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We want to know more about all that You are doing in our lives. So we ask You to speak
to us as we open Scripture now. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. Turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 3.
Genesis chapter 3. And the title of our message is, “Angels and Demons Part 2.” This is a part of our series that we have
been exploring together that we are calling Essentials: What Every Christian Needs to
Know. And we have been talking a little bit about this invisible world. This supernatural
world. This world filled with these mysterious creatures that the Bible calls angels that
surround the believer in any given moment. Some of these angels are holy. In fact the
majority of them are. But some of them are unholy. We certainly find angels in both the
Old and New Testament. In fact there are indirectly or directly 300 references to angels from
Genesis to Revelation. And in our last time together we discovered a few things about
the angels. Number one. We discovered that there are many
many angels. In fact Daniel 7:10 tells us that there are 100 million angels. Now that
is just one account of how many he saw so maybe there are even more than that. Number two. There are not only a lot of angels
but their ranks are well organized. It is not unlike the military where you have various
rankings. And so in the angelic world as well. Not only among the holy angels but also among
the fallen ones. In fact 1 Peter 3:22 tells us that Christ has gone into heaven and on
His right hand there are angels, authorities, and powers. There are three rankings right
there. Angels. Authorities. And powers. Number three. We found that two of the angels
at least are identified by name. That would be the super angel, the mega angel, the man
himself Michael the archangel who has played a unique role throughout history and will
also be active in the end time events. And then there is Gabriel who was given the unique
privilege of announcing the birth of the Messiah to both Joseph and Mary. Now what have the angels come to do? Ahem.
Excuse me. Point number four. I am losing my voice. Hello. Ok. I am better. Here we
go. Point number four. The angels sometimes reveal the purposes of God to us. Again the
angels sometimes reveal the purposes of God to us. You remember that there were three
angels that were dispatched to tell Abraham about the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah.
An angel was dispatched to Zacharias to tell him he would be the father of John the Baptist.
Now I would suggest to you you may have been spoken to before by an angel but you probably
didn’t know it. Because here is another thing about angels. They are God’s secret
angels. They operate under cover. They are involved in what we would call special ops.
Right. You see they are dispatched to a given place to do a certain task. Not unlike the
Navy Seals or the Army Rangers or the Green Berets or the Delta Force. Special forces
that are called to accomplish something. You don’t know when they went in. You don’t
know when they left. You don’t even necessarily know what they did exactly. You just know
the job was done. That is how angels work. They operate under cover doing the work of
God. So sometimes they are revealing the purposes of God. Also angels help us to come to salvation and
occasionally will guide us. An angel played a role in the conversion of Cornelius. And
there may have been times when an angel as actually spoken to you to go do a certain
thing but you didn’t necessarily know it was an angel. Case in point. An angel told
Philip to go off to the desert. Maybe an angel has spoken to you as well. Number six. The angels protect us. Psalm 34:7
says, “The angel of the Lord guards all who fear him and he rescues them.” And so
when you have been in those have those close calls in life and you wonder how you got through
it no doubt it was your angel doing the work that God had called him to do. But what about when an accident happens? What
about when a Christian dies? Does that mean that somehow the angel failed in his mission?
The answer is no. God is the one that determines the date of our death and the date of our
birth. And in the same way the angel’s job is to protect us until our time of departure
comes. And then the angel’s role changes and they are there to escort us to heaven.
You remember that after Lazarus died in the story of Lazarus and the rich man the Bible
says, “He was carried by angels to Abraham’s bosom.” So there is an angelic escort waiting
for you when your time to go to heaven comes. So we are talking about angels. But the title
of the message is, “Angels and Demons.” So where did demons come from? Short answer.
Demons are fallen angels. Again. Demons are fallen angels. As hard as it is to believe
there was a rebellion in the angelic world with many of the angels turning against God
and becoming evil. Over in Jude chapter six we read that the angels did not keep their
own position but left their proper dwelling. They rebelled against God and that rebellion
was led by another high ranking angel by the name of Lucifer. More on him in a moment.
