Wheeler Chapel Gospel Service

Enjoy today's devotional: "Dealing with Sin" Matthew 18:89 provides an important insight into how to deal with sin, "If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cu...t it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire." The eye represents the thought life, where sin is conceived. The hand represents that sin actually being carried out. And the foot is where it becomes a walk, a pattern, an entrenched habit of life, a sinful lifestyle. When Jesus says, "Cut it off," He is speaking of ruthless self-judgment. And He didn't stop there. He said, "Cut it off and cast it from you." In other words, get as far away from the source of your sin as you can. I remember one day I walked right into a spider web. As I did, I caught a glimpse of this huge orange-colored spider out of the corner of my eye. As I hit the web, I felt it get on my neck. I started doing a war dance, hitting myself and ripping my shirt off, trying to get that thing off me. And you know what? The moment a sinful thought lands in your mind, you ought to do the same thing, go on the warpath! Start batting that thing away! Start quoting Scriptures. Do whatever you can to keep it from sinking its teeth into your life. As Jesus said, it will be better for you if you do! ***Sign up for FREE daily devotionals: www.BaylessConley.tv

Enjoy today's devotional: "Do You Cherish God's Word?" Psalm 107:20 says, He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.... God has given us His Word for our benefit, and yet so many Christians ignore it to their hurt. It is like the story of the woman a preacher went to visit one day. She lived in a dilapidated house. As long as he had known her, she had struggled with poverty. Twenty years earlier she had been the housekeeper for the wealthiest woman in town, but the wealthy woman had died. So this housekeeper moved into an old shack. As the pastor was visiting her, he noticed a document framed on the wall. He said, "Do you mind if I borrow this for a few days?" She replied, "Well, you can borrow it, but please bring it back. Although I can't read, it is very important to me. It is the only thing that the lady left me when she died. It is very valuable to me. It reminds me of her. So make sure you bring it back." He took it and had it investigated and authenticated. It was the will of the woman who had died, and in the will she left her housekeeper a fortune. The housekeeper could have had any house she wanted in the whole city and had servants of her own, but due to her ignorance, she lived in poverty and had a rough go of it all those years. That woman reminds me of a lot of Christians. They don't read their Bible, but they admire it because it reminds them of God. They haven't taken time to find out the inheritance that belongs to them as believers. God's Word is a light to our path. It is our guidebook for life. It is bread for our spirit. It is our strength. It is our refuge in troubled times. Cherish God's Word.

Enjoy today's devotional: "Mistreated?" 1 Peter 3:1318 are verses that are a great encouragement, And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of wh...at is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled." But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. Jesus was not guilty. He suffered for things He did not do, and the result is that we came to God. What Peter wants us to understand is the importance of showing forgiveness and a Christlike spirit, even when we are being mistreated. What it can do is reach the hearts of your persecutors for God. If you keep a Christlike spirit, your good conduct can make them ashamed, even though they are hassling you, and bring them to the place where they will ask you a question for the hope that is in you: Why are you the way you are? What's this deal going on in your life? Why do you react the way you react? And you can tell them about Christ. But if you lash out, and if you dish out the same kind of abuse that you are receiving, God is not revealed at all. Patiently endure whatever your mistreatment, and ask God to use it to reach those who need to know Him as Savior.