THE PRICE
I welcome you to the last and the final series under the topic "The Price ". I believe God has blessed many life's with it. Today I will be sharing with you the last but not the least because many other great post is yet to come out. Read and be blessed.
A relationship you don't want, you don't entertain; the journey you don't want to embark on, you don't take the first step; the food you don't want to eat, you don't smell; the sin you don't want to commit, you don't get near it.
FLEE from all appearances of evil!
Don't smell what you can't eat.....
JUDAH WANTED TO ESCAPE THE CONSEQUENCE OF HIS MISTAKE
He thought HE could.....
(v11)
Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house till my son Shelah is grown.” For he said, “Lest he also die like his brothers.” And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
Am very sure JUDAH thought he has escaped the PRICE 😄... not knowing... that was just the beginning......... Where can a man go or what progress can a man make when it's God Himself that is blocking his way??
Let me quickly ask you these question 🤷♂
• This goes to the daddy's in the house and I will like to answer it, Listen to me.... you had sex with that sister, and you paid her off... you thought that's all??????
• You drug that sister and you had sex with her without her consent & you thought that's all????
• You raped her & you begged her not to tell anyone... she agreed truly.... but did you think that's the end??????
Brother let me frankly tell you this you will pay for it in full..... Take note
My sister..... You collected money from him online and you blocked him.... you thought that's the end??????
Sisters wey like money too much and thinking that they are the wisest on earth...... Let me tell you this the payment time is coming just wait..
You aborted for him with or without his consent and you thought you've escaped from the mess & the shame???????
Hear this from God it just the beginning oooo.. Just get ready for the payment hour, time and day...
You're keeping different guys and promising them you'll marry them.. whereas you have another man. And you thought you can escape the consequence?????
YOU'LL NEVER run from the price
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You're dating a married man... HE didn't have time for his house wife and children at home anymore & you thought that's the end.....Now you are married praying to God for a settle home after you have use your youthful age to destroy others home.... Life is an echo, although God is merciful and also forgive but no sinner will go unpunished.
Chaiiiiii... you will pay for your sin
No one on this earth will run his or her sin price oooo..... Take note
YOU GOT TO REPENT NOW...... OR ELSE 👇🏻
Numbers 32:23 (KJV)
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house:
Note This was no place for a young, childless widow to be. There were still additional brothers in her husband’s family who could fulfill the obligation they owed to their late brother. None of this was the fault of Tamar. All the blame belonged to Judah and his sons.
I called these next PRICE AS THE GREATEST PRICE
(vs12-14)
Now in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. And it was told Tamar, saying, “Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.
” So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.
Knowing that Judah would be away from home (to Timnah ), Tamar dressed herself as a prostitute and went to the place prostitutes met their customers. She planned to meet only one customer – Judah.
Vs15-18
When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, because she had covered her face. Then he turned to her by the way, and said, “Please let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.
HERE'S WHERE WE ARE GOING.... 👇🏻
So she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” And he said, “I will send a young goat from the flock.” So she said, “Will you give me a pledge till you send it?” Then he said,
“What pledge shall I give you?” So she said,
“Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” Then he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
HERE JUDAH paid it in full.....
Am very sure... that was not his first time patronizing prostitutes place.
But that faithful day, HE paid for all is sin
The fist question TAMAR ASKED HIM was "WHAT WILL YOU GIVE ME"
WHICH makes me to come to a conclusion that *BEFORE EVERY SIN, THE FIRST THING SATAN ASK IS
"WHAT WILL YOU GIVE IN RETURN?"
YOU can just committed a sin without any PRICE been paid never!!!
Satan will never venture into an unprofitable business
I want to tell you this tonight.......
Before you slept with that sister.... the first thing Satan asked was HOW MUCH DO YOU HAVE TO PAY??? But the must sadden thing is that you've paid the PRICE and you're Still paying it.
Satan will never collect something that has no value from you as your PRICE.
JUDAH promised to send goat to Tamar as his PRICE... but she insisted that she needed something more valuable than goat.
Did you know what she requested for?????
vs 18 What pledge shall I give you?” So she said, “Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” Then he gave them to her
Did you know the spiritual meaning of what JUDAH gave to Tamar as a PRICE because of a moment of pleasure ???????????
Let's check this 3 things one by one....
- SIGNET A small seal, especially one set in a ring. Used instead of or with a signature to give authentication to an official documents.
In those days if a king want to pass a message or letter to his people, HE must include his signet to authenticate the letter. Esther 3:12. .It's a sign of ownership....
Which means... JUDAH gave Tamar access to all of his documents (properties ) . Because with that signet, tamar can do and undo.
Just because of sex???...