But Lucifer is the one that led the rebellion of one third of the angels against God. And
there are multiple references to this in the Bible. We read of Beelzebub and his demons
in Matthew 12:24. We read of the devil and his angels in Matthew 12:41. We read of the
dragon and his angels in Revelation 12:7. And of course Jesus said, “Hell is created
for the devil and his angels.” So what is the objective of a demon? What
has a demon come to do? The objective of demons seems to be two-fold. Number one. They are here to. Ahem. Excuse
me. Hinder the purposes of God and extend the power of Satan. Again. They seek to hinder
the purposes of God and extend the power of Satan. Understand when we say, “Oh I was
tempted by the devil the other day” chances are it wasn’t the devil himself. And I will
get into this more in my message next Sunday when I deal with the topic, “What the Devil
Doesn’t Want You to Know.” So you don’t want to miss that message now do you? But
we will point out in that message that the devil is not God’s equal. Meaning that the
devil, though he is a powerful spirit being is nowhere near being the equal of God, which
means he can only be in one place at one time. While God is omnipresent. He can be everywhere
at once. Lucifer, Satan, the devil can only be in one place at one time. Therefore when
you and I have been tempted. How many of you have been tempted? Raise your hand up. Ok.
When you were tempted. We are all in the same boat here. That was probably one of his demons.
One of his minions doing his dirty work for him. And their objective, again, is to extend
his kingdom and try to hinder God’s kingdom. The Apostle Paul talked about the fact that
he wanted to go to a certain place in 1 Thessalonians 2:18, but Satan stopped us. Paul also spoke
in 2 Corinthians 12 about an affliction he had described as a thorn in the flesh. And
then he went on to say it was a messenger of Satan sent to buffet him. So demons are
there to oppose us as we seek to do the work of God. But the question obviously arises well why
the devil. Why is there a devil to begin with? And if there is a devil we have come often
to think of him as sort of a caricature. Like a cartoon figure. You know red skin. Pointed
ears. Little horns. A pitchfork. Hooves. A pointed tail. And so forth. And they always
have the devil wearing a goatee which I personally resent. You know what is with the goatee.
But this is the image we have of the devil. And because we don’t always take him seriously
we might dismiss him as a mere metaphor. For instance if you are really sick you might
say, “Oh man I caught the devil of a cold” you know. Or if you are going with abandon
toward something you might say, “Hey I have a devil may care attitude.” Or if you hate
your work one might describe it as having a “devil of a job.” Or if you want to
blast someone, you say, “Give them the devil.” Or if you have done something wrong. “Oh
man. You have the devil to pay.” When you want to disagree with someone you will say,
“Allow me for a moment to play the devil’s advocate.” If you are talking about someone
who isn’t there and they suddenly walk in the room you say, “Speak of the devil.”
Which isn’t a great thing to have said when you walk into a room. And because of this
caricature of him we can tend to dismiss him. But we have to be careful to understand that
the Bible understands a real powerful spirit being known as Lucifer that is alive and well
and is active in the world that we are living in. C. S. Lewis gave this insightful statement
about the devil and his demons, and I quote, “There are two equal and opposite errors
into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The
other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves,”
Lewis says, “Are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician
with the same delight.” End quote. That is so well said. You know either we disbelieve.
And by the way the devil is fine if you don’t want to believe in Him. He is good with that.
He is thinking, “Hey this is great. I will manipulate your life and you don’t even
think I am there. That is a good deal for me.” Or you can have an unhealthy interest
in him and the demon powers. And there are some people that see demons behind every rock
and everything is about the devil all the time. That is an unhealthy thing as well.
We need a balanced biblical view of who Satan is. Because frankly he loves the attention.
The devil is the ultimate egotist. And we will tell you why that is true in a moment. But we ask the question where did the devil
come from. What are his tactics? What are his strengths? What are his weaknesses? What
can he do? What can’t he do? Let’s answer some of those. Let’s start with number one. Where did the
devil come from? Or as it is often phrased, “How could a God of love create someone
as horrible as the devil?” And the very question itself is accusational. “Hey man.
What’s up with God? Creating someone as evil as Satan. Why would God do such a thing?”
