Evil Never Sleeps

John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

Satan, he is the most evil and dangerous being in all creation. It is because of him that we have sin on the earth, and that our fore parents Adam and Eve sinned. And it is because they sinned that all human beings are born sinners. Satan hates, he never loves, his entire existence is nothing less than evil. But he is not alone, when he fell, he took a lot of angels with him, they are his servants and will do as he pleases. He also has a world full of servants and they also do his pleasure, “Ye are of your father the devil…”.  However, Satan is not only the lost persons father but just as those fallen angels, he is their god, and they also do his will, “and the lusts of your father ye will do.” These poor sinful souls with dead spirits are also haters of anything unlike them, they are images of their father Satan. Satan is sly, he was so sly he talked Eve into eating of the forbidden fruit. He has caused many of God’s people to sin and to do evil deeds. He has special evil powers, and he is so sly he can appear and an angel of light, or a creature of beauty. “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” 2 Cor. 11:14. But his very nature is evil, God created him to be evil, and this is his sole purpose. His earthly servants also appear as good people, they just like their father imitate God’s good. On the surface they are so counterfeit it is hard to see the difference between good and evil. He counterfeits God and Jesus, his servants on earth counterfeits Christians, Ministers, Pastors, and churches. But while on the surface they appear real and true, they are nothing but murders, liars, and deceivers. They have entered the Lord’s churches and attempted to destroy them by causing conflict and dividing the body of Christ called the church. They seek out the weak, the troubled, and those not embedded as a strong believer. They like their father never rest, they just keep working until they capture one or a few members that will oppose what is good and right.

No matter where Satan or his servants are, churches, mission workers, outreach, study groups, political leaders, even presidents, kings, or world leaders, they are all their fathers’ servants and their goal is to deceive and conquer the world and rid it of God, Jesus, and everything connected to Them. It may even surprise you to know that the “church” on your street, the sweet old lady next door, the minister or mission worker that seems so nice inside, may be the evilest soul you have ever met. We must always be aware, look for signs of darkness in them, and opposition to God, Jesus, or the Truth of the word. God warned us “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”1 John 4:1 Just because they seem nice, just because they smile, just because they seem happy, and just because they want to help you, that doesn’t mean they’re of God and that they’re not evil. You must ask, are their biblical doctrines aligned with the bible, do they walk in the spirit of the scriptures, does something seem to be not right, because all of these need to lineup with the scriptures. While counterfeit may look on the surface to be real, and while it may be very hard to see the fakeness, ask for help, your Pastor, or a bible teacher, or an elder in the church, because if you are led away, you may never return to the church or the truth of the word. And always remember, Satan nor his servants never rest, they will continue to seek your destruction from the church and even destroy the church if possible. And always remember what God said, “and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.” What they speak may seem close to what God teaches, but with a deeper look you can see the little flaws, lies, and ugliness. Because God said, “When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” Satan is the father of liars and they can do nothing but lie, and even if it looks good, it is nothing but lies. The Apostle Paul gave us this warning and we all need to take it deep into our souls, “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” 2 Cor. 11:3 – 4 And never forget to pray for God thru the power of the Holy Spirit to protect us from falling into their wicked hands.  

What is God’s promise of the Holy Spirit?

John 5:24 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”

