Changi Chapel

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on our faculties.

When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control.

Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

All sin is addiction. The Bible defines sin as craving something more than God. Sin is making something more important than God.

The real reason that you’re having a problem with an enslaving habit is because you are not tasting God enough.

The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need to experience and taste God in worship.

You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship.

You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved by it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you. And this needs to be happening on an ongoing basis.

And only when this fire of worship is burning in your heart, then you are free.

What do you want to experience today – the cravings of sin or to be able to worship and taste God in all His awe and majesty?

Tim Keller
Pastor/Author/Preacher

© Tim Keller
Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City

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