Monday, April 25, 2016

Satan’s Defeat and Your Legal Rights (Part 2)

April 25
 
Satan’s Defeat and Your Legal Rights (Part 2)
 
“Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” (Col. 1:12-14)
 
Kingdoms represent governments and power. We are no longer under the reign of the kingdom of darkness; therefore, we have the right to be free from all of Satan’s bondage. As citizens of a different kingdom, we have citizenship rights as well as inheritance rights.
God’s kingdom includes healing for the body, deliverance from demonic oppression and possession, and protection from the attacks of Satan in all areas of our lives (Matt. 4:23; 10:7-8; Luke 9:2; 11:20; 12:32). As a citizen of the United States I possess certain rights and privileges. If this is true concerning USA citizenship then how much more as a citizen of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ?
Satan can only do what we give him the right to do. The devil has often kept us in ignorance, attacking us and then blaming God for the attacks. We accepted what Satan has done to us because we believed God was behind it. We either believed that God Himself was bringing negative things upon us or permitting Satan to do it in order to test us. Yet God has redeemed us from Satan’s government and taken away his rights to us.
As long as we remain ignorant of the fact that Satan no longer has any rights over us we will allow him to have his way. Once we begin to see the truth concerning our redemption in Christ then we will refuse to accept as normal every negative thing that comes our way. We will learn to challenge Satan in line with our redemption rights and privileges in Christ (Ps. 107:2; Heb. 6:12).
Once we leave the darkness and come into the light, we begin to see our inheritance. This has been made possible by the precious blood of Jesus. We have been redeemed from the curse that comes as a part of the kingdom of darkness. The curse included sickness, sin, poverty, and defeat in every area of life (Deut. 28; Gal. 3:13-14).
Father God did not only rescue us from Satan’s evil dictatorship, but He also gave us “rights in Christ” that we are able to exercise when the enemy attempts to attack and overpower us. He “has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Satan’s Defeat and Your Legal Rights (Part 1)

April 24

Satan’s Defeat and Your Legal Rights (Part 1)

“Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” (Col. 1:12-14)

We are partakers of the inheritance of light. This is because we are no longer under the authority of darkness. According to Webster's dictionary an inheritance is something that we come into possession of or receive as a right or divine portion.[1] When Adam sinned against God he turned his God given dominion over to the devil (Gen. 1:26). Satan gained legal rights over us. When Jesus died as our substitute He destroyed all of Satan’s legal rights and delivered us from his dominion.
Kenneth Wuest translates verse 13, “….who delivered us out of the tyrannical rule of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.” We were under Satan’s tyranny but God rescued us and placed us into the kingdom of the Son He loves so much. There is not one iota of selfishness in God. He loved Jesus so very much yet He was willing to give Him to the world to purchase our freedom from Satan’s tyrannical rule.
Paul says that those who are redeemed by the blood of Jesus and delivered from the authority of darkness are translated into a “kingdom”—the kingdom of God’s dear Son. Here we have two authorities—two kingdoms that are opposed to each other. Jesus makes it clear that Satan has his own kingdom.
God has a kingdom and Satan has also set up a kingdom. Satan is a king who oppresses his subjects and keeps them in bondage. The reason why God’s Kingdom, when it is proclaimed, becomes good news is that, when one embraces it they are released from the bondage inflicted upon them by Satan’s kingdom (Matt. 12:22-29). No wonder Satan makes every attempt to blind men and keep them from receiving this good news (2 Cor. 4:3, 4). It is the good news that is the destruction of his evil works over our lives. Now that truly is “good news.”



[1] Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997), p. 1008

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Sunday, April 17, 2016

Does God do Evil? (Part 2)

April 17

Does God do Evil? (Part 2)

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. (Amos 3:6-7)

Yesterday we learned that God cannot walk with those who are not in agreement with Him. Therefore, His method of inflicting evil is to remove His protection and allow those who reject Him to suffer the consequences of their rebellion. The Israelites had forsaken Him. After much pleading God is said to have finally forsaken them:

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.... For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.... Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. (Amos 5:1, 2, 4, 5, 14, 15)

Notice the mercy of the Lord as shown in these passages: He does not do anything to Israel (the evil or disaster that He permits as a cause of their rebellion) without first warning them through His prophets, thus giving them a chance to repent. He gives Israel a chance to turn back to Him so that He can be gracious to them and offer His hand of protection in spite of how they have treated Him. What a loving and gracious God!!!

Israel is not actively being punished by God. He is punishing them by withdrawing His presence and protection (forsaking Israel). However, Israel is given an opportunity to turn this whole thing around by seeking God. If they return to Him then He will protect them. God is the source of life (John 14:6; Acts 3:15; 1 John 1:1-2). His withdrawal means that Israel will be open to death and its consequent destruction. Lack of life means death. Therefore, Israel is encouraged to turn back to the source of life.

