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Proclaiming God's Truth One Verse at a Time |
By John Fast
The third step in sin’s progressive work is in gaining the full and total consent of the will unto the actual commission of sin leading to death (Jm 1:15). This is given as the reason for the Northern Kingdom of Israel’s destruction by the Assyrian Empire in 722 B.C., “And they rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His warnings with which He warned them” (2 Kgs 17:15). Read more
By John Fast
It is the incremental and progressive nature of indwelling sin which makes it so successful in enslaving people and ruling over their hearts and minds. It takes one step to gain another. If one path is obstructed by some barrier, it takes another route so that little by little, step by step, it accomplishes its ultimate goal, which is the conception and commission of actual sin leading to death. Read more
By John Fast
We have seen that the first step in sin’s work of deception is to carry away, or draw away the mind from its obligation to God (Jm 1:14), as well as the means which God has given for our use to prevent and preserve our minds from being carried away by the deceitfulness of sin. The second step which the Apostle James credits to the deceit of sin is to be “enticed”. Read more
By John Fast
We observed in our last study that the first aim of sin’s deception is to carry away the mind, to trick it into making false judgments, to lessen and belittle sin’s sinfulness and to scorn holiness, to draw the mind away from the things of the Spirit and to set it on the things of the flesh and of the world, to fill our imaginations, and thereby our affections with them – in other words, to draw the mind away from its obligation to God (2 Cor 11:3). Read more
By John Fast
In our previous study we began to examine how indwelling sin opposes all that is spiritually good by way of its being deceitful, and that the ultimate goal of sin’s deceit is to bring about spiritual and eternal death (Jm 1:14, 15). We saw how it achieves its ultimate end by instilling a false sense of spiritual security, thereby hardening the heart and blinding the mind to a right and true understanding of spiritual truth; to “delude you with persuasive argument” (Col 2:4). Read more