Unworthiness
The feeling of unworthiness is a condition of being undeserving or being beneath the level considered befitting. We have the feeling that something is wrong, something is missing in us and a feeling of self-isolation and separation. After you have sinned you conscience takes charge and begins to tall you that your natural way of being is not okay, which implies that for you to be accepted you must be different from the way you are currently. [Isaiah 6:1-7]In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: with two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." 4At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty." 6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for...The prophet found himself not to be befitting to dwell before the lord. In verse 5 the prophet lamented about his sinful nature, by saying that he is a sinful man and he dwells on the land of uncleanliness and such an individual seeing God in his pageantry, glory and majesty, this guilt quickly reminded him, you are unworthy or you are below the right standard of righteousness
. Luke 5:4-84 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch." 5 Simon answered, "Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets." 6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7 So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink. 8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!" We can clearly see how they were shocked and they felt very unworthy of the help of Christ because they were sinful they had this strong sense of guilt which made them feel undeserving. That is what sin does.
Death
Every soul will rest if Christ tarry but the sinful will enter into eternal death and destruction. Every soul that sins will surely die this would be physical and spiritual. Death is one of the greatest punishments of sin. In Genesis 2:16-17 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.".In addition, God warned Adam and Eve. In Genesis 3:66When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. After they had sinned by eating the fruit, God cursed them in Genesis 3: 19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.". It clear a man will surely pay for his disobedience and wickedness. They are two types of death the physical and spiritual In Genesis 2:16-17 we saw God talking about both of the physical and the spiritual but in Genesis 3: 19 the physical was made very clear and it was evident in Genesis 5:55 Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.. In Daniel 12:22 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. In this scripture we can clearly make out the spiritual death, where it says others to shame and ever lasting contempt. John 5:24-25. 24"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. 25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and
those who hear will live. Spiritual death is when a sinner is condemned to torment or everlasting fire. We see Jesus spelling out the process to escaping spiritual death.
Hell. Hell is a place of torment, great distress, suffering and regret In Revelations 21:88But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." The punishment of those who commit these sins mentioned will be punished by casting into hell. Hell exists if not so the scriptures would not have spoken about it Luke 16:19-2519"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22"The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.
23In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away,
With Lazarus by his side. 24So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in
this fire.'. This story of Lazarus and the rich man indicate the existence of hell, this rich man had wealth. The scripture says he dressed in purple and line and lived in luxury. The life of the rich man was a life of royalty, pageantry, a pleasure to look at, adorable and worshiped, if he was living in our day we would say he has the flashy cars, the beautiful women, slept in the best of hotels, used the best of technology but Lazarus had nothing not even a needle to[ boost] about, the bible says he was a beggar.He was a complete poor man nothing attractive about him. His life was filled with pain, suffering and shame. “He was covered with sores, and longing to eat what fell from the rich mans table. Even the dogs licked his sores”. Lazarus had no beauty, no glory like the rich man but unfortunate death laid hold onto them, Lazarus went to the bosom of Abraham and the rich man landed in hell were he was in torment.
It is not to say that the rich will go to hell and the poor will go to heaven, the fact of the matter is what you did with you life on earth will determine your place in eternity. The reason why the rich man was in hell was that he had sin and did not repent of it[verse30] and did not turn from his wickedness, there he found himself suffering in hell. It is not what you have or what you do not have that will make you go to heaven but it is by forsaking you sinful nature and taking up on yourself the very life of Christ
Yoke
To be yoked means to be under the authority of something or forced to live under a difficulty. Now therefore if one is living in sin then such a person is under the authority and influence of sin. His sins become the master of his life. Such a person is no longer of himself but under the dictatorship of sin where he becomes a slave. A slave does not live according to his desire but that of his master’s. In Jeremiah 28In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people: 2"This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'I will break the yoke
of the king of Babylon. 3Within two years I will bring back to this place all the articles of the Lord 's house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and took to Babylon.
