Many Christians believe they’ve nothing to do with the devil anymore, because he is a defeated enemy. Due to this mindset, many Christians became passive in prayer and spiritual warfare. It’s true that Jesus defeated the devil and has the keys of death and hell. Međutim, Jesus Christ gave His authority and power to His Church, because the devil is not cast into the eternal lake of fire yet. He is still the god of this world and still exists. The devil still goes around as a roaring lion, tražeći koga može progutati. The devil still tries to deceive and spiritually disarm the Church, so that the Church becomes ineffective and powerless and the devil has nothing to fear. This was the mission of the devil from the Day of Pentecost and still is. Sada, let’s look at whether the mission of the devil is successful or not.
What is the mission of the devil?
The devil is the adversary of Christians and his mission is to silence and devour the believers and destroy the Church of Jesus Christ (assembly of born-again believers). Zašto? Tako da, the devil can continue his destructive works on earth without interference and resistance of the Church.
Budite trijezni, budite oprezni; jer vaš protivnik đavo, kao lav koji riče, hoda okolo, tražeći koga može proždrijeti: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world (1 Peter 5:8-9)
The mission of the devil is to enter the Church, deceive and tempt the Church, and cause the Church to go astray and disobey God and His Word and obey to him.
The devil tries to stop Christians from doing the works of God and destroying the devil’s works and cause them to do his works and destroying the works of God.
Ovako, Christians enlarge the kingdom of darkness instead of the Kingdom of God, gde je Isus Krist kralj.
The devil is always looking for openings in the lives of believers, koji su Crkva.
As soon as the devil finds an opening he enters the lives of Christians and attacks. The devil comes as an angel of light with his deceptive lies, iskušenja, and power causing supernatural revelations and manifestations.
Kroz njegove varljive laži, which derive from his kingdom (Svijet), and the focus on the flesh, the devil makes the people prideful towards God and passive and lukewarm for Jesus Christ, His mission, and the works of God’s Kingdom.
The devil sows doubt and lies in people’s minds
The devil sows doubt and lies in the minds of people, which causes unbelief and false doctrines.
The unbelief and false doctrines, koji su Doktrine đavola, ensure that the Church doubts God and His Word and stays silent about the truth of God and the commandments and warnings of Jesus Christ.
How the devil changes the truth of God into a lie?
The devil changes the truth of God into a lie by using a partial truth of God and mixing it with his lies. Through his lies, the devil has spiritually disarmed, destroyed, and appropriated many churches.
His carnal ministers, who have a carnal and reprobatni um are puffed up and full op pride just like their father. They believe his words and speak his words. They use their father’s power and exalt themselves above God and His Word and walk in sin and even promote sin. (Pročitajte također: Je li Isus pokretač grijeha?).
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, oslabiti svoja tijela između sebe: Ko je istinu Božiju promenio u laž, i obožavao i služio stvorenje više od tvorca, ko je za sve blagoslovljen. Amen.
Zbog toga, Bog ih je dao po zveznim naklonostima: Jer su čak i njihove žene promijenile prirodnu upotrebu u ono što je protiv prirode: I isto tako i muškarci, ostavljajući prirodnu upotrebu žene, spalio u svojoj požudi jedno prema drugom; Muškarci s muškarcima koji rade koji su nesemno, i primio sam sebi koji je nadoknadio svoju grešku koja je bila susreta.
Pa čak i kao što nisu voleli zadržati Boga u njihovo znanje, Bog ih je dao na reprobatni um, raditi te stvari koje nisu zgodne; Biti ispunjen svim nepravednošću, Blud, opakost, sažetost, zlonamjernost; pun zavisti, ubistvo, rasprava, obmana, malignost; šapneri, Backbiters, mrzi Božji, uprkos, ponosan, hvalisari, Izumi zlih stvari, neposlušan roditeljima, Bez razumijevanja, KoveNagrafski proizvodi, Bez prirodne naklonosti, neumjetljiv, nemilosrdan: Koji znaju Božju presudu, da su oni koji čine takve stvari dostojni smrti, ne samo da učini isto, ali imati zadovoljstvo u njima koji ih rade (Rimljanima 1:21-32)
Crkva; Tijelo Hristova
Crkva, the assembly of believers who are born of God, is appointed on earth as a representative of God and His Kingdom and ought to preach His Word and establish His Kingdom on earth.
The more the Church spiritually matures, knowing the will of God, i skloni starcu i obući novog čovjeka and walk in the authority of Jesus Christ, Riječ, and the power of the Holy Spirit in the will of God on earth, the greater threat the Church becomes to the devil and his kingdom.
If local churches lay down all carnality and walk after the Spirit and do what Jesus commanded to do and pray and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, the will of God and sanctification, they would be the light of the world.
As the light of the world, they would draw many souls, who live in bondage in darkness, to the light.
They would save and deliver many souls from the power of darkness and hell and plunder the kingdom of darkness.
