We Are Not Free To Sin

“When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,   it says to itself, I will go back to my house.   So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all fixed up.

 Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day”.   Matt. 12:43-45  GNT

An apostate has had a taste of freedom and exposure to Jesus.  But they reject or resist the rules and love of Jesus. 

Jesus frees us from sin.  We are not free to sin.   If people refuse to follow Jesus’ Word their only option is to follow someone else’s word or their own.  

Each time a person sins they make it easier to yield to sin and it becomes harder to resist the temptation.  They weaken their desire to submit to God and resist the devil.  

When a person engages in sin they are opening the door for more sin and all ‘its relatives’ to come and stay awhile.

“…Jesus said to those who believed in him,
“If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples;  you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free……I am telling you the truth: everyone who sins is a slave of sin””.   (John 8:31,34 GNT)

An apostate will turn their backs on God’s Word and return to a life-style of personal pleasure and hidden sins.   They have rejected the gospel and will find fault with God’s Word.  They will always twist the Word around to meet their interpretation, to justify their actions, belief and decisions.

I Timothy 6:14 tells us we should “….obey completely and fully all that you have been told until our Lord Jesus Christ returns”.

It would seem that the apostates have some familiarity with God’s Word and basic Christianity.  The NT speaks of people who desire the position of teacher or pastor or the recognition as true Biblical leader but fall short of being truly born again.   (II Cor. 13:5, II Tim. 2:18-19, I John 3:7-8)

The person who has known the truth and departed from the truth is on a perilous journey, more dangerous than the person who has never heard the truth.   They received a glimpse of perfection and grace but refused the Light and embraced the darkness.    Apostle Peter speaks of the ‘way of righteousness’ or what we might call the path of righteousness.   The apostate has left that narrow road and has opted for the broad way that leads to destruction.

How sad, to know the truth and then reject the truth only to embrace the lie of the wicked one.

“But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to his own vomit, and a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”  II Peter 2:22  (NKJV)