Satan’s Way is Selfish
May 19, 2021 11:38:58 #
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Satan’s Way is Selfish
By Pastor Gary Boyd
May 19th 2021
Man yields to the devil by going his own selfish way. Satan’s nature is by exalting “self” through fleshly will power. This is exactly what “humanism’ is. Man seeks to be independent of the power of God. Thus the sins of pride, lust, greed, covetousness, and all other ‘self” interests are all part of Satan’s nature. The nature of God is LOVE. Love is characterized by giving all. (John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
We are taught in scripture to deny “self.” This means we are to drown our self will power that seeks only for “self.” We are to give all our being to God and love Him with all our strength, heart, mind, body, and soul. The degree to which we worship or serve “self” reflects to the degree we are yielding to the spirit of Satan. He is a liar and deceiver and epitomizes self-seeking.
A perfect example of this is the foolish hearts who inhabit Hollywood that live their lives seeking fame and fortune only to find there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, only heartbreak, disillusionment, and the endless lusty greed for power resulting in their real basis for living, the love of money.
Let us look at another aspect of his work as the deceiver. After we have come to the Lord and committed ourselves totally to God, we no longer wish to displease Him, so we flee from the obvious works of darkness. The devil then ceases to come to us with the usual temptations because we have learned to resist and not yield to him in those areas. Now he cleverly comes to you in another way to get us to believe that what he proposes is God’s will for us, otherwise we would rebuke him. So now he comes imitating the Holy Spirit, attempting to make us receive his plan instead of God’s plan for our lives.
Evil Can Be Turned to Good
Many of us have been deceived in this area and have taken steps we later discovered were the result of deception by the enemy. We thought we were doing the will of God, but found we had been misled. Eve in the garden was innocently deceived by the serpent, but then by God’s grace, He promised that through her seed would come the defeat of the one who had deceived her. (Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Yes, God can turn the very devices of the enemy into weapons of victory over him! Willful transgression brings the judgement of God upon it, even though the transgressor can be forgiven. Moreover, every single thing in which Satan may have deceived us as innocent victims of his wiles can become the very cause of his defeat.
God gives comfort to those deceived by Satan. This is especially true for those of God’s children who have been deceived by “supernatural manifestations” that afterwards were found not to be of God and for those that have fallen into depression, darkness, and despair. We can rise from despair by asking God by turning what Satan meant for evil into good for our lives and for all those involved. Genesis 50:20 states, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
By exposing Satan’s devices we are moving more and more towards what God wants done in these last days. The great awakening is now happening with more people coming to Christ like never before. The harvest of many souls will come to pass in these days of the latter rain from seeds that were planted many years ago and ones just recently put in the minds of men. Do not be deceived your salvation cannot be denied once you are saved and born again. Next up PRIDE AND BEAUTY A SNARE
By Pastor Gary Boyd
May 19th 2021
Man yields to the devil by going his own selfish way. Satan’s nature is by exalting “self” through fleshly will power. This is exactly what “humanism’ is. Man seeks to be independent of the power of God. Thus the sins of pride, lust, greed, covetousness, and all other ‘self” interests are all part of Satan’s nature. The nature of God is LOVE. Love is characterized by giving all. (John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
We are taught in scripture to deny “self.” This means we are to drown our self will power that seeks only for “self.” We are to give all our being to God and love Him with all our strength, heart, mind, body, and soul. The degree to which we worship or serve “self” reflects to the degree we are yielding to the spirit of Satan. He is a liar and deceiver and epitomizes self-seeking.
A perfect example of this is the foolish hearts who inhabit Hollywood that live their lives seeking fame and fortune only to find there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, only heartbreak, disillusionment, and the endless lusty greed for power resulting in their real basis for living, the love of money.
Let us look at another aspect of his work as the deceiver. After we have come to the Lord and committed ourselves totally to God, we no longer wish to displease Him, so we flee from the obvious works of darkness. The devil then ceases to come to us with the usual temptations because we have learned to resist and not yield to him in those areas. Now he cleverly comes to you in another way to get us to believe that what he proposes is God’s will for us, otherwise we would rebuke him. So now he comes imitating the Holy Spirit, attempting to make us receive his plan instead of God’s plan for our lives.
Evil Can Be Turned to Good
Many of us have been deceived in this area and have taken steps we later discovered were the result of deception by the enemy. We thought we were doing the will of God, but found we had been misled. Eve in the garden was innocently deceived by the serpent, but then by God’s grace, He promised that through her seed would come the defeat of the one who had deceived her. (Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Yes, God can turn the very devices of the enemy into weapons of victory over him! Willful transgression brings the judgement of God upon it, even though the transgressor can be forgiven. Moreover, every single thing in which Satan may have deceived us as innocent victims of his wiles can become the very cause of his defeat.
God gives comfort to those deceived by Satan. This is especially true for those of God’s children who have been deceived by “supernatural manifestations” that afterwards were found not to be of God and for those that have fallen into depression, darkness, and despair. We can rise from despair by asking God by turning what Satan meant for evil into good for our lives and for all those involved. Genesis 50:20 states, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
By exposing Satan’s devices we are moving more and more towards what God wants done in these last days. The great awakening is now happening with more people coming to Christ like never before. The harvest of many souls will come to pass in these days of the latter rain from seeds that were planted many years ago and ones just recently put in the minds of men. Do not be deceived your salvation cannot be denied once you are saved and born again. Next up PRIDE AND BEAUTY A SNARE
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