Ephesians 4:26-29     New English Translation

26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger. 27 Do not give the devil an opportunity. 28 The one who steals must steal no longer; instead, he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he will have something to share with the one who has need. 29 You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up the one in need that it would give grace to those who hear.

 

Once you start 

 

The territory that we furnish is considered a sin

There is a positive and negative type of it

If we break it down sin is still so deep within

But we get a better idea of how easily it besets my grid

 

Positive sin is easily seen like looking at sinful scenes

Homosexuality, abortion, and unclean flattering words

Adultery and other means, dirty jokes and fornication

Stealing, lying and anger, and the lawbreaking hordes

 

Positive sin gives more and more territory to evil spirits

Until a person is fully occupied, transformed, and complete

Only Christ knows for sure the condition than to bear it

The one who takes at his will and sweeps them of their feet

 

Negative sin is indirect and makes one hypocritical

To know of a good and not to do it is a greater sin

To misuse the freedom received at redemption

And use God’s gifts only for self as it grows within

 

To give in when you should not, to compromise even slightly

To wander off the narrow path and look down somehow

Makes the path more important and the travel more significant

Then the destiny of need to be as you lose your call somehow

 

Let not a corrupt word proceed or let the sun go down on wrath.

Are we getting the idea? Where do we give place to the devil?

This really should shake us up, so every time our flesh is ruling

We lose more and more ground until judgment and the gavel

 

One will not escape from the wiles of the devil,

Although as a child of God, you have to stand your ground

It has little to do with supposedly "falling" from Grace

For what God saves, He’ll keep as you are Heaven bound

 

With sin gives the ground a foothold, almost a degree of invitation

The amount of foothold gives the degree of the invasion

The value of the property gives a degree of determination

And the commitment of oneself the degree of degradation

 

To really see the scheme of one’s own persecution

It does not take a genius or lack of frustration

It is our self-will you see that brings pride to full inflation

As we sell our self cheap in a so-called godly nation

 

Jan Wienen