Overcome the Deceitfulness of Sin God's Way Michael Edwards
...But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Heb 3:13 NAS
Trying to overcome sin, our inherited Adamic sin nature that leads to acts of sin, by policing our flesh with the law, is part of the deceitfulness of sin. Part of the sin’s deceit is to keep us focused on our outward acts of sin, the symptoms while ignoring the core problem. Pointing us to our flesh and the law, sin deceitfully uses the law to harden the heart as exemplified in the Pharisees.
The hard heart of the law keeper has an impossible time loving as Jesus does. This hard heart prevents the believer from doing the one thing that fulfills God’s specific intent for writing the law, the one thing that fulfills the entire law, LOVE. Love is the Spirit of all of God’s laws – Rom 13:8-10. Specifically, the love of God, the love of Christ flowing through us. The love of Christ that can love even our enemies and those the world hates. The love of Christ who forgave those who put Him on the cross and stood there mocking Him.
The Bible is crystal clear, LOVE is the only thing that fulfills God's law - Gal 5:14, Rom 13:8-10. Jesus lived, walked, breathed, died and rose again fulfilling the intent, purpose and desire of God's written law, LOVE. Starting with a sincere heart, the Pharisee's, on the other hand, fell prey to the deceitfulness of sin.
The answer to our sin problem is not in the law of Moses that arouses sin - Rom 7:5. The truth is, the flesh will never defeat the flesh, overcome sin and the lusts of the flesh through God's written law.
The answer to our sin problem is in the same verse that talks about the deceitfulness of sin. In Heb 3:13 it tells us how to not be overcome by the deceitfulness of sin, “encourage one another.” It means to encourage one another in our faith in God’s promises.
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