October 29, 2004

Satan has a sub-MISSION!

We ALL know about having a MISSION in LIFE.

More often than not, this happens to BE OF THE FLESH.

DO YOU get the feeling?

Submission is not totally or competely SPIRITUAL.

Our flesh when tempted by Satan, CAN and WILL lure us away from SUBMISSION to Christ!!!

Romans 7: (19) For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. (20) Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

(21) So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. (22) For in my inner being I delight in God's law; (23) but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

(24) What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? (25) Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Believers in Christ KNOW that the LAW or Ten Commandments were given by GOD to man for a PURPOSE.

The Ten Commandments deal directly with 2 SPECIFIC areas that MAN must bring INTO SUBMISSION.

(1) Man and his relationship with GOD

(2) Man and his relationship with others

The 1st Four Commandments relate to MAN reverancing GOD.

No other god(s) BUT Jehovah GOD.

Do not make or worship ANY idol(s).

Do not MISUSE the name of GOD.

Keep the Lord's Day HOLY and REVERANT

The remaining 6 commandments deal with our relationships to others.

Honor our earthly parent(s).

Do not murder.

Do not commit adultery.

Do not steal.

Do not be a false witness.

Do not covet.

The sinful nature of FLESH refuses to OBEY!!!

Jesus taught US to CONTROL the FLESH through SUBMISSION.

The WORD of GOD revealed the PURPOSE.

John 10: (10) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

GOD our REDEEMER has DELIVERED the ORDER for BATTLE!

Satan has a sub-mission, to DESTROY GOD's creation, MAN.

We as BELIEVERS must REMEMBER the SPIRITUAL WARFARE we are

engaged in and RESIST the devil!!! Satan will flee as an enemy that has been OVERCOME in the battlefield.

To GOD our FATHER,

Worthy of ALL HONOR and GLORY!

Give PRAISE to HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS!!

HIS Kingdom will REIGN Eternal!!!