Genesis: The Desire To Sin

KJB Daily Devotion – Following Jesus Through Every Chapter
Date: Saturday, January 02, 2016
Chapters: Genesis 4-6
Message: Genesis: The Desire To Sin

Hello My Friend,

Desire, An emotion or excitement of the mind, directed to the attainment or possession of an object from which pleasure, sensual, intellectual or spiritual, is expected. We all desire things, and that is actually a good thing, but like every good thing can be turned bad so can the things we desire. Desire becomes bad when it turns into lust, which is the root of sin to begin with, remember when Eve saw the forbidden tree as something to be desired that is when lust kicked in, and she not only ate of it, but influenced her husband as well. “Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” - James 4:2,3.

God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, and they did, there were so many that as they grew older they began to scatter all over the earth. To human reasoning the thought of all mankind coming from one man and one woman is something disgusting and incestuous, but in those days things were different, God used them to procreate, and in the process of time created different races as well. While Adam and Eve had many children, as you piece things together you realize that they did not all worshiped their Creator, in fact, very few did. We learn of this with Cain and Abel. Cain was a farmer, and took care of the crops, while Able was a cattle rancher, and took care of the cattle and sheep. They both brought an offering to God, but only one was accepted.

“And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.” - Genesis 4:3-8.

“And unto thee shall be his desire,” The amazing thing about living our lives for God is that He does give us our desires when we love Him with all our heart, but we must love Him wholeheartedly to be accepted of Him. If we come to Him halfheartedly and are not careful in how we do things to get what we desire, sin creeps in and it will literally be what we desire. Of course, we don't always give God a hundred percent of our heart, but God knows our true heart, when we come to Him halfheartedly He will not respect our offerings. “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” - 1 John 5:14,15.

Cain began the genealogy of what was known as the sons of man. The genealogy of Adam, and the eventual lineage of where Jesus would descend continued through a third son, Seth, known as the sons of God. “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” - Genesis 5:1-3,28-32.

“And he called his name Noah,” Noah means rest, he was the tenth in descent from Adam, who would literally be where all of us would descend from. Life is so precious to God, that He will sustain it through one soul if it loves Him, and while He desires every soul to love Him, many will reject Him. “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” - Romans 8:29,30.

Yes, we are all predestined to be children of God through His Son, Jesus Christ, but not all of us will believe in Him, therefore, not all will be justified. While all life is precious, God will not stand for sin. The more people that reject Him for sin, the more His wrath kindles, and before you know it, judgment comes, not only to one life, but all. When the sons of God began having children with the sons of man, very few recognized God, in fact, they were down right rebellious of God. There was so much wickedness and immorality in the world that He repented for having made life on earth. He was so disappointed and angry that He chose to destroy the entire earth. However, He did find one man, Noah, who was not like the rest, and He chose that one soul, along with his three sons and their wives to sustain life.

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” - Genesis 6:5-9.

“and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Fornication, adultery, incest, bestiality, homosexuality, same sex marriage, polygamy, these are some of the things that made God repent of creating man, and He still hates them today. Some people to do pretty wicked things to their bodies, and if we think we have seen in all, imagine what God saw that caused Him to wipe everything off the earth. When we leave things to our own reasoning we desire the things of the world, I was there, at one time I thought it was okay to live with a man as long as you were faithful to each other. When we receive Christ as our Saviour and begin to grow as a Christian we learn that many of the things we see a normal and good are not good for us at all. When we learn to desire the things of God, that is when the desire to live in sin becomes less and less. “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.” - Galatians 5:16,17,24.

Today's Prayer: God, Thank You for giving me life, and for the life that You have given me. While I do not always understand the trials and obstacles that You place before me as I walk the path You have chosen for me, I do understand that I am fearfully and wonderfully made, and that I am Your precious child. I do want to live my life to please You, I want to value my life by living it guiding by Your Word, and walking side by side with Your Son. Lord, give me Your power to love life, no matter where You place me, and give me the strength to sustain life by being a witness and testimony of how living a moral and just life leads to Your Son. In the prescious name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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