What you should leave behind.

6/20/2021

In this series, I have mentioned the problems about leaving your witnessing tools behind and the people you have left behind. Today I want to mention what we should leave behind. Just as there are some things we should not leave behind there are some things that has to be left behind to be the witness that God wants us to be.

Things such as anger, hate, and jealousy are just the tip of the iceberg so to speak. We each have personal traits that should be left behind which I think of as personal sins and then there are the Biblical sins that everyone must leave behind. If it is listed in the Bible that we should not do it, it is what I call a Biblical sin.

The first list is found in the Old Testament in Exodus 20:3-17, which we call the Ten Commandments. We must remember that they are not suggestions, they are commandments from God, our Heavenly Father. Then in the New Testament there are several lists of things that will keep you out of Heaven.

Romans 1:28-32 is one list and verse twenty-eight starts a list that includes: covetousness, murder, deceit, haters of God, proud, without natural affection and unmerciful to name a few.

To read several lists of people that will not make Heaven their eternal home and find out some characteristics that we all must leave behind look up these passages of scripture:

Matthew 7:21-23; I Corinthians 6:9-11; Galatians 5:19-21; Colossians 3:5-9; and Revelations 21:8

Heavenly Father, help us to recognize the things in our lives that need to be left behind so that we will make it to Heaven to be with You. Show us the things that You find unpleasant in our daily walk so that we might make it right in Your sight and be able to spend eternity with You in Heaven. Amen.

C.I. Wilson