So, if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand or one foot than to be thrown into eternal fire with both of your hands and feet
Matthew 18:8
- One who cuts off his right hand can still sin with the left hand.
- One who gouges his right eye out can still sin with their left foot.
- One who cuts off his right foot, can still sin with the left foot.
This is an eternal issue, not a day-to-day sin issue.
There is only one way to secure your soul’s eternal home in heaven:
- If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
There is only one way to secure your soul’s eternal home in hell:
- But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.
Matthew 10:33
These are extreme as cutting of hand or foot or the gouging of an eye.
The only way to cease from habitual and offensive lifestyle sin is to avoid being transformed by this world.
- Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
Romans 12:2 (AMPC)
God will take care of the tempters:
- “What sorrow awaits the world, because it tempts people to sin. Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting.
Matthew 18:7
We need to take care of ourselves, and submit to the work of Holy Spirit.
- Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really satisfy you.
Romans 12:2 (TLB)
“We may need to “mutilate” — chop off — a habit, a relationship, a career, certain personal freedoms, whatever is causing us to stumble.” - John Bloom – Desiring God
On their arrival in Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the Temple tax?”
“Yes, he does,” Peter replied. Then he went into the house.
Matthew 17:24-25
Jesus paid The Temple tax.
Submit to Holy Spirit’s extreme work in my life.
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