Master Your Sin and Overcome
Praise Jesus today brothers and sisters in the Lord, the
message today that the Lord has been putting on my heart is that each of us
have to overcome. This morning the Lord
put it on my heart this story about Cain and Able, and it’s interesting, if you
look at what Cain’s mother said about him, she believed that he was going to be
a man of God. This is what she said,
this is genesis chapter 4; “Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and
bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.” She believed that this man Cain was going to
be someone who followed the LORD and who would be a blessing. But as we know Cain killed his brother
Able. But after he had killed his
brother, or actually right before and after, GOD gave him a choice, to choose
good or evil. God did not just condemn
Cain. None of us are just saved and gong
to heaven because God predestined us, or damned and going to hell because God
predestined us for hell. But it is by
our choices, it is by our actions and our words that will either condemn us or
God will bless. I want to read to you
what happened with this situation and what God told Cain.
Genesis
4; “Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was
a tiller of the ground. And in the
process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of
the ground to the LORD. Abel also
brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering,
but He did not respect Cain and his offering.
And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.”
So you
might ask why did God not respect Cain, but He respected Able? It did not have to do with the fact that one
was fruit of the ground or one was an offering of the flock, but it had to do
with the heart attitude of how that brother was offering it to the Lord. If we give begrudgingly, without wanting to
give to the Lord, that is NOT pleasing to the LORD. There are some people in church that are
basically forced to give their 10%, and they give that 10% thinking that it’s
what God wants, but they don’t even want to give God anything, they just give
because its their religious duty. And
they could care less to give God ANY portion of their heart or life. And that is NOT the kind of offering that God
desires or respects, but He desires that we offer all of us to Him with a good
attitude, and that is why God was against Cain but for Able.
And his
countenance fell,
“So the
LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?”
And listen to what God says to him;
“If you do well, will you not be accepted?”
In other words, will you not be a man of God? Will you not be blessed by GOD if you do
well? And God says to him;
“And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should
rule over it.”
God gave
Cain the option to choose good or evil and if he chose good he would be blessed
and if he chose evil he would be cursed, and as we know Cain chose evil, he did
not overcome and rule over his sin that was coming up in his heart and God
cursed him.
If you
look at verse 10 God says to Cain; “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out
to Me from the ground.”
So then
God says;
“So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your
brother’s blood from your hand.”
And these
curses fall upon Cain for murdering his brother. It wasn’t that God just predestined Cain for
doing evil things and then to condemn him to hell. Jesus does not condemn anyone to hell just
because they were born one way or the other.
But every single one of us have to BE BORN AGAIN AND WE HAVE TO
OVERCOME! And when sin knocks at your door
it is then you have a choice, will you choose that sin that is inside your
heart? Or will you REBUKE IT and CAST
OUT THOSE DEMONS that are crouching at your door. Cain did NOT overcome. But sin overcame him, he let it rule over him
and then he was destroyed. But those of
us who want to overcome, we have to push through into the Kingdom of God, we
have to deny ourselves daily, we have to deny our flesh, and then we have to
push forward into the Kingdom of God.
This idea
that we are just “once saved always saved” because we said a prayer, and that
now we are going to heaven is one of the biggest lies in church. It’s very hypocritical because they believe
that THEY are saved because they belong to their church or they’ve been born in
a Christian home. They think that if you
turn away from God that you were never saved from the beginning… But all
throughout Scripture we hear about men and women who had the opportunity before
GOD to be saved and either they harkened to the calling and were saved because
they stayed in the LORD to the end, or they turned away from their calling and
they were cursed by GOD because they rejected to do WHAT WAS RIGHT.
We really
need to overcome temptation and if we do the Lord will bless us. He will help us, but if we don’t overcome it
will be major problems for us, and those sins will be passed down to our family
and our generation becomes cursed. As
for me, and my family I want to dedicate every single breath, every single day
of my life to the LORD so that I can be used for His purpose. I want to OVERCOME IN THE NAME OF JESUS and
the only way to overcome is to keep ourselves humble, pure before the LORD
every single day, just bowing in prayer and asking the LORD to fill us with His
Holy Spirit, asking to have on the FULL ARMOR OF GOD and then going about our
day in complete humility and righteousness.
If one day we wake up and we forge to overcome, if we forget to push off
the desires of the flesh, that is the prime time to satan to overcome us and
once we start to fall, then satan stats to say “you’re worthless, you might as
well go completely into the world… don’t even try to live righteously…
everyone’s a sinner…” and once you get
beaten down, if you don’t get back up, if you don’t start walking with the Lord
in purity again, then satan will just destroy your entire life. And that is where a lot of Christians are
because they have been depleted, they have allowed satan into their heart and
basically they have become like Cain.
And now they just think that GOD is cursing them and they are not even sure
why, BUT THE REASON IS DUE TO SIN. It’s
not just do to past generational curses, it’s not just due to God predestining
someone, but it has to do with our CHOICES.
Remember that God told Cain; “IF YOU DO WELL, WILL YOU N OT BE ACCEPTED? AND IF YOU DO NOT DO WELL, SIN LIES AT THE
DOOR. AND ITS DESIRE IS FOR YOU, BUT YOU
SHOULD RULE OVER IT.” If Cain ruled over
his sin he would have been a man of God and God would have blessed Him. God did not curse Him for just being a man of
God (as his mother called him “a man from the LORD”) Of course not. Rather he was cursed when he turned away from
his calling to be a man of God and chose EVIL.
Likewise, WE have to choose truth over error. We have to choose light over darkness and
GOOD over evil. Will you choose to go
with Jesus today in righteousness? Or
will you choose to go the way of Cain, the way of the lusts of the flesh and
anger and hatred and murder which lead to DEATH? May the grace of Jesus be with you.
