Does Doctrine Matter - Part 10 — Derek Melton

The Call to Return to God

Can I have an hour of your time? The Word of God reads from Malachi chapter 3, verse 7,. Even from the days of your fathers, you are gone away from mine ordinances, and you have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.

But ye said, wherein shall we return? Father, just open up our understanding that we may be able to discern and rightfully divide the Word of Truth. Father, I'm asking, Lord, for an anointing of the Holy Spirit to be able to speak the mysteries of Christ and of your kingdom to this generation.

And Father, I pray that it would not be me, but yet Christ within me that speaks the truth in love. Father, prepare the soil, the ground, Lord, to receive the seed of the Word of God. Lord God, that we might be a people, Lord, that are changed by the Word of God into the image of our Lord.

Lord, take away the scales from our eyes and the deafness of our hearing and the hardness of our heart and the stubbornness of our minds. Lord, that we may, Lord, become one with you. Lord, let the Word of God come forth powerful today.

Let it be alive on the inside of us, Lord. Not a letter of the law, but Lord, the Spirit of God that quickens or gives life. Lord, let the Word of God powerfully convict us, powerfully change us, and gloriously transform us into your image.

And it's for your name's sake and for your glory. And it's in your name we pray. Amen. We're going to continue today talking about the doctrine of repentance. We're in part 10 of our series, Does Doctrine Matter?

The Importance of Doctrinal Knowledge

And the question may arise within your mind, when will we complete this series? And the answer to that question is, when it is complete. I realize that doctrinal matters in our minds are not the most exciting things to discourse upon from the pulpit.

But I also can meet that by saying that it is the most important thing that we can hear from the pulpit. I agree with what Brother Richard Owen Roberts said, that the lack that we have today is doctrinal lack.

We lack in doctrinal knowledge, and it is because of this that we are tossed to and fro by every other wind of doctrine and every other cunning slight of man, that we're tossed, we're as children, and we have never grown up into the full stature of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And I'll make inference later on in the message about those that have the mindset that I already am doctrinally secure. And beloved, we have to come to grips with the fact that the Word of God is that which we know in part.

But the Word of God is not in part. The Word of God is the fullness of the Word of God, and we know in part. And beloved, doctrinally speaking, we are lacking in many areas. I am lacking in many areas.

You are lacking in many areas. And I know that you think you know already what you believe. But I'm finding out the more and more I hear from the Lord Jesus Christ, the more I find out the things that I have believed have been lies.

They've been doctrines formed after the likeness of man and not the likeness of God. So we must be careful when we think that we are secure doctrinally, lest we vaunt ourselves up with pride and end up in error ourselves.

The Necessity of Repentance

I see here in Dean said this, to exhort sinners to be saved by accepting Christ as their Savior without pressing upon them the imperative necessity of repentance is dishonest, and it is to falsify God's terms of salvation.

God's terms of salvation are, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. And this is the divine dictum of the church. The sinner must either repent or the sinner will perish. There is no alternative.

Since all have sinned, all therefore need to repent and believe the gospel, else they will be punished with everlasting destruction. To delay repentance then is most perilous. Church, one of the greatest lacks today in modern evangelism, as well as in modern evangelicalism, is the grace of repentance.

But I don't know where you can go up on the earth today and find a church that faithfully preaches repentance other than a few churches which we know and are acquainted with. Times Square Church in New York City being one of them.

Brother David Wilkerson. Beloved, the absence of repentance is the cause of catastrophic failure within the church. The absence of repentance is the cause of near catastrophic failure within the church.

Listen, until the need for repentance is realized, and not only realized, but seized upon, we can only expect chaos and disorder to rule and reign within the church. Not the world, but in the church. Now we need to listen.

Take heed, beloved. Don't drip into mental apathy. So in the last week or so, we've been speaking upon our need for repentance. And in due time, we're going to speak upon the means of repentance. Then we're going to follow that by the marks of the repentant.

