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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 *** 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
***.” 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
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