creation the greatest
of all creation, forgiveness. However without ENVY would He have needed
it? Yes but that's another story.
Envy is too quick and easy to
fall into, and too deep sometimes to climb out from once we are
ensnared.
2 CORIN 12:20-21 "For I am afraid that when I come to
visit you I won't like what I find, and then you won't like my response.
I am afraid that I will find quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger,
selfishness, backstabbing, gossip, conceit, and disorderly behavior.
Yes, I am afraid that when I come, God will humble me again because of
you. And I will have to grieve because many of you who sinned earlier
have not repented of your impurity, sexual immorality, and eagerness for
lustful pleasure."
This is interesting don't you think, the world, of whom is in the
power of Satan considers envy to be a little sin. If you were Satan and
fell from Gods graces would you want people to know what had caused it?
Of course you have to realize he is Satan and has no love or charity in
him.
God however, seems to consider envy to be the greatest of all sins.
This is not to be a proven fact, but I have observed it to be so.
There is little to convince me otherwise. There are some offshoot
instances, but by-in-large ENVY CAUSES ALL SINS.
James 3:16 "For wherever there is jealousy and selfish
ambition, there you will find disorder and every kind of evil."
Where is your life among these things?
As Job said it, "For the Things I fear the most come upon
me."
Look at your roots, see them as they are. Half the problem is solved
if it is first perceived. Ask God for His help in this matter, for
the subtle sin of envy seems to be insurmountable.
We reject you Satan;
you must flee from us as God has commanded you to.
We resist your
thoughts of envy and self doubt for we choose God who is in control of
our life.
We choose God over you
any day anytime.
We accept our station
in the vineyards, where God has placed us both professionally and
socially, for to be envious or rebellious of where God has placed us is
against God and we stand for God even though it goes against our flesh,
for we stand not in flesh but in the spirit of God. Therefore we will
not envy any person nor their position or place.
We will ask God for
any change in statue or position.
We desire and hope in
Him that we may be raised up.
We ask Holy Spirit to
help us, for we are only flesh and easily pulled into Satan's power.
We are weak and unable
to stand against Satan, but as man filled with the Holy Spirit and in
the power and in the will of God we will prevail, help us oh God to
throw down the sin of envy and therefore become freer from sin, and more
liken to the love of man you have desired us to be.
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