Summary: Sunday Evening Evangelistic Message #72 <br><br> Scripture: Hosea 10:9-13 <br><br> Based on a list of sins which the great evangelist Charles G. Finney gave in his classic sermon titled "Break Up Your Fallow Ground: It is Time to Seek the Lord", we began pinpointing some of the sins which we as the church need to confess and repent of. This week, we are continuing this series by addressing the next three sins on our list. <br><br> I. The first sin we will address today is the sin of hindering another believer from doing God's will. Matthew 16:21-23 says, "From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." <br><br> II. The second sin we will address today is the sin of lust. Jesus Christ said in Matthew 5:28, "That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." Lust is defined as having a desire for or longing for something that is forbidden -- something that you cannot have. Another word for lust is "covet." One of the ten commandments is "thou shalt not covet." The Bible says in Exodus 20:17: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." <br><br> III. The third sin we will address today is the sin of fornication and adultery. Fornication is having sex with someone before marriage and adultery is having sex with someone that you are not married to while you are married. The Bible strictly prohibits both of these actions. The Bible says in I Corinthians 6:9-10: "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." God is very serious about these sins. <br><br> + Plus, listen to CeCe Winans singing "King of Kings (He's a Wonder)" and Al Green & Heather Headley singing "People Get Ready"