Sex five minutes enjoyment brings a great price
Cord is was probably the cord of softly-twisted wool for the shepherd's headdress. The cord serve a variety of purposes:
protection
religious purposes
medical purpose
4 a badge of office
Whatever it's.... JUDAH paid it... just because of sex
Uncle that can do anything because of sex get ready for the payment time ooo
JUDAH never knew that what will make him great in life... was among the thing he has given to Tamar
It was their father Jacob that made up to understand the mystery behind the STAFF!!!
The third
STAFF Imperial authority or sovereignty. It's a sign of leadership.... sign of ruler and authority.
IF you read Gen. 49:8-10 when Jacob was blessing all his children.... HE make mention of something in v10
"A scepter will not depart from JUDAH, nor the RULER'S STAFF
BUT Where was the STAFF?????????
HE has paid it.....
What a great PRICE.....
JUDAH paid the PRICE
Note: it all started from the faulty foundation of his marriage......
I know many have lost it here.... you've had sex with countless of ladies, you've aborted many pregnancy.... and you thought you've never or will never paid the PRICE????
Many have lost their spiritual gift... talents and great potential the lord has deposited in them because of some minutes pleasure.
Tell me... when last did you heard from God???
When last has spoken to you????
You've lost it.....
Many ladies are empty.... when they left a Godly guy and go for a yahoo boy just Because of money... they have used the most valuable thing in some ladies' life to renew their wealth.
Nothing goes for free😄.
At least you enjoy the money, they took you to restaurant, shopleft and shopprite 😄.
You enjoy small oooo
No sinner will go unpunished
Because you never knew you're paying the PRICE all this time
You've lost your vision and your spiritual sight because of what????
Does it really worth it????
Have being a victim for so many years.......
I PAID! I PAID! I PAID!
with my spiritual gifts, talents and so many potential..........
Just mention that sin that have never committed before....... I almost lost my life.
But HIS grace found me🙌🏻
Am very sure that same grace is still available for you also.....
Did you think you can just have sex, lied, snatched someone else's wife or husband or collect money from that brother and go SCOTFREE?????
Procrastination is very dangerous...
If you die in that sin, Who will you blame???? Whose fault????
NOBODY... I REPEAT... NOBODY ESCAPED THE PAYMENT OF THE PRICE IN THE BIBLE
Ask Brother REUBEN in Gen.49:3-4
HE slept with his father's wife... but HE never excel in his life. HE paid for it
*Ask UNCLE ESAU, in Gen.25:29-34.
HE paid with his birthright... just because of a moment of hunger.
Ask THE GREAT KING DAVID the consequence of adultery.... IISAM.11:1-27&12:9-10
Sword never departed from his home . Many of children were killed by sword in is lifetime.
Ask BRO Samson, the PRICE HE paid because of few moment of pleasure with Delilah. Judges 16:4-31.
You have a choice to make either to come back to Christ or to continue rebelling against Him.
There's no amount of sin My God cannot forgive.. once you're ready to confess and repent from it.
It's NOW OR NEVER
IT'S true you have an ugly and rough past...
But once you're in Christ... you're a new being. IICOR. 5:17
IF SATAN REMINDS YOU OF YOUR PAST, REMIND him OF his FUTURE Rev.11:9-11
Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the
bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs,
with work, with cigarettes, with sex;
But eventually, it will all ooze through and
stain your life. You must find the strength to
open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull
out the core of the pain holding you in your
past, the memories and make peace with
them.
I'll be bringing tonight's webinar to conclusion by telling you these👇🏻
Our God is a merciful and compassionate God that doesn't want the death of a sinner. HE still calling you tonight to come to Him, He's giving you the mandate to repent of your sins and He'll restore all what you've lost through your sin back to you.
What you need right now.... is to see yourself as a sinner....
Don't give any excuse...
Accept that you've missed it...
See yourself as a sinner
Go on your knees and confess all what you've done to God.
He is the only one you've sin against....
Confess all... without leaving any one behind
Then surrender your life and your totality to Him... ask Him to come into your life. Ask the Holy Spirit to come and make your heart His dwelling place.
Thanks the executive for the great opportunity to share the word with my Daddy's and mommy's tonight small boy like me and am also thanking the house for there time... God bless you all
LET'S PRAY🙏🏻.
Thank you Lord for your word you've sent tonight.. and thank you for the lives you've touched through your word.
I pray as many that have given their life to you tonight, and those that are rededicating their life to start a new journey with you in this new year.. help them to stand firmly in you & give them the grace never to look back but to be heavenly conscious in all their doings in Jesus name.
For those that have missed it in life , give them direction. For those that have lost it, restore it back to them by your mercy And at the end of our journey... help us all to be RAPTURABLE.....!
In conclusion everything done under the surface of the sun, there is a price to pay. Read from the beginning below.
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