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Pastor David Mitchell
All right.
Well, we're gonna be in the book of Esther if you want to look for that I'll tell you where that is in your Bible.
It's it's in the table of contents and you look in there and you find a page number and then turn to Esther
and that way.
Everyone knows that you know where Esther is.
So that's how that works and Chapter 7 we've been going verse by verse
through the book of Esther for quite some time.
Can you hear me in the back?
Do we need to turn it up a little it's okay.
It's only me that can't hear me.
That's okay, though.
That's not unusual.
And we're down we're down to about Chapter 7 verse 5 and we kind of got stuck there
a few Sundays ago because what happened is this little passage is
Sort of a type or a picture of some other very important doctrines
in the Bible so we're kind of using it as a Launching board to go into these other doctrines for a
few Sundays and what you find is that the Apostle Paul made it clear in the New Testament that
The things that were written of four times as he says it The things that were written in the Old
Testament were given as in samples.
It says in the New Testament that means Examples they were given as examples for those of us who live
and the in the end of the age the Bible says.
So what's cool about that if you understand what the Holy Spirit is saying there he's saying that if you take any
of the Old Testament passages the old familiar stories that were read to you in Sunday school as A kid and you're so familiar
with if you go back and study those and realize that built into those kind of subtly underneath.
Kind of underneath the surface.
There are spiritual teachings there about concepts that would come to light later in the New Testament.
But there already were buried there.
They were implanted there by God Almighty who wrote the Bible.
So what you can do when you see a spiritual when you see a spiritual concept or doctrine in the New Testament.
Usually the magnification of that is actually found in the Old Testament.
It it just Magnifies it it gives you more colors of all the meanings of the words in a deeper
understanding of that doctrine and you find it again and again so I love to teach through the Old Testament verse
by verse because what happens is you can't go three or four verses all of a Major doctrine and it's embedded
and you might not see that but if you study.
And you ask the Holy Spirit to teach you you'll see it and when you do it makes that New Testament doctrine come to
life.
So let's take a look at this.
We have a set for those of you.
They're new.
We've got me going through the story here Esther this Jewish girl.
Her parents died when she was very young or were killed perhaps in a battle
Babylon had conquered Israel.
Taken them captive and so they were taken against their will
to Babylon and Mordecai was a Jewish man who raised her.
So I'm just gonna say it's her uncle, but it might not be might be her cousin.
It's uncle.
Okay but I always look at him as her father because that's how she looked at him because it was
kind of like Ben and Madar with with you know, Maddie and Ella and them because.
They're they're cousins, but they're old enough.
Oh, actually I got that wrong.
Yeah, that's right.
No, they're uncles, but they're like but they're like their age almost.
So this is this is a man who she saw as her father and she did a great job of raising her.
So here they live right next to the castle of the most powerful man in the universe on
in that time he ruled pretty much the known world and He had a problem with his wife.
So he just put her aside and he sent his wise men out over the whole kingdom.
Which was the whole world in that day to look for the most beautiful girl ended up being Esther and she became his
wife.
So that brings you up where we are.
Now there was a man named Haman who made his way up to become the right -hand man of the king.
Now, by the way, this King's name in the Bible is Ahasuerus.
But if you studied in profane history, it's Arctic Xerxes.
So most of you read about him in high school.
He's a very powerful King the whole world knows about him but this is who this man is and so
Esther is now his wife and She was probably about 14 years old.
Maybe 16 and the King was probably 45 something like that.
And he put his wife aside and he found the most beautiful young virgin and married her and it was Esther.
So Esther is now his wife and this man Haman Raised up became the
right -hand man of the king somehow probably because of his while and he came from Esau all
the way back in Bible history.
Esau now Esau and the Bible is a picture or type of the flesh.
You know in the bad sense of the word we have three enemies the world the flesh and the devil.
Esau pictures the flesh and This man Haman came from that man, and they always have hated
the Jews.