I will never defend nor attempt to make any sense of the reasoning of people who believe in works for salvation. However, I understand their thinking because it is humanistic thinking and not that of God. When lost souls think of God and His gift’s and His workings with the people of this world, it is like they see God as a man and not the Sovereign God that He is. This means there must be two schools of the biblical understanding, fleshly and spiritual. Since the ability to think only like lost people is natural, then because of their dead spirit they can never think spiritual and are what God called spiritually discerned. However, with the Christian, the Holy Spirit has quickened our dead spirit (dead because of sin). “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” Ephesians 2:5 Here we see that a saved soul has had their dead spirit “quickened” and this quickening was accomplished by the Holy Spirit. It is only with this quickening by the Holy Spirit that we are able to hear and interact with God, lost souls have no ability to interact with God at all. It is only after the Holy Spirit has quickened our spirit that we are able to hear the call of God to come. “…He that heareth my word…” While some people, both saved and lost say this call is general (to every human soul) it cannot be because people with unquicken spirits do not hear God’s call. This same unquicken soul does not nor cannot hear the word of God or the gospel. While they can learn some biblical doctrine it will never have an inner meaning to them because they cannot hear it in their spirit which is dead. Paul wrote in “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Romans 8:14 The meaning here is there are two types of people, those are led by the Holy Spirit and those that are not. The deeper meaning here is that those that are led by the Holy Spirit are saved and those that are not led by Him remain spiritually dead. This is the quickening talked about in Eph. 2:5 “hath quickened us together with Christ”. Next Jesus says only when the Holy Spirit quickens the dead spirit in a human soul then they have spiritual life, and along with spiritual life the Holy Spirit of God begins a work within us. “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” Romans 8:9. He dwells in us the rest of our life because God has come into us and He has promised to never leave us nor forsake us, Heb. 13:5c. Some Christan’s understand little about the working of the Holy Spirit within us because God does not give to us all the same spiritual gifts, 1 Cor. 12:1-11. The Holy Spirit living inside of us, is how God communicates with the believer. He not only quickens our dead spirit, He not only gives us many spiritual gifts, but He also blesses us with the ability to see and hear in our new living spirit the word of God, even the gospel of Jesus Christ. God explained how that a lost soul without the Holy Spirit in them will never come to know Christ and will never please God in anything. Romans 8:7 - 8 “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” Without the quickening of the Holy Spirit one can never be saved, never truly learn the word of God, and will never do one single good thing to please God. God even said “the carnal mind is enmity against God” meaning in their heart they hate the True God. People want to believe that they control God, that God is not Sovereign and needs their permission to gift them with eternal life. God needs their permission to give them spiritual gifts, and that God needs their permission to give them spiritual understanding of the bible. But God needs no such permission, He does not need a sinner’s permission for anything, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13 So, why do lost souls not hear and react to the gospel, because the Holy Spirit has not graciously given them the ability to hear the gospel. He has not given them salvation, eternal life, not taught them the goodness of the bible. Let us remember as Christians just how blessed we truly are because God has given to us His Holy Spirit.    

Have most forgotten that Jesus is coming?

Revelation 22:20 “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”

I believe that Jesus Christ is coming, do you? If you are a Christian, and if God has blessed you with the precious gift of salvation, are you prepared for Jesus to return for the rapture? I have read that even in bible seminaries that most of the students do not believe that the return of Jesus is imminent, even worse a very large number of those doubters do not believe He will return at all. This leads me to ask, if they deny the word of God in His promise that Jesus will return and that is it imminent, then how can they qualify as teachers of God’s word? How can any Christian even call themselves a good Christian if they deny that His coming is imminent? As Christians if we cannot look at this world and cannot see the bible unfolding right before our eyes then we are too busy to pay attention to God. Have we not seen the apostasy or the falling away from the Lord’s churches? Can we not see the “luke warmness” of the Lord’s churches as in the Church in Laodicea? Can we not see that God is not saving as many lost and dying souls today? Can we not see that the future of the churches is getting dimmer and dimmer? Can we not see that Pastors of Truth are getting fewer and fewer. Can we not see the world waxing worse and worse, and that America is on the verge of socialism and maybe even communism? Even though the times sometimes may seem to be improving, the Lord warned us not to be deceived. God promised that Jesus is going to return, Jesus promised that He would return, therefore, never doubt, Jesus is coming and He is coming quickly.

