How The Devil Or God Wants To Use You!!!

We live in an age of opportunities; there are so many ways God can use us.

But preachers all across this nation do not preach enough on how the devil wants to use us.

We have to make the decision in this life if we are going to:

(1) Allow God to use us.

(2) Allow Satan to use us.

WHY SHOULD WE MAKE THAT DECISION?

• Because the devil has declared a SPIRITUAL WAR on every Christian.

• But many Christians have never declared a WAR ON THE DEVIL.

We are at a disadvantage in this battle with Satan.

(1) He has had thousands of years of experience in fighting Christians. THOUSANDS OF YEARS!!!

(2) He knows everyone here has weakness and he know what weapons to use to defeat us.

(3) He has record of defeating some of the greatest Christians who ever walked on this earth. Including Preachers, Missionaries, Sunday school teacher, song leaders, deacons and Christians in the church.

While Satan has this advantage over us we read in II Cor. 2:11 the Word of God tells us “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

AS MUCH AS:

• GOD WANTS TO USE EVERY CHRISTIAN HERE

• ALSO, THE DEVIL WANTS TO USE EVERY CHRISTIAN HERE.

When Lucifer was in heaven before he sinned, he was an anointed cherub situated in close proximity to God’s glory. HE WAS IMPRESSED!!!

Look at Isaiah 14:14 tell us that Lucifer wanted to be like the most High”.

After he saw what it was like to be worshipped Satan started comparing himself to God, he felt inferior.

In Lucifer’s case, as an angel he was created superior to man, yet inferior to God.

He said, Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

• Because God created man in His image and likeness (Gen 1:26), jealousy took root in Lucifer’s heart.

• Consequently, he sought to hurt God deeply by causing His precious creation to fall. (Mankind)

• Each time a soul enters Hell another part of God’s creation is lost for eternity.

This grieves our Heavenly Father deeply.

In order for inferiority to exist at all, there must be a comparison of some kind.

It could be argued that ‘comparison’ was the first sin.

Illus: For example, in the Garden of Eden, Satan made Eve feel inferior by suggesting, if she ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, she’d be ‘like God, knowing good and evil’ (Gen 3:5).

Ironically, Adam and Eve were already like God, being created in God’s image and likeness.

But notice, Satan’s suggest that Eve was inferior in her present state was the very bait he used to entice her.

Satan wanted to be like God. And today in this ungodly world in which we live he has become the god of the ungodly in many ways.

His kingdom is of this world…

• Lost people worship the god of sports

• Lost people worship the god of Hollywood

• Lost people worship the god of material things

• Lost people worship the god of money

• Lost people worship the god of NASCAR

We Christians are at war with the devil and every day he pulls out every weapon he has to entice us to serve the gods of this world.

Illus: The famous book “The Art of War,” is an ancient Chinese military exposition, written by Sun Tzu.

Within its pages, the primary takeaway is that before one goes to war, one must fully understand not only the enemy, but the strategies he consistently utilizes.

This is why the Lord tells us we should not be IGNORANT of the weapons he uses against us each day.

• The devil has no intrinsic authority over the believer in Christ; he can only gain a foothold through deception or ignorance.

• The devil can’t ‘make’ you do anything…he can only tempt, coerce, manipulate or suggest.

• Ultimately, we are responsible for our actions and cannot lay blame at the door of the devil.

We cannot, and we must not be ignorant of HIS DEVICES lest he get an advantage over us.

Christians should be constantly on guard against the weapons of Satan.

There are two things we all will agree on in this congregation:

(1) WE RECOGNIZE THAT GOD CREATED US

Christians believe in CREATIONISM not in EVOLUTION.

Why?

One of the reasons is that evolution does not make any sense.

Illus: Did you hear about the six-year-old boy that was sitting in a classroom? The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children.

The conversation went like this:

• Teacher: “Tommy, do you see the tree outside?”

• Tommy said: “Yes.”