THE SPIRIT OF PROCRASTINATION - EXCUSES FOR SIN

It is time for the Body of Christ to examine its relationship with the Father. It is a day of individual self-examination. We are rapidly approaching the end of this age and the Lord is soon to return for His Bride. However, the Bride must be without spot or wrinkle, her garments clean and holy. She must be a chaste and submissive virgin, not polluted by fornication with the world. The Lord has already spoken to us saying, “There is no more time.” We do not have time to procrastinate about living holy. Judgment begins at the house of God and is soon to be executed. We have been given too much truth and revelation of Christ to walk in the way of the world.

The devil laughs as we become presumptuous in thinking that we have plenty of time to come into agreement with the Father. He simply waits for the Father to judge us as unrighteous, unholy and stubborn before Him. He knows that if we continue to procrastinate about obeying the Word, we will soon cross the line of demarcation. This line of demarcation will cause us to forfeit ministry and our very souls Nevertheless, we are the children of the Most High God. He has called us to righteousness. In fact, we have been made the righteousness of God through, in and by Jesus Christ. Therefore, we are right now capable of walking in the Spirit continually.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO SIN

We can walk holy before God the Father, without sin being an issue. We are capable right now of obeying every word we have been taught by the Holy Ghost. That means we are without excuse. Procrastination is nothing more than a compilation of excuses. Such excuses as:

1. This is a weakness in my flesh that I am fighting to be delivered from.

2. I am pressing towards the mark. I am better than I used to be.

Ephesians 5:27

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Procrastinate – To delay (Webster’s Dictionary)

3. Be patient with me, God is not through with me yet.

4. I believe that soon God is going to deliver me out of this thing. He knows I hate this sin. He knows my heart.

5. It is the responsibility of God to bring me to deliverance.

6. Every great man of God had a weakness of some kind. All the old patriarchs sinned against God in some manner, but God delivered them.

In order for these excuses to thrive, you must negate those things you know to be the truth. You must lay aside the truth that is in the Word of God.

Hebrews 3:14-17

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

St. John 5:14

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

St.John 8:11

She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Romans 6:1-2

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

St.John 17:17

God’s Word is Truth! Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

St.John 8:32

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Romans 6:6-7

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Romans 6:11-23

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

As a minister of the gospel, you may preach these truths to others. However, they are meaningless to your sinful situation because you have allowed these truths to be only a message to deliver on Sunday morning. They are not life to you, nor do you have respect for this truth. These are all excuses designed to make provisions for the sin to live on and on in your life. You must accept the truth that is before you. WE SIN BY CHOICE. Furthermore, we have a mentality that says, “I will sin now, and be delivered later.” But look at the consequences of our actions.

Hebrews 10:29

Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

1 Timothy 4:1-2

1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

These excuses are nothing more than lies we tell ourselves and others. The problem is, if we continue in the lie, God the Father, will give us over to delusion that is far stronger than what we have manufactured in our own minds. He will give us over to believe the lie.

Hebrews 3:7-8

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To- day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

There is always a consequence to sin.

Consequence – 1. That which logically or naturally follows from an action or condition: EFFECT. 2. The relation of a result to its cause (Webster’s Dictionary).

He will give us over to believe the lie and Satan, rather than the truth which was forever before us. This means that the probability of coming out of such delusion is most likely nil. How many times must I say this before we finally believe it? How many times must the Spirit of God warn us before we come into agreement with the Father? We are not only sick with sin, but some of us should have become sick of sin by now. If so, then let us be what we are, the Manifested Sons of God. How does one come out of such bondage? OBEY, SIMPLY OBEY THE WORD OF GOD. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO BE SET FREE FROM SIN. WE SIMPLY MUST OBEY.

James 4:4-8

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;