Inked By Satan.

2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind!”

If you’ve got a tattoo, relax it’s not that kind of sermon!

A lot of people have gotten tattoos and some have wished that they wouldn’t have!

Somebody said that a tattoo is permanent proof of temporary insanity!

I want to talk to you about this permanent ink called: tattoos that have to do with our spiritual life.

I think the strategy of Satan can be summed up in this approach… he is a master in drawing us into SIN, and once he manages to do that, then he labels that person and makes them accept inwardly the failure, the shame, the condemnation, the guilt, the criticism, and the embarrassment and tattoo (permanently ink) these images into their brain… and be mined full of their sin and mess ups and live a life of shame and regret!

Then you hear that voice saying, you are beyond help… you are beyond hope…. You are worthless…. You should be ashamed…. You are not good… you never amount to anything… you are a failure…. You might as well just give up… you might as well just kill yourself…. And many other thoughts and negative voices inside!

Part of the devils tactic is to accuse us, attack us, and condemn us over and over and over again… why? He wants to get permanent ink in your brain, so he tattoos your brain… to you see yourself a person of shame, and failure that would be impossible to fix…. This is the scheme of Satan over our lives!

I’ve been ministering over a few years now and I’ve met many people like that! People both believers and unbelievers… Satan has tattooed their brain with these lies and believed this untrue image of them… the sad thing is that they have accepted this lies and believed it inwardly…. And this has sabotaged everything they do or say outwardly! The bible said, “for as he thinketh within himself, so is he”.

They feel like they are born losers! And their mind set is… if anybody fails I’ll be that one, if anybody loses I’ll be that loser, if anybody is going to mess up I’ll be that person! That’s who I am and that’s what I do best because I was born to lose!

You’ve got to surely be tattooed when you take drugs over and over again, that is a permanent ink in somebody’s thinking… this is all you ever going to be, you don’t have any reason not to take these drugs, they are good for you, Marijuana is a plant that God made therefore it’s for your own good… take it!

You’ve got to be surely tattooed when you drink alcohol bottle after another, day after day, sexual relationship one after another, ending in a crash and burn…. Something happens in the brain for people to act that way!

But you don’t have to be born a loser! Because Jesus heals the mind, heals the hearts, he heals the spirit, he cleanses the inwards, and reveals the truth which will set you free!

In 1886 Walter George was a nineteenth-century British runner from Calne who after set numerous world records… he ran a mile in 4minutes and 12 seconds.

Then in 1922 another athlete broke the record in 4minutes and 10 seconds (it took 36 years to shave off 10 seconds)…

In the 1930’s 2 men were living in the Middlesex England, both were diagnosed in the same hospital by the same doctor with the same disease… that disease said: they will never walk again and they will be confined to wheel chair for the rest of their lives, one of them accepted what the doctor told him and was confined to the wheel chair and never walked… the other man didn’t accept what the doctor told him and made a statement saying: not only will I walk, I will run!

After many thousands of attempts to get out of that wheel chair failed, but he kept trying over and over again, until his body submitted to his desire and started to walk and then run… and history records that in may the 6th 1954 in oxford England roger Bannister broke the record in less than 4minutes (3mnts.95sec.59of a sec)!

He inspired other athletes in the world, they had been tattooed in their mined that no one could run faster than a 4-minute mile! Only when he broke the record this thought had been broken along with other world records!

They were permanently inked with these lies and were taught that it’s impossible and couldn’t be achieved, year after year!

And that explains why nobody was able to break the 4-minute mile record…. But that tattoo was removed when roger Bannister did it! And in the next 4 years 25 runners broke the 4-minute mile!