And so what happened was the king told the whole nation they had to bow down to Haman when he walked down the street.
Well Mordecai wouldn't do it because he's a Jew.
He won't worship anyone but God so he refused to do it.
And so Haman got it in his mind.
I'm not gonna kill him.
I'm gonna kill all the Jews the the people that he comes from.
I'm gonna kill them all.
Well, what's interesting to think about that is at that time this man ruled the whole world.
So that means all the Jews Were going to be killed and Haman took that and he accused the Jews before the king
he lied about him.
He slandered them.
He said they're evil.
They're bad.
They don't believe the way we do.
He said they don't even have the same laws we have they have perverse laws and it's not good for you to have them in Your kingdom and he
convinced that King Probably got him drunk and then convinced him to sign a document.
They said it's okay to kill them all and also to fund it sounds like our Congress, doesn't it?
Trying to fund things with money.
They don't have the differences.
This man had the money so he funded and said anyone who will kill a Jew you get money for that and.
Then they said set that into law and sent it out.
Well news comes to Mordecai and he finds out about it and he sends a messenger into Esther the girl He
raised and said you better do something about this because if you don't we're all gonna die and she said well I cannot go in
before the king unless I'm invited because the law of the Persians is That they'll kill me if I go in before him and he
didn't invite me his own wife.
But she can't go in there unless he invites her in and the dad said look you better step up.
He said look, I know it's a risk.
But if you don't go in I'll guarantee you you're gonna die because they're gonna find out you're Jew and they know I'm a Jew.
So they're gonna kill me too, and they're gonna kill everyone except for this thing.
He said to his daughter.
He said look if you don't do it God will raise someone up because God's not gonna let all the Jews be killed now.
How did he know that?
Because they were the lineage of the Messiah and every prophet that had ever lived and prophesied.
The Messiah was gonna be born of the Jews so they couldn't all be killed could they and he knew that so he said look If you don't do it,
then God will raise someone else up to do to save the people.
But you will be killed and so will I and he said, how do you know Esther?
And this was such a wonderful statement.
He said how do you know that you weren't brought into the world for such a time as this?
And so we've already had that lesson, but I'm reviewing a little bit.
But then you know God looks at every one of us and every one of us have been equipped and prepared for a
major Role in God's plan and we all were brought for such a time as this and we're
living in the end times you we don't know What we're gonna see just around the corner.
We do not know what we're gonna see but you've been raised up and prepared for such time as this just like she was so.
That was a good sermon.
It's already over.
It's in the past.
Just reviewing a little bit and the reason it was a good sermons because it's good material.
I always preach good sermons.
Because I preach the Bible.
Then it's just like good material.
So so that happened now all of a sudden Haman tries to get all the Jews killed and
Esther finally does go in before the king and guess what?
He doesn't kill her.
He loves her.
He says oh my wife you coming in here.
She must need something.
That's what he thought.
So she says come on in my wife.
Tell you what?
I know you need something.
You're gonna ask me for something so you can have everything.
I've got up to half my kingdom.
That's not what she expected to hear she thought he was gonna kill her.
But see God had all this prepared.
So she said she had a request and here was a request.
She said I'm just gonna throw a banquet and I want just two people to come.
I want you and Haman to come and she had this thing all set up.
Haman thought he was being honored.
He was so excited the only man other than the king that the Queen invited to the banquet and he thought he's gonna be lifted
up and in reality God had put this in this maiden's heart
To have a plan and It's really going to be his end.
And so that's kind of where we pick this up.
So look at Esther seven and five it says then the king Ahasuerus answered and said into Esther
now Esther had just told the king that there is a person who has plotted to kill all of the Jews to
kill Mordecai and to Kill me and I'm just she said here's my request.
I don't want half your kingdom.
She said I just want my life.
I want you to grant my life that you'll protect my life and my family and she meant the whole family of the Jews and The king said
well certainly now I want you to remember from this point on that this is beginning to be
a Type or an example for us and these human beings are playing a role where they picture
other Spiritual truths and you're gonna see this in a minute.
