Every time people hear me saying “Be holy” emphatically, it is not because I don’t want you to ‘enjoy’ your life, it is because I know the dangers of not living a holy life and don’t want you to suffer such. One of the dangers of not living holy is the law of substitution.
This is a spiritual law that states that a life can be given for another. The people in the kingdom of darkness know this law and often apply it
The older ones in Africa will tell you that when someone is very sick and about to die, witch doctors are known to be able to transfer the death of that fellow to someone else and then the one who was sick will recover. Substitution is a spiritual law. God says in Proverbs 11:8 that when trouble is heading towards a righteous man, God takes him out of the way so that it goes to the unrighteous
👉If you don’t want to be a substitute for a righteous man, you had better be righteous yourself.
In Daniel 3, it was the men who threw Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego into the fiery furnace that were burnt. The three Hebrew boys who were thrown in came out unhurt. The furnace had to burn somebody. Since it could not burn the children of God, then it had to burn the children of the devil.
In Daniel 6, when Daniel was thrown into the den of lions, God told them, “You can’t eat this one. Don’t worry, I will get a replacement for you”. The following morning the king ordered that those who had plotted against Daniel, and all their family members, be thrown into the den of lions. Those people became the substitutes for Daniel.
The law of spiritual substitution is real; you had better live holy so that you don’t get on the wrong side of it.
Pastor E.A. Adeboye
