Weekend Review 05.08.11

Songs:

Furious (Jeremy Riddle)

Great, Great God (David Moore / Gateway Church)

Nothing But The Blood (Robert Lowry)

Great I Am (Jared Anderson / New Life Church)

Band:

Drums: Mark Monteiro

Bass: Gerald Lay

Electric Guitar: Corey Wilkins

BGV's: Trisha Brock and Carly Absher

Acoustic & Lead Vocals: (Me), Jason Eaton

We continued our Supernatural series by beginning Part One of Satan and Demons. We set out to answer three questions of two weeks about Satan and Demons. These three questions are...

1.) Who is Satan, what are demons and where are they from?

2.) What are they up to and what can they do?

3.) What can I do to protect myself?

In Part One we set out to answer the first two. We used two main scriptures to talk about who the enemy is and where they are from. The first one is Revelation 12:7-9.

⁷ And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon (SATAN); and the dragon (SATAN) and his angels (DEMONS) fought, ⁸ but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. ⁹ So the great dragon (SATAN) was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels (DEMONS) were cast out with him.

And also Isaiah 14:12-15,

¹² “ How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer (SATANS TRUE NAME), son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! ¹³ For you have said in your heart: ‘ I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ ¹⁵ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol (HELL), To the lowest depths of the Pit (HELL).

We do not know how many Angels the Lord created but we do know that they are CREATED. That is important to know. They are CREATED by the CREATOR. So God is on top. God is in completely control. We also see how prideful Satan was. He truly thought that he a covering angel of the Lord could be more powerful and more deserving than the CREATOR GOD. He was so good at deception and lying that he lead 1/3 of all the created angels astray with him. Then we see his life mission is to destroy the things of God. Since he is a created being and is only alive because God allows it he know that he cannot destroy God. So his ultimate goal is to steal, kill and destroy anything of God. If you are a parent and someone wants to really hurt you really bad what would they have to do? Hurt our family right?! I know if someone did something to Greenlee I would be very hurt. So Satan and his Demons try to go after the family of God. We also see that they were from Heaven, but that God cast them into Hell (Sheol, the Pit) as well as onto the earth. Scripture tells us that the enemy (Satan and Demons) are roaming the earth like a lions looking to devour us. When a lion goes in for a kill who does it go after? The weakest link. That why we have to constantly train ourselves spiritual by being in the Word of God, by being around other believe, by fellowship and worship the Lord corporately in Church and by praying for one another. I am reminded some amazing words by Pastor Brady Boyd of New Life Church in Colorado Springs in his new book "Fear No Evil"...

"We are in a real battle, and Satan plays for keeps. It's not merely a philosophical battle, a battle of wits. The fight is also visceral, one that can hit you right in the gut. But the victory if already God's. I take great comfort in that."

So as we prepare ourselves for battle lets daily remember this...

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸ praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— ¹⁹ and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.