What's happening here is The king Ahasuerus is becoming a type of Jesus Christ
who is the bridegroom the husband the king.
Queen Esther is a picture of the church, which is you.
Haman is a picture of Satan and so here we have the
Queen comes before the king and Says there's someone wants to kill me and all my family now.
Listen when you get in trouble and Satan is attacking and things are happening in your family.
To remember what happened here because it's gonna be useful and so she tells the king and look what his answer
is in verse 5 I love it.
I've preached it five times already for the last five Sundays.
I keep preaching the same verse.
It says then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the Queen
Who is he and where is he?
That Durst presumed in his heart to do so and Queen Esther Look what all she had to do was she just pointed
right across the room from the table to Haman and said the adversary the enemy is
this wicked Haman and Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
I want you to picture that king and queen the queen is you because that's the church and the king is the
bridegroom.
That's Jesus and anytime it's Jesus plus you Satan trembles.
Remember that it'll help you.
There's no place in the Bible where it says to turn your back and run from Satan.
You don't have any armor.
Check it out in Ephesians chapter 6.
There's no armor for your back.
It's all in the front.
So you face Satan and you resist him, but you never do it by yourself.
This Queen could never have resisted Haman she goes and gets right up as close to that King and she
can get.
Maybe holds his hand and points at the enemy and says there he is and that's all she had to do.
But when she and the king are together The enemy trembles and
So Haman was afraid before the king and she called him the adversary in the enemy in first Peter 5 8 It says be
sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walking about seeking whom he made of our
it is.
A picture.
Haman is a picture or a type of Satan himself and we can learn a lot about Satan by studying this.
So so in this passage now as it goes down towards we've already studied through some of this but as you go down to
verse verse 9 Right down towards the end of verse 9
it says that the Chamberlain's came in and As the king well look at
the end of verse 8 the very last sentence in verse 8 as the word went out of the king's mouth.
They covered Haman's face covered him with a hood.
The king came.
He was so angry that he went outside for a few minutes and then when he came back in he just said one word and his servants went
over and covered Haman's head and marched him out and It says they took him out.
One of the people told the king that Haman had built some gallows to kill Mordecai and the king Says we'll take him and hang him on
the gallows that he built.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai then was the king's wrath Pacified and
I'll tell you what that pictures and you'll see it later in this study.
But that pictures the defeat of Satan.
Satan put that cross up there to put Jesus on it.
And he just thought it was wonderful.
We studied that in Sunday school this morning a little bit.
He just thought that was great and the demons of hell Rejoiced when Jesus when those nails were nailed into his
hands and into his feet.
But I'm gonna tell you something when he uttered the words it is finished.
They stopped laughing and when he came out of that grave three days later.
They began to tremble.
You see and so so Satan was killed by the very thing he had prepared
to kill the Messiah.
Just like what had happened hundreds of years earlier in history.
And so the same spirit that puts these thoughts in leaders minds to kill God's people.
It's not it's not the leaders doing it.
We battle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places and those
same Demonic forces are going to put it in the minds of the leaders of this world to kill the Jews again and
to kill you as a Christian because you're part of the Covenant of Abraham and We know the book
Revelation says hundreds of thousands of Christians will be killed in the end times all by the same
mental influence that was put into the mind of Haman the same thoughts where he would become an accuser and lie and Slander
and make up things that aren't even true and convince the leaders to do it and it'll get funded by the way.
And they will do it and it's it's all just happens again and again why it's the same enemy.
He doesn't die he just keeps coming back to each new generation doesn't even need new
tricks and So we began to study Lucifer now.
We've already we have already studied this.
I'm gonna give you some things if you're visiting the first thing we studied about him is he and we're kind of learning about him.
By looking at the names that he has in the Bible the first one in first Peter 580 is called the adversary.
