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
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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.
