The Cost Of Sin

THURSDAY 29^TH MAY 2025

TOPIC: THE COST OF SIN

SCRIPTURE: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: It pays to serve God, but it cost to serve the devil.

In life, a person’s wrong desires are the keys to his own destruction. The wrong passion is a major foundation for temptation. That is why you must war against any wrong passion trying to creep into your life before the devil uses it as bait against you.

For some people it is money. They love money like Judas Iscariot. When the devil wanted to destroy Judas, he tempted him with money (John 12:6). When he wanted to pull down David, he used a woman (2Samuel 11:1-5).

What an animal loves is what is used to kill it.

Beloved, sinful pleasure comes with a cost. It pays to serve God, but it cost to serve the devil. There is no compromise without cost. There is no sinful pleasure without consequence both in time and in eternity.

A person drinking alcohol may be excited now but after a while, he loses control of himself. After a while, it begins to affect his marriage and family, then his health which may eventually lead to death.

People have lost their jobs, destinies and lives on the platforms of immoral affairs, stealing, etc.

Beloved, whatever you are doing now, is the pleasure of it worth the cost or consequence? Is that compromise worth the cost? Think about it!

Remember this: It pays to serve God, but it cost to serve the devil.

ASSIGNMENT (S):

1. Examine yourself and make amends where necessary.
2. Turn down every invitation to sin or compromise.
3. Make demands on the grace of God to live a holy life.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: The Transaction of iniquity

PRAYER: Lord, I cannot live without You. Please help me to live right in this sinful world, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

DAILY BIBLE READING: Psalm 61-63

QUOTE: Whatever brings separation between man and God signals danger and invites destruction into his (Man’s) life and destiny. Culled from 22 Laws of Life Vol. 2 by Dr Paul Enenche.

AMAZING FACT: Ants never sleep. They also don’t have lungs.

PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: I destroy the grip of every sinful habit over your life today in Jesus Name.