Abstain from Every Form of Evil | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:08 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break.

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:51 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Giftup Podcasts, where I'm going to

0:53 Speaker 2: talk to you today on an important aspect of abstaining

0:57 Speaker 2: from every form of evil. The scripture I want to

1:01 Speaker 2: talk to you today from is first found in first

1:03 Speaker 2: the Salonians five verse twenty two, which says, as I

1:06 Speaker 2: just read it, abstained from every form of evil. You see, guys,

1:12 Speaker 2: I know, we may say, John, you know what, Yes,

1:14 Speaker 2: I need to not have anything to do with sin.

1:17 Speaker 2: I should not entertain sin and all of these things

1:19 Speaker 2: I understand that. And you know, most of the time

1:22 Speaker 2: when we think about that, we just look at broad classifications.

1:25 Speaker 2: You know what, I'm not murdering someone. I'm not you know,

1:28 Speaker 2: getting into the place of committing adultery, or I'm not

1:31 Speaker 2: going and stealing or committing some big crime in the

1:35 Speaker 2: national scale or international scale. Yes, that's all there. But

1:39 Speaker 2: there's something I want you to understand that. You know,

1:42 Speaker 2: God's standard is not the way we look at things. Right,

1:45 Speaker 2: the Bible says abstained from every form of evil, which

1:48 Speaker 2: means that there is evil in this world without a doubt.

1:52 Speaker 2: Everywhere we turn around we see evil. It could be

1:55 Speaker 2: in the form of, you know, somebody just gossiping about

1:58 Speaker 2: somebody else. That's evil. Right. It can even be in

2:02 Speaker 2: the form of you know, or like you just crawl

2:05 Speaker 2: through your phone and you know, getting into unnecessary pictures

2:09 Speaker 2: or videos that can contaminate your mind. That's evil. You know,

2:13 Speaker 2: there's so much of manipulation happening. There's so much of

2:16 Speaker 2: you know, the way people's mind and their soul and

2:21 Speaker 2: their very being is corrupted. You know, if you if

2:24 Speaker 2: you're listening to certain kinds of songs all the time,

2:26 Speaker 2: what happens is without you realizing that that that is

2:30 Speaker 2: going to affect you, that evil in that is going

2:33 Speaker 2: to also affect you. Sometimes people think it's just a song. No,

2:36 Speaker 2: you don't realize it, like you know, sometimes you don't

2:39 Speaker 2: realize the part of the words of the songs. Right.

2:42 Speaker 2: The Bible says life and lia and the part of

2:43 Speaker 2: the tongue. And when you keep listening to such songs

2:47 Speaker 2: without you realizing, you're agreeing to those things. You know,

2:51 Speaker 2: the Bible says faith comes by the hearing of the

2:53 Speaker 2: word right. And so if you're listening to something bad

2:56 Speaker 2: without or you're listening or hearing something bad, what is

3:00 Speaker 2: happening is just tending to believe in those things, even

3:03 Speaker 2: if they're not in accordance to the world of God.

3:06 Speaker 2: You know, there are songs I've listened sometimes, very rarely,

3:09 Speaker 2: I've listened to secular songs. And there was the time,

3:12 Speaker 2: I think there was this famous song called love Me

3:14 Speaker 2: Like You Do, and there was this line which says,

3:16 Speaker 2: you know, I'm not thinking straight. You know, at some

3:18 Speaker 2: point I was so excited to listen and I was

3:21 Speaker 2: singing along and this line that came I'm not thinking straight.

3:25 Speaker 2: Just you know, the Holy spirit convicted me and said, wait,

3:29 Speaker 2: what did you just say? I'm not thinking straight? You know?

3:32 Speaker 2: And then I realized, like, if I keep confessing that,

3:35 Speaker 2: if I keep saying that with no amount of time,

3:38 Speaker 2: I may end up, you know, like literally my mind

3:41 Speaker 2: may not be straight. I will be corrupted. You know,

3:44 Speaker 2: because you're agreeing with that. You get what I'm saying.

3:48 Speaker 2: You know that That's the reason I always say. You know,

3:51 Speaker 2: I'm not saying don't listen to secular songs or you know,

3:53 Speaker 2: there's no such thing as you know, don't listen or

3:56 Speaker 2: watch any movies or something like. I'm not saying like that.

