Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

unique ability you would never learn to speak, write, solve mathematical equations, or remember your children’s names. Recall is priceless when remembering scriptures and using the divine Word of God for encouragement, instruction, and practical Christian living. Recall, however, is a stumbling block when a person has failed spiritually or morally. The images are printed on the mind like pictures on the pages of a book, and the reminder of the failure and sin is like a haunting voice from the past, whispering from deep within a person and retelling the events in slow motion. It is like a black-and-white motion picture without sound, replaying forgiven images for the purpose of condemnation. How does a believer deal with condemnation once forgiven of sins? D EALING W ITH P ET S INS The writer to the Hebrew believers reminded them that great men and women of God had proceeded them and had become “a great cloud of witnesses” watching them (Heb. 12:1). He compared the present believers to those running a race and looking to win the prize at the finish line. His instruction was twofold. First, he said to, “Lay aside every weight , and the sin which so easily ensnares us” (v. 1, emphasis added). The Greek word for “weight” is ongkon , and it means what is crooked or hooked , meaning anything that is attached or suspended by a hook and hanging by its whole weight. It is used only here in the New Testament. In classical Greek it was used in the sense