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Upcoming Sermons & Devotional Message
June Sermons 2026
6-21- Father’s Day Sunday
“The Bond”
2 Samuel 18:1-5 Luke 15:11-24
6-28- Youth Sunday
Devotional Message : These will change 1-2 times a week. Stop by often to read the new message.
Some Thoughts on the Consequences of Sin
Jeremiah was a prophet to the Southern Kingdom of Judah in the years leading up to the fall of Jerusalem and the exile of God’s people. God planned to pour out His scalding judgment on Judah from the north.
“The word of the Lord came to me again: What do you see? I see a pot that is boiling, I answered. It is tilting toward us from the north. The Lord said to me, From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land” (Jeremiah 1:13, 14).
Imagine a massive cauldron of boiling water that, when poured out, would destroy everything in its path. The agent of God’s judgment was the Babylonians. They would destroy Judah in Jeremiah’s lifetime.
Why? God’s people were repeatedly disobedient. When the Israelites were about to enter the Promised Land, God promised blessing for obedience and cursing for disobedience. By the time of Jeremiah, 600 years after the people took possession of the land, their pattern of disobedience and sin had caused them to forget the Lord. God would take away the very thing He’d promised to them.
This is similar to a father who bought his son a car for the boy's sixteenth birthday. The night before his birthday, however, the son came home drunk. Realizing that his son lacked the maturity to own a car, the father put it up for sale. The boy’s sin deprived him of the good his father had planned for him.
We can also deprive ourselves of God's goodness if we’re not careful. The psalmist promises, "No good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless" (Psalm 84:11), and the Apostle Paul writes, "Godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come" (1 Timothy 4:8). However, sin can cost us the very things God promises.
Every sin has a price attached to it, and it’s higher than we think. It includes the purity of heart that leads to a deeper relationship with God; and who knows what other blessings we might forfeit? If we understood the true cost of sin, we would be less tempted to commit it.
Resist sin and live, my friends!