3:58 Speaker 2: I say, you know, always before you listen to something,

4:02 Speaker 2: check is that something that adds value? Is that something

4:07 Speaker 2: that is good? Is that something that has any evil

4:11 Speaker 2: attached to it? You know, I know that a lot

4:13 Speaker 2: of good, good secular songs, which maybe they can be inspirational,

4:18 Speaker 2: patriotic that maybe I love a lot of songs like that.

4:22 Speaker 2: That's totally fine as long as it does not, uh,

4:26 Speaker 2: you know, take the place of God. As long as

4:29 Speaker 2: it does not have anything that does not align with

4:32 Speaker 2: the will of God or the word of God, it's fine.

4:34 Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is you have to be very careful.

4:38 Speaker 2: There are people who you know, think, oh, for example Alvien, like, oh,

4:43 Speaker 2: you know, it is just fun. No, what is attached

4:45 Speaker 2: to it is evil. Or in India, a lot of

4:48 Speaker 2: people get into something called yoga. They say it's just

4:51 Speaker 2: exercise on the outside. It's exercise on the outside, but

4:54 Speaker 2: it's based out of Hindu religious pactresses and Hindu deities,

5:00 Speaker 2: and most of those supposes are in confirm uh, they

5:04 Speaker 2: actually confirmed to where is idols and eighties worshiped, which

5:10 Speaker 2: actually have those demons behind them. So you have to

5:13 Speaker 2: be careful. Like even certain festivals that people celebrate day,

5:18 Speaker 2: they seem like just cultural festivals or things that you

5:21 Speaker 2: see from the outside, but on the inside you have

5:24 Speaker 2: realized that they are rooted in evil. That's why the

5:28 Speaker 2: Bible says stay away from every form of evil. Check out.

5:34 Speaker 2: Don't just be naive. Oh it's just a fun thing. No,

5:38 Speaker 2: what is the root behind it? What is the you know, like,

5:43 Speaker 2: you don't want to invite the demons behind them without

5:46 Speaker 2: you realizing the demons behind them. You don't want that

5:50 Speaker 2: to happen in your life. Guys, and I challenge you today,

5:54 Speaker 2: I challenge you every form of evil, whether it can

5:58 Speaker 2: be something as small let look small like you know,

6:01 Speaker 2: even unforgiveness toward somebody, bitterness, a wrong attitude. All of

6:07 Speaker 2: that is evil, right, All of that is evil. And

6:11 Speaker 2: that's why if anything does that's not aligned with the

6:14 Speaker 2: standard of God, the will of God, the word of

6:17 Speaker 2: God is evil. Okay, it's it's not. It does not

6:23 Speaker 2: give you the permission to stay there. So my challenge is,

6:28 Speaker 2: if there is something in your mind that needs to change,

6:30 Speaker 2: let this be a sermon that reminds you to do that.

6:33 Speaker 2: If there's a change you need to do to your

6:37 Speaker 2: gadget so that you're not browsing into websites that you're

6:41 Speaker 2: not supposed to, let this be a wake of car.

6:44 Speaker 2: If you're somebody who needs to make a change, maybe

6:46 Speaker 2: you need to quit smoking, quit drinking, quit some bad habit,

6:53 Speaker 2: quit pornography, quit addictions that you need to. You may

6:58 Speaker 2: say I'm not able to do it with God's help.

7:00 Speaker 2: Let's see a difference. The first step is you making

7:04 Speaker 2: a resolve that with help, with the help of God,

7:08 Speaker 2: you will be able to do it. Because as long

7:10 Speaker 2: as you are comfortable in it, you will not be

7:13 Speaker 2: able to come out of it. You need to get

7:15 Speaker 2: to the place where you are angry and mad and say,

7:18 Speaker 2: you know what, I don't want this. I don't want

7:21 Speaker 2: this lifestyle. I don't want this addiction. I don't want

7:24 Speaker 2: to be comfortable in this. And when you get to

7:26 Speaker 2: that place and help take the help of the Holy

7:29 Speaker 2: Spirit in your life, that's how you will break out

7:32 Speaker 2: and see the victory in your life. Amen, God bless you.

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