Dear Bros in Christ,

Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Brothers in Christ, this weekly encouragement is sent and meant to be an encouragement to all and to build up and edify in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oikodome means "Builder". The Lord has put this on my heart to send out
a monthly Iron Man Oikodome {oy-kod-om-ay'} to build up and encourage the men who love and follow Jesus Christ in their walk with Him.
Hebrews 3:13 "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness."
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“But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your
God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have
commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ Yet they did not obey or incline
their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and
went backward and not forward.” [Jeremiah 7:23-24 NKJV]

“Go Forward”

Bros, Judah followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts. You may think it is
better I follow my heart and be content, but I assure you that you will never be content or
have or know peace unless you obey God. Because they would not listen to God and instead
followed the evil dictates of their evil hearts.
James 1:13-15 says: “Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God
cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when
he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives
birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.”
Our desires come from our heart, so too sin can come from our desires. If sin is evil, then
desires that are sin are evil. If we let our sin desires turn into a practicing thought and keep
thinking on them, we are sure to do them eventually. The Prophet Jeremiah declared a few
chapters further in chapter 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately
wicked; Who can know it?
Our heart is unpredictable and bound to do evil given the slimmest of chances to sin, but God
He is always true, just and perfect in All His ways. Our hearts are always capable of doing evil.
And so it is better to obey God and do His way and His will. And bros sure as we could slip on
a banana peel and fall down… we can sin that quickly and un-expectantly. So beware, Judah
thought at the temple gates, if they kept bringing sacrifices to the altar rather than obedience
somehow God might be pleased but the Lord took no delight in them, but God desired
obedience rather than sacrifice. Better to repent and walk in obedience and obey the Lord
than sacrifice at the altar without obedience. Otherwise might be like giving a stolen gift that
cost you nothing…It cost the Lord a lot to be obedient when He went to the cross for you and
me.
Bros way better to obey and go forward towards Him and remain in Him, than our evil hearts
and fall backwards away from Him our loving God.
Obey means to hear, submit, follow and conform. Don’t be like Judah and follow the counsels
and the dictates of their evil hearts and went backwards and not forward. Keep walking and
moving forward towards obedience in and to the Lord, obey His voice and walk in all His ways
that He has commanded you. Abide in Him and go forward in Him that it may be well with
you, amen!

Agape,
Pastor Daniel Wright
ironmanoikodome.org
Proverbs 27:17

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