Obviously implying it was a bad decision on the part of God. Well let’s clarify the
issue. God did not create the devil. Now the Lord created a spirit being known as Lucifer
the son of the morning. A powerful angel. But Lucifer rebelled against God because he,
like the other angels, like all of humanity was given a free will. He exercised that will
in the wrong direction and he rebelled against God. So Lucifer became Satan when he rebelled
against God. So the devil was not created by God. The devil became what he is by his
own volition. But God certainly allowed it. When did this happen? We don’t know for
sure but in Genesis chapter one in verse 31 we read, “God saw everything that He had
made, and behold it was good.” And by the time we get to Genesis 3 there is this serpent
tempting Eve. So it must have happened between Genesis 1 and 3 this great angelic rebellion.
And it didn’t start that way. Because Satan, also known as Lucifer was once a high ranking
angel. Ezekiel 28 says, “You were the model of perfection Full of wisdom and beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God … And you were anointed as a guardian cherub. And
so I ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones.
You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, until wickedness was found
in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence and you sinned;
so I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God; and I expelled you, O guardian cherub,
from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud because of your beauty; and you corrupted
your wisdom because of your splendor; so I threw you to the earth, and I made a spectacle
of you before kings.” A fascinating set of verses. The devil was beautiful. Magnificent. Have you ever seen a really beautiful girl
or a really handsome guy that knows how attractive they are? And everything they do sort of draws
attention to themselves. You know they have never met a mirror they didn’t like. And
just everything is about them. The world revolves around them. Every conversation ultimately
ends up being about them. That is what Lucifer was like. He was this
magnificent spirit being that clearly was a wonder to behold. And actually it was that
very beauty that became his downfall. He allowed his perfection to be the cause of his corruption.
You see Lucifer was not satisfied with worshipping God. He himself wanted to be worshipped and
so Satan, once a beautiful powerful angel of God lost his former exalted position in
heaven. Lucifer became Satan when he fell to the earth. And that is recorded in Isaiah
14 when it says, “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How
you are thrown down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! You said in your heart:
‘I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit
on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north.” Yet Jesus said, or
yet Isaiah says rather, “You will be brought down to hell.” Lucifer means star of the morning, which he
once was. Satan means accuser, which he now is. Jesus says, “I saw Satan fall as lightning
from heaven.” And when Satan fell he did not fall alone but he took two excuse me one
third of the angels with him. Now that is the bad news. The good news is
two thirds of the angels are still with us. We have more angels than he has. Nanny nanny
na na. No. But even more importantly we have the Lord Jesus Christ on our side. Ok. So
that is the big issue. But the devil, though he is fallen, still
has access to heaven. How do we know this? Because we read in the book of Job how the
angels came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan was among them. And God directed
His remarks to the devil himself and said, “So where have you been?” And Satan said,
“Oh I have just been going back and forth across the earth watching everything that
is going on.” That is just so creepy isn’t it? He is just checking everything out. You know the Bible describes the devil as
a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. The hungry beast of prey he is looking for
his next meal. He is ready to pounce. You know you have seen those shows on television
where the lion, the pride of lions are hanging out soaking in the rays and along come the
antelope. And they are just kind of sizing them up. “Let’s see which one am I going
to eat today.” And there is usually that antelope behind all the others. You know 20
feet behind. “Which way do I go?” And the lion is saying, “That looks like lunch
to me because I don’t want to work too hard.” And he lunges and the speed in which they
can cover ground. And once they sink their claws into the prey and drag them down you
know it is over with for that animal. And in the same way the devil is watching.
He is looking. He is looking for vulnerability. He is looking for weakness. He is looking
for his next prey to bring down. That is his basic agenda. Listen. The devil never takes
a vacation. Don’t you wish he did? Wouldn’t it be great if I could announce to you, “Guess
what I just found out. The devil is taking August off every year. We can have August
devil free.” You know what? We would still get ourselves into trouble. Even without the
devil. But no. The devil doesn’t take a month off. He doesn’t take a week off. He
doesn’t take a day off. He doesn’t take an hour off. He never takes a moment off.
He is always busy with his well organized network of demon powers helping him to accomplish
his purposes. And what is the purpose of the devil? A lot
of things could be said but let me sum it up this way. In the words of Jesus He said,
“The thief,” speaking of Satan, “has come only to steal, kill, and destroy.”