And it's important, friends and family, that we don't grow dull in our hearing concerning these doctrinal matters because they're life to us. And I know there can come a murmuring spirit within your own heart thinking that you already know what you believe, that you have no need to hear these timeless truths.

And I must remind you of the Apostle Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 10, verse 12. Wherefore, let him that thanketh, he standeth. Take heed, lest he fall. And we can apply this to the doctrines that we think that we are secure within.

Actual Need and Realized Need

There are many reasons why the sinful do not repent. And, beloved, I'm talking to the church and into the world in general because the world has come into the church. I do take note that I'm not preaching to an audience of saints alone today.

Knowing the word of the master, the way that the word of God is revealed to us, we know that coming in beside the good wheat are tares. But the reason why many sinful men do not repent, and I believe the chief reason is that we don't realize the need we have for repentance.

Today we're going to continue to talk about the need for repentance. We're going to talk about it in two-fold. We're going to talk about the actual need versus the realized need. The revelation of our need because they're two distinct and separate things.

And I want you to bear with me. And I want you to guard and garrison your mind and your heart to not allow the adversary to distract you away from the truth of the word of God that will be beneficial to you and your personal life and also into your ministry.

God has called all of us into the ministry of reconciliation. And listen to me, my friend. There is no reconciliation without repentance. We can spend all of our days and our waking hours and time on our knees in prayer.

But unless there is repentance, there is no restoration and there is no vital relationship between the subjects of the Lord and the Lord himself. Last week I made mention that one of the causes of the lack of awareness of the need for repentance is because we have a lack of knowledge of our sinfulness.

We aren't aware of the sin that is seized upon us. Not only the sins that we commit, but the sinner that we are. The sin nature that we have within us. Also, we are lacking in the knowledge concerning the holiness of God and also the judgment of God upon sin.

Church, if you want to come to a church that never preaches against sin, I suggest to you today you either repent of your sin or you go find somewhere else to go to church. Because this church will always preach against not only the effect of sin, but the nature of sin itself.

Beloved, I have been ordained of God to preach the gospel and the gospel of Jesus Christ is a raw and vivid confrontation against sin. Isn't it amazing how things distract us? What color was that screen?

It was blue. What did I say in that last sentence? I was thinking about that blue screen. I don't know. Beloved, take heed. Take heed. And so today is my desire to continue to speak upon the need that we have for repentance.

And again, I'm going to break it into two parts. Actual need and realized need. Now, beloved, whenever I make mention of actual need for repentance, we must know that it differs from realized need in that what it does is that it illuminates the holy standard of God, the high and lofty standards of a holy God.

And it's also contrasted by the horrific iniquity of mankind without mankind being awakened unto his need for repentance. There is the actual need of repentance, which is an illumination of the lofty place of God, the lofty standards of God, the requirements of God's law.

But also it's an illumination of the degradation and the sinfulness of man. Albeit, mankind is completely unaware of his need and unaware of God's holiness. That's actual need. That's not revealed need.

And we're going to talk about that today. So whenever I make mention of this, we can speak of the righteous requirements of God. 1 Peter 1, verse 16 says, Be ye holy, for I am holy. Leviticus 11, verse 44 is the same rendition in the Old Testament.

Be ye holy, for I am holy. These are the mandates of God. Beloved, do you understand that God has mandated that all of mankind be holy as God is holy? These are the standards of God, not only for himself, but the standards of God for all of the subjects of his kingdom, that we are to be a people of holiness.

But, beloved, how many of us have this realization, this revelation? And, beloved, until these truths, until these high and lofty standards are illuminated, and until the inward iniquity of our hearts is illuminated, we cannot repent.

We cannot repent. And if you think that repentance is only for the unbelievers, my friend, you are grossly and gravely mistaken. And so, beloved, also these lofty and righteous standards of God, I'm going to use terminology that is old terminology, but it is very powerful and needful terminology.

These lofty and righteous standards must, and the word I've chosen is, bear down. These standards must bear down upon us and illuminate our present condition, which is horrifically fallen and an ingrievous violation of God's holy and righteous standards.

