Nine lies the Devil uses to cause doubt

has Satan really said hello and welcome to wretched my name is Todd frilled I am your host the wretch the song refers to this by many will be perceived as a dangerous message but if it is in the Bible we shouldn't consider it dangerous at all there are some glorious theologies that should give people encouragement and hope and joy and assurance and if we shy away from them because we fear somebody might abuse them then we're neglecting them and we're harming them what is the topic du jour well it's also the topic of the day and that is knowing that you are saved this is a malady that plagues many many Christians they are lacking assurance things happen in their lives they start to question their position with God and they doubt where do those things come from certainly not God in the Holy Spirit they come from the devil who is the father of lies who's been lying from the beginning what does he say has God really said now God spoke the truth the devil questioned it we're going to take a look at what the devil says to you to get you to doubt your salvation and reveal that it's a lie and then speak the truth this is where some might say that's kind of dangerous because if you try to give people too much encouragement and insurance well they might just go off to the sin racetrack and run around the chyme gonna work with this horse analogy as much as I can and they're going to be like a jock who just rides ass in hoarser on the send track because you told him that they're saved when they're not Matthew Meade had a similar issue in his day when he wrote just a beating of a treatise called the almost Christian discovered these were ways that the Christian was supposed to look and examine his own life to see if he's really in the truth and many people said hey but with such a careful and thorough and thoughtful examination you just might cause somebody to think that they're not saved and his response was if they're saved they won't get unsaved and they won't end up thinking that they're not saved because they actually are saved so he wrote to the people who weren't saved thought they were self deceived so that they could get saved it is apparent to some dangerous to talk too much about questioning your faith and to a degree I actually agree with that but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it to reveal the falseness in the false convert similarly when it comes to assurance if somebody is actually saved there they're not gonna use this as a license to licentiousness they're gonna use this to love God more so with that little preamble let's jump into has Satan really said but before we do how does Satan work exactly I don't think this is my speculation I don't think that the devil is at your doorstep there could be a demon but I think that the devil the Prince the power of the air he is the CEO of demonic forces I think that he's kind of busy concocting schemes and creating false religions not sure about this but I think I am there have been thousands of false religions created by the devil he just throws him up against the wall that wouldn't didn't stick Islam did oh that one didn't stick that one didn't stick that one didn't stick Oh Mormonism did so he's creating false religious systems and I think he's concocting the big ideas that cause confusion and can really wreck a culture ideas like post-modernism deconstructionism feminism critical race Theory Black Liberation Theology anything these big ideas that caused people to go home oh this is does God really said so he's probably not the one who is tempting you to doubt your salvation it's probably one of his minions but I suspect it's his idea to get you thinking these thoughts so that you do not experience the joy of your salvation which is exactly what Jesus wants you to have joy so let's jump into has Satan really said lie number one think about your sin Christian look at all of your sin look at how many times you sin every day don't look at your Savior look at your sin that is a bad bit of advice that will cause you to be really morbidly introspective the evangelical navel gazer who's constantly seeing failure now here's the reality you and I are constantly failing that if that that that those a little grain of truth in there someplace we are failures we are idle factories we produce all kinds of evil thinking and planning and scheming and fantasizing and and we do sin a lot but if all we do is look at that sin you are never going to have assurance and you're never going to have joy or Robert that was my Scottish accent Robert murder he McShane said for every look itself take ten looks at Jesus as the hymn writer said we are not to look at our sin all the time when Satan tempts me to despair and tells me of the sin within upward I look and see him there who put an end to all my sin that that's what we stop yes you see your sin you got it but then look to him and go thank you for saving me I got so much of this stuff it's unbelievable but wow you're an amazing Savior that's how God wants you to think the devil he wants you to think about your sin exclusively and forget your Savior that is a lie number two you if you call yourself a Christian should have 100% assurance of your salvation all the time and if you don't mwah-ha-ha you're not is that accurate is that biblical are we to have assurance yeah actually we are first on five twelve thirteen John wrote five chapters that you might know you are saved because with that knowledge comes a peace being settled and it produces a great deal of joy but that is not to say that we are to always have 100 percent I never have a doubt I never think a wild thought I've always got to have assurance otherwise I'm not a Christian I can't find that verse in the Bible why cuz it's not in there why cuz it is a lie of the devil look at the fruit in your life and you're gonna be seeing that you're led by the Holy Spirit you're not where you want to be but you're not where you were and that should give you assurance and when it falters as it will don't forget that doubt is not disbelief it is doubt it's a sin but it doesn't disqualify you from the kingdom why because this here little eye comes straight from the father of lies question have you been buying these lies we have seven to go how the devil would love for you to doubt your salvation neck on