Sin And Satan

“The devil is not now pictured in the Scriptures as wise, only as shrewd. We are warned not against his wisdom but against his wiles, something very different. Sin, I repeat, in addition to anything else it may be, is always an act of wrong judgment. To commit a sin a man must for the moment believe that things are different from what they really are; he must confound values; he must see the moral universe out of focus; he must accept a lie as truth and see truth as a lie; he must ignore the signs on the highway and drive with his eyes shut; he must act as if he had no soul and was not accountable for his moral choices” A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God, 23-24.

“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain”–Isaiah 10:1-4).

“Put a ‘D’ in front of ‘anger’ and you get what it represents in your life”–Mark Graham.

“To use another’s character defects as a smoke screen for yours does not diminish the destructive effects of yours. . . .To criticize someone for speaking a difficult truth to you does not invalidate the truth; but it does prevent the blessing that it would have otherwise brought to you”–Mark Graham.

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire”–Jesus, Matthew 5:21-22.

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One Response

  1. Good one Mark!

    Tozer put it well. Such Truth confounds the soul to do anything else, yet the saying of Paul, “O wrenched man that I am…” Thanks be to God for His provision and the opportunity to Glorify the Father through The choice of accepting The Gift of His Son’s Work.

    Blessings

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