Just a little two-letter word, but what a change it can make in a life, for better or worse.
I fully realize it is a negative. But life is made up of both positive and negative. You can’t get through life without the two of them. There is power in negative thinking, as well as positive. We see this in the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt not…”. as well as the, “Thou shalt.”
Much of the trouble we find ourselves in both physically or spiritually is because we did not say, “NO!” to unscriptural appetites, whether good or bad.
The first word a child learns as soon as he or she is able to understand is, No! Or at least it should be. Saying an emphatic no to the flesh’s desires and tastes is one of the main essentials if one is going to be an “overcomer.” The flesh can never please God no matter how tenderly it presents itself.
The flesh must be dealt with in an uncompromising and unmerciful way. The story of Samuel and Agag illustrates this. “Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag [type of flesh] the king of the Amalekites... And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past ... And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.”
You kill the Amalekite or the Amalekite will ultimately destroy you. Ask King Saul!
Saying, “No! Devil” is good theology.
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Amen! What an excellent example.