I have decided to have my first real post be a semiserious one. This blog will be a mixture of what is going in my life at any given time, and some things that I have started to realize about how the world works, oh and when I make a fool of myself. So it will mostly be the last one.
Something that I have been learning more and more about this past year is the supremacy of God. His sovereignty is unmatched and unrivaled. Society and even the church today have a habit of giving the devil more credit than what is due to him. We think of him as an equal to God. God is all that is good and loving and looks out for us, but the devil is all that is bad and evil and is always trying to get us. Why both statements are true, they are not a fair comparison. The simple fact is that the Devil is no eternal. He is a created being, just like you, just like me. He has to sit under the same constraints of that we do, meaning anything given or taken from him is directly effected by God. As weird as this may sound, the devil is just another created servant doing Gods will. Gods perfect will is that he would have all of his creations worshiping him, declaring His glory out of there own desire to do so. The bible declares that there will be a time when every tongue will confess the glory of God. The bible also declares that God will at a point take away his gift of salvation from the earth. Before people start calling me a heretic or anything like that let me explain. In revelation, the people who receive the mark of the beast or reject God enough, will have there heart hardened like pharaoh and not be able to receive the grace. So all there will be a lot of people who are declaring the name of God in vain, trying to save there own neck. The devil will be one of these creatures, alongside all of us, giving God his rightful Due.
“Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him…” Rev 20 1-3.
To me this is one of the best scripture to declare Gods ultimate power over the devil. In this passage we have described for us the defeat of Satan. Who is the person who conquers satan? An angel, God is so much more powerful than the devil, that he does not himself stoop to capturing him, he allows another created being the opportunity to do it. This is the greatest slap in the face of the devil I believe. Here he is, creating armies, deceiving nations, all in the hopes to defeat God, and take his throne. Jesus rides out in battle as described in Rev 19, but that can only be described as complete victory, with him simply speaking, the armies of the Beast are destroyed. The devil never had any footing, never had any chance.
Sorry if this was all confusing and what not, but I would like to know what you all thought about it!
7 comments:
That was deep, Kevin. My brain hurts.
A hardened heart (where one does not have the ability to accept God, i.e. Pharaoh) and people at the end of the world asking for grace and not receiving it from God seem quite different to me, yet you used the two ideas interchangeably in this post.
The story of Esau in Hebrews 12 seems to be applicable to your point Walter. He had a hardened heart, asked for grace, and was denied. He asked for grace, but without a truly repentant heart. And God is not obligated to give grace to anyone, otherwise it's not grace.
"See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears."
That is an excellent explanation, Andy. Thank you.
Hey Kev,
Good reminder of the sovereignty of God-and I did not find your writing confusing at all.
Thanks for the invitation to your blog, I have been waiting for it...not really...o.k, maybe a little. Consider yourself officially added to our blog roll. Can't wait for the many insights into your soul :).
Hi,Andy! I heard you guys had a baby-congratulations! We'd love to be in touch with you guys.
Sorry Kev, I hope that isn't bad blogging etiquette.
It's crazy to think of satan as a "servant" of God. Though he hates God and wants to Hurt God by leading us astray, God allows and limits how far satan can go. And in that sense he is another tool in God's hands, a vessel of use, but of dishonorable use. And some wonder how a loving God can do that, but if there were no option of taking something other than God then our worship of Him would be lacking in understanding of His true glory, and it wouldn't come from a real love for Him. For instance If you only drank water your whole life. One day someone offers you a milkshake. You drink it and think it's amazing. It's so amazing you give up on water, but then you start to lose health and you begin to slowly die without water. Then on your death bead someone who loves you brings you water, you drink it and you immediately feel better and now understand why water is so Great and how the milkshake was good for a little bit but then you began to see that that amazing taste was deceitful and left you dying. If God was the only choice there would be no true faith, and there would be no true choice making us robots and not children of God.
Nice....now where's your next post???
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