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Who Saw Satan Fall?

Recently I went to the drive-in with my family. We watched an animated movie. On the other side of the drive-in they were playing an R-rated movie about someone summoning a demon. It was a horror movie. After we left this thought dropped in my head that these movies try to ma Satan, and also God, out to be something they are not. Then I remember all the scripture about Satan and it struck me how much Jesus talked about him and exposed him. Satan as some horrifying powerful mass murdering spirit and God out to be distant uninterested and indifferent to what Satan is doing in the earth. Neither is true, these movies are deceptive yet they are popular.

Jesus Exposed Satan to humanity.

Jesus shined the light on Satan for us. We do not have to imagine him as something he is not. Jesus revealed and thoroughly exposed Satan to us. Satan likes to disguise himself now but Jesus is not having that. Not with his humanity. Jesus’ disciples are now to execute the judgment of God on Satan. Satan is in big trouble with God, he knows it and I think it must be horrible for him. Not only is he in trouble with God but he is in trouble with Jesus’ people who understand who he is and who they are in relation to Jesus Christ. 

Luke 10:15 And he said to them "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven."'

Jesus not only saw Satan fall light lightning because he was present when it happened. Perhaps he was even the one who made sure that he fell from his high place in heaven in the first place. But Jesus also exposed it to his followers, Jesus let everyone know that Satan fell, and that he personally saw it. This expresses Jesus’ dominance over Satan. For who but God who is omnipresent, in heaven and on earth at the same time could even see this occur? And it likely occurred before even the Adam and Eve experience in the garden because Satan was present there.

Jesus made his followers to understand Satan’s situation and place. He exposed him and continues to expose him.

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 2:11 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his designs.

Jesus Refuted and Renounced Satan

Jesus also turned back Satan’s advances at him both directly in the wilderness after his 40-day fast. Then again through his followers who were accidentally allowing Satan to speak through them (Peter). But then again once and for all when he was killed and resurrected. In Jesus’ death he killed off the humanity that was enslaved to Satan. But then he also started fresh and created a new race of humans. A race that Satan has no legal ownership to. Jesus followers are now love-slaves of Jesus Christ now. We are not enslaved to Satan any more, by virtue of Adam and Eve. 

Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him "Be gone for it is written "you shall worship God.

Satan Can Still Use Christians …If we Allow It

1 Timothy 5:15 Some have already strayed after Satan
Luke 22:31 "Simon, Simon behold Satan demanded to have you that he might sift you like wheat."

These verses are two examples that show that Christians can wander off and stray after Satan. I’ve seen this happen more than once. It causes one to wonder if the person ever really was a Christian in the first place. But that is not a useful thing to wonder because its impossible to know. Based on these verses we must assume they were and Satan was allowed to try to sift them and they strayed because of it. Satan is very experienced at deception and if we are inclined to stray, some of us stray after him.

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God as Just a Concept

When we refuse to cooperate and respond to the questions and lessons of Jesus Christ.

He won’t answer our questions for him.

We are to respond to him as best as we are able.

We should not treat God like he is an impersonal concept that we can use as we see fit, or ignore as we see fit.

He is a real and living person. Not a distant idea.

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The Gospels That We Embrace

I want you to consider which gospel you have and are embracing? (Pause)

In my experience most Evangelicals think “the gospel” is fixed and defined. Is summarized in a few sentences, called the Romans Road or the ABCs to getting saved. Usually treated like it is a 3-minute exclamation point for the sermon.

But I think there are actually many different gospels preached in evangelical churches.

A gospel is better seen as the sum total of our thoughts about God, it includes what the world is, how it works, why it and we exist.

That is a more thorough description of a gospel.

“How to get to heaven” through Jesus Christ, as wonderful and true as that is, is only part of the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, as was brought into the world with Christ. There is much more to hear and to preach.

Like a prostitute selling and twisting a great and precious thing, for money. The purpose is off. Similarly when the purpose of the preaching gets other than the Lord speaking through a person, then the emphasis is departed from the Lord’s intent for engaging in preaching in the first place. Then it often becomes not just off-base a little, but false.

“How to get to heaven” many evangelicals have surgically removed, and made it the whole, then sprinkled 52 other gospels around it for other reasons. So much sprinkling that they are almost false gospels (depending on the preacher), because the emphases are so far off on tangents.

Gospels, when embraced produce certain types of loyal and committed followers. The gospel of Islam produces a certain type of wildly committed radical follower.

Similarly in Christ certain gospels produce the type of Christian individuals and communities.

There is a gospel that produces teams of Christians who hire someone to gather around, a professional to lead and to head and to orchestrate the meetings. Someone who serves to isolate them from those they disagree with and don’t like. Someone to tell them when to come, how much to give, when to sit, when to leave, when to repeat after me, when to fellowship. And through sermons someone to tell them what is the mind of Christ as a weekly audience.

But fortunately as we read about in scripture there is also a gospel that connects people to the spirit of Jesus Christ. Who then gather as bodies of Christians. Who gather at his leading. Who leads a people to all contribute and who all one by one prophecy the greatness of Jesus Christ one. They allow Jesus Christ to lead, head and even orchestrate each meeting through every member in submission and in cooperation. And they together uncover the will and the mind of Christ. Assembling daily as the body of Jesus Christ in the earth in order to display the glory of God in the earth, to challenge the principalities and powers. And to usher fallen and dead humanity into the new humanity which has already begun in Jesus Christ.

Someday if the Lord allows it, I’ll teach and preach that glorious gospel.

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