Satan is the challenger before God. Yet, what does he challenge God for. In short, he challenges God for you. Satan wants ownership of you, your body, your soul, your everything. Satan is the ultimate vampire feeding off of your fear, your sins, and your soul. God did not form himself as a man of flesh to die for you to protect you from his own wrath. That makes no sense and yet is preached in churches around the world. God created a pure world, Man let evil into a pure world and evil cannot exist in a pure world so Man was kicked out of Eden. Even in impurity, God loved mankind.
God’s sacrifice of himself in the form of Jesus was a way to give you cover from Satan and his ownership of you within the fallen realm of earth. God loves you so much he wants you to be able to transcend this realm. Don’t you see what is happening here? Satan stands in God’s very throne room accusing you of your sins. Yes, you have sins. It is human to have sins. That is why Jesus offered himself. Jesus offered to be your lawyer and judge. Have you not heard that a lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client? Do you really want to have to defend your own sins to God? Jesus offers salvation. He offers to not just defend you, but to unburden you. He offered to say, my client pleads guilty but I have pardoned him and all is forgiven. All you have to do is say yes, I am a sinner. I own up to them. I confess them. I rebuke them. I endeavor each and every day to stay away from them. My lord is Jesus who paid a price for me. Jesus owns me therefore in spite of my sins you, the devil, can never own me. That is the meaning of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Just as the devil challenged Job, he challenges you each and every day.
Do not fall for the lies of this world. The greatest lie is that you can be good enough on your own. When we search inside ourselves, we see our tremendous potential and good. We are blind to our sins and our failings. It is too easy for us to justify our own misdirection's. I cannot save myself. I am not good enough. I have tried many times and have failed. Temptation lurks around every corner and is too easily justified as good, when it only leads to evil. You can never be good enough or pure enough on your own. Without God’s grace how will you answer when Satan challenges you on your sins?
I will tell you how you will answer. Without God’s grace you will not be perfect. You will have no justification for your sins and you will feel unworthy of God’s Grace. You will not be able to accept your faults. You will be caught in your own delusions and lies. Then you will lose. You will lose your life and soul to Satan. You will be his and his alone stuck in this realm however he chooses to have you stuck. So, I beg of you. I plead with you. Accept God’s gift of grace today. Don’t delay for we don’t know what tomorrow brings. Accept his lordship because once you do the case is over. God is the judge and the jury and your attorney. Nothing can overcome his will. Mankind may have left the garden of Eden through sin long ago but God’s amazing gift of salvation and return into the kingdom of heaven is waiting for you. Isn’t it time to take it? Isn’t time to accept it? Isn’t it time to go home?
I am not talking about what happens simply after you die. I am talking about going to your real home in heaven now. Do you not understand that Jesus told you that the Kingdom of Heaven is within? Do you not realizing that by accepting his Lordship over your life it is like taking a free ticket to access heaven today? I’m talking about a complete change in who you are. Living now, today, with more Joy, Peace, happiness, contentedness right now in this moment. You too can be born again, in this life, in this world, as a completely new and amazing person. All this is possible now. You do not take a stand with Christ so that one day when you die you get a ticket to a fairy world you think is heaven. No, accepting Christ’s gift within today opens up your heart and soul to the heaven within for today, tomorrow, and forever.
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