Posted on 03/04/2021 11:25:25 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins" (Proverbs 5:22).
Solomon is trying to convince you that if you go far enough down the road you will start to lose control. It is not saying you can't regain it, and it is not saying the Lord won’t give it back to you, but I'm saying that it becomes harder and harder to get back out from the clutches of that sin.
“All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any" (1 Corinthians 6:12).
This may seem like a strange verse to do mention this in. Okay, most people like first half of the verse a lot. “Huh? All things are lawful for me!” but not so much the second half, “but I will not be brought under the power of any.” Now, there's a thought right there. It’s not just the expediency in the first half of the verse, but it's about being brought under the power of something or somebody.
I am not one of these guys that thanks drinking coffee is wrong, because I drink plenty of it; but the day that you get up and you can't function without coffee, you may have a problem. You might want to consider trying something else. We are not to be brought under the power of anything. We have to be careful with those things. Some people cannot apparently stop the progression of their thoughts. Sometimes people get mad and then claim they can't stop their behavior. Well, if that's the case, you need to backtrack and figure out a way. Because, what you just admitted is that you were under the power of something else. We understand that people are not perfect, we understand that; but you need to have control. This is not talking about a kind of control by which you are the captain of your own ship and all that kind of thing; but it is talking about self-control that is scriptural.
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