That is his end game. He may come with some enticing temptation. He may come with something
that dazzles you that might even have an element of enjoyment in it in the beginning. But the
end game, the ultimate result is to steal, kill, and destroy. Why would God allow this to happen? Why would
the Lord allow Lucifer, Satan, the devil to exist? Because He gave him a free will. And
He gave us a free will. The devil is described many ways in the Bible. One illustration,
one picture of him is he is the dragon. Revelation 20, “He is the dragon, the old serpent,
the devil and Satan.” And it was the dragon that took one third of the angels with him
in this rebellion. Number two. He is identified as Beelzebub.
In fact when Jesus was casting demons out of people the Pharisees said He did it by
the power of Beelzebub the prince of the demons. The name Beelzebub meant lord of the flies
and the Jews later changed it to the lord of the dunghill. So that is what Satan is
the lord of. The dunghill. He is also identified as the prince of this
world. Jesus said, “The time of judgment for the world has come when the prince of
this world would be cast out, and if I am lifted up from the cross I will draw everyone
to Myself.” This is really important. The prince of this world. Remember when Jesus
was being tempted by Satan and the devil showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment
of time and said, “All this power has been delivered unto me and I can give it to whoever
I want and the power of it. So if you will just worship me I will give it to you.”
Effectively the enemy was saying, “Jesus I know why you have come. You have come to
purchase back that which was lost in the Garden of Eden and I am going to make You an offer
You cannot refuse. I am going to give You what You want. It is all Yours if you will
give me the momentary satisfaction of worship. I want You to worship me.” “This is what
I have always wanted,” the devil is saying. “I want to be worshipped.” Of course Jesus
resisted that temptation. But it sums up an interesting point. All the kingdoms of the
world. Notice Jesus did not refute this. The reason He did not refute it is because it
was true. He is the prince of the power of the air.
He is also identified as the god of this world. So he is the one that controls so much of
our culture today. Have you ever wondered why things are as dark as they are? It is
because there is a mastermind behind it. And it goes deeper than politics or ones political
worldview. We are talking about a spirit power that infiltrates culture. A spirit power that
infiltrates government. A spirit power that infiltrates lives. The prince of the power
of the air. That is who Lucifer is. And I will tell you what. He pulls of people
down his little primrose path through the basest of temptation. He has got a lot of
mileage out of drugs, sex, and rock and roll hasn’t he? I am amazed how generation after
generation takes this one hook, line, and sinker. I mean look at any given 4th of July
and you just see all of these young kids out there doing the same stupid things that we
did when we were kids you know. And the sad thing is when they get older their kids are
probably going to do the same thing. “Hey lets go out and smoke and drink and party
and have sex.” And like they are the only generation that ever discovered that. You know and I look at the kids doing what
they are doing and I think of what I used to do when I was a kid which is pretty much
the same thing. And I have friends that I went to high school with that stayed in that
lifestyle. And I gave my life to Christ at the age of 17 and went a different direction.
And then when I reconnect with these people and I look at them some of them even physically
how the world has chewed them up and spit them out. And they are into their third and
fourth marriages. And they have substance abuse problems and all kinds of other family
problems because of the decisions they have made and you feel like saying, “Well was
it worth it? Was it a good ride? Did you enjoy it?” Do you know what the end game of the
devil is? To steal, kill, and destroy.” Ah but the devil is clever. He says, “Oh
so you don’t like that lure. You are not into that bait. I have got another one for
you.” Because he also comes to us as an angel of light. John 8:44 Jesus said, “You
belong your father the devil. You carry out your father’s desires.” Excuse me. Wrong
reference. 2 Corinthians 11:13 Paul says, “They are false apostles. They have fooled
you by disguising them as apostles of Christ and I am not surprised for even Satan can
disguise himself as an angel of light.” You see. There might be a person that will say, “Well
I am not into the immorality. I am not into all of these other things. I want to be a
spiritual person. I want to be a moral person. I want to be an upright person. I want to
be a religious person.” The devil says, “Really. Oh I have got that covered too.
I am an angel of light. Check out my new age mysticism. Check out all the beliefs I can
offer you. And what is really fun is I kind of put things together. It is like religious
Mr. Potato Head you know. Customize it. Oh you don’t have to the eyes here. You can
put the nose here if you want and put the eye on top. Whatever you want. It is good.
