High Treason

Good Morning My Beloved Ones,

      I pray that with each day you are giving yourself more completely to the One who gave Himself for you.

     Today I want to talk to you about “High Treason”.  Treason is defined as the “violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, by waging war against it or consciously or purposefully acting to aid its enemies.”

    Genesis chapters 1-3 tells us that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth and He created man in His own image, both male and female.  Everything God created was perfect and reflected His glory, including Adam and Eve.  There was no death, no illness, no decay, no hatred, no ugliness – only perfection.  Until the day that Satan in the form of a serpent convinced Eve that she should violate her allegiance to Sovereign (possessing supreme or ultimate power) God by choosing to indulge her own will and reject His.  Adam chose to do the same thing, and history was changed.  Death, decay, and every evil thing entered God’s perfect creation and continues to reign on Earth to this day.

     People today, even Christians, have no idea how serious sin is.  They think it’s just a “religious term” meant to condemn them and make them feel bad.  Sin is the choice to indulge our own will and violate our allegiance to God’s sovereign will.  Romans 8:7 says that when we indulge our own wills (are carnally minded) it is enmity (making an enemy) against God.
  Sin, my friends, is the highest form of treason and it carries the death penalty.  (Romans 6:23)

     Take a look at the world around you.  Everything you see is the result of sin.  Sin is nothing more than choosing our way over God’s way, but it has such grave consequences.  It had the ability to change God’s perfect creation into the fallen world in which we live.  All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 states.  But God commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  He took our death penalty for the crime of High Treason.

     Take the advice Jesus gave the woman caught in adultery, beloved ones.  Go and sin no more.  You can do it.  It’s a choice to submit to God’s will in all things.  If you sincerely desire it, He will help you.  When you fall and sin as we all do, His grace will be sufficient for you.

Pardoned for my crime - Raelynn