BEWARE OF OFFENCES

So if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. Better to enter heaven crippled than to be in hell with both  of your hands and feet. Matt. 18:8

Several years ago, I read the story of a young boy who cut of his genitals with razor blade just because he wanted to break free from fornication. When asked why he did it, he screamed out in pain saying, 'I was trying obey what Jesus said in Matt.18:8 about cutting off any part of your body that causes you to sin'.

You may laugh at his stupidity but don't forget that such is the way of people who lack understanding of the scripture.

Now Jesus isn't literally saying we should cut off any part of our organ that causes us to sin. Jesus was simply talking about avoiding offences.

If you read verse 7 of that same Matthew 18 in NLB, it says "woe upon the world for all its evils. Temptation to do wrong is inevitable, but woe to the man who does the tempting.

What Jesus was trying to say when He said, 'if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away' is that you should absolutely detach yourself from relationships that reveals and indulges your weaknesses.

If going to visit a brother or sister will make you fall into sin, don't go.

We all face temptations daily. However what determines whether you fall into sin or not are the people you keep in your inner circle. Emotional attachment to the wrong people will land you in wrong places.

Cut yourself away from people who bring out the worst in you. Break every emotional attachment to people whose presence tends to provoke strife or stimulate sin in you.

Don't pick up jobs that incite you to collect bribes, forge signatures and falsify reports for financial gains.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. James 3:16

Pray like this : Oh Lord, disconnect me from every attachment to wrong people. Bring me into loyal alliance with right people. Isaiah 14:1b

To be continued tomorrow.
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Moses Abiola
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