The word adversary in the Greek language means simply to stand against that which is right, isn't that amazing?
So he is the one who stands against that which is right.
He's the adversary.
The second thing it calls him in first Peter 5 is the devil and if you look that up in the Greek language Diabolos,
it sounds evil, doesn't it?
Diabolos, it means slanderer.
That means a person who makes up something that's not even true about you and tries to get you hurt.
Because of it a slanderer that's his very name and then in first Peter 5 8 it calls him a
roaring lion.
That means he's a slaughterer.
He is a destroyer.
He's the destroyer of nations.
He's the destroyer of families he's the destroyer of marriages of churches of whole entire
peoples and
We looked into first Corinthians 10, there's some interesting information about that.
But I'm not going to go back into that because we've already covered that.
But then let me tell you the next thing he's known as.
He is known as the accuser turn to Revelation chapter 12 verse 10.
It says and I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now is come salvation and strength and the
kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is
Cast down which accused them Before our God day and night
now that is a picture of the future.
Because it's out of the book of Revelation, which means this is still happening.
I Know that Satan has been cast down from heaven.
But he still has the ability to accuse you Before God, but isn't it wonderful to know that
Jesus Christ himself is your advocate?
So if you're gonna have an accuser, which is the one who stands against right?
Isn't it nice to know you have an advocate before the father who stands there and every time you get accused Jesus goes
He's innocent.
She's innocent Because I've already paid the price.
I Have ransomed them from the slave market of sin and Satan and hell and the flesh in the world the devil and
they're free now.
And they're innocent every time you get accused.
That's what Jesus does every time.
The problem is in your mind.
Sometimes you don't believe it.
So you feel guilty and guilt is okay.
If it leads you to first John 1 9 to confess our sins.
But we also have to believe first John 1 9 because it goes on and say this.
That once we have confessed our sins, listen to this.
He is faithful which means he'll do it every time and just which means it's right for him to do it.
To forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
So every single time we sin the accuser says look at them.
They don't deserve to there to probably not even saved.
That's what he says because he doesn't know all this stuff.
He doesn't he's not omniscient.
He doesn't know everything he presumes things.
He makes up things in his mind.
He just believes it's true and He say accuses us and Jesus says no.
Wait a minute.
They're not guilty.
They've never done anything wrong and never will.
Because that's how the father sees you right now the father and I'm not talking about Jesus.
But God the father sees you as if you've never sinned.
That's what justification means in the Bible.
You've been justified just as if I'd never sin.
That's a good way to remember it justified.
Good definition for it.
And so because of the blood of Jesus one drop of his blood took away every sin we will ever do ever have
done.
Because he paid the price the price doesn't get paid twice gets paid one.
How many brother bill you studied in Sunday school?
Once he died once and it's finished.
Satan hates that he doesn't even halfway believe it.
That's why he keeps accusing you thinking he can turn God against you.
But how can he turn the one against you who died for you?
It's impossible.
God's love is so big for you that Satan cannot even get through it, but he still attempts because he's a usurper.
He's already been put down.
Jesus on the cross defeated him and de facto took away his right to be the God of this world.
But he's a usurper like King Saul was in the Old Testament.
So he keeps running around trying to stay on the throne.
It's not his any longer and and so all you need to do when he's bothering you by the way and your family you say look.
You have no right over me.
You have no right.
It's been taken away.
You've been destroyed flee.
But don't try to get him to do it yourself.
Remember how remember how Esther did it?
How did she do it?
She comes up.
She walks over to the king Kings big old hand.
He's a warrior.
Puts her little hand big old hand.
Same way today.
He has no power he is not the king.
He just acts as if he is.
So we see there in Revelation 12 that he is the accuser of the brethren.
If you go into the book of Job like we did last Sunday.
You see that you will see that acted out.
You will see Satan come before God and accused Job and Job said and God says no.
He's a righteous man.
Job say that's because you give him everything.
