AN
ABOMINATION TO GOD!
Adultery!
…oooh!
Fornication!
…OOHH MY!
Drunkenness!
…TOOO MUCH!
These
are a few of the things we hear about everyday, in the church of Jesus
Christ. They are also the things that we are pretty sure are on top of
Gods, "
Don't you dare!" list.
They're
the BIG SINS! Well, at least that's the thing that goes through most of
our heads when we think about it. Honestly now. If someone were to
ask us what the "biggies" are, aren't at least a couple of these at
the top on our lists?
How about homosexuality? Satanism?
Witchcraft? Drug abuse? We have them all in a row. At the top
of the list is the worse sin. As you go on down the list, they're not so
bad.
Proverbs
6:16-19 (TLB) “For there are
six things the Lord hates - no, seven: haughtiness, lying, murdering, plotting
evil, eagerness to do wrong, a false witness, sowing discord among
brothers.” The King James says,
"He hates six, yea seven are an abomination to Him."
Nowhere in this list of things that are abominable to God do you find the words adultery, fornication, homosexuality, etc, etc, etc. Now, please know that ALL of the previously mentioned is sin! No two ways about it, and if these are un-repented sins, the word of God is clear about the destiny of those who are PRACTICING them.
So
please don't even question if I condone any of these. Sin is sin.
But I have this thought to share with you today: God hates sin! Sin is completely opposite of who and
what God is. The scripture says:
"All have
sinned, and come short of the Glory of God."
The
word GLORY means: “THE TRUE NATURE OF A THING. The true essence of a thing”
When
we sin, we fall short of Gods nature and essence. The scripture is true
- we all fall short. Let me point out something in Proverbs 6.
Nowhere in these 4 verses do you find the words adultery, fornication,
homosexuality, drunkenness, Satanism, witchcraft or drug abuse. However,
what you do find, THREE TIMES is a sin that originates in the heart; that's
where Jesus says all sin comes from, and it is released out of our
mouths!
1. Lying.
2. False
witness.
3. Sowing
discord among brothers.
OH
honey, check this out! Nowhere does it say adultery! Nowhere does
it say drunkenness! But what comes out of our mouths can be not only
a sin to the Father but it can be unto him AN ABOMINATION!
Yes,
again. All the previously mentioned IS SIN! But my point is they're
not mentioned amidst the abominable!
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The gift of flapping my big fat mouth
is.
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The ability to stir up chaos and discord among
my brothers is.
I'm
not sure we really understand how powerful what we say is. Proverbs 18:21
says: "Death
and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the
fruit thereof." We sow death or we sow life.
Every
time I open my mouth I speak life or I speak death. That's not my
theology, that's bible baby! We've become so desensitized and dull to the
truth of Gods word – we make it fit where we live, rather than striving to fit
His Word.
Ephesians
5:1 tells us to be imitators of God! How did He create the heavens and
the earth, and everything seen and unseen? If we are to imitate Him, scripture says: "He called
those things which were not as though they were." Literally Romans
4:17 says: "God calls things that are not into existence, so they
are." And we're supposed to imitate God!
Jesus
instructs us to speak to mountains! This is not a message on speaking to
people, things, or circumstances, but rather a word to us to see
biblically what God says about the sin that comes from what we say.
I
believe in speaking to circumstances and declaring the word of God over my
children and my wife. However, what I want us to see today, is
how serious God is about what we say!
We
freak out when we hear of someone getting caught up in an adulteress
affair, or someone we've known for years admitting that they were a practicing
homosexual. But what comes out of our mouth every day? What do
we say about one another? Am I guilty of stirring up discord
among the church by either what I say or what I do?
Having
an offense against someone, and going to others to SHARE your concern so
they'll pray? What do you think… God is retarded, or has a hearing
deficiency? That reasoning is fleshy and carnal. What
does Jesus say about that?
Matthew
18: You go. Alone. If they don't hear, take the next
step. But until it comes to the place where the church needs to know,
there should only be 3 or 4 people who are aware of the situation. And if
the church needs to know, (I've never seen it go that far) it needs
to come from the pulpit, from a leader. NOT YOU!
James
3: “Out
of the same mouth comes both blessing and cursing. Out of the same mouth
we bless God, and curse men. My brethren, these things ought not so to
be." vs. 9-10 “Lying, false witness, and sowing
discord. These things ought not be.” They are an abomination
to God!
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It's not my works that prove I'm a
Christian...
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It's not going to church or singing worship
songs that will convince the world that I'm saved and born again…
“By this all
men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another."
John 13:35
If
I am His disciple, than I'm commissioned to love you. If I love you, than
what comes out of my mouth about you is good and wholesome. If I fall
into some stupid sin, I would hope that those of you out there are going to be
an intercessor for me - Not an accuser of the brethren. Last I checked,
that position was filled!
Let
me leave you with this thought: James 1:19 "Let us be swift to hear, SLOW
TO SPEAK, and slow to wrath."
Again
the word says in James 3:2-5 (LIV) "If anyone can control his tongue, it proves
that he has perfect control over himself in every other way. We can make
a large horse turn around and go wherever we want by means of a small bit in
his mouth. And a tiny rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot
wants it to go, even though the winds are strong. So also the tongue is a
small thing, but what enormous damage it can do."
Pastor
Scott
