Introduction to know your enemy...
James 1:13-15
“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He (God) any man, but ever man is tempted, when he drawn away of his own lust and enticed. Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin and sin when it is finished brings forth death.”
Eph 6:10-18
“Finally brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high (heavenly) places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand. Stand therefore having your loins gird about with the truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith where with you shall be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God praying always with all prayer and supplication for the saints…”
Methods of Satan
Satan is a Liar
John 8:44
“You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie he speaks of his own for he is a liar and the father of it.”
Satan told the first lie and he created division and doubt by doing so. By adding one word to the Word of God he created enough doubt to cause Eve to believe his lie. God said you will die but satan said you shall NOT die…a very subtle false reality was presented hence satan is subtle…barely noticeable but a lie indeed.
Luke 10:18
“And He(Jesus) said to them, I beheld Satan as lightening fall from heaven.”
Just as lightening has a timing of its own, satan rebelled in Heaven and was cast down. Satan exercised his own will was cast down to earth.
Luke 22:31
“And the Lord said Simon, Simon behold Satan hath desired to sift you like wheat: but I have prayed for thee that your faith fail not and when you are converted strengthen your brethren.”
Satan is limited power. When you are a faithful child of God, then God limits what satan can do to you. He asked for permission to sift Peter. Peter denied three times because of this sifting, wept bitterly, and then strengthened his brethren just as Christ foretold.
Satan wants to hurt God by causing rebellion and sin. Satan did not seek to join Christ but to try and take an apostle away from him and cause more division. Satan is a liar and there is no truth in him.
Satan and his ministers are counterfeits
2 Cor 11:13-15 “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ, and no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works.”
How many Buddha, Mohammad, Hindus, Benny Hinns, or someone else claiming to be close to God or having a message of higher truth are in the world. Jesus said there would be many false Christs.
How many current so called Christian leaders are servants of Satan?
How can you tell the difference between the authentic and the counterfeit?
Rev 12:9
“and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan which deceives the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him”
Notice the text says he deceives the whole world. That means he has a great deceiving power. Like Jesus said there will be few that make it.
Satan has an end and his power is limited to those who are in Christ. The few that are in Christ must be able to discern the difference between truth and error, from light and darkness, and from good and evil.
Counterfeit God and His will
The devil snatches the truth and replaces it with a lie
Mark 4:15, “and these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, but when they have heard, satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in his heart. “
Look at Adam and Eve, the devil comes along and say did God say you will surely die, I tell you you will not surely die. The devil created doubt about what God said and Eve fell for the lie.
Satan will try to twist the words of God to cause you to be damned or lost. Do you want to be lost? Yes or no? Do you want to have eternal destruction when this life is over? Yes or no?
Satan uses evidence to support his lies (strong delusion)
2 Thes 2:9-12, “even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
2 Cor 11:4, “For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached or if you receive another spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted you might bear well with him”
Satan and his ministers call themselves Christian.
They preach about a Jesus you can read about in the New Testament and give out a spirit that does not come from obedience to the truth but comes as evidence to support a lie that leads you away from the truth.
How is that fair? If you believe God and His truth one must be baptized to receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38-39) or one must ask the Father as Jesus said in His day (Luke 11:13). Then reject said message of faith and then go and obey then satan who is limited… then have no place in you for the truth of God. Satan will be subtle and lie with false evidence and thus satan is allowed to convince you to follow the fake Jesus and receive the fake spirit as it is written in 2 Cor 11:4…For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached or if you receive another spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted you might bear well (tolerate) with him.
Satan uses religion to disguise calling evil good and good evil
Rev 2:9, “I know your works, and tribulation and poverty, but you are rich and I know the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews and are not but are of the synagogue of satan.”
You can do the right thing for the wrong reasons. The terrorist or the spy will abide by their enemies until it is time to deploy their plans of attack. Look at the devil and his plan for Eve, he just added 1, three letter word to what God said, the word NOT. Just a little twist on what God said.
Jesus warned us, He said “The truth will set you free” John 8:32. He also said “let them alone, they be blind leaders of the blind and if the blind follow the blind they both fall into a ditch” Mat 15:14
There are many religions that teach evil as good. Who determines what is good? Not my neighbor, not my mom, not religion, not all the blind leaders but the Word of God, Jesus the Christ determines the truth, or good from evil. His is the New Agreement between God and mankind, through the hands of a Mediator named Jesus Christ who came from Heaven and accepted our punishment of death and was resurrected from the dead and now offers eternal life to those that obey Him.
Satan wants to tempt you 1 John 2:16-17
… through lust of the flesh
Rom 6:12-13, “Let not sin reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof, neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
Gal 5:16-17, “This I say then walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do the things you would.”
Gal 5:24 “… and they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts…”
All of us have bodily needs and cravings. We need water, food, and clothes but we also have wants. I want to eat sweets, I want a hug, I want a girlfriend, or do nots I do not want to be embarrassed, I do not want to cause a scene, I do not want to stand up and say something. This is our fleshly suits calling to our soul to obey its lusts. However our spirit that is from God we received when we obeyed the truth of the gospel by being baptized for the forgiveness of sin, says preach it to them, you need to serve God not your girlfriend, you need to make a scene in Heaven that will glorify Jesus. Our soul is stuck in the middle trying to choose the right thing when the truth is revealed to us. After all the best any soul can do is what is right when it learns the truth.
