IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED…; FOR FORBID!

THURSDAY, 24TH AUGUST, 2023.

AUTHOR: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC: IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED…; FOR FORBID! 

MEMORIZE: “For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.” Galatians 2:19.

SCRIPTURE READING: Galatian 2:17-20

“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

EXPOSITION:

Since the day I acknowledged my sinfulness and was sorry for it, I renounced sin, confessed them and turned away from living in them any longer. I carried my cross and follow Jesus Christ. I have disowned the world and all its enticing lusts. I have preached leading many people unto Jesus Christ. Many brethren are looking at me as if they are seeing the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  The devil also stirs at me as a threat to his kingdom… Having done all these, should I now turn back to what I have destroyed? I make myself a transgressor. If what I have condemned is what I’m doing in the secret, then I am the guiltiest of all.

Thus Apostle Paul says in Galatians 2:18, "For, if I build again the things which I destroyed” -- if I (or any other), who have taught that the observance of the Mosaic law is not necessary to justification, should now, by word or practice, teach or intimate that it is necessary – “I make myself a transgressor;” I own myself to be still an impure sinner, and to remain under the guilt of sin, notwithstanding my faith in Christ; or I shall be liable to be charged with deceit and acting inconsistently with myself. 

Brethren in Christ, most especially, the ministers of our Lord Jesus Christ: Have you not returned back to your vomit of sin? Are you not compromising the standard of your holiness?  Many are now struggling to be on the track because they are been monitored. Are you still protecting the testimony of your salvation? The testimony of integrity and holiness of many soldiers of Christ has been is terminated as they fell into the traps of the enemies. Are you not rebuilding what you have destroyed?

PRAYER POINT: Lord, hold me to the end, don’t let me fall from following you in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Ezekiel 1 – 3.

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ANCHOR OF LIFE is the daily devotional guide written by PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE, General Overseer, Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l. It is an extraction of God’s word designed to draw the sincere seekers closer to God on a daily basis through an insightful exposition and analysis of God’s Word. 

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