Finish the job, kill your seduction

Finish the job, kill your seduction 

"They're the ones who, under Balaam's direction, seduced the People of Israel away from GOD in that mess at Peor, causing the plague that hit GOD's people. Finish your job: kill all the boys. Kill every woman who has slept with a man." (Num.31.16 - 17)

How does one kill what one is attracted to? I think it is one reason the flesh has so much power over a lot of people. Because what they are supposed to subdue also gives them pleasure. 

Make no mistake, there is pleasure in sin. But the pleasure is very short lived . Hence the Bible talks about the pleasure of sin that is for a moment (see Heb. 11.25)

Israel had the rear privilege of confronting their enemy. A very potent enemy that causes them about 24,000 dead brothers and sisters. As a result, God says to them, "Finish your job, kill all the boys. Kill every woman who has slept with a man." But this is a metaphor for us to to bring our flesh where we have the major source of seduction. The Apostle Paul says it this way, "I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified. (1Cor.9.27 NLT). 

In another place he says" I die daily"

"I die every day--I mean that, brothers--just as surely as I glory over you in Christ Jesus our Lord. (1Cor.15.31 NIV)

That was what Jesus meant when he says take up your cross and follow me (see Matt. 10.38) 

And John the Baptist puts it this way: "I must decrease but He must increase" 

"He must increase, but I must decrease." (John.3.30)

Finish the job, kill your seduction, do not live half and half, go all the way. Live wholeheartedly for Him. 

"If you don't go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don't deserve me." (Matt.10.38 MSG) 

Good day,
Have a great day today,
Dr. Emmanuel Okoro,
(aka Dr. Lift)

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