He said if you'll take it all the way.
Cuss you to his face and guess what.
Job never did that.
Did he and so God God demonstrated his power.
Through that and so now let's look at the next one.
The next thing we see the Bible teaches in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 verse 13 turn there.
You got to kind of go fast.
If you're going to have a Bible sermon with scriptures in it look at 2nd Corinthians 11 13.
Okay, this is another name that's given to the devil but also to his workers look what it says for
such are false apostles.
This is talking about preachers who act like they're preaching the word, but they're not really preaching the word.
They're preaching for money.
All right, they're preaching for their belly.
The Bible says that's money.
All right, it's talking about them.
They are false apostles.
They are deceitful workers.
Transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
They are not called by God to be preachers.
They're called by themselves to be preachers and then look what it says and no marvel.
For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers that means Preachers and people that do his work and
act like they're Christians doing Christian work.
It is no great thing if minister if his ministers also be transformed into the
ministers of righteousness.
Whose end shall be according to their works.
There's nothing secret to God.
Their end their destiny is going to be according to their works.
They're not saved by grace.
They're not saved by the blood of Christ.
They're not covered by his blood because they're doing it with their own works.
They think and they're gonna end up in hell and yet they are here right now today preaching to you
holding a Bible.
Preaching to you.
I'll use one snippet of a scripture as an excuse.
So you'll think they're preaching and then they'll tell a story.
To make you feel good and the Bible says they transform themselves into ministers of righteousness.
But the interesting thing is here that Satan himself does that and that's what we're studying today.
We're studying him.
It says Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Do you know what his name Lucifer means before he fell his name was Lucifer.
He was created to be the most powerful angel at the very right hand of God.
He was the number one.
He was God's number one angel.
His job was to protect the righteousness of God and the holiness of God and keep sin away.
That's what his job was and his name was the angel of light.
Lucifer means the son of the morning.
That beautiful.
He was a bright resilient resplendent Angel so beautiful that
perhaps that contributed to his fall.
That's who he was.
Lucifer son of the morning.
So no wonder that he appears as an angel of light and His ministers the people the
human beings that work for him appear to be ministers of righteousness.
They appear to be good people.
But you don't see everything they do.
But you can hear what they say, you know, if you take long enough you can judge them by their doctrine because Paul
talks about doctrines of demons and They come out read their books if you want to.
I don't read them.
You need to.
I can figure them out by their sermonettes.
But there it is.
So the next thing Satan is then he is the deceiver.
So we see he's the adversary.
He is the slanderer.
He is a roaring line, which means he is, you know, actually a destroyer.
He is the accuser and we see now he is a deceiver now look at John chapter 8.
Let's see what else he is.
Now I want to while you're turning there I want to put another sentence on that paragraph about the
deceiver a lot of people are under the impression that if you have a thought pop in your mind and you're
a Christian that that's always from God and You just know it is it's just the gods leading me to do this
because it thought popped in my mind.
And I remember my mentor dr. Irwin Freeman.
He was a Jewish believer.
He had four earned doctorate degrees.
He was a genius brilliant man brilliant theologian.
He was a Jewish believer and he told me one time he said David he said people every church.
He was an evangelist so he went to churches all over the world, but he said everywhere I go people think that when they see a
Have a dream or have a vision or they have a thought they just know that's God.
And I've heard him preach to huge congregations and boy, he'll get into this thing.
He would get into it and he'd say you don't know.
You just think you know, you're just prideful enough.
You are prideful enough to think you know.
That a spiritual voice is God.
He said there are other spiritual beings and they're powerful and they are called deceivers.
What does the word deceiver mean?
Word deceiver means they make you think they're somebody they're not does it not?
Who do you think Eve thought was speaking to her through that serpent?
Do you think she just willfully disobeyed God the Bible says she didn't.
The Bible says she did not willfully disobey God.
Adam did this guys, you know.
And Adam knew what he was doing and he did it anyway.
