By: Bill and Teddy Rogers
1. Anger – A strong passion or emotion of displeasure caused by a sense of injury or insult, usually antagonistic and excited and directed toward a person, event, or situation.
1. Anger – A strong passion or emotion of displeasure caused by a sense of injury or insult, usually antagonistic and excited and directed toward a person, event, or situation.
Psalm
37:8 says “Refrain
from anger
and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil.”
2.
Envy Or Covetousness –
Being discontented or resentful or longing after the good fortune of
another. Wanting what someone else has.
Proverbs
14:30
says “A
heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy
rots the bones.”
James
3:16 says “For
where you have envy
and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil
practice.”
3.
Sloth
(Laziness)
– Being Idle or Unwilling to work. Also includes Indifference and
an “I Don't Care Attitude”.
Proverbs
19:15
says “Laziness
brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.”
Ecclesiastes
10:18 says “Through
laziness,
the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.”
4.
Greed –
A desire to acquire things beyond reason. Many people are chasing the
almighty dollar and wanting more power, prestige, and position while
ignoring family, friends, and other responsibilities.
Ephesians
5:5
says “For
of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy
person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and of God.”
5.
Lust –
A natural sexual instinct or sinful desire that's gotten off track.
Lust is rampant in our American culture. Pornography is now a $7 to
$8 Billion Dollar Industry in the United States alone.
Matthew
5:28
says “But
I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully
has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
6.
Gluttony– Excessive Eating or Drinking. Many of us are eating and drinking
too much and are literally killing ourselves with clogged arteries,
high blood pressure and cholesterol, obesity, and other self
inflicted infirmities. Examples: eating fried and other foods that
we know are bad for us and drinking too much coke and other beverages
containing way too much sugar.
Proverbs
23:21
says “For
drunkards and gluttons
become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.”
7.
Pride –
Having an excessively high opinion of our self and being conceited.
This is the most deadly sin of all because it makes us want to appear
wiser, smarter, bigger, better, richer, finer, and more righteous
than we really are. Some people, in an attempt to appear better off
than they really are, have a bunch of credit cards all maxed out and,
in reality, are completely broke.
Proverbs
16:18 says “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty
spirit before a fall”.
Let's
Ask
God to search our hearts
and reveal any sins
that we
just don't want to own up to.
Finally,
do you
know for sure where you are going when you die? Are you ready?
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