So the actual need is the truth about God, is the truth about God's standards, but it's also the truth about man in his present fallen condition. That's actual need. Actual need is the position of God with God's requirements, and it's also the position of man with man's lack and man's shortcomings and failures, but yet without being realized.

That's actual need. Have I lost you? Have I lost you? Do you see the distinction between actual need and realized need? Because, beloved, if it doesn't pass from actual need to realized need, there will be no repentance.

There will be no pardon. There will be no forgiveness of sin. There will be no waving, as it is, of the indictment of guilt that is upon us, nor will there be any waving of the punishment that is to come.

Actual need is not enough under repentance. It must come into a place where we feel the weight, to where it's pressed down upon us, to where we feel our need to repent. We feel a sense of the enormity of our crimes against God, God's holy and just standards, that God can banish your soul to hell for eternity and be perfectly just in doing so, and feel the weight of it, that you're a sinner with a death sentence upon you, and does it shake you?

It must come into the realm of the realized and revealed. In the 11th chapter of 2 Samuel, we find David, the king of all of Israel, grievously sinning against the Lord and in need of repentance. Go ahead and turn there to Samuel.

Glory to God. Trust in the Lord for great things to take place today as the word of God comes forth. All the pages are here this morning. 11th chapter of 2 Samuel. We all know this story quite well. With King David, the king of Israel, we find that sin has crouched at his door.

Sin has overtaken him. The king of all of Israel has sinned against the Lord grievously, and he's in need of repentance. And I'm going to show here a discourse of actual need and revealed or realized need.

And so this whole sum of this chapter 11 is a chapter or a discourse of the event of David's sin against the Lord with Bathsheba. David did not sin against Bathsheba. David sinned against the Lord. He violated the standards of God, the holy righteous requirements of God, and not the woman's.

And is there anyone here that doesn't know the story of David, the king, and Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? Do I need to go and read? Do I need to read? Okay, here we go. Verse 1. And it came to pass after the year was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah, but David tarried still at Jerusalem.

So the kings were going to war, but David didn't go. He stayed back. And it came to pass in the evening tide that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

And David sent and required after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers and took her, and she came unto him and lay, he lay with her, for she was purified from her uncleanness, and she returned unto her house.

And the woman conceived and sent and told David and said, I am with child. And David sent to Joab saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. And when Uriah was coming to him, David demanded him how Joab did and how the people did and how the war prospered.

And David said to Uriah, Go down unto thine house and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house and there followed him a massive meet from the king. But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord and went not down into his house.

So do you see what's going on here? David called for Uriah. David's done had a sexual relationship with this man's wife. She's pregnant. Uriah is off at battle for it is the time when kings go to war.

Joab being the captain of the army has been instructed to send Uriah back to David at the king's palace. Uriah comes back. And so David now is urging Uriah to go home and have sex with his wife. To have intimacy with his wife.

Why? So whenever she begins to show signs of pregnancy that it could be that it be Uriah's. Do you see the motive here? When they told David saying Uriah went not down into his house, David said to Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey?

Why then didst thou not go down into thine house? And Uriah said to David, The ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in open fields. Shall I then go into my own house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife?

As thou livest and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. David's plans are getting messed up here. And David said to Uriah, Terry here today also, tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and on the morrow.

And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him, and he made him drunk. And even when he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house. So David now gets him drunk and tries to get him down to go to have relations with his wife.

Still he will not. And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. His own death warrant. And he wrote in the letter saying, sent ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle and retire ye from him that he may be smitten and die.

And it came to pass when Joab observed the city, he assigned Uriah into a place where he knew that valiant men were. And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab and there fell some people of the servants of David.

And Uriah the Hittite died also. Now I'm going to stop right there. And it goes on, but we're going to use that to make the point. Is there a violation of the holy standards of God? Had not God through his prophet Moses written the holy ordinances of God upon tablets?

And in those tablets did we not find the ordinances of the holy God, the high and lofty standards, thou shalt not murder and thou shalt not commit adultery. David has committed sins against his Lord. He is in need of repentance, but that need is not realized.

