WILL WE PLAY HEAD GAMES WITH OUR ETERNITY...
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
(Fodder for this lesson from Todd Strandberg and Ron Riffe)
THERE IS CRY FROM THE WORLD TODAY... ENTERTAIN ME!
(Touch each point briefly)
WE DESIRE TO PLAY AT WORK, WORK AT PLAY, WORSHIP WORSHIP, PRAISE PRAISE AND LOSE SIGHT OF THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST...
LET US PLAY---Amusement, fun, diversion --- LAS VEGAS, ATLANTIC CITY, RIVER BOATS, DISNEY LAND, SIX FLAGS, KINGS ISLAND.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 (KJV) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Timothy 4:3 (NIV) For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
2 Timothy 4:3 (NLT) For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will reject the truth and chase after myths.
SEEMS THERE IS A SPIRIT OF SLEEP, SLUMBER, ENTERTAINMENT, RELAXATION--- WE ARE BORED WITH LIFE --- WE DESIRE EXCITEMENT...
· HIDE & SEEK (Where are you Adam?)
· TAG
· PLAYING HOOKY
· MONOPOLY
· RUN AWAY
· LET'S MAKE A DEAL
· JEOPARDY
· CHARADE (watch others and guess?)
PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE THE LOTTERY-GAMBLE MENTALITY?
THE ARE WHOLE FAMILIES THAT ARE KNOWN FOR GAMBLING WITH THEIR LIVES...
Remember the GREAT WALLINDAS? RACE CAR DRIVERS?
Matthew 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. 36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
I HAVE WATCHED MANY PEOPLE TAKE THEIR LAST BREATH, NEVER HAVE I SEEN ONE PERSON THAT KNEW THEY WERE DYING --- WANT TO WATCH TV OR KNOW THE SCORE OF THE BALL GAME.
OUR ENEMY DESIRE IN THE GAME OF ETERNAL CHESSIS TO CRUSH EVERY BELEIVER.
--- HIS STRATEGIES ARE TO NEVER UNDERESTIMATING US, HIS OPPONENT.
THIS IS A HEAD GAME THAT HAS ALWAYS AMAZED ME... CHESS
THE RULES AND MOVES ARE VERY CLEAR --- BUT THE GAME REQUIRES MORE MOVING YOUR PIECES AROUND THE BOARD... YOU MUST THINK BEYOND THIS MOVE...
The real game of chess must consider and weigh 3 to 4 moves ahead of this move.
What appears to be a smart move here can three moves later destroy your hopes of victory.
In the CHESS GAME of ETERNITY our enemy desires to render us useless garbage and to devastate our
ETERNITY to end with the CHECKMATE OF HELL.
THERE ARE MOVES, CHECKS, COUNTER MOVES AND CHECKMATE...
THE DEVIL STUDIES HIS OPPONENTS VERY WELL ---
OUR ETERNAL ENEMY IS MORE THAN AN ANGEL THAT GOT FIRED AS THE CHOIR DIRECTOR --- HE HAS BECOME THE STEALER, KILLER AND DESTROYER AND LAUGHS EACH TIME HE DRAGS A SOUL TO HELL.
2 Corinthians 2:11 (KJV) Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2 Corinthians 2:11 (NLT) so that Satan will not outsmart us. For we are familiar with his evil schemes.
CAN WE SEE THE SATANIC STRATEDY FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME?
1. Satan had a plan to destroy God's work on earth.
Satan ISOLATED EVE away from Adam and STARTED HIS MOVE...
· DO YOU DESIRE TO BE LIKE GOD?
· Look how pretty it is?
· God is just joking, to stop you?
· Taste it? FEED IT TO ADAM?
· NO REPENTANCE...
THE ENEMY SAYS: CHECK
JESUS COUNTERS THE ENEMY'S MOVE...
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
2. SATAN HAS ANOTHER TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE: THE ENEMY HATES ABEL'S GIVING... this seed of giving is a threat of his existence.
In bitterness, hatred and jealousy Satan moves: CAIN KILL THIS THREAT and BURY HIM...
Satan eliminates GOD'S BOY... CHECK...
GOD HAS A COUNTER MOVE... GOD RAISE UP A NEW SEED OF RIGHTEOUSNESS...
Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
3. SATAN TAKES A UNIFIED HUMANITY AND THEY START BUILDING ---
LET US REACH HIGH AND NOTHING SHALL RESTRAIN US...
Satan knows there is power in unity, the people shall build a WORSHIP CENTER FOR ME...
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
CHECK --- HAHAHA --- I HAVE YOU GOD...
GOD HAS HIS COUNTER MOVE PLANNED OUT...
Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
4. SATAN HAS ANOTHER PLAN, LET ALL THE PEOPLE BE EATING, MARRYING AND BE HAPPY --- PLEASURE RULES...
The devil and all his demons celebrate --- we have messed up God's plans...
CHECK SCREAMS THE DEVIL...
GOD SAYS WAIT A MINUTE, I HAVE ADVNCED YOUR MOVE, I HAVE A MAN WITH AN ARK...
Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
COUNTER MOVE TO YOUR CHECK --- I HAVE 8 PEOPLE AND A BOAT!
5. THE ENEMY LAUGHS HE NOW HAS A PLAN TO DESTROY THE PROMISE OF A GREAT NATION...
The Devil allow Sarah to my a fleshly suggestion that Abraham liked:
HERE YOU GO BOY, HE IS THIS PRETTY WOMAN HAGAR, AND HAVE A SON OF THE FLESH NAMED ISHMAEL...
