Satan’s Perfect Take Over of a Town
What would you suppose a town or perhaps a city that Satan has
completely taken over look like? Would you imagine bars and clubs being filled
up? Would you imagine pornography rampant in every corner? Would you
imagine no church, no sermons, no preaching, and no ministers? Would you
imagine gangs, violence, sex, drugs, gun shootings, molestations, immorality,
rape, murder, strife, deceit, or a complete and total chaos of life?
Let’s suppose that Satan took a vacation and God decided to turn us over
to who we are. “Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity,
to the dishonoring of the bodies among themselves” (Romans 1:24). “For this reason God
gave them up to dishonorable passions.” (Romans 1:26). “And since they did not see
fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to
be done” (Romans 1:26-28). Let me point out that “God gave them up.”
If Satan took a vacation along with all his demons and God gave us up to
our own lusts and passions of our wicked hearts. We would make life a chaos.
We would fill up the bars, clubs, allow pure evil. In fact Paul writes that there
will be gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors
of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, and ruthless people at
every corner (1:30).
The problem is not directly at Satan, it is you and me. The Bible declares
that every intention of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil continually
(Genesis 6:5). Jeremiah says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked;” (17:9). Jesus Himself declares that, “out of the heart of man, come evil
thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit,
sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness” (Mark 7:21-22).
Now let’s put Satan back into the equation and the grace of God who
holds us back from being as corruptible as we are. In other words, without God
holding you back with pure grace you would make Adolf Hitler look-like an
innocent choir boy singing the “Jesus loves me” song.
DwellingWithGod.com Satan’s Perfect Take Over of a Town By Jay Gheen
Satan’s Perfect Take Over of a Town
If Satan took over a town, the town wouldn’t be chaotic as I mention
previously. Remember that Satan is known as crafty (Gen. 3:1) and “the deceiver
of the whole world” (Rev. 12:9). Satan doesn’t want us to know how evil, corrupt
and unholy we are. Satan doesn’t want us to know that there is a way to be
reconciled with God. Satan really doesn’t want people to be bad. I suppose that
he doesn’t really care if we are bad or good. Good referring as one who meets
the cultures standard of morality. Because there will be a lot of good people
going to Hell.
Satan’s perfect take over will look like this. There will be no clubs, bars,
or partying. Pornography, drugs, prostitution and gangs will be off the streets.
Everyone will have great houses if not their dream house, perfect and
comfortable jobs with high salaries. Men and women that get everything they
want for their big houses, cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, and off road terrain
vehicles, you name it they get it. Families will go on wonderful vacation several
times a year. Children will go to the best schools money can buy. The churches
will be completely full every Sunday with great activity and entertainment
during the week and the preaching will be great, inspirational, man centered,
God loves you attitude, how to live your best life now motto.
Does this really sound like Satan’s take over? It sounds like a lot of
communities, neighborhoods and churches close to where I live and maybe
where you live too. Satan wants you to have your joyous “best life now.” Because
what he is cunning up is one heck of an evil scheme. In his perfect take-over of
your town the Gospel of Jesus Christ will not be preached!
DwellingWithGod.com Satan’s Perfect Take Over of a Town By Jay Gheen