All roads lead to God. We all believe basically the same thing. Come on. Let’s have some
fun.” “Yeah. I am into spiritual things.” You are being misled too. For the devil can
come to you as an angel of light. Which brings us to our last description of
him. He is the father of lies. The reference I already referred to. John 8:44 Jesus said,
“You belong to your father the devil. He is a liar and the father of lies.” Listen.
Sometimes the devil can just outright lie and a person believes him. He is like good.
Other people they are a little more discerning so he will candy coat his lie with enough
truth to make it appealing. With enough air to make it lethal. And here is an illustration of that in the
text that we have turned to. Genesis 3. Verse 1. Here is now the fallen angel Lucifer coming
to Eve as a serpent and tempting her. Verse 1. “Now the serpent was more cunning than
any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, ‘Has
God indeed said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden”?’ And the woman said
to the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit
of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, “You shall not eat it, nor
shall you touch it, lest you die.”’ Then the serpent said, ‘You will not surely die.
God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like
God, knowing good and evil.’ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its
fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both
of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves coverings.” Right off the bat we can see where the problem
is. Eve was at the wrong place at the wrong time listening to the wrong voice. Why was
she hanging around the one place God told her to avoid? God said to not eat of the forbidden
fruit and here is Eve just sort of like you know leaning in against the tree. Yeah. It
seemed like a good place to hang out. The one place God said to stay away from. It is like telling a little child, “Whatever
you do, don’t open that cookie jar.” You know what that child is going to do. We are
the same way. So she listened to the wrong voice. How does
he come? As a serpent or a snake. You know when I was a kid I was like a snake
fanatic. I loved snakes. I don’t know why. I am not really all that fond of them anymore.
But when I was a young boy I collected snakes of all kinds. I had corn snakes and gopher
snakes and king snakes and boas. I read books about snakes. I thought about snakes. I talked
about them. I was a weird kid ok. And I even wanted to become a herpetologist one day.
Someone who studies reptiles. I just loved them. And so I kept you know cages stacked
on cages with all of these snakes in them. And I would even get my mom to drive me to
buy more. She hated the snakes. She said one day she was in the house and she saw one of
my snakes had gotten out and was just sort of slithering across the front room floor.
She says he was headed for the glass door. She just opened it up and let him go and shut
it. “That was my best snake.” “Well he is gone now.” But she put up with it.
I have no idea why. So one day I said, “Will you take me to
buy a snake.” There was a pet shop that had one I wanted. And so she drove me in our
Ford Starliner. That was a cool old car. I saw one on the road the other day. Perfectly
restored. And I thought, “What a great car that was.” I hated it then. But now they
are a classic you know. So we drove in the Ford Starliner and we pulled up to the pet
store and I got my snake and put him in my little terrarium in the trunk and we drove
home. And we opened the trunk and the snake was gone. The snake had gotten out in the
car. My mom said, “I am never driving that car again.” And she had to drive it a couple
weeks later. She was very reluctant. Afraid the snake was in there still. But she got
in the car. She is, “Oh I hope the snake is not here.” She is driving along. And
she comes to an intersection. She is at a red light. She is waiting for it to turn.
And all of a sudden a cold coil drops on her ankle. “It is the snake. Oh no.” She opens
up the door of the car, puts her other lake out, jumps out, runs into the intersection,
screaming, “There is a snake in the car.” There is a police officer there. “Ma’am
what is wrong?” “There is a snake in the car.” He goes over to the car. He looks
up there. One of the hoses came loose and fell. So guess what? She said, “I am never
driving that car again” and she gave me the car. So here is a tip to you kids. You
want to get a car. Lose a snake. It will be yours soon. You know snakes are not affectionate animals.
You know you look at a dog. You know where you stand with a dog. At any given moment
dogs are very upfront with their emotion. You know when a dog is happy. They even look
like they are smiling sometimes you know. Tongue hanging out of the side of their mouth.
Tail wagging. You know when a dog is angry. You know when a dog is sad. Cats. I don’t
know. You know. Hard to read them. But snakes. They are even worse. A snake. No expression.
