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sin and live to righteousness. The apostle Paul wrote that the saints should not consider the
grace of God to be an opportunity to continue in sin. In the strongest of terms he
condemned such a mindset as being a gross misappropriation of the sacrifice of Yahshua.

Hebrews 10:29-31
Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has
trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he
was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him
who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "Yahweh will
judge His people." It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The Israelites in King Hezekiah’s day were not coming to the bronze serpent on the
pole for healing. They were coming only to worship the image. In the same way a multitude
of saints today are not coming to Christ to be healed from sin’s destruction and corrupting
influence. They do not truly desire to be set free from bondage to the flesh and the beast
nature. They only come to worship an image of Christ. They make their offering of praise
while being content to remain bound to the sinful nature. They have taken that which God
intended for healing and made it merely an object of idolatry.
As plainly as I can communicate let me say, “Many saints who worship the crucified
Christ week after week, bringing an offering of praise before Him as incense that ascends
to the heavens, are in truth practicing idolatry.” Yahweh would declare to them:

Amos 5:21-24
“I hate, I reject your festivals, nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies. Even
though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept
them; and I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings. Take away from
Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps. But let
justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”

What God desires today from the saints is lives marked by righteousness. He yearns
to see His children being conformed to the image of His firstborn Son. He wants to see them
walking as overcomers, subduing and ruling over the beast nature. He wants them healed.
There are a vast number of Christians today who are not walking as overcomers, yet
they come week after week to look upon the image of a crucified Christ and offer their
incense before this image. They come into their places of worship infected with the venom
of sin, and they leave with this same death coursing through their veins. They reason, “I am
just a sinner saved by grace and if I continue in sin God will forgive me. I like my selfish life,
and I am no different from anyone else. I will bring God my offering and I will trust Him
to forgive me and bring me to His heaven when I die.” And all the time God says, “I hate,
I reject what you are bringing before Me. Let me see righteousness in you. I have provided
healing for you, yet you continue clinging to your sins. You have settled on your dregs, your
scent remains in you and your flavor has not changed” (Jeremiah 48:11).
Saints, let me show you the subtlety and cunning of the serpent today. Every week
multitudes go to their houses of worship and they make offerings of praise and of money
to the crucified Christ. They confess the light which they have seen, but they remain
unchanged. Those who witness these devoted worshipers coming week after week before
their images of Christ judge them to be well pleasing to the Father. After all, they confess