{"id":11983,"date":"2025-05-30T18:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2025-05-30T18:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:46:20","slug":"sin-is-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11983","title":{"rendered":"SIN IS EVIL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0<\/strong>The evil sin is rooted in the lack of knowledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>1 Samuel 2:22-36<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible records the evil activities of Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli.\u00a0<br \/>The sons of Eli were corrupt and did not know the Lord.<br \/><strong><em>1 Samuel 2:12-17 <\/em><\/strong>documents how sin was great in Silho because the word of God was despised in Shiloh, to all the Israelites.<br \/><strong><em>1 Samuel 2:17<\/em> mentions,\u00a0<em>\u201c\u2026the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for the men abhorred the offering of the Lord.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>The evil sin is rooted in the lack of knowledge by the sons of Eli.<br \/>Are you paying attention to the place of God in your household?\u00a0<br \/>Is there a lack of dishonoring of God in your household that will count against you or our household?\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>1 Samuel 2:30<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>records that God reacted to the house of Eli because of the evil sin of Hophni and Phinehas,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cTherefore the Lord God of Israel says: \u2018I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.\u2019 But now the Lord says: \u2018Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>The Sons of Eli reduced Eli to the curse of disobedience to God.<br \/>Eli warned his sons of divine judgment\u00a0<strong><em>(1 Samuel 2:25)<\/em><\/strong>, but the sons failed to respond.<br \/>Are you engaging in serious measures more than giving mouth warnings to your children or anyone in your household to avoid the consequences of dishonoring (despising) God?<br \/>One or two sinners against the word of God in the household experience the consequences without exception.<br \/>Eli should have done more than a warning to correct his sons to avoid the consequences of violating God.\u00a0<br \/>Eli recorded everything right for God but not enough to avoid the destruction of his household.\u00a0<br \/>God spoke to Samuel about the sin of Eli: <strong><em>\u201cFor I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them. And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli\u2019s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(<em>1 Samuel 3:13-14)<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>The Sons of Eli were warned by Eli but not restrained from their evil.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>The sin against God by the sons of Eli made the household pay the consequence of their evil.<br \/>With God, no excuse is excusable when God is despised.\u00a0<br \/><strong><em>Proverbs 13:13<\/em><\/strong> buttresses,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cHe who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>As one with the fear of God, spare no excuse for children to violate God by their way of life against the word of God.<br \/>The Eli warning for Hophni and Phinehas was short.<br \/>The warning does not count as an excuse for him from the consequence of sin before God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Ask God to cause you to hear and obey His word.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH CAPSULE:\u00a0The evil sin is rooted in the lack of knowledge 1 Samuel 2:22-36 The Bible records the evil activities of Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli.\u00a0The sons of Eli were corrupt and did not know the Lord.1 Samuel 2:12-17 documents how sin was great in Silho because the word of God was despised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SIN IS EVIL<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11984,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/11984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}