fine points of the first commandment

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The hidden and largely unrecognized sins that ruin lives:

Do not think that murder and robbery and extreme sins, obvious sins are the only ones that break God’s laws.
The much more hard to recognize sins are very common, such as slothfulness, laziness, coveting,
seeking too much pleasure, seeking too much entertainment, losing self control, being quick to anger,
talking without meaning, without thinking, ie idle words, (we shall be judged for every idle word),

letting profit be your motivating or decision factor on what to do
letting concupiesence rule your life, lusting in your heart,
even the failure to believe God!
Oh, the subtle sins are so much more common than robbing someone’s purse or murdering them.

But it is an uncommon preacher who can communicate these things to the people so they can be led to
conviction of sin and the righteousness of God and repentance from their sin.

Whomsoever we serve, that is what we worship.  That’s why it is written we are to do all things as unto God.
Anything else, or anything less, is idolatry.  We give ourselves first to God, and then to the task or the master or
the boss or the job or some person, but always as to God first.  Do all things as unto God Almighty in Jesus
Name.  What is not done as unto God is done to something else and that is idolatry.  THOU SHALT HAVE NO
OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.  That’s part of the Ten Commandments.  We should not break it.
If we break it, it is to our own peril.   He who keeps that commandment , in so much as he keeps it, loves his
own soul and is being good to himself.  He who breaks it, hates or despises (which is the same thing) his own
soul.

When we see the fine points like this on the glass globlet, then we begin to more appreciate it’s beauty.
The globlet is that from which we drink.  We drink from that which God has provided to give us the choice of
life or death, blessing or cursing.  Belief or unbelief.  Obedience or rebellion.  Acknowledgement of God or
denial of God the ALMIGHTY.