How to Avoid Falling into Enemy’s Hand
1. Do not NEGLECT the Spiritual Responsibilities - Don't neglect the gift that you received through prophecy when the spiritual leaders placed their hands on you [to ordain you].
2. Do not LOOK - 2Sam. 11:2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,
Matthew 5:27-28 (ESV) - "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
IF WE LOOK BADLY, WE SINNED.
3. Do not INQUIRE – implicated in adultery and murder. 2Sam. 11:3 And David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
- Inquire means to seek information; to carry out an investigation. When David saw Bathsheba he was very curious to know about this woman, not knowing what it would be the outcome. Bathsheba was married to someone else. David knows whose wife she is, but selfishly has his way anyway.
4. Do not PURSUE - 2Sam. 11:4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home.
- By pursuing the wrong things or wrong motives are not pleasing in the sight of God.
5. Do not INDULGE - 2Sam. 11:5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant”.
- Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
James 1:14-15 But each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.
*LET US BE AN EMPTY JAR THIS 2010 SO THAT, GOD FILL IT UP WITH A JOYFUL BLESSINGS. MORE IMPORTANT IS OFFERING OUR SELF A LIVING SACRIFICES.*
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