DANGERS OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION AND BLAMING OTHERS

 When man fell, he became corrupt and depraved and his desire is to do evil always. Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart is evil continually. Gen 6:5 Christ came to save us from this corruption that we may live unto him. One of the most difficult evil habit for man to forsake once he becomes a child of God is self-justification.

When Adam sinned and God asked him whether he had eaten the forbidden fruit, instead of saying yes, he blamed his wife, implying that on his part, there was nothing wrong with him. Eve also blamed the serpent. This habit of self-justification and blaming others for our sins is as old as Adam. Gen 3:1-13

It is very difficult for a man to take blame for his sins. You hardly find a Christian who can say, I WAS WRONG, THAT WAS MY MISTAKE, PLEASE FORGIVE, LET ME KNOW HOW I CAN SET IT RIGHT. 

David when he was confronted by Nathan after sinning with Bathsheba and killing Uriah, did not blame Bathsheba. In His repentance prayer in Psalm 51, there is not even a case of self-justification but he wholly owns the crimes. Not like Saul who blames his soldiers when he disobeyed of not killing the fatted cow and king Agag. 1 Sam 15:9. We can see if you want to end up like king Saul, justify yourself and blame others for your sins, but if you want to end up like David, take full responsibility for your sins and never blame anyone,

Jesus in Luke 16:15 says; YOU ARE THOSE WHO JUSTIFY YOURSELF IN THE SIGHT OF MEN, BUT GOD KNOWS YOUR HEART. FOT THAT WHICH IS HIGHLY ESTEEMED AMONG MEN IS ABOMINABLE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. Here we see that man values self-justification very highly, but it is an abomination to God. Abomination means something horrible and disgusting and repulsive, sewage for example. We see then when we justify ourselves, we are like sewage, horrible, disgusting and repulsive in the sight of God.

In Ezek 14:3-9, we read the phrase, “SET UP IDOLS IN THEIR HEARTS, AND PUT THE STUMBLING BLOCH OF THEIR INIQUITY BEFORE THEIR FACE”. Putting a stumbling block of iniquity before their face is simply to pretend that there is nothing wrong and justifying themselves. The danger is that when they pray God will answer according to the multitudes of idols in their heart: vs 4. This means that they will get deceived, and will see nothing wrong with them. We are surrounded by multitudes of such in the church. They nothing wrong with them even when they are corrected by the leaders. Many people in the church are living in immorality, continue speaking lies and all other types of evil, but because they prayed for someone who was sick and got healed, or because they speak in tongues, they think they are pleasing God. May god save us from falling in such deception.

Paul in 2 Thes 2:10-11, says that people fall in strong delusion because they did not receive the love of truth so as to be saved. Saved from what? Mat 1:21 tell us that Jesus came to SAVE HIS PEOPLE from their sin. It simply means, that children of God (His people), when they got convicted by the holy Spirit of something they were doing wrong, instead of acknowledging they were wrong, they justified themselves and God allowed them to be deceived and believe a lie. There are multitudes of people who believe themselves to be saved who are not. There is nothing in their lives that has changed yet because they repeated the sinner’s prayer like a parrot, they think they are saved. Multitudes believe they are filled with the Holy Spirit but when you look at their lives, there is nothing of Christ or holiness and many other ways that Christians have been deceived.

Let us learn to say, I WAS WRONG, THAT WAS MY MISTAKE, PLEASE FORGIVE ME, SHOW ME HOW I CAN SET IT RIGHT and this will be our salvation against falling into deception.

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