Now why does the preacher have to get up and talk about sin so much?
Why is it that Paul is always talking about putting off the old man with his deeds and
putting on the new man?
Because we still have this flesh.
We still have this flesh to deal with in this life.
He goes on and says put on the new man.
Why does the preacher have to keep talking about prayer and church attendance and Bible
reading and soul winning?
Why does he keep harping on these things?
Why do we keep having to be reminded of these things?
Why does he say there, seek ye those things which are above.
Set your affection on the things above and not on the earth.
Why does the preacher always have to rip on not being covetousness, not desiring things
that aren't yours or the love of money or why does he have to preach on all these things
all the time?
Well the same reason Paul did.
The same reason Paul got after all these things.
The preacher understands what Paul understands or understood.
And what is it that Paul understood?
What is it that the preacher understands?
Well what they understand is what Jesus taught.
I mean he knew what Jesus, his take on all this was and that's why he preached the way
he preached.
Bible says in Matthew 6 21, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Jesus taught a great truth there when he said you know the things that you value in this
life, the things that are important to you, that's where your heart's going to be.
You know if your heart isn't pleasing God and walking after him and his commandments
and growing in Christ and his knowledge, it's not going to happen.
You know you're not just going to walk, stumble into church and somehow just, you know it's
not just going to rub off on you and you're going to walk away just by osmosis or something
like that.
You're going to have to actually purpose in your life to do all these things, to mortify
the members, to put off the old man, to put on the new man, to seek those things which
are above.
That's something you're going to have to determine to do in your life.
And if you don't, your treasure will be somewhere, mark my words, your treasure will be somewhere
in this life.
You know you're going to value something, there's going to be something that you desire
and want to go after, there's going to be something that you want for yourself in this
life and that is where your heart will be also.