TODAY’S DEVOTION (Saturday 20th September 2025)
“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:26-31 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 263RD DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Welcome to a fresh day from the LORD. As we have always maintained on this platform of grace and truth, our whole duty as men is to fear God and depart from evil. Becoming a Christian is a calling to do just that all your life and to influence others to do the same.
Christianity is not a religion, but a life that is outsourced from the 3rd Heaven to the earth. The life is full of holiness, God’s kingdom power, truth, faithfulness and Christlike virtues. Anything outside that is not Christianity but insanity. The kind of Christianity in the church today is simply insanity in practice.
I cannot imagine how a Sunday school teacher or any other Church worker or preacher will be having sexual intercourse with people they are not married to – living in terrible sins of lesbianism, gay, fornication or adultery and saying “nothing can separate them from the Love of God”, instead of falling down in deep repentance and sorrow for sin, like we all should do if we fall into sin. It’s terrible!
WILLFULLY LIVING IN SIN AND CALLING YOURSELF SAVED IS A TERRIBLE DECEPTION.
The Bible calls it “the deception of sin.” It is also called the deceitfulness of sin. The deception of sin is the ability of sin or any ungodly act to promise us pleasure or benefit while delivering a result of pain, guilt, and eventual separation from the active presence of God.
It is through the deception of sin that one moves from an erratic sinner to a persistent one. It creates a spiritual amnesia where you forget that God is watching you and angels taking record. It downplays the inherent consequences, appealing to our desires, presenting itself as attractive and desirable, but leading one to a destructive end.
One of the destructive ends is a separation from the active and life-giving presence of God, leaving one in a state of spiritual death, a realm where no spiritual life but religious or church life exists.
Who will tell our generation that persistent sin separates a believer from the active presence of God, making it impossible for him or her to be in love with spiritual activities, like prayer, church attendance, fasting, personal or corporate Bible study, etc. Who will tell our generation that saying “nothing can separate us from the love of God” while living in sin is delusional.
The deception of sin drives one through the path of persistent sin, and makes sure one’s love for God grows cold, and goes ahead to replace a heart full of freedom, a sense of peace with God, and the liberty of Christ, with a heart full of guilt, shame, pain, regrets and unbelief.
The exploits of sin cannot be quantified. Through its terrible deception, it takes one back and back to a sinful act repeatedly, downplaying the consequences. It tells you, “Take the pleasure” only to give you a life of pain, regrets, guilt and eventual separation from God’s presence that was carefully concealed within that pleasure.
I think it will be proper to throw more light into the deception of sin.
The deception of sin is one of the most subtle deceptions in human history. It has kept the ungodly so, and men and women of iniquity have been safely locked under its grip. It is one reason many will be found in hell. In the church world, it has been telling us, nothing shall separate us from the love of God while leading us to sin, only for many to wake up to discover that we have been separated from God’s marvelous presence.
THE DECEPTION OF SIN IS NOT SOMETHING WE ARE TO IGNORE IF HEAVEN IS OUR GOAL.
Through its effective ability to promise us pleasure only to deliver pain, it has quenched the flames of burning warriors of righteousness, shut down the voices of men and women of prayer and prophecy, closed down once vibrant churches, shut down oceanic moves of God, and its targeting you and I for shame, reproach and possible eternal life in the lake of fire. That is why we must all fight it.
The deception was responsible for the dark side of great men of Faith like Samson, David, and the like. It is responsible for the dark sides of our lives that we are not proud to talk about, and trust me, every one of us in Christ Jesus has a dark side we are not proud about. The dark side of some of us is huge and awful, others mild and not too awful.
Yes, the deception of sin is responsible for departure from faith, any fall from grace and all forms of willful sins. Some of its characteristics are obvious. It disguises itself by appealing to our sinful desires, satisfaction, and fulfilment but its ultimate result is always pain, guilt, and disappointment.
It deceives by discouraging thoughts about the negative outcomes and punishment associated with that sin, like having sex with him or her outside marriage, going gay or lesbian, telling that lie, taking that money, stealing that jewelry, extortion etc., thereby making an ungodly action seem less serious than it is.
There are so many sex slaves in Church today who see nothing wrong with their lives of sin because of the deception of sin. It makes believers not to see that when the Bible says nothing can separate us from the love of God, it listed those things (Read Romans 8:23-39). It did not say sin cannot separate us from the LOVE of GOD.
SIN SEPARATED ADAM AND HAS BEEN SEPARATING PEOPLE FROM THE LOVE OF GOD FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
You may be a pope, if you are living in any kind of grievous sins; you are already separated from the active presence of God where God’s love exits. If you die you will go to hell. God loves sinners but not the sins they are living in. The Bible says because of their sins God is angry with the wicked every day.
Each time a believer commits such grievous sins like adultery, fornication, stealing, heresies, unbelief, selfishness, love of money, or lying, it grieves the Holy Spirit. It does not rejoice His heart. Understand that what grieves the Holy Spirit can separate a man from the love of God.
Friend, if present day Christians do not hear the authentic gospel and change from our wicked ways, there will be more Church people in hell than those who never went to Church. Hell is enlarging itself daily, taking out many in Church. Our devotional text today says,
“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:26-31 NKJV
These are some of the Scriptures that make me ask myself which Bible these carnal preachers and Christians are reading when they live in sin and claim nothing shall separate us from the LOVE of God. The Bible is clear on sin.
IT SAYS IF WE CALL OURSELVES SAVED AND LIVE A LIFE OF SIN THEREAFTER, WE ARE LOST.
In other words, if we give our lives to Christ and then slip back into adultery, fornication, stealing, lying or any wicked thing or sinful life, we have counted the blood of the covenant by which we were sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace. We need to repent.
Sadly, the deception of sin is responsible for all these. It distorts truth by misrepresenting what is good and true, leading us to trust our own feelings and independent understanding rather than God’s ways.
It makes us willful sinners by turning us into believers who appeal to self-interest, encouraging us to act on selfish instincts, transmitting into us a faith that tells us to express ourselves, enjoy the pleasure and find happiness and fulfilment, even when we know it is a sin against God.
There are times that the deception of sin will use flawed bible examples to encourage us to commit sin, especially sexual sins, or hide the consequences of sin from us.
It has used the flaws of David to encourage many, especially spiritual leaders, to engage in sexual sins with whoever they felt is sexually appealing, it has used the flaws of Noah to encourage some to take alcohol, and the flaws of Abraham to encourage some to commit the sin of adultery or fornication with their sexually appealing house helps.
It has used the flaws of Jacob to make believers walk in deception, the flaws of Samson to influence some to sleep with harlots, and the flaws of many bible figures to keep so many in a life of sin, deception, trespass, and all forms of ungodly behaviors and carnality.
If you want to deal with the deception of sin, you must take very decisive actions against it.
You must see the painful, shameful, and destructive result of every pleasure of sin, and use it to fight the temptation to sin. You must walk in Bible truth and not in distorted truth. You must not allow the flaws of Bible men to be an inspiration. You must fix your heart in their faith, season of spiritual strength, perfection and holiness.
That is the word of the LORD!!!
LET THIS SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.” 1 Corinthians 15:34 NKJV
