Topic:You can’t deceive God
Text: Genesis 18:23-26

God is willing to bless everyone who calls upon His name. However, He is of purer eyes than would behold iniquity. Even if we all join hands to gather and ask God to bless all of us, those who may have done something deserving of curse shall be cursed. God cannot bless every Tom, Dick and Harry. He only blesses those who are qualified. Can you recall the encounter between Elisha and the unruly children? Only forty-two of them were agents of the devil. The others were probably coerced into singing along with them, as it happens during demonstrations in the universities. When the bears came, the agents of the devil were destroyed. All the satanic agents in your life shall be destroyed, in Jesus name. When judgment comes, God normally distinguishes between the innocent and the guilty.

In our text, Abraham asked God whether He would kill the wicked with the righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah. God said, no. He said that even if He found just fifty righteous people there, He would spare the city so that the righteous would not be killed along with the wicked. No evil person can hide in a gathering of the children of God to perpetrate evil. The Bible says: “For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp by holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.” (Deuteronomy 23:14). In a gathering of the children of God, God moves round to do two things: to deliver us from our enemies, and to make them fall before us. As He moves from one person to another, if He gets to an unclean person, He would turn away. Such a person is left in the hands of the enemies. If God leaves you alone for one minute with the devil, you are finished.

You cannot deceive God. He knows every detail of your life. What is hidden to your neighbours is an open secret before Him. If you want to be blessed, you must avoid what will turn Him away.

Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 23:14 - “For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee, therefore shall thy camp be holy, that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.”