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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Does God do Evil? (Part 1)

April 16

Does God do Evil? (Part 1)

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. (Amos 3:6-7)

As we study the Bible carefully we learn that God is often said to do the thing that He allowed to occur after He has removed His protection from a person or nation. However, this protection is only removed when the person or nation has removed themselves from His protection. God persistently begs and pleads with people to return to Him before He finally and reluctantly “gives them up.”
Before He speaks about His responsibility for the evil done in a city God asks, “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (Amos 2:2-3). Due to their constant sinning Israel was not in agreement with God and therefore was not walking with God. Like every other passage of this type, Amos 3:6 is permissive in that God is allowing men the consequences of their choices.
Commenting on Isa. 45:7, Amos 3:6, and other passages that contribute evil to God, Daniel Waterland writes, “God sees fit to execute vengeance he unties the hands of wicked men and lets them loose to commit all uncleanness and iniquity with greediness. He withdraws his protecting arm for a time from those whom he has once determined to chastize.”[1] Some of the church Fathers such as Irenaeus (125-202 AD) agree:

“Upon all those who separate themselves from Him, God inflicts the separation that they have chosen. Now separation from God is death; separation from light is darkness; separation from God means the loss of all good things that come from Him.”[2] 

The Lord “does evil” by removing His protection from those who reject Him. Stay in Christ and remain protected.



[1] Waterland, Daniel “A Thanksgiving Sermon” The Works of the Reverend Daniel Waterland (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1843), p. 452
[2] Quoted by Faryna, Rev. Deacon Michael The Theology of Illness and Death, https://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_andrews/profiles/MichaelFarynaArticle.html (Last accessed: Dec. 19, 2012).

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Jesus Dispelled Satan's Lies

Here is an awesome paraphrase of John 17:25-26 from the Remedy New Testament:

25"Perfect and righteous Father, though the selfish world believes all sorts of lies about you—and therefore does not know you—I know you, and they know that you have sent me. They hate me because they prefer their lies about you to the truth.26But I have made you known to them in order to dispel the lies about you that Satan has spread–the lies that prevent them from knowing you. I will keep making you known, for this is the only healing solution–the truth about you which dispels the lies, restores trust, and results in the love you have for me being reproduced in them. Then the infection of selfishness will be removed, and my character of selfless love will be restored within them."

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Idol Worship is Bondage

April 10

Idol Worship is Bondage

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood (Psalm 106:36-38)

Worship consists of giving God first place in our lives. Nothing is to come before God (Psalm 73:25). Anything that comes before God and that we desire more than Him has become an object of our worship whether we realize this or not.
This is the sin of idolatry. Webster’s defines idolatry as “Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.” When God first gave the first of the ten commandments to Moses the pagan nations surrounding Israel worshipped statues made with their own hands and referred to them as “gods.” Even in our day many non-Christian religions practice this method of idol worship.
While pagan practices exist today even among civilized people, Christians must understand that even they can fall into the sin of idolatry. Whenever we are excessively devoted to anything other than God and His Word we are committing this egregious sin. One need not have a statue in order to be an idolater. Sadly, any type of idolatry will put us in bondage to Satan.
Worshipping Satan and demons will snare you. It will trap you and place you into bondage. God is about freedom and liberty while Satan and demons are about entrapment and harsh slavery. Yet, when we choose to worship the true and living God, He delivers us from the enemy’s snare:

HE WHO dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust! For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. (Psalm 91:1-3; The Amplified Bible)


When we worship God for who He is and what He does, we have a continual reminder of His promises. We place ourselves on God’s side and the devil, while he may growl and snarl, is unable to snare us.



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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Is God’s Desire for Worship Ego Driven?


April 3

Is God’s Desire for Worship Ego Driven?

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. 3:18)

According to Strong’s dictionary, this word “beholding” means “to mirror oneself” and “to see reflected”. We are changed into God’s likeness by beholding who He truly is. David taught this same truth in the psalms when he wrote, “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness” (Psalm 17:15). To worship God is to behold Him and be changed into His likeness (Psalm 27:4).
God is the highest person in the entire universe. There is no one greater than Him. To worship Him is to come up to His level. On the other hand, when we worship anything lower than God, we come down to the level of this object and become debased (Rom. 1:23-28; Acts 7:42, 43). Sin is centered around the worship of things lower than God that in the long run debase and destroy us.
God knows that He is the greatest and highest in the universe and desires man to excel to great heights as well. God knows that for man, who was created in His image and likeness, to worship anyone or anything else is to go far lower than His created potential. An example of this debasement is found in Jeroboam’s introduction of idolatry to Israel:

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt (1 Kings 12:28)

It is easy to tell that Satan is behind this since Jeroboam does the exact same thing that Israel was condemned for in the wilderness (Ex. 32:4-8). This was part of the “beholding” that they did (Psalm 106:19-21) which made Israel become exactly like the images that they worshipped (Hosea 4:16-17). Concerning those who make idols, David said, “They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them” (Psalm 115:8).

Therefore, God’s desire for our worship is not ego driven. It is love driven. He knows very well that we become what we worship because worship is beholding. If we worship Him then we behold Him and become like Him. If we worship anything lower than Him we become debased. He loves us and wants the best for us. He is the best that we can have.

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