If the churches would really believe in the Word and the Name of Jesus Christ (autoritet Isusa Hrista) and do the will of God, then they would grow up into the image of Jesus Christ and preach, bring, and establish the Kingdom of God on earth.
Onda, the churches would stop relying on the wisdom and knowledge of the world. The churches would stop referring Christians to the world for help and solutions. Umjesto toga, the churches would rely on God and walk in His power and be able to provide for the needs of people, baš kao Isus.
Do churches walk by faith or by sight?
Nažalost, most churches don’t walk by faith in Jesus Christ; the Word in the power of God, due to carnality (telesni um, carnal will, požude i tjelesnih želja, and carnal works. (Pročitajte također: ‘Hoću li naći vjeru na zemlji?’)).
Most Christians are not willing to lay down the flesh and put off the old man, i obuci novog coveka. Stoga, many Christians keep walking after the flesh and keep sinning. They want to receive the blessings of God and do signs and wonders, which belong to the life of the new man, but they refuse to lay down their will and flesh.
If you sow in the flesh, you shall not reap the fruit of the Spirit
Ne bi prevario; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting (Galaćanima 6:7-8)
They feed their flesh with the things of the world and expect to bear the fruit of the Spirit. But if you sow in the flesh, you shall never reap the fruit of the Spirit. When you sow in the flesh, you reap the fruit of the flesh, što je grijeh, i na kraju, korupcija.
If you want to reap apples, but put kiwi seeds in the ground, you shall not reap apples, but kiwis.
If the natural man understands this simple principle, why doesn’t the spiritual man understand this principle?
Why do so many people, who say they are Christians and say they believe and claim to be spiritual, sow in the flesh, expecting to bear the fruit of the Spirit and life everlasting?
Those who walk after the flesh are led by the old sinful nature. They’ll feed the flesh and bear the fruit of the flesh and walk in rebellion towards God and His Word.
They’re carnal and think like the world. They speak the same words as the world and act the same way as the world.
They put their trust in the wisdom, znanje, and words of the world and everything that derives from it. Instead of putting their trust in Jesus Christ, Živa Reč Božija.
And so the local churches with carnal believers, gde the devil is seated and in charge, are built upon carnal wisdom, znanje, Mišljenja, and experiences of people.
The words of God are replaced by the word of man
The churches have taken God’s words out of context and mixed them with their personal beliefs, Mišljenja, i iskustva. Ovako, they’ve created a sensual humanistic gospel, where people are the center instead of Christ.
The church gatherings are sensory appealing. The sermons revolve around the flesh of man and the things of this world instead of the spirit of man and the things of the Kingdom of God and cause the people to persevere in sin.
Instead of feeding the spirit of man with the truth of God, the flesh is fed with the devil’s lies. Kao rezultat, the old man continues to exist and the new man goes to the wall.
There is hardly any difference between Christians, who say they believe and belong to Christ and go to church, and unbelievers, who are sinners and belong to the world.
Many churches are no longer a moć Božija, who acts in the Name of Jesus and through the fivefold ministry and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, raise Christians in the will of God unto spiritual mature sons of God (Ovo se odnosi i na muškarce i na žene). They no longer make them spiritual soldiers of Jesus Christ, who are active in the spiritual warfare and resist the temptations of the devil and expose and destroy the works of darkness and save souls from hell.
Umjesto toga, many churches became social institutions, a place where everything revolves around the flesh of man. A place, where the flesh is entertained and pleased with the purpose to motivate the people and experience supernatural manifestations, whereby many churches move into the occult. (Pročitajte također: ‘Okultna crkva‘ i ‘Novo doba u crkvi?‘).
How did the devil accomplish his mission?
Vrlo sporo, the devil accomplished his mission and succeeded in deceiving and appropriating many churches and making them lukewarm and passive for Jesus Christ. Many churches remain carnal and sensual and don’t have the Spirit of God. They belong to the world and listen to what the devil has to say and believe his words.
Ovo su mrmbojnici, Žaljenja, hodanje po svojim požudama; i njihova usta govore velike nabujale riječi, Imati muške osobe u divljenju zbog prednosti. Ali, voljena, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, senzualan, nemaju duh (Jude 1:19)
Many Christians are spiritually blind and don’t see the mission and đavola djela. They don’t discern the devil’s lies from the truth of God. And they don’t realize that they live in the devil’s power and are bound by the devil’s lies.
Instead of being witnesses of Jesus Christ and preaching His truth and keeping His commandments, doing what He says and abiding in His love and doing righteous works and bearing the fruit of the Spirit, they have become witnesses of the devil.
They preach the devil’s truth and do what he says and abide in his lažna ljubav (the love of the world), which ensures that they keep walking in darkness and bear the fruit of death, što je grijeh.
Let the Church arise and accomplish her mission
But luckily there is still time for the churches, who have left the Word and God’s truth and gone astray and are seated in darkness, do Pokajte se and return to Jesus Christ.
Let the church arise and submit to Christ; the Word and keep His commandments. Let the church make Jesus the Head of the church again and walk after the Spirit and preach, bring, and establish His Kingdom on earth.
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