You don’t know if a snake is happy. You don’t know if he is sad. If he is mad. You
know he just looks at you. No eyebrows. Just, “Hi. I am going to bite you in the face
right now.” I don’t know if they feel any emotion. Their brain is pretty limited
you know. Cold blooded animals they tend to like warmth. You know that is why you will
find them sunning themselves on a stone or they will wrap a person’s arm. Preferably
their neck if they can. Because of the warmth it provides. But they are clever. And they
are able to get out of the tightest little spaces. Here is another little thing about snakes
that is interesting. Did you know that the venom of a baby rattlesnake is more potent
than an adult? Have you ever seen a baby rattler? They are actually kind of a cute in a weird
way because everything is just miniaturized. And you look and they have a little rattler.
“Oh look at that little baby rattler you know.” You pick him up. “Oh look at his
little baby fangs.” The baby rattler. Drop. You know. It is cute. And deadly. In the same way we will say, “Oh look at
that little baby sin. It is just a small little compromise you know. I can do this little
thing one time. It will never lead to anything else. I can handle this one thing.” Watch
out now. An unguarded strength is a double weakness. Don’t ever say, “I will never
fall in this one area. No matter what I.” Shut up. That is probably the area you will
end up falling in because you are so arrogant. The Bible says, “Pride goes before a fall
and a haughty spirit before destruction.” Don’t ever say, “I would never all in
this area.” You don’t know what you are capable of. Ok. You jut keep your guard up
at all times because it is these little deals we make with the devil so to speak meaning
the little compromises, the small things that we lower our guard on, that lead to bigger
things later. Most people did not fall for a big sin straightaway. It was a series of
smaller things that led to the big thing. Right. Satan is smart. Don’t underestimate him.
Keep your guard up and watch your thoughts. Because most temptations are going to start
right here. The devil is going to come and just say, “Wouldn’t it be fun to?” And
you have a choice. You can say, “Uh no.” Sound effects. A lot of sound effects today.
I don’t know why. You have a choice. See here is the thing. You can be sitting in church
with your Bible open on your lap listening. And all of a sudden the devil comes with just
a totally twisted thought. And you can’t even believe this thought just came to you.
“Woe. Hello. Can anyone see this thing here right now? This is not good.” And then the
devil. He is so clever. He says, “How could you actually think that sitting in church?
What is wrong with you?” “I don’t know.” “You know you are such a hypocrite.” “Yeah
I guess I am.” “You ought to get up and leave right now.” “I think I will get
up and leave right now.” Stop that. Listen. It is not a sin to be tempted. The sin is
not in the bait. It is in the bite. Just because bait was dangled before you doesn’t mean
you have done anything wrong. Let me restate that. If you never get tempted I wonder what
is wrong with you. The very fact that you are moving forward spiritually means you will
get tempted because the devil wants to bring you down. So if you have faced temptation
and attack that probably means you are doing something right. And the devil will come with
things that are enticing. Things that are appealing. Remember that verse says, “The
tree was good for food and pleasant to the eyes.” That fruit looked good man. And by the way the Bible doesn’t say it
was an apple. Where did that come from? You know when Eve ate of the apple. I have heard
preachers say, “When she ate the apple.” Stop with the apple. There is no apple. I
am not against apples. And I am not against cats either. But I am against cats eating
apples. That is bad. No. But here is the thing. An apple would have appealed to some people.
But not everyone loves apples. I am not a big apple fan. Now a nectarine. That would
tempt me you see. But I suggest it was a piece of fruit like you have never seen before.
Probably pulsated. “Woe what is this?” “What is this? This is fruit if you eat
of it it tastes great, it looks great, and you will become a god. Eve you will be a goddess.
Ok. You will know as much as God in heaven knows. In fact God is keeping you back from
something. If God really loved you He would let you eat of this forbidden fruit.” Satan will say the same thing to us in fact.
“You know what? If God really loved you He would let you do whatever you want to do.