CHECK SAY THE ENEMY, I HAVE REALLY MESSED UP THE SEED AND THE PROMISE
Jesus laughs and says: WATCH THIS AS A 90 YEAR OLD WOMAN DOES THE PREGNANT WADDLE, AND A 100 YEAR OLD MAN HOLDS THE PROMISE: ISAAC... WILL ARISE...
6. THE MIND OF SATAN DESIGNS ANOTHER PLAN: ESAU SHALL BE BITTER, UNFORGIVING AND RULE OVER THE SEED OF MAN KIND... EDOMITES SHALL KILL THE PREACHERS (DOEG)
Esau, you bad boy shall rule of JACOB, I have you defeated! God loses.
Jacob, the subplanter has lost the game...
ESAU SELLS HIS BIRTH-RIGHT FOR A BOWL OF LENTIL SOUP...
JACOB ENCOUNTERSD GOD ONE NIGHT...
Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
The Father God arises and says: IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN THROW AT ME?
7. THE DEVILS HAVE A MEETING AND THEY COME UP WITH A PLAN TO DESTROY THE PROMISED SEED, WE WILL HAVE A GREAT FAMINE AND SEND GOD'S NATION TO ISREAL TO CORRUPT THEM...
10 BROTHERS HATE THEIR BROTHER AND THEY PLAN TO KILL HIM IN THE WELL.
From the well to slavery to the JAIL HOUSE ROCK...
70 PEOPLE TRAVEL AS THEY ARE STARVING TO DEATH TO EGYPT...
CHECK LAUGHS THE DEVIL...
GOD LAUGHS AND SAYS: I HAVE ALREADY MOVED MY SON JOSEPH AND HE WAS WAITING FOR THIS MOVE... JOSEPH STEP INTO THE DREAM --- THEY WILL BOW... JUST AS YOU HAD THE GOD VISION.
GOD SAYS: I COUNTERED YOU MOVE...
8. SATAN LAUGHS AT GOD AND SAYS: I HAVE YOUR PEOPLE TRAPED IN EGPYT AND PHAROAH WILL NEVER LET THEM GO...
God laughs at Satan and says: REMEMBER THAT PRETTY BABY YOU TRIED TO KILL IN THE RIVER? Well, MOSES HAS MET WITH THE GREAT I AM IN THE DESERT ...
LET MY PEOPLE GOD...
The Red Sea is nothing to God...
9. SATAN THINGS HAS A SECRET DESIGN NOW WE WILL HAVE CHECKMATE...
Satan has put a man in a high office... HAMAN will get the law passed to kill all the Jews and stop
Jesus' birth. The King has already agreed, the law cannot be reversed.
MORDECAI HAS BEEN FASTING, God laughs ---
COUNTER MOVE ALREADY, STEP UP TO THE PLATE ESTHER AND HAMAN HANG HIGH!
10. THE SPIES ARE TRAPPED AND WILL DIED, CHECK?
GOD USES RAHAB THE HARLOT TO SAVE THE SPIES
11. ELIMELECH, MAHLON, CHILION DIE IN MOAB --- RUTH, BITTER WOMAN ---
HAHAHAHA SAYS GOD... I HAVE BOAZ THE KINSMAN REDEEMER ---
COUNTER ---
12. OK DEVILS THE TIME IS GETTING NEAR THE HARVEST, WE HAVE ANOTHER MOVE --- HEROD KILL ALL THE BABY BOYS --- WE HAVE WON THE GAME?
God says I saw this move coming a long time ago. God moved Joseph and Mary to a SAFE SPOT...
God's ONLY SON HAD COME TO THE MANGER --- Then to Egypt, then back to the temple at 12...
Jesus does his first miracle and the devils tremble...
13. SATAN HAS ONE LAST MOVE... THE VICTORY IS AHEAD --- GOD WILL LOSE.
There is a court session, a mockery of a trial --- GUILTY, GUILTY THEY CRY ---
GIVE US BARABUS --- KILL HIM...
TO THE CROSS JESUS GOES ---
DEATH HAS COME --- MAKE THE TOMB SURE ---
THERE WAS A GREAT PARTY AS THE DEMONS OF THE AGES HAD GOD'S SON IN THAT COLD, COLD TOMB.
SATAN LAUGHED AND LAUGHED, I HAVE DEFEATED GOD'S PLAN...
WAIT, WAIT A MINUTE, THE DEMONS OF HELL WERE SUDDENLY AWARE,
CHECK MATE --- CHECK MATE --- THE PLAN, "IT IS FINISHED"
CHECK MATE --- JESUS IS ALIVE AND WELL --- THE CROSS OPENED THE DOOR THAT A LOST A DYING HUMANITY CAN COME BOLDLY BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD... THIS IS NO LONGER A RELIGION OF RULES --- THE GATES OF HEAVEN OPEN TO A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND HIS SON. JESUS LEFT THE HIS HOLY SPIRIT TO LEAD, GUIDE,AND TEACH US THE WAY TO COME BOLDLY TO THE FATHER.
CONCLUSION: I am a winner either way, if I go, if I stay. This thorn meant to destroy me shall make me stronger and stronger. My faith is the anchor --- and though the skin worms devour my body, I SHALL SEE HIM, I SHALL SEE JESUS FACE TO FACE... CHECK MATE!
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
