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The Master Builder

1 Corinthians 3:10-13 (KJV) According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. As I was reading this scripture, I, rather funnily, remember a fairytale of the three little pigs, Browney, Whitey and Blackey who ventured out of home to start their independent lives. Browney the laziest of them all, built his house of straw. Then came the big bad wolf: "Little pig, little pig, let me come in." "No, no, by the hair on my chinny chin chin." "Then I'll huff,

Little Sins, Big Sins?

1 Corinthians 5:6 (KJV) Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 1 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV) Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. I was meditating on the above scripture when the Holy Spirit ministered to me an important message which I feel must be shared with every believer. It is no news that we are daily in conflict with our flesh, sin, the devil or any other evil of some sort. Sin is a poison that can be fatal or can seep in slowly and unnoticed, until the threshold point is reached and then the vats burst with the wages of death. We are easy to judge murder, fornication, drunkenness etc as sins. But what about that little white lie, that immoral thought we brood over in our minds, that unforgiveness, that gossip? We try to vindicate ourselves from these sins with valid points.  If we lie or refuse to say the whole truth, we clai