Another promise God made was that Jesus would come as a thief in the night, meaning when you are not prepared, while you may be sleeping on Him, when you may have lost faith or interest in His return, when it is too late, Jesus will return. 1 Thess. 5:2 - 4 “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.” Jesus will not announce His coming, He will not let us know, but when the ordained time is here the last trumpet will sound and Jesus will order us up to Him. It is going to be a world disaster because people will be working and be gone, planes flying and people will just be gone even some pilots. People everywhere from every part of the world will at one time disappear.

Are you ready, have you prepared, or are you a doubter that His coming is imminent. So many Christians are not ready and that is sad, sad because they will regret not filling their lamps with oil and allowing them to burn bright. Sad for not fulfilling God’s commandments in their everyday life. Serving God is not an option in life but a demand from our King, Lord, and Master. Churches will regret turning to lukewarmness instead of being hot as God intended and for allowing our own selfish hearts destroy what God has assembled together. Just because God ordained this time, just because God warned us these days were coming before the return of our Lord does not justify it’s happening. I remember back when Christians were pleading with God for Jesus to return, their prayers were filled with request for the Lord’s return, and today you rarely hear prayers request the Lord to return. Are our lights still shinning in a dark and dying world that gets worse and worse? Are we still doing everything possible to get the gospel out to this lost world. Have we forgotten our responsibility that God has given to us as churches and Christians? God gave us one purpose in this world, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Matthew 28:19 – 20

Beloved, I believe we are in the last days, the Lord is coming, the question is, how will He find His people and churches doing? Why should this concern us so much, because He is coming in judgment for us all.   

God does not request.

Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”

When people fail to see God as God then they will never understand just how Sovereign God is and how that God never request anything from people. God does not request that we be honorable, He demands it, however, God knows our frame and in its natural state we can never be anything but sinful and dishonoring toward God. God is nothing like you and I, He is as pure as pure can be, God cannot be anything like us or else He is nothing but a man. When we see God, we see a Being that needs nothing, He needs no one, and He never fails. God never request anything from any other creature or being, because He controls everything. People mistakenly make God appear to be human, they make Him to have feelings, cares, they make Him to be dependent on people as though we can add anything to God the very Creator of everything in existent. There is no power that God does not have and there is not anything that God does not have ultimate control over. People do not control God, God controls people. God hath the power over the lump of clay, God can make a man to be honorable or dishonorable just by creating it to be so. Look at the Prophet Jerimiah when God told him, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5 Jeremiah had no control to do anything but to be whatever God had chosen him to be. God asked nothing of Jeremiah because long before he was even formed in his mother’s belly God had already elected his life. Nebuchadnezzar, God made him a king, took him down, set him in the field to be like and eat like an ox, until God changed him and took him out. Saul of Tarsus, he did nothing to change from the evil hearted Jew that he was until Jesus paid him a visit. It is the same will all the people of the bible and it has been since creation and even today. The Jews did not choose to be God’s elected nation because God chose them. None of them people in the New Testament chose to be anything they were, even the Apostles and the first church membership was chosen and called out by Jesus as He said “come follow me”, it was not a choice but a command. God said of the first church and all churches after it, “But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.” 1 Corinthians 12:18, not only as members but by position also. The truth is God has total control over all His creation even Satan whom He created an evil spirit. It seems when some people see God, they refuse to see Him as the Sovereign Being that He is and thinks somehow that God bows to our want’s and wishes. If He did then He would not be God. I have heard preachers say some pretty silly things but the worst of all it that “God cannot change your will”, if He could not, then none of us would have ever been saved. Every time these people say these false things about the Sovereign God of the universe then they show their ignorance of the True God. Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:” Ephesians 3:20 “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” When people deny the Sovereignty of God, they deny God, because it is He who does as He pleases with all of His creation. God is not bound to the same moral standards as people are because He exist by the very laws He has made. God’s heart does not bleed with tears like ours because God does not feel, He ordains and purposes. People must see the True God and not some image that sinful man has made to fill their unholy thoughts. God is not a man, “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19