… through lust of the eyes
1 Timothy 6:6-10, “…but godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out and having food and clothing let us be therewith content, but they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and in to many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after they have pierced themselves through with many sorrows”
Why do people want money? So they can have what their eyes see. In a nutshell covetousness is lust of the eyes.
Luke 12:15, “and Jesus said unto them, take heed and beware of covetousness for a man’s life consists not of the abundance of things which he possesses.”
We live in a society that calls possessions ours and success is measured by your possessions. We look at the house you live in or the car you drive or the phone you use or we look at the clothes you wear instead of the Maker of all things that gives us these things for our use and His purpose.
Heb 13:5, “Let you behavior be without covetness and be content with such things as you have, for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee…”
Be happy with what Jesus had given you, and enjoy those blessings. Stop seeking after more possessions that offer emptiness. Seek after God who is the only one that can satisfy your longings.
… with the pride of life
Rev 2:2, “I know your works and your labors and your patience and how you cannot bear them which are evil and have tried them which say they are apostles and are not and have found them to be liars…”
Fake leaders of Christ. There are many today that call themselves apostles, there are apostolistic churches, which have signs and wonders but are enforcing the lie that man is God. That it is all about your desires, it is all about your life now, it is all about me…
Many of the fake leaders actually believe the lie of satan as Christ and the truth from God. Many call satan or one of his ministers Christ, not able to discern the truth from error. Many other religious leaders in other religions all claim truth as well.
2 Tim 4:2-4, “preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke and exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall heap to themselves teachers having itchy ears and they shall turn their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables…”
People want a preacher in Christ to tell them we do no wrong. We need not to change a thing. There is nothing wrong, you are perfect. Have you read Revelation and what Jesus said to those seven churches? We need the truth in order to change and follow it.
2 Cor 10:4-5, “for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought unto the obedience of Christ…”
We think we are something. Mankind sure thinks himself to be the center of the universe instead of God’s servants. We think we are the best at this or that, we think we are smarter than so and so, we are so much more righteous than others, but fail to realize that we are sinners in need of a savior and we are his unworthy servants.
Conclusion:
Rev 22:17-19, “and the spirit and the bride say Come and let him that hear say come, and let him who is athirst come and whosever will let him take of the water of life freely. For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things written in this book”
Satan is real and controls most of this world. Many religions and so called Christian leaders teach the doctrines created by demons and devils and call them Christianity and other religions. Many men make God’s commands void but injecting their words or teaching instead of speaking where the bible speaks and being silent where the bible is silent. Many sincere people have fallen prey to the blind leading the blind because they do not check the truth or open their eyes and ears to turn toward Christ.
Satan and his ministers add to God words and cause sin. Just like satan did in the garden of eden by adding 1 three letter word not. Many of satan and his ministers take away from God’s word saying yea that is what Christ said but you do not have to do that. Or they explain away or snatch away God’s truth by saying that is not what it means. God wants everyone to hear and understand and has already provided a way for you to be saved and to have all things that pertain unto life and to be godly.
Jesus said “He that believes and is baptized will be saved but he that does not believe will be damned” Mark 16:16
Blessing to bestow:
Hope that God rewards your faithfulness in right doing or righteousness with a blessing.
Prayer for deliverance:
Father, please meet our souls’ deepest needs and heal our souls deepest wounds, and restore us as a new creature in Christ, please help us do your Holy will and we renounce anything unholy, in Jesus of Nazareth's name amen. you agree? yes or no.
Quick Message of The Death Burial and Resurrection of Jesus the Christ of Nazareth:
You ever been baptized into Christ; do you believe that Jesus of Nazareth died on a cross and was raised three days later after the worse scourging a sinner ever was punished with? and that Jesus did so willingly so He could reconcile you to your Creator? Jesus Christ is the only Fathered of our Creator the Father of All, the Great I am of all that Is. Do you believe Jesus died and made a way for all your wrongs to be forgiven and a way for you to learn to never do evil again? Yes or No? Jesus of Nazareth, will never lie to you and promises in Matthew 5:6, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. or will you ask Jesus of Nazareth to confirm this truth to you? Yes or No?
Jesus of Nazareth said:
Joh 3:3-6 ASV Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (4) Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born? (5) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (6) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Mar 16:15-16 ASV And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation. (16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
It is Written in the New Agreement between God and mankind called the New Testament (Covenant) of Christ:
Act 2:38-39 ASV And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (39) For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
Col 2:11-13 ASV in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; (12) having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. (13) And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;
Rom 6:3-5 ASV Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (4) We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. (5) For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;
2Co 5:17-21 ASV Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. (18) But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; (19) to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (20) We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. (21) Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Rom 10:8-11 ASV But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: (9) because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: (10) for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (11) For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be put to shame.
How to baptize a person in total immersion for the remission of sins and to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit:
“In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, by His Authority, I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit for the remission of sins and to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit based on your confession that Jesus Christ is the only Fathered of our Creator, the Savior of mankind…” Then totally baptize them in water, watching the bubbles they not go up the nose if a creek or river or sea, then after plunging them raise them. And I usually try to say, walk in Spirit and Truth.
Way to allow the teachings of Jesus to be taught to confirm the words of Mahomed that Jesus the son of Miriam is a true prophet:
It is written: in the Holy book, Jesus, the son of (Mary) Miriam is a true prophet. One must reason there is no harm, a devout one must confirm the word of Mahammad by reading the teachings of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to see if both are true prophets.
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