But the woman did not she was deceived and that voice came out of that serpent said, you know God would not
want you to be you know, why would he withhold information from you?
Why would he withhold anything good from you eat that it's good.
So she did it made sense.
Don't you think it makes sense?
God wouldn't withhold anything good.
He's a good God.
Isn't that doesn't that make sense?
So Satan makes sense.
He's a deceiver he's beautiful.
He comes to you with words that sound like God's talking to you and he gets you to do stuff that you weren't.
You know, it's not the right direction.
So you have to recognize so you have to recognize that he is a deceiver in every voice you hear.
Everything that pops in your mind is not from God now.
There are some things you can do.
Such as hold them up against the scripture.
But I'm gonna tell you what if you're a little bit weak in that area and you don't study your Bible very much.
That's gonna be difficult for you to do because you've got to take the whole of the Bible.
You got to take the whole Bible and it all has to fit and none of it can contradict each other.
So if you only know little snippets of it and the devil comes out and he puts a thought in your mind.
It doesn't contradict anything, you know, you may think it's God, but the problem is you may not know enough of the
Bible.
So what do we need to be doing?
This is a corollary to the message.
Some people call that a rabbit trail.
We need to be studying the Bible a lot more you can't just come to church here a sermon and that's it for the week.
You can't listen to tell you something else.
You can't do you can't rely on yesterday's Bible study.
Do you remember how in the God there's another type in the Bible?
He gave a manna in the wilderness.
Did you know that by the morning the next morning that manna was rotten and had worms in it?
So they had to get new manna.
Every day the old manna was not working anymore.
So you got to get new scripture and insight from God every day.
You can't rely on last week's Bible study in all of this if you continue this and you are in the word and you love It
you ask God to teach it to you.
It is much more difficult for the deceiver to make you think he's God.
Because he will.
I'm gonna tell you what he'll do.
He will contradict something in there when he came to Jesus.
When Satan took Jesus to the wilderness to tempt him he used the Bible to tempt him with he used snippets of
Scripture just like modern preachers do a little piece of a scripture and he would quote that to Jesus try to get him to
jump off the pinnacle and kill himself.
And he quoted a scripture to get him to do it.
Jesus came back and quoted it in the right interpretation.
And he rebuked him because he said no, here's what the Bible really means.
You're a liar.
That's basically what Jesus told him.
So you got to know the Word of God.
So there's a good one a good little rabbit trail there.
Now, let's look.
Here's another reason.
Turn to John 8 you already there.
I Sort of elaborated on the previous one while you're returning there.
I bet you found it by now.
John 8 42 look at that one.
The next thing we see is that Satan is the father of lies.
He's a liar.
Jesus said unto them if God were your father you would love me.
For I proceeded forth and came out from God.
Neither came out of myself, but he sent me.
Why do you not understand my speech even because you cannot it doesn't say because you will not say you cannot.
You cannot hear my word.
You know I mean I mean people every day that don't understand the difference between the elect and the non elect and that whole terminology.
Bothers and they're even whole Baptist churches.
Everywhere preaching that that's false doctrine that there is an elect and a non elect and their Apostate
preachers who talk about it such as me.
The problem is it's in the Bible.
The problem is it doesn't fit their theological box so they fight against it, but we should never do that.
I mean we should never let our theology make us become unscriptural.
So the Bible Ephesians 1 Romans all through the entire Bible talks about how God has chosen his
own.
The Bible teaches that the human race is entirely fallen and evil and the heart is wicked
and deceitful and who can know it and the Bible teaches the whole race is that way and the whole race would be hell -bound if not
for the fact that God chose some Out of the race to save him.
So he saved some out of that race and we complain that he didn't save everybody.
Where we should be looking saying isn't wonderfully saved some and I'm one of them.
Isn't it wonderful?
It's just his grace because the whole race deserved to go to hell including us in this room.
And he saved some that's the beautiful thing.
