Drink this to cleanse you from your most recent church experience
There is a popular Irish Drinking Song with the lyrics “Whiskey you’re the devil, your leading me astray.” Talk to most people and they think the devil’s playground is drugs and alcohol, strip clubs and wild living. Satan does have a hand in locking people into over indulgence in certain vices; however, I am convinced that the Devil’s best work is in imitating the truth by disguising himself as the truth. Satan is not the enemy standing outside the gate; he is the enemy that is in your living room. Satan does not stand outside the church with a pitchfork and horns looking to devour saints. No, he invaded the church thousands of years ago and disguises himself as priests, pastors, elders and church members in such a stroke of genius that these people do not even know they are doing the devil’s bidding. You see, back to whiskey, you know what you get when you drink whiskey. Whiskey does not hide itself. The devil does. In II Corinthians chapter 11 verses 14 and 15, the apostle Paul says, “For Satan himself is being transfigured into a messenger of light. It is no great thing, then, if his servants also are being transfigured as dispensers of righteousness – whose consummation shall be according to their acts.
Here we have definitive scripture that says Satan and his minions are disguised as good people doing good things. However, these doers of good put their trust in their good works and not in God and not in the saving work of Jesus Christ. Some might say they believe in Christ, but they put faith in their own ability to have faith or in some decision they have made and this becomes a work. In addition, many people try to uphold some sort of standard of rule keeping that denies the pure grace of Jesus Christ and His death and resurrection alone as being the only possible way to salvation. What are these people denying? Let’s stay in 2nd Corinthians:
Yet all is of God, Who conciliates us to Himself through Christ, and is giving us the dispensation of the conciliation, how that God was in Christ, conciliating the world to Himself, not reckoning their offenses to them, and placing in us the word of the conciliation (2 Corinthians 5: 18-19)
Here it is, these phony humans who claim to know and work for God deny so many scriptures that talk about God’s sovereignty and His Godly love that will save every single human being. The verses above say that all is of God and the message the saints must give is that He (not He and us) is conciliating the world to Himself through Christ (not any contribution of our own). Jesus saved the world and the mission of believers is to tell the world that they are conciliated to God through Christ. It is a done deal and Christ has saved everyone, the mission is to help people realize this. However, the realization does not save the human being, Jesus Christ does. As a result, every individual human that walked the face of the earth will one day be saved, but each will be saved in his or her own order based on coming to this realization. Some will get in early and have greater honor in the coming eons, some will experience the second death in the lake of fire. But the end game, when God’s plan is complete, He will be all in all and fill every one of His creatures because of the work of Jesus Christ.
Why can’t people believe these truths? Because this reality cannot be seen because Satan is the god of this eon and this present wicked world. He deceives and imitates the truth to get people to discard God or subtly get them to believe in themselves while thinking they believe in God. Satan fools some into not believing in Jesus at all, and some he fools by making them think that they are partners with Jesus in salvation. For example, they must choose Him or act right in order to activate their salvation. This self-righteous thought process denies that Jesus and Jesus alone is the savior of the world, not Jesus and I.
In whom the god of this eon blinds the apprehensions of the unbelieving so that the illumination of the evangel of the glory of Christ, Who is the Image of the invisible God, does not irradiate them (2 Corinthians 4: 3-4).
Take the blinders off and realize that Jesus is the savior of the entire world, not the potential savior. Take the blinders off and realize that God will one day be all in all through the work of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ alone. Jesus Christ has reconciled you to God and there is nothing you can do to earn salvation and nothing you can do to lose your salvation. Trust in Jesus completely and deny the god of this eon (satan).
Because of our Lord Jesus Christ, God is not reckoning the world’s offenses to them – 2nd Corinthians 5: 19
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
- 1 John 4:14
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