RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL THURSDAY, 28TH April 2016 YOUR SOUL BELONGS TO GOD- PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME PHD
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul
of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine… (Ezekiel 18:4).
There’re those who ask if it’s possible
for people to sell their souls to the devil. No one can sell his or her soul to
the devil; the reason being that all souls belong to God. How can Satan
possibly pay for the soul of any human being and with what “currency” exactly? God paid for the soul of every man, woman,
boy, and girl, with the precious blood of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19).
Satan lies to a whole lot of
Christians, deceiving them
to think he’s in charge of their lives somehow, whereas he doesn’t have such rights. Jesus bought the whole field and paid for every man. So, you can’t sell your soul to the devil. Even if you stood in front of the devil and said to him, “I sell my soul to you.” He couldn’t buy it. Your soul neither belongs to you nor Satan; it belongs to God.
to think he’s in charge of their lives somehow, whereas he doesn’t have such rights. Jesus bought the whole field and paid for every man. So, you can’t sell your soul to the devil. Even if you stood in front of the devil and said to him, “I sell my soul to you.” He couldn’t buy it. Your soul neither belongs to you nor Satan; it belongs to God.
Even when you give your heart to Jesus,
you’re not “selling” your heart to Him either. The terminology of “giving your
heart to Jesus” doesn’t really apply in the way we think a lot of times, as to
“bundling” yourself up and giving yourself to Him. To give Him your heart is to give Him your attention. He said, “My son,
give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways” (Proverbs 23:26). So,
when we say, “Give your heart to the Lord”, we’re saying, “Turn over to Him; yield yourself to do
His will.”
The reason you can do that is because
He gave you the right; He took the right off Satan, gave it to you, and said,
“Give me your heart and follow me!” He told the Israelites, “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life...” (Deuteronomy 30:19). He told them to choose life! Serve
God truly, with your life. Love Him with all your heart, for your soul belongs
to Him.
It’s important to understand,
nonetheless, that there’s such a term as ‘selling oneself to do evil.’ This
means willingly yielding oneself to do evil or wickedness. In this way, one
could be said to have ‘sold himself’ to the devil or evil. “And Ahab said to
Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee:
because thou has sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD...But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up” (1 Kings
21:20, 25).
CONFESSION
My life belongs to Jesus Christ. I’ve
been crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives
in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me and gave Himself for me! God’s purpose is fulfilled in me, and I
walk in His perfect will today and always! Hallelujah.
FURTHER STUDY:
||1 Corinthians 3:23 and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.||
||1 Corinthians 3:23 and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.||
||Isaiah 43:1 The vision of Isaiah the
son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.||
Romans 14:7 For none of us liveth to
himself, and no man dieth to himself. 8 For whether we live, we live unto the
Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or
die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and
revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
1 YEAR BIBLE
READING PLAN:
Luke 22:66-23:1-25, 2 Samuel 1-3
READING PLAN:
Luke 22:66-23:1-25, 2 Samuel 1-3
2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:1
Corinthians 1:1-9, Psalm 137-138
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