HALF
TRUTHS THAT ARE HURTING CHRISTIANS
I
am witnessing today
so many people with probably good
intentions speaking and writing, in blogs and social web pages, half
truths that it has
really come to a place where God is
telling me to speak up. I will deal with
in the next paragraphs, one of these which might be the worst half truth of all.
“Don’t
worry God is in control”.
This half truth is doing so much damage to the body of Christ and
helping Satan’s
plans for this world. This statement
allows people to stay in denial, lay their weapons down and not take
the actions needed
in their live’s and in lives of
others around them and in the world today.
I
believe in the sovereignty of God,
He is Creator of all, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient and the
authority over
all living, spiritual and the
physical realm. So when the Bible says that Satan is the "god of this
world," it is not saying
that he, Satan, has ultimate
authority. It is conveying the idea that Satan rules over the
unbelieving world in a specific
way. In the case of 2 Corinthians
4:4, the unbeliever follows Satan’s agenda. This
is not to say that he, Satan, has
complete authority of the world; only God has this authority. But it
does mean that God
has allowed Satan to operate in this
world, within certain limits which God has set for him and has allowed
Satan to operate
with wiles (purpose) that Satan has
Eph 6:11.
The
problem with the statement that God is in control is that He, God, gave
the control of our world to man in
the Garden of Eden and Satan robbed it from man and added it to the
authority he already
had and God will not interfere with
man’s free will and take the authority back. Satan even had the audacity
to offer
the control to Jesus in the
wilderness. People think because of Calvary
that Satan was annihilated and his authority was completely taken away.
All the
verses below will prove that Satan
is the ruler of this world and this present age, and only the Bride, the
Chosen and the
Elect has the authority in Jesus’
Name and the protection that Calvary offers. The Christian who is in
disobedience
to God and the people who not
Christians, who are worldly, are all under the authority of Satan.
Believers
(God’s definition of a believer) are no longer under the rule of Satan (Colossians 1:13).Unbelievers,
on the other hand, are caught "in the snare of the devil"
(2 Timothy 2:26), lie in the "power
of the evil one" (1 John 5:19), and are in bondage to Satan . Ephesians
2:2
Genesis 1:28
Then
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill
the earth and subdue it; have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over
every living thing that
moves on the earth.” NKJV
Luke 4:6
And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give you, and their glory;
for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. NKJV
1
John 5:19 (New Century Version)
We know that we belong to God, but the
Evil One controls the whole world.
Ephesians
4:27 Leave no [such] room or foothold for the devil [give no opportunity
to him]. Amp
2 Corinthians 4:4 (NKJV
whose
minds the god of this age has blinded,
who do not believe, lest the light
of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine on them.