But man likes to focus on the glass half empty and so they hate this doctrine.
They hated it when Jesus taught it, but it is absolutely the truth.
I mean look what it says here.
He Jesus is looking at some human beings.
They happen to be Pharisees Bible teachers and he's looking at them and saying
Why don't you hear my word and follow me and understand my speech and he said because you cannot.
Not because you will not not because you don't choose to because it's impossible for you to.
Now we don't know who those people are though, but Jesus did know who they were.
That's the point.
He knew the difference between the sheep and the goats.
Let me tell you he knew the difference between the wheats and the tares.
Let me tell you he knew the difference and he could look in their eyes and see the difference.
And he says you don't come because you cannot.
You don't hear my word because you cannot hear my word.
Let me give you a clue if you don't hear Jesus word, you ain't gonna get saved.
You know that If God doesn't open your ears to hear his word you cannot get saved because we're saved.
Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God and.
So the world doesn't understand these things now.
He goes on in verse 44 and and they didn't like it when Jesus taught these things.
But Jesus continues he says you are of your father the devil now.
Let me ask you something if they had a father called the devil or they elect or non elect.
Our father is God Jesus Christ.
Their father is the devil.
Which group are they in?
He says you're of your father the devil and the lust of your father.
You will do.
He didn't say you might do it.
He said you will do it.
Why it's the same name you have his nature.
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in
him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own.
It's his own character in nature for he is a liar and the father of it.
He is the father of lies.
Does this surprise you in the business world and the world around you that most time people are talking they're lying to you to take Advantage of you.
It's because they're there from their father the devil.
That's why we're exhorted as Christians not lie not one to another.
We have a new a new nature from God.
We are gened with the genes of God and the non elect are gened with the genes of the devil and
You know the little parable that Jesus taught where they went out and they sowed the seeds in the field and the
wheat came up.
And they said yeah, but there's tears that came up.
There's weeds in there.
Should we go pluck them?
He said no don't go pluck them because you might accidentally get a wheat.
And you can't do that because all of the wheat has to be saved and put into my father's barn which represents heaven and
they Asked him, would you please explain that to us?
At least they asked that nowadays people don't want to hear it.
They don't even want it to explain because they don't want to believe it's true when he explained it.
He said well, I'll tell you what he said.
He said the earth there represents the world and he said The
seeds that came up and became wheat represents the seeds that were sown by the Son of Man Which was himself Jesus
and he said the seeds that came up and became Tears are seeds that were sown by the enemy and his name is
Satan and Jesus said that so there's two kinds of seeds in the world.
There's Jesus's seeds and Satan's seeds and I'm going to tell you something a tear seed
never changes into a wheat.
And a wheat seed never can lose its salvation become a weed.
It's impossible but the whole theology today is so messed up and so Arminian
and makes man be in control of everything that all of that is lost now in the modern church.
It's almost a lost thing.
I've had people get angry at me as recently as this week not at our meeting by the way.
At the hospital actually.
Got angry with me because I mentioned the word elect and the person said to me.
Oh, well, that's that's Presbyterian.
Well, he he's a Baptist, you know, I said, yeah, it is Presbyterian, but it's also Bible check out
Ephesians 1.
That's what I said, and then I went home and I already had this list.
But I didn't know where to put my hands on so I googled it.
I just put in Google.
I said Baptist pastors who are Calvinists and printed out a list this long and it's
it's the pastors and the missionaries who are bad as such as Spurgeon the Prince of preachers and
Carrie one of the greatest missionaries in the world and two or three other greatest missionaries you ever read about all Baptist people who
believe God was sovereign.
So, I mean it is a Baptist doctrine.
It was that way before this modern doctrine got here and the thing is when you look here at Jesus talking
to these people He says you cannot hear me.
Because you're not mine.
I don't know you depart from me.
You curse it into everlasting darkness.
Yet Satan is the father of lies and therefore his children are going to lie.
