Hereafter I will not talk much with you. For the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. John 14: 30. Jesus called Satan the prince of this world, the ruler of this world and Jesus said the Devil had nothing in His life. Basically there was nothing in Jesus' life that Satan could claim as his own. Jesus was free of sin and therefore was free from the Devil's control, from the Devil's kingdom. Me and you cannot utter such a statement, for me and you were born in sin, born captive to Satan's kingdom, born a slave.
Sin belongs to Satan! Sin is Satan's product, his art, his merchandise and whoever sin belongs to Satan's kingdom. All of us have sinned and therefore all of us at one point belonged to Satan's kingdom of darkness. But my topic today is not whether you belonged at one time to Satan's kingdom, but do you have a love affair with the Devil 😮? You may say Ric, what type of question is that, I am not a Devil worshipper, I don't practice wicca, voodoo etc.. How could you ask me if I have a love affair with the worse being in the universe, how can i ever love the Devil ? I love Jesus you say. But is it true that you love Jesus or you love the devil ?
Jesus said," no one can serve two masters, you will either serve one or the other, you will either love one or hate the other. " But you say Ric, "I go to church, I pray, I preach, I participate in all types of church activities and these things prove I love God and hate the devil." Friends, while these things are good, they in no way determine if you love God or the Devil. What determines who you love is based on what you allow in your heart ❤ and how you live. If you are striving to live a life of holiness, a life that pleases God, then you can say you love God, but if you are living a life of sin, then it is the Devil, the author of sin you love .
Jesus said," If you love me, keep my commandments." If I love Jesus, I will daily ask Him for the power to keep His commandments and do what is right in His sight. But the Devil also come along and say " if you love me, break God's commandments." Your love is determined by the one you obey. All of us were at one point enemies of God and lovers of the Devil because all of us have sinned. But some of us by the grace of God have broken our love affair ❤ with the devil and have come to Jesus to have a loving, obedient relationship with Him. The One you obey is the one you love and to love Christ require me to constantly sacrifice what belonged to the Devil in my heart.
We all have indwelling sin within, evil tendencies that belong to the Devil in our hearts. Some of us have anger, gossip, desire to have sex with people who we are not married to, drunkenness, love of display, pride of life, hatred, murder, lying etc..Each one of us have a different sin we struggle with, a different part of Satan in our hearts because we were once in love with him and when you are in love with someone they become a part of you. Now the Devil is a lover who never wants to quit, once he had you he wants you to be his forever, and will pull all his tricks to bring you back into the love affair with him . The key is to resist him by the power of God.
Let's make it practical. God says " if you love me, don't have sex with people who are not your spouse." The devil says "if you love me ❤ break God's law and have sex with whoever you want, your boyfriend, girlfriend, same sex etc.." Now let's say I am a Christian, I have a girlfriend whom I love a lot and plan to marry, I go and have sex with her. Am I obeying God or Satan, am I loving God or Satan, do I belong in the kingdom of God or Satan's kingdom 🤔? If I have sex with my girlfriend, I show by my action I love Satan and hate God. I show by my action that Satan is my master. The way you think and live reveal who you love .
Loving God will require me to make sacrifice. I must kill whatever Satan has in my life and it is a painful process. If I loved the music of the world, the drinks, money , sexual sins ,anger ,pride etc..I must ask God daily to put these things to death in my life so when the Devil come calling me with sweet temptations I will not go back to my love affair with him. To love God require me to be in constant conversation with God ( prayer) so I will have the power to resist Satan's seduction. To love God requires me to turn my back on Satan's sin products and to turn towards Christ in His righteousness.
Many people claim to love Jesus, claim to be on their way to the kingdom of God, but in reality are in a love affair with Satan ❤. All who love sin, who cling to sin, who makes excuses for sin, who call sins mistakes as if it is something light are demonstrating that they love Satan and are submitting to him like a wife should submit to her husband. To love sin is to love Satan, to commit sin is to love Satan and as lovers of Satan unless we repent he will take us to eternal ruin with him. Let us break our love affair with Satan by turning to Jesus and He will lead us to eternal life. Ask the Lord to remove everything in our lives that belong to Satan so that eventually the " prince of this world will come and find nothing in us."
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