VOICE OF THE DEVIL

VOICE OF THE DEVIL

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Gal 5:19-21

Paul's teaching in Galatians pleads with us to wake up, to pay attention for the hour is here. The evidence is not only in this country, but it is world wide. Such hatred, polarity, in-your-face vulgarity and violence; this ever increasing against those who claim the Kingdom through our Lord Jesus, Amen.

The Lord so moved the hand of Brother Michael Snyder as he offered the following post this morning. I pray you will read slowly, thoughtfully, and purposely this powerful portrait he shares with us:

“Yea, hath God said?” That is the voice of the devil. We are living in an hour in which we are very conscious that in this world of ours, and in the midst of all its affairs, hell is let loose. I resolutely use that phrase, and say hell is let loose, for hell can have no power save under the government of God; just as Satan could not touch Job until he had asked permission, just as it is true that when he desired to have the disciples to sift them as wheat, he obtained them by asking. It is always so.

That is a tremendous truth, at which we may often be puzzled; but our confidence is in God, and in the assurance that He allows the forces of hell to be loosed, there is a reason for it, and a meaning in it. It is so in the days in which we are living.

The existence of evil, spiritual principalities is granted by all those who accept the Biblical revelation. Words we have doubtless often quoted recently to ourselves, occurring in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, are true. “Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood.” That is to say that such conflict is not final. Behind it there is something else. “But against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of the darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

This fact if the existence of the principalities of evil is assumed and revealed throughout the Bible; and at the head of this empire of evil is one, named variously, Satan.

We are very conscious of his power and of his deeds. It is an interesting thing to remark in hurried passing, when we open our Bible, we do not find him in the first two chapters. He does not appear. And it is equally arresting that we do not find him in the last two chapters. He is not there at the beginning or end of the Bible, though, as one said “a wide compass first be fetched.”

When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, he said, “ We are not ignorant of his devices.” That is a suggestive word rightly understood—“devices” which might correctly be rendered “his mental activities, his conceptions, his purpose, his thinking.” We are not ignorant, said Paul, of these things. Sometimes we are inclined to say, if Paul was not, we are. Yet it is not so. As we are men and women of faith, and followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, and believers in the Biblical revelation, we can say we are not ignorant of his mental activity, of the conception that underlie that activity, and of the purpose that inspires that activity.

Paul had what we have, the Biblical history, with its revelation of this personality, and the story of Jesus with the supreme revelation of this personality through His ministry. Paul had these things. So have we, and so we can say that we are not ignorant of his devices. ~G. Campbell Morgan. From: The Voice of the Devil. [Shared by Michael Snyder]

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