We can light a small candle and watch the little flame bouncing around. It's just a little small flame, what harm can it do? But, if we get too close to it - it will do great damage. It may be small, but it can still burn us if we put our hand over it, and let the small flame catch hold of a curtain or paper or something, and it can burn down and destroy our entire house. It looks little and harmless, but has the power to do great harm.
The same is true with sin in our lives. Oh, we may argue "I know this is wrong, but it's just a little sin, what harm can it do?" But, often times it's the little sins that destroy our lives and keep us from being what we could become if we had gotten rid of them. Most people won't be destroyed by committing murder or adultery - and so they think they've got nothing to worry about....but they will be slowly destroyed by the "little sins" they allow to remain in their lives.
It's like someone who is allergic to a bee sting. People may mock or laugh at how concerned or even frantic they get when a bee is too close to them. And others may say "calm down...it's just a small bee!" However, the person who is allergic to it's sting, knows what kind of damage it can bring to them - or how it can even kill them with it's small sting, and so they take every precaution to keep away from it. And that's the attitude we should have toward even the "smallest" of sins...KEEP AWAY!
Charles Spurgeon in a sermon on "little sins" said, "With regard then to this temptation of Satan concerning the littleness of sin, I would make this first answer, the best of men have always been afraid of little sins. The holy martyrs of God have been ready to endure the most terrible torments rather than step so much as one inch aside from the road of truth and righteousness."
Don't EVER look at ANYTHING the Bible says is wrong and judge that lightly! All sin, even the SMALLEST of them, has the possibility to destroy our lives if we do not deal with it properly. In reality there is no such thing as a "LITTLE" sin!
The same is true with sin in our lives. Oh, we may argue "I know this is wrong, but it's just a little sin, what harm can it do?" But, often times it's the little sins that destroy our lives and keep us from being what we could become if we had gotten rid of them. Most people won't be destroyed by committing murder or adultery - and so they think they've got nothing to worry about....but they will be slowly destroyed by the "little sins" they allow to remain in their lives.
It's like someone who is allergic to a bee sting. People may mock or laugh at how concerned or even frantic they get when a bee is too close to them. And others may say "calm down...it's just a small bee!" However, the person who is allergic to it's sting, knows what kind of damage it can bring to them - or how it can even kill them with it's small sting, and so they take every precaution to keep away from it. And that's the attitude we should have toward even the "smallest" of sins...KEEP AWAY!
Charles Spurgeon in a sermon on "little sins" said, "With regard then to this temptation of Satan concerning the littleness of sin, I would make this first answer, the best of men have always been afraid of little sins. The holy martyrs of God have been ready to endure the most terrible torments rather than step so much as one inch aside from the road of truth and righteousness."
Don't EVER look at ANYTHING the Bible says is wrong and judge that lightly! All sin, even the SMALLEST of them, has the possibility to destroy our lives if we do not deal with it properly. In reality there is no such thing as a "LITTLE" sin!
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