4I will also bring back to this place Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and all the other exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,' declares the Lord , 'for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.' " 5Then the prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah before the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord . 6He said, "Amen! May the Lord do so! May the Lord fulfill the words you have prophesied by bringing the articles of the Lord 's house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon. 7Nevertheless, listen to what I have to say in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people: 8From early times the prophets who preceded you and me have prophesied war, disaster and plague against many countries and great kingdoms. 9But the prophet who prophesies peace
will be recognized as one truly sent by the Lord only if his prediction comes true." 10Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it, 11and he said before all the people, "This is what the Lord says: 'In the same
way will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations within two years.' " At this, the prophet Jeremiah went on his way. 12Shortly after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 13"Go and tell Hananiah, 'This is what the Lord says: You have broken a wooden yoke, but in its place you will get a yoke of iron. 14This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will put an iron yoke on the necks of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I will even give him control over the wild animals.' " 15Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, yet you have persuaded this nation to trust in lies. This scripture talks about the false prophet Hananiah who predicted that the Babylonian oppression would be broken within two year. The prophet Jeremiah responded by placing a wooden yoke on his shoulders and then Hananiah takes the wooden yoke from Jeremiah shoulders predicting that God will relieve Isearel as he had relieve Jeremiah of his yoke. God later appears to Jeremiah and declares [J 13-14]. This was about the time the people of Jerusalem were under the oppression and dictatorship of the Babylonian kingdom. The yoke of slavery imposed by the Babylonia kingdom on the citizen of Jerusalem is a clear example of the yoke of sin. The people of Jerusalem were desirous of freedom because the Babylonian oppression was unbearable, they took from them their loved once, wealth and imposed on them laws that made their lives very difficult. In Lamentation 1:1414"My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have come upon my neck and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand. When you are yoked you are not free, freedom is far away from your reach. You are not of yourself you are being controlled by a greater force which is sin. You wish you were out of this particular sin that makes you weep or unhappy but every now and then you are going back to that same sin. You are not able to bring under control the desire that leads you in to that particular sin, you wish you could but you are not being able. You are being yoked by sin do well to overcome.
Brings a curse
A curse is an angry or an unpleasant word someone said due to anger. When a man is cursed he is bridged, the is a stain on his life a fracture on his destiny and generation. The day Adam sinned that day through him every thing in the universe came under a cure. The suffering of today’s world is because of this. Genesis 3:14-19. 14So the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." 16To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." 17To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18It will produce thorns and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.
19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." Therefore, if one continues to live in sin, doing what is against the will of God surely shall he pay for this disobedience. In Genesis 4:11-12. 11Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." The lord cursed Cain when he killed his brother Abel and pretended as if he had not done anything wrong. Cain was very wicked and determined to do evil for his own personal pleasure. His selfish life gave him up to sin by taking the life of his brother and the lord cursed him. God is constantly warning as against sin and reminding as to step out and walk with him. Deuteronomy 28.15However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. 17Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. 18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. 19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. 20The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. 21The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
25The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
28The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
Creation is under oppression because one man misbehaved and it produced unto use pain, death suffering, diseases, disasters and war due to disobedience.
Is a burden
A burden is a heavy load that is difficult to carry. The burden of sin weighs heavy on the bearer, if we hide, or make excuses and justify our sin just to engage into it, it will make the wrath of God come upon us. Sin is a burdens for the true believe, the guilt weighs heavily on their body and soul. In Psalm 38:1-41O Lord , do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. 2For your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down upon me.
3Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin. 4My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. 5My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. 6I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning. 7My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. 8I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart. . If something weighs heavy, it means that that particular thing is beyond your strength or the push or pull of that thing makes you stressful and uncomfortable. David was pleading with God to have mercy on him and not pay him according to his sins. The guilt of sin was weighing heavy on him, literally you can not see the burden of sin and how heavy it weighs but the heaviness in your spirit, the regret, the stress you go through even to forgive yourself, how you feel dirty, the weepping, the fear in you heart and how confused you are when ever you fall or commit a particular sin. This experiences or feelings are what weighs heavy on like are load. You desire you overcome, to break free or to put out the sins that controls your life, because you no longer find joy, peace or you are very unhappy about the way you are living your life burdens you heavily.
