Each time a child of God sins, the repercussion must follow. "It exposes one to devil's attacks and deprives the sinner of God's original agenda," says Pastor Samuel Daniel presiding minister of Global Grace Church. Excerpts:
The bible speaking in Genesis 2:15-17 says, "Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
This is the portion where God commanded man about what he should and what he should not do. God knows what is good and what is bad and harmful to man. His plan for man is for good. When he planted the garden, he made man and told the man where, how stay and what he should do, what he will eat and what he must not eat. As time went on, man's disobedience brought man to the lowest level of life.
Let us examine Genesis chapter three from verse 19 says, "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return." Actually, God brought man from the ground, but He did not intend to make man return to dust. But because of sin, God decided to return man to dust. And dust is the lowest material on the earth. He decided to return man to the lowest level on earth because of sin. That is what sin can do to the life of a man.
Verse 14 says, "So the Lord God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. Can you see now that because man has brought himself to the lowest level, God decided to curse the serpent? The snake would have to feed on the same dust all its life.
That is work sin can in the life of any man. When a person falls into sin he or she brings himself or herself to a level where the devil can mess up. And to a level that devil can feed on you. A person that is not supposed to raise a finger against you will speak ill about you.
That is why a true child of God should be careful to listen to the voice of God, to be obe- Samuel dient not allow sin to the deprive you. There are things we ought to eat and there are things we ought not to eat. Apostle Paul says "Food for belly and belly for food but I will not be captured by any neither should I be defiled by any or be deprived by all those things." That is to say that food is for belly; yes. But hear me; as children of God it is not everything that we ought to eat. There are things that God has forbidden His children not to eat.
I want to show some people in the scripture that have eaten food which God forbids His children to eat and the consequences that came unto those people. Gehazzi is number the first example of those who allowed forbidden things to rob them of God's original plan for their lives. The book of 2ndKings 5:20 explains thus: "But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him." Elisha the Prophet rejected that gift from Naaman because Naaman is suffered leprosy, knowing that if one began to patronize such a defiled man you will also become defiled because you patronized him.
Elisha decided not to patronize Naaman but his servant went at his back and ate the food that god rejected. The same food that god rejected was the same food run back to accept and eat. Let us see the consequence of his action in verse 27; "Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever. And he went out from his presence leprous, as white as snow." The curse came upon Gahazzi and he generation. Have you seen how the sin of one man who ate the forbidden fruit reduced a whole generation? Each time we delve into what God forbids us to do; we must expect the unfortunate consequence that must follow it.
This message is to warn all children of God who are compromising the standards of our God. Every level of compromise comes with terrible consequence. Though some talk about the world being modernized, yet those things standards of God remain sacrosanct. If we go against them, the repercussion is horrible.