Do you see the difference in the distinction between actual need of repentance and realized need of repentance and it being weighed down and pressed upon you? Now, chapter 12, verse 1, we see God doing something about this.

The Bible says, and then the Lord sent Nathan the prophet of God to David. And he came into him and he said unto him, there were two men in the city. One was rich and the other one was poor. Now, beloved, what we are seeing is God using a prophet, which is using a story or a parable to illuminate an injustice.

What has David done? David has committed an injustice against who? He has sinned against the Lord. He has sinned or there has been an injustice against God's holy and righteous standards. Grab hold of this friend.

He is not awakening to what he has done. He's still caught up in the lust and in the heat of the moment. He has not come into a place to where need has become realized, even though need has become actuated.

There is a need for repentance, a sin, a violation has been committed. But yet David is not repenting. David is not repenting. Isn't it amazing how we will not repent on our own? God always has to send a man with a message.

There were two men in the city. One was rich and the other one was poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing save one little lamb, which he had brought up and nourished up and it grew up together with him and with his children.

And it did eat of his own meat and drank of his own cup and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveler. This is Nathan discoursing with David. There came a traveler unto the rich man and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd and to dress it for the wayfaring man that was coming to him.

But he took the poor man's lamb and he dressed it for the man that was come to him. Verse 5 says,. And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, unbeknownst to him that he was the man. Are you listening?

And he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, this man that has done this thing shall surely die. He pronounces an indictment even against himself because he's the man. Then Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.

Thou art the man. And now we're starting to see actual need passing and to realize need and then we find the context of the 51st Psalm. David lamenting and repenting because realized need has brought him into a place of repentance not to be repented of.

Say amen. So we see here in the story that the Lord's righteous standards had been proclaimed through Prophet Moses. We see that there had been a violation a breach of adultery and murder. We see that David violated them by taking Bathsheba into himself and ordering Joab to have Uriah murdered.

David is in actual need of repentance. He has fallen short of the glorious standards of God although he has not awakened unto his need of repentance as of yet. His need is actual but his need is not realized.

And being so, God sent a prophet Nathan the prophet to reveal to the king his need for repentance. And again, chapter 12 is a treatise of revelation concerning the personal grief and the personal responsibility for sin.

The personal responsibility for sin. And so we see here that the prophet uses a story to reveal his need for repentance. The story established actual need. Did it not? It established actual need because it established a violation.

It established a violation against the justice of God. A little lamb that was esteemed and loved had been unduly taken away from the poor man for the gratification of the rich. This injustice caused the very king of Israel to fly into a rage proclaiming indictments against the rich man.

Yet the need for repentance is still only actual and not realized. But yet the next statement we see now the need for repentance is personally and powerfully revealed because in verse 12 of chapter 7 Nathan said to David thou art the man.

Now things have changed. There is a shift in the paradigm David's anger towards the man is now been revealed and the indictment has come upon himself. He now begins to see the voice of the Lord speaking to him directly revealing to him his violation of the standards of God and his need for repentance.

Prophetic Preaching and the Gospel's Indictment

Friend, listen. Why have I spent so much time this morning upon this subject and even last week of actual need and realized need for repentance? The reason I have taken time to give a short treatise or discourse upon this subject matter is because we are living in a generation that is under the indictment of the Lord for her sins and her need for genuine repentance is great.

But her realization of her need is greatly lacking. The revelation that we sin greatly against the Lord is the beginning means towards repentance. Nathan the prophet revealed to the king his offense against the Lord bringing forth the repentant decree of Psalm 51 where David said in verse 3 and 4 for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me against thee only have I sinned and done evil that is in thy sight that thou might be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest.

My friend, the great light today in the evangelical church is the lack of men of God that will boldly and loudly proclaim as Nathan the prophet thou art the man that will come against our sins that will exalt the righteous and holy standards of God and that we are personally responsible for violating them.

We in the church today are greatly lacking in this prophetic voice that boldly and prophetically proclaims that you are the man and as Paris Reid had said in the sermons that we are monsters of iniquity.