Will rob you off your destiny
Destiny or ones destiny is everything that happen to a person during his or her life including the future. Destinies can be changed from better to worse or vice versa. In this life, we have been destined to live a glorious life through Christ. Every human has his or her own destiny in his or her hand but controlled by God, may be you are destined to be a mighty man or woman but for it to become a reality it is determined by God and the way you live your life. Genesis 3 when man committed high treason and fell, the glorious life God had designed for him changed, he lost his place, authority and power over creation and his glorious destiny changed into a painful and toilsome one because he was cursed to endure and enjoy suffering as a crown of his disobedience. The day man lost his place in creation, his destiny was shattered, his days numbered, his originality and purpose lost, his life became a total mess. All this happened to man because on his way to glory he met the fairest of the morning who introduced to him sin.
May be you are a Christian and on this quest of following Christ there are certain sins you have not given them up to Christ, you are still living a life which is not based on the principles of God. These sins are gradually changing your destiny and it will lead you into destruction.
Strongly guard you destiny, do not let the pleasures of this passing world rob you off it.
Fear
Fear is the thought that something unpleasant might happen or sense of being in danger. Fear is just an imagination and thought but it has the power to hold the bearer captive. Because of sin, one becomes very conscience of the effect of what they have done and this create in them a feeling of unpleasantness. In Genesis 3;10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." When Adam and his beloved wife ate of the forbidden fruit they came naked an hid from the lord.
The fear of being discovered naked. Like Adam and Eve, your sins create in you the feeling of incompleteness. Your imperfect nature gives you the impression that you are a way truncated and you are always finding ways to cover your bad and wicked activities. You are never comfortable within yourself because the shame of being discovered with sin is hunting you.You are afraid of the disgrace, shame, humiliation and the mockery, if you are discovered as a smoker an adulterous husband or wife, a thief or a porn addict or murderer by way of committing abortion or taking a life. You are always artificial when it comes morality just to put in hidden the stain on your moral life. Though you are hidden your nakedness your conscience is constantly creating a reminder of your incompleteness, this keeps you in perpetual fear.
The fear of being punished. You are afraid that God will not listen to you prayer, kill you or the fear of being punished by nature or the law. You have this struggle in your spirit of not being fit to stand. Any time we sin nature has it punishment it dishes out and God has his to give but thanks be to God for Christ, in him all our sins are pardoned but nature would not forgive, it will punish you squarely.
A struggling Christian life
If one struggle with something he or she is at fight with that thing or they are likely to fail in what they are doing, even though they might be trying very hard. Your inner man is always in conflict with the flesh, it becomes dormant when the flesh is fed most. Romans 1:14-25. 14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. The law of sin keeps the bearer bound to doing what is against the will of the father. In the above scripture we see Paul lamenting about his desire to doing what is right but the sinful nature enslaves him to doing the contrary. His sinful nature is a stumbling block to his will of pleasing the father as he said in his members he discovers another low which has subjected him to living by the flesh. So this created a struggle in him, the will to do evil and the will to do right, who rules. So every believer living in sin goes through this dilemma, Godly nature is always trying to have the best of you but you do not pay attention but rather embrace what is evil. The stress and the guilt you feel indicate the is a struggle, a struggle to always overcome the flesh but to no avail. You have tried with you strength I edge to you to look to Christ, let him set you free from because he has the power to rescuer.
Grieves the Holy Spirit
To grieve something is to make that thing unhappy or upset or to make something sorrowful and worry. The Holy Spirit is the third personality of the Godhead, the creative force behind creation. Genesis 1:1-2In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.And He is the force that raised Christ from the grave. Romans 8:11.It is by him we have been sealed unto the day of redemption, he is our identity as children of God Romans 8:14-16. 14Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father.". The Holy Spirit is of the father, he is subjected to the father and performs only what he hears from the father John16:14-1614He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. 15All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. 16"In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.". The Holy Spirit is one with the father and son, therefore the Holy Spirit is God.
God dose not dwell where sin abounds because he is holy and righteous, any Christian who has the spirit of the father and still living in sin makes the spirit unhappy and upset. His way of living is an abomination unto the spirit, this unaccepted conduct create an atmosphere of darkness and an attitude of rebellion. This new adaption of the Christian makes the spirit worry and sorrowful. This continuous adamant nature of the believer makes the Holy Spirit dormant in his life; this can be termed as spiritual death at certain level.
So do not live according to the flesh, which leads to death but live according to the spirit.Roman8:13.13For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,