If God really loved you He would allow you to chase after whatever passion interests
you. If God really loved you He wouldn’t have allowed this to happen to you.” That
is what he was doing with Eve. He was challenging the Word of God. He was challenging the love
of God for her. And she gave in. But se must resist. We must not even allow
that thought to enter to our own thought processes and end up wanting that thing and even worse
doing that thing. And those temptations are going to come. And they are never going to
stop. And they are going to change. And he is going to adapt. Just like if you are you know playing tennis
with someone and you are rallying for serve. So you just the ball is going back and forth
across the net. And you go, “Oh they are kind of weak back there. Ooh. There is another
vulnerability.” And so you know you are going to play with them for a bit. And then
you are going to start scoring points because you want to win the game. So the devil will, “Well let’s rally for
serve. Let’s see what you got. Ok. Oh you are strong there. You are strong here. Oh
you are weak there. Oh you are weak over here too. Ok. Good. Good to know that.” And then
he will start lobbing them here and lobbing. “Oh I see that area where you were strong
you are not as strong as you were before. I am going to hit you here now.” It is always
going to keep coming. Ok. So that is why we have to always keep our guard up. The devil
never takes a day off. And we can’t take a day off from spiritual battle. The Christian
life is not a playground. It is a battleground. And we are either winning or losing. We are
either advancing or retreating. So let’s keep our guards up. Let’s keep our minds
protected. Because the Bible tells us that we are to bring every thought into the captivity
of the obedience of Jesus Christ. So the devil attacks Eve. She gives into it. The devil attacks us. Now here is how his
strategy works. And you have to admit it is quite clever. First he will come as the enticer.
Then he will come as the accuser. Let me repeat that. First he will come as the enticer. The
tempter. Then he will come as the accuser. It starts like this. He will whisper in your
ear, “You know what. You deserve a break today. You work so hard. You know you are
such a committed Christian. Oh by the way I am so proud of you. You are doing a great
job. You are so holy. And you are so wonderful. In fact you are so strong it wouldn’t even
matter if you compromised in this little area or gave in a little over here I mean because
look how strong you are. It will be fun. And you know what? Besides everyone else is doing
it. And I will tell you what. I won’t tell anyone if you won’t. Just do it once. Come
on.” So you say, “No no. Ok.” And you do it. Now the devil comes back to you and says,
“You pathetic hypocrite. Look at you. You call yourself a Christian after what you just
did. You call yourself a follower of Jesus. Don’t even think about showing your ugly
face in church again. Don’t open the Bible. That would be so hypocritical to read the
Bible. Don’t pray. Don’t you dare call out to God. That would be so wrong.” And you know the thing is we will listen to
this stuff and we will believe this stuff. This is his strategy. First he is the tempter.
Then he comes to us as the accuser. The Bible calls him the one who accuses us before God
day and night. So here is the thing. When you sin you are
going to feel guilt. And that is a good thing. Did you know guilt can be good? You know what
guilt is? It means your conscience is working. The time to be concerned is when you don’t
feel guilt. The time to be concerned is when you can sin against God again and again and
feel no remorse or sense of wrong doing. Because the Bible says in Hebrews, “Whom the Lord
loves He chastens.” Which means that when you His son or daughter goes astray the Holy
Spirit will convict you of your sin and say, “That is wrong.” He will call you on it.
Because He loves you. “Don’t do that. That is wrong. Stop it now.” Just like a
father. Just like a mother reproves their child. You know I correct my own children. I don’t
correct someone else’s. Though I would like to at times. You know you see a child talking
back to his mom and just being naughty. And you feel like saying, “Let me step in here.”
No. You can’t do that. That is not my privilege. But it is with my children. In the same way God disciplines His own children.
So if you are without discipline, if you can do things that you know are wrong and you
don’t feel remorse I have to wonder are you a child of God. But if you feel busted
the moment you cross the line and come under the conviction of the Spirit I say hallelujah.
Your conscience is working. And the Spirit is working. Now here is what we need to know. When I feel
bad for the wrong that I have done I need to respond appropriately. We need to know
the difference between the Spirit’s conviction and the devil’s accusations. The devil will
use your sins in a hateful way to drive you away from the cross. The Holy Spirit will
convict you of your sins in a loving way to bring you to the cross. Let me put it another
way. Satan will always try to keep you from the cross. The Holy Spirit will always bring
you to the cross. Here is how it works. You have sinned. You know you have sinned. “Oh
no. I can’t believe I just did that.” Ok. The devil says, “Run. Go. Get away.
Don’t go to God.” The Holy Spirit says, “Repent now.” So right there on the spot,
“Lord I am sorry. I know that was wrong. I repent of that sin. I ask You to forgive
me right now. In Jesus’ name.” That is what you need to do. Go straight to the cross.
