Halloween, The Devils tools year around.
Folks, we live in a world today that we should sift all our children’s activities and things that they are exposed to each day as though we were looking and inspecting the candy they get on Halloween night and throw out the things that look suspicious. I know it’s hard and most of the time just impossible to watch every move and be there all the time but, we could be a little more cautious in our homes and things like TV and tell them why some things are just not good for them to watch. Be straight up with them and tell them why you think Satan is behind some things, you might be surprised just how much they do understand.
Maybe they were waiting to see if you thought it was OK. If it’s OK to the parents or even to us grandparents, then it must be OK for our kids or grand kids to watch.
Satan has many tools in this day and time to work his evil doing with.
1 Peter 5 and lets began reading in verse 1 Peter verse 6. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7. Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 8. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9. Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 11. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen
The Devil or Satan is our enemy. He is described by Peter as our adversary or the one who stands against us or opposes us. The Devil is very deceitful in his activity in dealings with mankind. He is evil and very wicked. Jesus said he was a liar and the father of lies. He is a murderer. The truth is not in him. He may only use the truth to teach a lie. There is a saying that says that Satan will use 99% truth to float one lie.
The Devil’s tool of worldliness, John describes worldliness in 1 John 2:15-17.
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
There is a great difference between spirituality and worldliness.
The Association Journal in a study of more than 3,000 kids ages two to 18 presents disturbing evidence that the average U.S. child spends almost 5 1/2 hours a day either in front of the TV, the computer or the radio. “Watching TV, playing video games, listening to music, and surfing the Internet have become a full-time job for the typical American child”.
More disturbing was that the study showed parents being inattentive to their children’s’ media habits. According to USA Today, the report revealed that 61% of parents have no rules about TV viewing, even though 65% of kids age eight and up have a television in their own room. “This research should make every parent stop and think because, every day, their children are spending more time using media than they spend at school.”
Love for the world will cool your love for God and love for God will cool your love for the world.
Many who are saved have gone back out into the world because they have yielded to it’s appeal.
The material things do not last forever. The things that we hold dear like position, power, passion, possessions, and popularity are only for the moment.
The saved often get very tired in serving the Lord. The conflicts and pressures they feel are real. I’ve been there and I’m sure you have, if not you will.
When we feel exhausted and weak and powerless, we need the Lord who is our strength.
The Devil wants us to become weary in the struggle because of the weakness of the flesh.
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Many who are saved have stopped serving the Lord because they become weary. Many who are saved have quit going to church and have gone back out into the world. The light that Jesus wants to shine brightly has become dim. When you become weary instead of adjusting your load in church work, you may decide to drop the whole load you are carrying.
You cannot try to live in both worlds. A believer cannot be happy in the world and a believer cannot be happy in the Lord’s work with the world in them.
You will be going the wrong way. You will be doing the wrong thing. You will be saying the wrong thing. (2 Timothy 3:16). All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
The Holy Spirit will convict you of wrong doing. You will feel guilty. You will not feel right before God. Listen to what God is telling you.
The great teaching of repentance is seldom preached and even more seldom experienced by God’s people. In our wicked day, few people think they are doing wrong.
You dare not say sin. As a result people do not have fellowship with God, or joy in God’s service, or dedication to the things of God. If you attend very many churches services you will either get right or you will quit going to church.
We are to walk by faith, not by sight. A walk by sight is a flesh walk. It is impossible to please God without faith. Faith makes a difference to God and us
Folks don’t let the Devil’s tools effect you and your children. The tools are very simple; they are things that come to be a habit and things that are a habit seems to be a past time for the American family. Satan is not worried about the family that seems to be an average family that goes through each day without the guidance of the Lord, it’s the family that prays together and seeks the true and living God in every aspect of their life. That is what Satan doesn’t like and he uses the simple tools of his trade and the worldly things has become a way of life for most.
1. How has the Devil’s tools affected your life for Christ.
2. What are you going to do to change it.
3. The Bible says to “But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
4. Are you following God or the world?
If your reading this today and don’t know Jesus Christ as your Saviour, accept Him today and have a defense that can fight off any tool that the Devil can throw at you.
Love in Christ Jesus, Ronnie Miller
www.themillersbiblestudy.com
