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"Follow Your Heart". And 5 More Lies… If Only. What's it feel like To have an enemy?. "He doesn't exist…" "You're just using fear To motivate…" "Silly Christian fairy tales…". The 2 Strategies: - I'm scary strong, fear me - I'm not an enemy, play with me. Both place us in chains.
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"Follow Your Heart" And 5 More Lies… If Only
"He doesn't exist…""You're just using fearTo motivate…""Silly Christian fairy tales…"
The 2 Strategies:- I'm scary strong, fear me- I'm not an enemy, play with me
Fear me Do what I say Live in fear Adjust life to my presence Feel powerless
Play with me Flirt with what God forbids Trust in things outside God Adjust life to those things Feel powerful and in control
You have an EnemyHe hates youBecause of your imageYour possible destinyAnd your God's love for you
The scriptures talk aboutAn angel cast out of heavenWith 1/3 of the other angels(Rev. 12)
The Old TestamentGives a symbolic pictureOf an angel cast outIsaiah 14, Ezekiel 28
“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven…"- Jesus, Luke 10:18
You are hatedBy an enemy who wantsTo trip you up, entrap youAnd keep you from following God's desire for your life
The only entrance The Enemy has into your lifeIs what you give himAnd what God allows
...on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes
And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out…
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are- the Holy One of God”
But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him- Mark 1:21-26
Because of Jesus authority"Even the demons are subjectto us in your Name…"- Luke 10:17
Here's the point:This isn't a fair fightIt's not 50-50It's God over the EnemyEvery time
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross- Col. 2:15
Judas- Satan entered himThe cross was evilThe people were murderousJesus used it to win freedomAnd make a public spectacle
…in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me- 2 Cor. 12:7
The only entrance The Enemy has into your lifeIs what you give himAnd what God allows
If God allowsThere is a purposeAnd a timeThat will glorify GodAnd be for your ultimate joy
How can I give him entrance?- Fear- Unresolved anger/unforgiveness- Self-seeking- Divination and misplaced faith- Pursuing wrong desires
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger
They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded- Deut. 32:16-17
Stir up the gift that is in you…For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind- 2 Tim. 1:6-7
The only fear we should haveIs reverent awe At the power and holinessOf our God
The only entrance The Enemy has into your lifeIs what you give himAnd what God allows
Fear says, "I alone am not enoughAnd God can't help me"And that's a half-truth
In your anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold- Eph. 4:26-27
See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled- Hebrews 12:15