Sometimes we encounter people who are living in sin, but we do not try to help them. However the Word speaks about this.
We must Reprove them
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Adon. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Ruach (Spirit) is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.) 10 proving what is well pleasing to the Adon. 11 And have no fellowship with the fruitless works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
Eph'siyim/Ephesians 5:8-11
The Word teaches us to reprove sin. It has to be done in order for the person who is in darkness to come to the light through repentance. And now I will ask some questions to each one who is reading this message.
What needs do you have in your life?
1 Do you need to be appreciated? Do you help someone to hear the word “Thank you?”
2 Do you need to be recognized? Do you need to be looked upon by people as someone special?
3 Do you need to have “stuff”? Do you have so much stuff that you are unable to walk freely in your own home? Is your house so full that there is no room for anyone to walk through it?
Or do you hoard things? Do you feel unhappy when you have to throw things away, and you may even take them back from your rubbish can because you do not want to part for them? Do you keep things, even when those things are unusable or decayed?
Are you so selfish that you do not share your blessings with family or friends?
4 Are you a honest person? Do you have your own ministry, and you have received money to give to the poor, but instead but you have kept it in your house.”
Or are have bought food or other items to give away, but somehow you did not give it immediately to them, and those things became no longer fit to be used?
When you found them, they had rotten and needed to be thrown away, but you still held on to them in the house? ‘This is insane, yet it is done!
5 Do you need people to come and clean your house because you do not want to touch the filth around you? If you feel this way, then you have an unclean spirit operating in your life, the same spirit that was in the demonized man of Gadara.
And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs.
Luke 8:27
This comparison may seem to be an exaggeration to you, but we are talking about the same spirit, who loves death instead of life, and loves filth instead of cleanness.
6 Do you have fear of lack?
Uncontrolled fear of lack can be the need door that causes demon possession. Lack causes a person to be greedy, and many times at the expense of others. They may even hide the truth in order to have what they need. Hiding the truth is laying, and by doing so they are adding sin to sin.
They may have been asked to sell something they have no need of, but they refuse because they feel comfort having those items in the house.
If by chance they sell it, they want to make a profit, although they had gotten it very cheaply or for free. Greed keeps them in bondage, but they do not know it.
If you have answered to a minimum of three questions you are deceived and you have opened the door to the demonic.
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not even be named among you as it is fitting for saints.
Eph’siyim/Ephesians 5:3
Covetousness strong’s = Pleonexia, a desire to have more, avarice, fraudulence, extortion covetousness, greediness. Sometimes these sins may have been inherited via your blood line. You may have inherited the propensity to covetousness, and when you gave in to that sin, it became also your sin. You need to repent now.
Covetousness is when a person wants something so bad that will not get rid of it for any reason. That person wants everything his or her eyes see. That person wants to have more and more, and is never satisfied. This is called avarice, it is greediness and it is sin. Yehovah is no longer the Elohim in their lives.
Many people have a tendency to hoard because of lack of faith. The Word does not approve of such things.
A person that is greedy does not want to give anything away. It is stingy and selfish to the max. Such person holds on to things with dear life, and lives in a prison of self or in a self created prison.
Nothing can satisfy that person. Such person goes into the trash to take out rubbish to keep in the house that is already full of trash. Do you know anyone like this? I hope not, but I do.
A covetous greedy person does not care for another person’s need. The covetous Christian acts very religiously but it is only a show. That person is never satisfied but wants to have more and more things, and exploits others for selfish reasons.
A covetous greedy person is the opposite of a generous person who instead gives and shares everything he or she may have.
A covetous person could be controlled by demons, and is in deep deception. Such person thinks he is fine, but everyone else is wrong. Such person does not really believe the gospel, and refuse to know truth.
Sin blinds the eyes
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of Elohim, should shine on them.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, and evil eye, blasphemy pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.
Marqos/Mark 7:20-22
I will stop here today, for this message can become too long. What is needed for you to do, if you have this problem, is to simply recognize you are in sin and need to repent. No sin is too big for Yehovah to forgive.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.
Yochanan 1/1 John 1:7-8
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