He says and because I tell you the truth you believe me not.
Which of you convinced me of sin who can point out any sin that I've ever done.
Jesus said and if I say the truth Why do you not believe me?
He that is of God heareth God's words you see that that's election right there.
He that is that God knew before the foundation of the world in Ephesians 1 if he knew you He will open your ears so
that you can hear his words and he says to them you therefore hear them not because you are
not of God.
Does it sound like that?
Someone's gonna go witness to them later and they're gonna get saved to you.
You could witness to them till you're blue in the face and their ears are closed.
Their eyes are blind.
Just like you and I came into the world.
Just think back before you were saved remember how that was.
You hated church you hated the Bible, right?
You couldn't understand it.
It was confusing and all the sudden something happened and somebody flipped a switch and that person was God himself.
Flipped a switch because he knew you before the foundation of the world.
You were his child and he's always loved you even in your lost state.
He loved you and he flipped your switch and your eyes came open and your ears were open.
He looked up said Lord.
What would you have me to do?
And You call that the time when you were saved.
I love brother Otis's definition of that before he went to be with the Lord.
He used to say well that was not the time you got saved.
That was just time you got notified.
Isn't that interesting?
So Think of this he that is of God.
Here's God's words you Therefore hear them not because you're not of God.
That's sad.
But is why would we look at the glass half full?
I mean, I mean half empty the glass half full.
The good news is that some of you in this room Have had the light switched on.
I can see it from the countenances.
You hear God's Word.
It's a joy to hear it.
It makes you grow.
It's like honey.
It's like bread.
It's like meat.
But others it's dry it's like a piece of old moldy leather.
Because they don't have ears to hear.
Now if you're sitting in here this morning and you're not saved yet.
You said well, he just told me I can't get saved by wanting to that's right.
You can't.
But then again you can.
Because if God turns on your want to you'll get saved.
And let me just comfort you a little bit if you're worried about that if you're even worried about it.
You're probably an elect.
Because the non elect don't ever worry about it.
They enjoy their sin.
They enjoy hating God.
They don't give it any thought.
So if you're giving it thought all you have to do is in your heart today to say Lord, you know.
This is frightening.
This is a frightening sermon.
I do not want to be put in the number with those people that can't hear you.
I think I'm hearing you this morning.
Please come in my heart and be my Lord my boss my Savior.
Run my life for me the rest of my life and you know what you'll be changed instantly.
I heard a story of a young man just this week Charlotte was telling me that Had had trouble
in his marriage.
And sometimes sometimes he'd get mean and sometimes he'd be nice and all of a sudden about a
week I think it was last week.
He got born again.
He thought he's already saved because he went to church as a kid.
But he wasn't and he got born again and his wife said man.
He is he is wonderful.
He's just totally different you see.
That's what happens when we get notified.
Right.
Let's see.
I think we're about out of time this morning.
So let's just stop right there and so what we covered we'll pick it up there next time we covered it.
First of all, he's the adversary.
He is the slaughterer.
He is the accuser of the brethren.
He's a deceiver and he is the father of lies and That's who he is.
It's not a pleasant topic, I think we'll actually finish it next Sunday and we'll be done with it.
So let's pray father.
We thank you for your word.
It is so powerful.
We thank you that it is light.
Like a lamp before our feet as we take each step into your will.
We step into your will each time we take a step.
We thank you that your word is the light that takes us to that place and Lord help us to understand the things we
studied today.
Help us to go over them in our minds that your Holy Spirit would use them as needed as we are light and
salt in The world today as we go out.
Lord bless all of our visitors today protect them as they go their way later on this evening and our
Home folks as well, and we thank you for the Lord Jesus.
We thank you that When we're hand in hand with him that the enemy trembles
and help us remember that and Lord.
Thank you for the relationship.
You've given us with yourself your son and with each other and We thank you for the food.
We're about to have and we pray in Jesus name.
Amen.