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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Created To Play, continued
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; Idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions And envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21—NIV)
As we pray to the Lord Jesus He will show us how to escape the clutches of the world spirit. The world spirit is Antichrist. Man is his own god. Personal liberty is held out as the highest good. Money and education are sought for their own sake and worshiped. We can't play when we are drowning in this swamp.
Deliverance from the works of the flesh.
The demonic passions that inhabit our flesh are alien to our personality. They are not part of us. They have their own agenda, so to speak. Until we get rid of them we cannot play. We cannot play because our appetites want to play and they control us. So we end up making it possible for unclean spirits to satisfy their lusts through us, their insatiable passion for the flesh of man. Then we pay the penalty for destructive behavior.
God may have given us the right to play, but we are unable to do so because we do not know what our true desires are, there is such an overlay of demonic appetites living in our personality.
As we recognize these strange desires we are to confess them to God and ask His help in putting them to death. Pronounce the judgment of God on them. Call them sin and turn away from them. As you do God will forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness relating to the bondage being dealt with.
Until you are free from alien spiritual drives in your personality you cannot possibly play with the children of God. You can only wrench your environment, raping, molesting, destroying, murdering, polluting, idolizing everything around you.
Deliverance from self-will.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5,6—NIV)
Of all the follies that have entered the creation of God, the worst by far is self-will. All sin has its source in self-will. The moment Satan ceased playing and began to exert his self-will, unbelievable agony and destruction entered the universe.
Until we learn to trust in the Lord and are willing to forsake our own understanding, it is impossible for us to be able to play. When we do not acknowledge Him in everything we do, think, and say, in every direction we take, in all we hope and imagine, our paths remain crooked.
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. (James 4:1-3—NIV)
To be continued.