THE ISSUE OF UNRECORDED SINS

THE ISSUE OF UNRECORDED SINS

For long a time, this topic has been on my mind but I often just shrugged it off, seeing it as unimportant. In school, just the previous term, this topic meandered its way back to my thoughts. I believe it was something the Holy Spirit wanted me to talk about.

We had a whole week for interschool competitions like we do every term and as usual, the guys awaited the arrival of the girls from other schools – I go to an all-boys school. After the first day, I heard one of my Christian classmates had seriously ‘grinded’ – that is, dancing by having close contact with a girl with her rear to your groin area – and that it was so bad to the extent that when the girl was pushed on the ground, he followed up and jumped on her! I actually took advantage of the evening prep to question him about it and one of the retorts that subsequently came up was,” Where in the Bible is it written that grinding and watching porn is a sin?” This made me think and by the grace of God I received inspiration by the Lord to write this to everyone out there.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”

Matthew 6:22 (NRSV)

Here, the Word of our Lord says the eye is the lamp of the body. Every lamp needs kerosene to make it produce brighter light and for a longer period. In this modern day of electric lamps, one also needs to charge his lamp or put in fresh batteries for the same effect. You cannot use water to turn on the lamp, you might damage it. You also cannot put stones in the lamp to switch it on, or even put the power cord in boiling water hoping for it to charge and produce light. The lamp would probably get damaged. I hope you understand where I’m getting to. Just as in our homes, when the electric current is low, the light begins to twitch and with a moderate current, there is light bright enough for the household.

What I’m trying to make clear here is that what you feed your eyes on is what will either brighten your body or darken it. Using pornography as an example, people strip themselves nude and have sex with each other, doing all sorts of nasty things with each other. It is clearly written in the Bible that what they do is sinful but what my classmate asked was of that of the viewer. Pornography is sinful, therefore you the individual watching something sinful is feeding your eyes with sin, therefore your whole body will be full of darkness and how great that darkness. Your soul and spirit get polluted by the corrupt materials you are feeding them with.

Also, some spirits manifest in certain things we watch. In porn, there is the spirit of fornication, spirit of lust, spirit of masturbation, spirit of immorality and many others. In other intense violent shows, we have the spirit of rebellion, spirit of destruction, spirit of disobedience and others. All these make dark our souls and body. We no longer become clean, our hearts become dark and that is exactly what we bring out of us because the Bible says that from the abundance of the heart the mouth speak.

“… For we are the temple of the living God …”

2 Corinthians 6:16

We are God’s temple, we are God’s house. As a temple of God, how can you defy yourself by allowing into your body disgusting and sinful things? God is holy and clean, He cannot be at a place filled with filth. Also, God won’t want to be where he is not needed. He won’t force himself on you to stop viewing or feeding your body with foul things – He is a gentleman of the highest class. It is my prayer that the Lord guides and strengthens us for us not to fall victim to viewing unprofitable things that do not please Him.

“Do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. That by testing, you may discern what is the will of God. What is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Romans 12:2

As Christians we should not stray and give ourselves up to the pleasures of the world or flesh. However, we should be transformed by the renewal of our minds. One may ask, “How can we renew our minds?”

“1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”

Psalm 1 (KJV)

The Word says, the believer meditates on the Word day and night and is compared to a tree planted by rivers of water, which does not wilt, its leaves are evergreen and the water flows constantly. When we meditate on God’s Word constantly, the Bible likens us to a tree planted by rivers of water. The rivers of water are needed by the tree to grow and keep its leaves fresh and green all the time. All believers committed to meditating on scripture are trees and the Holy Spirit, that is also the Word of God, is the rivers of water. The Holy Spirit cleanses us and refreshes us as we meditate on the scriptures. Our minds become renewed and this is seen by the evergreen nature of our ‘leaves’. With this, as the verse says, we would be able to discern the will of God, that is, right from wrong.

Just like the tree when a leaf starts to die, its brown color is quite prominent and can easily be seen amidst the green leaves. The picture I’m creating is that when you are deeply rooted in Christ, when you are faced with any situation, it becomes quite easy to discern what is right to do according to God’s Word and what is wrong.

So in all, we must have a renewal of mind so that we will have the Holy Spirit abiding in us and we in Him so that we do not engage in any activity that is not pleasing to Him.

I pray the Holy Spirit guides us in our daily activities and helps us to draw closer to Him to be able to always do what pleases Him. Amen.

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