And where are the men of God that stand before the people with boldness and with holy unction bringing the actual into the realm of realized or revealed by the passing of the indictment to guilty men.

Where are they? Listen friend, we're living in a culture that shrinks back at the very thought of this type of preaching. Because we are living in a culture that is pure in its own eyes but yet not washed from her filthiness.

Nonetheless, the power of culture has brought so many pulpits to their knees and quieted their voice against sin for those who have boldly exposed it. And it's within this very malady it's within this very wrong that our generation today is blinded concerning her sins.

Having an indictment of need for repentance without the revelation of that need because we have too many cowards wearing three-piece suits standing in the pulpit. And our generation in this hour my friend is pure in its own eyes although she's stained with the blood of guilt.

Although the generation that you and I are living in is stained with the blood of guilt. Listen, the true gospel of Jesus Christ as it is being faithfully proclaimed is like a Nathan the prophet. The true gospel.

Listen, there are those that are attending what people call a church that are listening to the happy talks of man about the gospel of Jesus Christ without the confrontation against sin. Beloved, it's not the gospel of Jesus Christ it's another gospel.

There are foreigners in the pulpit. Beloved, the gospel of Jesus Christ is an open indictment against sinful humanity. And you can go to where people talk about the gospel you can hear them make inferences to the gospel but the true gospel is a divine mandate confronting the sinfulness of man and exalting the righteousness of God.

And people flock to it like there is no tomorrow. My, my, my. How we will go and what we will give to hear something that makes us feel better about ourselves. The true gospel reveals our guilty position before God as offenders against God's person.

As offenders against God's character. As offenders against God's law. Paul handed an indictment in Romans chapter 5 verse 12 it says, wherefore as by one man's sin sin entered into the world and death by sin.

And so death passed upon all men for all have sinned. Without the faithful preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, my friend, there can be no revelation or realization of our need for repentance. And we would err to believe that it is the pulpit alone that holds this responsibility for the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Every true follower or disciple of Jesus Christ shares in this responsibility. In a generation, my friend, that is blinded concerning its doomed position before a holy God, the church must accept this mantle that brings the need for repentance from the realms of the actual until the realms of the realized by the preaching of the gospel to those that are under the indictment of sin.

It's not just my responsibility, it is yours. Oh, the pastor preached great. He preached about sin. But what are you preaching through the week? Are you still yet in Rome? To where you have heaped upon my shoulders and upon the shoulders of laity the responsibility that the Lord divided equally to all of us?

There is an indictment of guilt against this generation. An indictment of sin. And the call of God is upon the elect of God to preach the gospel and to preach repentance than to reveal to a generation that is dead their depravity before God and where are they at?

Where have the people of God been? Cowering down to the power of culture with our voice silenced in the name of sloppy love and grace. We'll let Rome take charge and let the Pope do our work. Many see me as their personal Pope.

I'm no one's Pope. I'm a voice crying in the wilderness prepare away for the Lord. Get the sin out of your life and your heart. Shoulder the mantle of Christ. Become a steward of the gospel. Be a preacher of righteousness, my friend.

Your call is not to set and warm that pew. It's to come here and to hear the truth and to go forth and blaze a trail for Christ. Our Lord never intended to place this burden upon the shoulders of those behind the pulpit alone.

It's the mandate of our Lord for every true believer to preach repentance. To bring the need for repentance out of the realms of the actual into the realms of the revealed and realized. We must forsake the practices of Rome that forfeits all biblical mandates and leaves them within the hands of laity alone.

The Commission to Preach Repentance

The last words that Jesus spoke shortly before his ascension is found in Luke chapter 24 verses 45 to 49. Then he opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures. And he said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day.

Listen to this. And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these sayings. And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high.

We all talk about the need of the power of God that we all, it's to us, our children's children, as many that will call upon the Lord will be filled with the Holy Ghost. And all the church roars, the beloved no one roars, that you have a divine mandate to preach repentance to the nations.