wretched you are in a master's Academy classroom these are indigenous pastors being trained and equipped by masters seminary graduates in 16 countries around the globe to rightly divide the word of truth so they can return to their churches and feed the sheep would you please consider supporting the master's Academy international rachet org slash pastor welcome back to wretched the Lord wants you to have assurance the devil does not an in an effort for you it to be robbed of that joy joy joy joy down in your heart he is willing to lie and he's awfully good at it because he's been studying the human race for millennium he knows the wiles and schemes that will trip us up and he employs them regularly because sadly they actually work but they are actually lies let's take a look at lie number three look at your life look at your circumstances do you really think that God loves you when you don't have or when this happens to you God doesn't treat his children like that clearly you're not saved and big lie God is a loving father and he disciplines his children and he knows the circumstance that is best for us we think it's this he knows it's that and he only gives good gifts to his children he doesn't send us time bombs everything is exactly the way that it should be our birth date our death date and the - in between don't let circumstances confuse you I know in this era we hear a lot even inside of evangelical circles that everything really should be equal among people that is not God's economy God doesn't have everybody with the same brain power with the same looks with the same work ethic with the same circumstance with the same pedigree they're all different and they're all given by God we'd the old testament just did that last night reading the Book of Amos and God is not pleased that there's so much injustice at the gate and he's really railing at the people you have been wicked you have been oppressing the poor and in the description that he gives when you get about 2 chapters 8 & 9 he's going to judge them and he makes it clear he's the one who's gonna bring calamity I'm do it when you see people getting treated like this you can know it's from me because I'm the just judge and I'm gonna do as I please and I'm gonna do what's right and even if it's painful I'm gonna do it because it is just then you go back Amos then you go to the Book of Amos and you read basically the same thing judgments coming and I'm gonna do it because God deals with people rightly pagans and Christians he is willing to pour out his wrath even now Romans 1 on unbelievers but what about when his children are feeling pain does God inflict it possibly possibly not if it's sinfully inflicted it's from the hand of another not from the Lord but he does permit it however he can send disease or sickness or death or calamity or bankruptcy anytime that he chooses but because we know he is a benevolent sovereign we don't go means he doesn't love me no it means that he wants better for you so don't believe the lie that if your circumstances are a struggle that you are not saved lie number 4 you only have counterfeit and yeah I had to look up how to spell counterfeit counterfeit works by the way I stole this list mostly from crippled gate have you ever heard this line yeah you're producing some works but they're fake that is such a lie and now I grant you up Hagen can do nice things a pagan can tell the truth a pagan can be benevolent so what fruit should you look at look at the unique fruit you used to think like this you used to act like this you used to talk like this you used to set your eyes on this but now it's different is it perfect no but it's different now those are new desires that stem from a new heart your works be careful that you don't disqualify yourself from the kingdom which you can't actually do by the way Romans 8:38 and 39 your works so when they are genuine and when they are new they're brought by the Holy Spirit that is what Romans 8 actually talks about that when you are being led by the Spirit and it doesn't mean you hear a voice or you get a nudging or a prompting it means that you're being led by his word into holiness don't look at those works and think well I didn't do them with this much genuine love as I should you're right you don't but that doesn't mean that they're counterfeit and the devil would like for you to believe it so that you don't have assurance the very thing that Jesus wants you to have let's get to lie did we make it all the way through it five no Christian battles sin this hard says the devil says the Bible Christians go to war against their sin this why so sneaky and he's so wicked that he would lie to you by saying well there's really no way that a Christian would have to struggle like that Christians don't deal with things like that are you kidding me we're in a battle against what sin the flesh and the devil this is a war zone that we are in and it is a struggle and we need to remember while we have been called while we have been justified we are not glorified we're living in that now not yet period now we are justified but we're not yet perfectly holy and it is going to be a lifelong struggle so when the devil says hey no Christian should really battle sin this hard the Bible goes it's only the Christian that battles sin that hard have you bought any of these lies we will continue what with our lists the way that the devil would love to have you be blue next on wretched as the year draws to a close and you consider the extra finances that perhaps God has blessed you with and as you consider giving some of your precious 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not the falsehood so let's continue this is a big one by the way line number six from the devil hey do you remember when you first got saved do you remember how on fire you were for the Lord do you remember how much joy you had used to cry at the drop of a hat it just about any sermon now you don't clearly you're not a Christian wrong wrong and wrong if you have been married for a number of years I think that you'll relate to this when I first got married I can remember when my wife and the doors opened and she was revealed to me and she started walking down the aisle with I think it may have been Pachelbel's Canon in D playing I didn't even ponder this i-i'll do sort of an impression but it was far uglier