Those Wonderful New Year's Resolutions
by Rev. John R. Greene, Evangelist
Oh yes, it is that time of year to make resolutions. "I'll lose 25lbs" or "I'll stop drinking" or how about that famous one, yes the "I promise to serve You if You would only help me stop smoking"!!
We must admit that we sin by choice. Drinking is not a disease, it is sin! Smoking is not a mere addiction, it is sin! Read Hebrews 12:1-2 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto JESUS the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."
Jesus did all the work! Jesus paid for sin with His life. It is up to us to apply His blood! Paul wrote to the Colossians these Words about what Jesus did: Colossians 2:13-15, "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."
In Esther, anti-Semitism was exposed in the evil Haman who had manipulated the king to allow him to destroy every Jew. As you know this never happened because God has a way of answering prayer and bringing deliverance to the humble and poor in spirit. Esther 7:10, "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified." God openly triumphed and made a shew!!
Resolutions are useless and senseless. We need to repent of our sins and allow God's Word to be true. After all, it is for "BELIEVERS"!! Esther 8:7-8 "Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, 'Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews. Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal [it] with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.'" In Luke 10:19 it says, "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
Get into a church that "believes" The Word, call for the elders to pray the "prayer of faith" over you, then walk away and sin NO MORE! You will, not perhaps, not maybe, not in heaven, but then and there you will receive God's mighty hand of mercy and you will be delivered!!
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