The devil is saying, “No. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Don’t.” Why? Because
He knows that when you are forgiven you are right with God. And then after you have asked God for forgiveness
you don’t need to keep going over and over it again. You should choose to remember what
God has chosen to forget. Your God has a big eraser. And if He has used it your life then
be thankful your sin is not only forgiven but it is forgotten. Because God has said,
“Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.” But in contrast oh the devil will try to drive
you away into despair. Don’t listen to him. As I pointed out, he is a liar and he is the
father of lies. Illustration. Judas and Peter. Both of them
in their own way betrayed the Lord on that night. Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces
of silver. Peter denied knowing Christ. And I believe that if Judas had wanted it he could
have been forgiven by Jesus. Don’t you think? Here is why I believe that? Because in the
Garden of Gethsemane when Judas came to identify Jesus as the one the authorities were looking
for and he would do so by kissing Him Jesus said to him, “Friend why have you come.”
Jesus was God. He knew all things. He knew what Judas was doing. If you knew a guy was
coming to betray you, would you say, “Friend why have you come?” I would say, “I am
going to strangle you right now. That is what I am going to do.” No. Jesus offered him
a final act of forgiveness. And had Judas accepted it he could have been forgiven on
the spot. But no. He kisses Jesus. And then he realizes what he has done. But he never
repents of his sin. And he weeps. And he hangs himself. Because he listened to the wrong
voice. Simon Peter. He denied knowing the Lord. He
did it not once. Not twice. Three times. And took an oath which means in effect he said,
“I swear to God I never knew Jesus.” And then he made eye contact with the Lord after
he said that. He went and wept. But then he stayed with his Christian friends and he turned
to the Lord and Jesus forgave him. He listened to the right voice and did the right thing See. So we have a choice. We are all going
to sin. It is a not of matter of if. It is a matter of when. The Bible says, “If we
say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” We will sin.
The question is what are we doing to do when we sin. Are we going to listen to the wrong
voice and do the wrong thing? Or are we going to listen to the right voice and do the right
thing. The wrong voice, the devil, would drive us from Jesus, from church, from fellowship,
from the Word of God, from every thing that could help us and say, “Go feel sorry for
yourself. Poor you. Life has been so mean to you.” But if we listen to the right voice it will
take us to the Word of God, to church, to our Christian friends, to the Lord in prayer,
to forgiveness and restoration in a relationship with God. it is my choice who I listen to. And maybe you have joined us here today and
most of you have. At least physically. This man here has fallen asleep in the second row.
But he was just awakened by my bright green shirt. “Is it Saint Patrick’s Day?”
Welcome back sir. Actually he didn’t. I just made that all up, but it entertained
me. But maybe as you are listening to this message you are thinking, “Well I do feel
guilty for my sin and I feel unworthy and I don’t feel like I am good enough to be
a Christian.” Well first of all let me say you are unworthy. You don’t deserve it.
But I don’t either. You don’t deserve God’s love. Nor do I. But God does love
you. And He will forgive you. Because 2000 years ago Jesus went to a cross and took the
penalty for every wrong you have ever done upon Himself. He took every sin that every
one of us have committed. And He paid the price for it. And He rose again from the dead.
And I don’t care what you have done. Jesus Christ the living Son of God will forgive
you right now. If you will acknowledge your sin and turn from it and put your faith in
Him. For the Bible says in 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just
to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” You can believe in
Jesus now and be forgiven. Or you can live in guilt. And you can life in remorse. And
you can live in despair. And hopefully you won’t do this but you could potentially
end up like Judas and do the wrong thing. Come and find forgiveness today. And if you
have never asked Christ to come into your life I encourage you to do so right now. And
if you have asked Him into your life but maybe you have been living a compromised life. You
have been playing with those baby rattlers so to speak that have turned out to have a
pretty potent bite. You don’t know quite how you have gotten into the mess you are
in. But you would like to get out of it. I am going to ask you to call out to the Lord
today as we close now in prayer. Let’s all bow our heads. And Father I pray
for every person here. Every person listening to this message. Help each one to put their
faith in You and find Your forgiveness this moment we ask in Jesus’ name.
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