I want to share with you truly a revelation God has given to me and it is the sin of withholding. This sin goes way back to the book of genesis. After the first sin of lust in the garden which produced sin and death we see adam and eve placed outside the garden. In Genesis 4: 1-7 we see the story of Cain and Abel. It was abel who gave God an acceptable offering and cain who withheld the best from God. Gods reaction to Cains withholding was, “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted. But if you do not do what is right , sin is crouching at your door.” Cain withheld the best from God ,which was a reflection of his heart. He felt Gods displeasure, he got angry treated his brother as a disposable object and rationalized plotting and executing killing his brother.

Withholding creates:

1. There is a known displeasure from the father.
2. There is an internal struggle (self anger regret a knowledge of knowing you didn’t do right or your best).
3. It manifests into treating those close to us like they have no value or objects that are disposable.
4. There is a desire to harm.
5. There is a willingness to create strategies to intentionally harm.
6. There is a willingness to carry out these strategies.
7.  It can cause death to the other person.