Topic: Flaws
Text: Genesis 9:20-25

Flaw is a major weapon used by Satan. Whenever the devil discovers a sort of Achilles’ heel in someone’s life, he uses it against the person. We shall look at the Scripture for various instances where Satan used this Joker on people. We shall start with Esau.

The fault with Esau was that he liked food and Satan knew this. He became a hunter so as to be able to eat meat anytime he was hungry. When it was time to draw his joker, Satan made Jacob, the younger brother of Esau, to prepare some pottage and made it to coincide with the time Esau was hungry. Satan knew that Esau would be hungry and that he liked food. His love of food made him fall for the deal proposed by Jacob, that he should forfeit his birthright before he would give him a mess of pottage. Can you imagine Jacob’s folly? “And Jacob said, sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?” (Genesis 25:31-32). Thus, Esau “despised his birthright”.) Esau sold his birthright because of just one meal.

Satan knows that many people worship their bellies. We also have the case of Noah. It was only Noah and his household that God speared when He destroyed the earth with food. Noah was a great preacher. Satan viewed his life and got ready with a joker. He knew that Noah could not do without a little bit of wine now and then. Many believers fall into this category. They opine that what God dislikes is drunkenness and not that they should not take a little bit of what they call alcoholic beverage. These people call themselves ‘sipping saints’. By the time you start taking the little, Satan is already drawing his joker. Satan got Noah. Satan wrecked the life of one of his sons. Genesis 9:20-21 confirms this: “And Noah began to be an husbandman and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.” Will you allow Satan to use the flaw in your life against you? Watch and pray.

Memory Verse: Genesis 3:6 - “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”