Not just me. Beloved, is the Holy Ghost for you? Is he for your children and your children's children and as many as those that the Lord our God shall call? Is it not true? The beloved prefacing this, it says that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Then it goes right into the very next statement. Then the Holy Ghost will come. The Holy Ghost will fill you to be bold, to be strong, to be powerful. We all want to partake in that, but none of us wants to partake in the preaching of repentance and to bring the need for repentance into the realm of the realized.

Why? Because we're not willing to pay the price for it. Because the price is that you'll be hated by all for my name's sake. Brothers will turn against each other, parents against their children, children against their parents.

The beloved, is your Christianity phony? It might be. You may be a cultural Christian unwilling to follow the mandates of our Lord that says that we, all of us, as the people of God, those called by the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to go and to preach repentance and remission of sins.

And I know that you've never considered yourself Catholic, but you may be more Catholic than the Catholics because it's Pastor Derek and Pastor Tim's responsibility, Pastor Chooch's responsibility. And you let us preach against sin.

You let us preach repentance. You let us illuminate the divine and holy ordinances and standards of God and to expound upon them, and to preach them, and to preach our need for repentance and to turn away from evil and sin.

But yet, we do nothing ourself. And we could just have a good group of practicing Catholics today. They're probably going to take your gifts back. Listen to me, for look at me. If I didn't love you, I'd keep silent.

And if I didn't love God, I would keep silent. Where are the people of God? Where are the prophets of God? Where is Nathan in this hour? We've got to take this mantle. We have a few more moments. The word of God is full of scriptures that are examples of realized need for repentance.

And we've oftentimes skimmed over the top of scriptures and we've missed the message of them. Let me just give a scripture here that I want to talk about in Matthew chapter 5 if you want to turn there.

And I pray that this is helping us. Caitlin, are you angry? Okay. We all know these as the Beatitudes. Verse 5, I'm sorry, verse 6 says this. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.

I'm sure that there are many of you here this morning that have read this passage of scripture for many years not realizing that it's speaking of repentance. First of all, I want to make mention that hunger and thirst are biological triggers that indicate a lack.

Secondly, they vary in degree from slight discomfort to acute pain. And it's according to the depth and the duration of their work. Thirdly, the only remedies for hunger and thirst are to give proper sustenance or else death.

Or else death. Now, the lack that is causing the sensation of pain is the lack of what? Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness. What is the lack of righteousness? It's the absence of righteousness and it is sinfulness and evil.

And I'm quite aware that you may have never thought about this glorious passage in this light. But I want you for a moment to set aside what you've always thought and see if these things that you're hearing are true.

The sensations of hunger and thirst in this passage are triggered by a revelation or a realization of a horrific lack in the subject that's hungered and thirsted after, which is righteousness. This is a man who has come into an awareness of his moral lack.

He's come into an awareness of his sinful ways and his wicked heart and being. This is the man who identifies with King David's mournful heart as revealed in Psalm 51 or Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 6 where as he said, Woe is me for I am undone.

Resisting Grace and Loving Sin

The realization of our need of repentance is not the reason for celebration. It's not a reason for celebration. Listen, there are so many who by the glorious grace of God feel their need of repentance without repenting.

They feel the need to repent but yet they do not repent. And so don't celebrate prematurely. There are those who harden their hearts against the inward workings of God's grace and they resist the Holy Spirit and many of which are setting in churches just like this one.

You might say, how ridiculous. How can a man resist such a wonderful gift? Beloved, listen, there are those that love the wages of unrighteousness more than the benefits of God's glory. The Word of God says in 2 Peter 2, 12 -15 But these as natural, brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed speak evil of things that they understand not shall utterly perish in their own corruption and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as they count it pleasure to riot in the daytime spots they are, blemishes sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls a heart they have exercised with covetous practices most of which in the name of religion cursed children which have forsaken the right way and have gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

There are those that will not give up their sin because they love the dividends that it brings them even though it is temporary they love the pleasure of sin and because of the fascination and the love for the pleasure of sin there can be no breaking of the power of sin.