than this it was sort of it was it was it was sort of like this because I'd be bawling up there but it was like heaving this just physical response to wow I'm gonna be marrying this woman do I still feel that way today no no I don't does that mean I don't love my wife as much no no it doesn't what it means as that initial enthusiastic Hedi type of joy and love has been replaced by something far more profound and deep we've had children together we've had struggles together we have fought with one another and reconciled together we've been through twenty 28 years of life together and now I love her more deeply and profoundly than the day she said I do and the same thing is true with your Christian walk it's very fuzzy in the beginning it's all new and fresh I just love reading the Bible no I don't like reading the Bible as much oh I'm not saved no that's just a struggle that could be a temptation but are most the initial emotions get replaced by something deeper if you've been in the Lord for a long time don't be deceived that you don't have that same whoopee-doo feeling when you first got saved that that means that you are not it's a lie from the devil a lie number seven Christians don't relapse into sin yeah yeah they do remember Christian's fall but they don't dive they don't swim they don't stay in the pigsty but that doesn't mean you can't fall back into it especially with your by setting sin which kind of leads us into true Christians aren't tempted like that you've got a sin area in your life whatever it is and it's just going on and on and on it seems like forever and it might until your glorified Christians can sin Christians can feel temptation the difference is in how we respond to it there are times when we can fall there are times when we can stumble but look at your life you don't wake up in the morning go whoop-dee-doo I get to sin today no you go I'm Lord I don't want to sin today but there you go you take a tumble it means you've stumbled that means you're not glorified yet it doesn't mean that you are not saved do not believe these lies the Christian walk is a struggle and that does not mean that you're not the faith the very fact that you struggle at all is a demonstration that you are that's a pretty good rule if you ever doubt your salvation ask yourself the question and how do I feel about it if you go I don't know you know maybe I am whatever once the game on I'm very concerned about you but if you respond at the thought of not being saved by going no no no this is now what I want what would I do without my Savior I don't even want to be a doorkeeper in heaven I'll be a doormat I just want to be with the Lord if that's your response that is the sure sign that you're actually saved Christian don't let the devil rob you for your own sake and for the sake of others it is such a testimony to the world when we have assurance and when we have joy they look at us and they want to know about the truth of the hope that lies within us so there's so many motivations to having assurance but perhaps the chiefest is this when you don't have a surance you've repented you put your trust in Jesus Christ but you don't have assurance in essence this is what you're saying yes Lord I know you wrote Romans 8:38 and 39 nothing can separate me from your love yep right there in John 10 jesus said that his sheep write in his hand nobody's gonna snatch them out but maybe in my case that promise isn't true you're calling God a liar and so it's a sin when we have those doubts we need to repent and not buy the lies when we return for our wretched surprise can can you can you guess what it's gonna be next wretched [Music] the ultrasound shows them that there's life growing inside their womb changes how they see their circumstances and helps them relate to the reality of a growing baby ultrasounds save lives and right now because of a matching grant for every $28 ultrasound you support two lives will be saved would you please visit preborn org slash wretched well it's that time of year again when perhaps you are thinking about your year and finances and possibly supporting some ministries from which you've benefitted to support them if if and I know that's a really big if ratchet has been one of those 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supposed to but then God regenerates your heart and he starts giving you new desires and initially the pattern tends to be he really cleaned up the lobby the grand entrance to the hotel he's made it beautiful in other words he's removed probably that the settings sin maybe it never thoroughly goes away but your desires for that thing are now last and you don't want any of it and he goes to work I think initially on the big whoppers and our hotel lobby is clean unfortunately the process of sanctification is exactly that it is a process it doesn't get cleaned up immediately every room is not fully repaired upon conversion instead the Holy Spirit progressively opens up doors shines the light of his word into that filthy room to point out to you you've got a new area that needs some work that is precisely where the devil comes in with line number nine from the devil to get you to doubt your salvation for our wretched surprise your new sin proves you aren't saved so many people suddenly discover I've got a scenario I didn't know about that must mean I was never saved again the question is what's your response to this knowledge if it's hole hung you've got a major problem but if it's oh no then that's the sign that you are saved let's talk about one of those perhaps respectable sins covetousness you've been doing it if you've wanted this you want to win the lottery they've got stuff and you'd like to have it you haven't really thought much about it and then you hear that sermon that says your desires for other people's things are blasphemy because you're telling the Lord yeah you're the provider of everything you're not doing a good job if I were writing this story I'd have this stuff it is a wicked sin there you sit in your pew or your recliner and you go oh no I never new congratulations that doesn't mean you're not a Christian it means that you are if your response is one of rough penton's an until tomorrow go serve your king congratulations to James Holt you're the 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Published: Wed Dec 19 2018