Mgbeke Sunday Sermon: February 12, 2023
God’s Commandments Are To Preserve, Not Destroy Us – Stop Fighting HIM!
Greetings to you, my beloved brethren. I hope that you had a great last week and you’re all fired up to take on this new one with the right spirit and enthusiasm too.
I was meditating on a famous scripture for Godly couples in the book of Ephesians, and something struck me with this message I’m about to share with you today. Let me ask this question before I proceed, though. Do you know of any passage in the Bible where the woman is commanded to “love” her husband? I bet you there is none, and the reason for this is the crux of my message today.
Have you ever been told that God’s commandments to man are majorly on sins that our nature and humanity easily gravitate towards? Yes, my dearly beloved. He knows those things will destroy us in the long run, so HE tries to safeguard and protect us by marking them as sins and instructing us to steer clear of them.
It is for our good! God is never affected whenever we go off living a sinful life, but HE instructs us to stay away from it because HE cares about us and doesn’t want us to suffer the consequences of those wayward actions.
My earlier point about women not being commanded to love, but the husbands instructed severally to “love like Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her” shows one thing clearly – a law or commandment seeks to protect you from a propensity to deviate and err which by nature is resident in all humans.
A woman is, by nature and creation, an object and embodiment of love, but a man is more brutish, rational, and logical. Hence, the one is commanded to love selflessly to the point of death, while the other is controlled to submit totally to her man. This check and balance or law is meant to preserve the order of things in our lives and relationships, and we can all clearly see what things have become these days due to our stubborn disobedience, can’t we?
I learned very early in my life that the word sin is an acronym for: “Simple Instructions Neglected (SIN).” When we refuse to follow God’s order and go off in our ways, we indeed pay a steep price for that rebellion, and we can have no one else to blame but ourselves!
“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” – James 1:13-15.
When sin matures in life, according to the scriptures, the surest and only thing it will yield for you is death! So, with this realization, my beloved brothers and sisters, what kind of lives should we all live?
We certainly need to stop fighting and struggling with God over HIS laws and commandments – you cannot choose, pick, or decide which of them to follow either!
The Apostle Paul says: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” – 2 Timothy 3:16. Note that he didn’t say that “some” but “all scripture,” hence we have no right or justification to try to select which or what parts of HIS Word we will obey and abide by.
Finally, please, I need you to remember that the law was not given to shackle, inconvenience, or destroy you. Instead, it’s a tool of self-preservation that was given to help you live a better and longer life here on earth.
This is why you can never find God by the law but can find HIM through fellowship! Those constantly connected with God do not struggle to live righteously and abide by HIS rules because their communion with HIM keeps them in check naturally. They love their access to Him more than anything else this world can ever offer. However, those who choose to ignore this blissful walk, fellowship, and communion with HIM but want to live by the law will always find themselves struggling and constantly trying to keep up.
Let HIS Word, laws, and commandments lead you to HIM in sweet communion and constant fellowship, and you will find out that there is no law too grievous for you to obey and submit to in these scriptures joyfully!
Women remember that real men are not looking for who to spend their time with but who to love genuinely and spend their life with. Man, love your woman and woman, respect and honor your man. Lovemaking is cheap, but Lovegiving is priceless.
May God grant us HIS peace and fill us with His Spirit so that we may see clearly what HIS intentions genuinely are, and we may stop struggling and fighting against HIS love, will, and ways, in the name of Jesus Christ; Amen!
