Series: From Pastor’s Desk
Number: Vol. 14, No. 24
Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer. It is with delight that I welcome you to another week of the month of October 2025.
My prayer is that God will daily keep you from becoming a tool that Satan may find useful in any way, so that you will not expose yourself to His judgment. Amen.
Our Lord Jesus once said these words to His disciples:“Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!” (Matt 18:7NIV)
Now what do we learn from these words of the Lord? First, we learn that the world is in trouble and under God’s judgment. Why? It is because there are things that cause people to stumble in it. Truly, all humans are born with sin in them. But if they are not provided with opportunities to sin against God, there are certain wrong things that may never do in life.However, opportunities to sin against God abound in the world.
So, even if someone does not want to sin, he may not be able to resist the abundance of enticement to sin that is around him. Who, then, entices people to sin? It is the devil. He was the one that enticed Eve to sin against God. And he is still the one enticing every one of us to sin against God today. (Cf. Gen 3)
You can, then, see why the Lord says that the things that cause people to sin are bound to come. They are bound to come because of the presence of Satan in the world. In other words, as long as Satan and his demons are in this world, we are bound to face situations that can lead us to stumble and fall into sin.
Is that to say that we cannot avoid stumbling and falling into sin? No! We can avoid that by the grace of God. But we cannot avoid being tempted to sin. So, we must learn to daily stand in the grace of God. Otherwise, all kinds of temptations would overwhelm us.But then, the Lord is not just expecting us to utilise His grace not to fall into sin. He is also expecting us to utilise it not to be used by the devil to make others fall into sin.
Remember that He already tells us that the things that cause people to sin are bound to come. But these things hardly come directly from the devil. They often come through people like us. And if we ourselves are not careful, we may be the tools that Satan will use to do things that will cause others to stumble and fall.
Now wherever that is the case, as pointed out by our Lord Jesus Christ, we will receive severer punishments from God than the person we have led into sin. Remember that Eve’s punishment was severer than Adam’s punishment. That was because it was through her that Satan succeeded in making Adam fall.
In other words, she was used by the devil. And if we too allow him to use us to lead someone else into sin and God has to punish us, our own punishment will surely be severer than that person’s punishment. So, don’t be used by the devil. And may God help you.Have a pleasant week.
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