Sunday, June 7, 2009

The kingdom is coming.

Rev. {12:10}

And I heard
a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and
strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his
Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which
accused them before our God day and night.



Satan accuses us before God day and night. So it's safe to say that Satan accuses God always, without ceasing. He accuses us, you and I. He accuses us of what? Sin. Satan accuses us of being failures, unworthy of God, unworthy of being saved and yet God tells Him otherwise. Jesus, God's son became human, He emptied Himself to become human. God could not be killed, God could not remain in the spirit form and die, Jesus had to take on humanity- empty himself of His divinity. Jesus could not be tempted like we are if He didn't divest Himself of that part of Him. In becoming human Jesus had to prove to Satan that man, that humans could live sinless. If Jesus had used ANY power of His own to remain sinless Satan would have laughed and said of course a God could keep sinless we know that God and His Son can remain sinless, that isn't a question. Jesus had to be human. Jesus was born as a baby, born of a woman who had sinned, born with the ability to sin. If he'd been born without the ability to sin then there was no point to His trying to save us failures. Jesus relied fully on the Father, just as we can rely on the Father. Jesus was sinless because He relied on the Father fully. Satan accuses us humans of being failures, of being His, of not being anything that God would want and God tells Him otherwise. Jesus proved that humans were and are worthy of God's love.


Salvation is coming.
Strength is coming.
The Kingdom of God is coming.
The power of His Christ is coming.


Satan will be cast down.


Satan will have his end. He's wrong and he knows he is wrong about humans. He can accuse all he wants to and it's to no avail. We are saved through Christ.


Satan even knowing he's wrong wants to take as many humans with him as he can and that is his objective now, right now.


He's REAL!


Just as real as Jesus, as God, as the Holy Spirit. Satan is real.


Satan is real and he wants us. He stops at nothing to get us, to get to us, to claim us as his successes and God's failures.


God stopped and stops at nothing to save us- but ONLY if we choose to let Him. Satan doesn't care what we choose. We can choose God and Satan laughs and proceeds to try harder to get to us. God will not force us into anything, Satan will try to force us into anything that will make us his, anything and everything.


Salvation is coming.


The kingdom is coming.


Choose and be ready. Pray. Watch. Pray. Don't lose hope, don't lose faith.


By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may we be ready for Him when He comes and Satan is put down forever.


Amen.

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