Sunday Morning Worship Service July 26, 2020

Good morning. Good to see you on this Lord's Day. Nice, nice, warm day outside today. Aren't you grateful for that? If not, then wait till January, right? So, well, we're thankful for the Lord's provision and His giving no matter what He gives.

Our Lord always gives what is best. Well, a couple announcements just to share with you from your, in your bulletin. Tonight in evening service, we'll be looking at Psalm 4, which is called the Song of the Secure Saint, and I hope you can make it back for that service this evening.

And at the end of the service, for those who are members, we have a quarterly business meeting and go over the financial report from the last quarter, as well as give some update on some other projects and so forth.

So just please note that. And then, also, just wanted to point out in the bulletin that August 15th is a bridal shower for Allison McCann. It occurred to me that some may not even have heard that she's engaged, just because of this lockdown and closing, you know, and not that's, that's information that could have just gone blown right by you, and you didn't even know about it.

Well, she is, and a wedding date is scheduled for September 32nd, I think it is.

19th,.

September 19th. So bridal shower, middle of August, August 15th, and information there in the bulletin regarding that. Next couple of Sundays, we'll be having some guests. I think we'll probably, Chris and I will be here for service next Sunday morning, but we have phase one of a vacation trip this week, and then phase two next week.

But some guest speakers, and I hope that you'll appreciate their ministries and enjoy the ministry of the Word from Gordon Taylor next Sunday, and then Ron Burnett the following, the following Lord's Day.

A couple of corrections in your bulletin. The first two hymn numbers just did not get changed in the process. So in a moment, we'll be singing number 46, and then later on the song in the song supplement book.

But the Lord has called us to sing, Psalm 91 verses 1 and 3, say, O come, let us sing to the Lord, let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.

And let's sing to that Lord, our God, and our King. Jim, please.

Thank you, Pastor. At number 46 in your hymnals, number 46, we'll sing together, verses 1 through 3. Let's all stand together, please, singing the first three verses of Crown Him with Many Crowns, number 46.

Remain standing for prayer, please. Our Heavenly Father, our great God and Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, we come to you, O God, this Lord's Day in thanks and in praise and in worship and in truth. We look forward, O God, in the remaining time together for as we are directed by thy Spirit, and that you would open our ears to those things before us, even the Word of God that would guide us and illuminate us and transform us, O Lord, into your image.

We look forward to this time together. We ask your blessing upon this time. In Christ's name we pray, amen. Thank you. May we be seated.

Our psalm reading this week, I want to read Psalm 46 on the back of your bulletin and then the next hymn in your supplement book is based on this psalm. Psalm 46, the favorite hymn, or favorite, it is a hymn, actually, favorite song for many of God's people, especially going through times of trial and crisis.

Psalm 46, follow along as I read. God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged. The kingdoms were moved. He uttered his voice. The earth melted.

The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease under the end of the earth. He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder.

He burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. The Lord add his blessing to the reading of his word and to our singing of it here.

Jim.

God is our strength and refuge, number 71 in your blue books, that is your supplements, number 71. We'll sing again the first three verses together. We'll melt the raging throng. The Lord of hosts is with us.

He is our fortress strong. And the third verse as the last. Behold God's glorious power. He makes all warfare cease. Each weapon he will shatter. The world will be at peace. Why still cries heaven sovereign?

Be still for I am God. All kingdoms, all creation Will bow beneath my rod.

As we pray together today, we want to remember to pray for our missionary of the week, Dwayne and Cinchi Ott. Serving in Malaysia, and I saw they they send sending like video updates lately and haven't sent actual prayer letters for a while for several months, but the video update showed them involved in teaching in their their language school, English language school and so forth.

So they are able to have some ministry even though Malaysia is still like a lot of places, a lot of restrictions and limitations and so forth. So continue to pray for Dwayne Ott, trying to get a church established in Kluang, Malaysia.

Also continue to pray for Bob and Jerry Klein. Bob had his second round of chemo last Wednesday and just pray for the Lord to continue to give him strength and effectiveness of those treatments and pray for grace for Jerry as well.

Harold Smith is scheduled for surgery a week from Friday on his shoulder and that's going to be a pretty extensive surgery, going to require a lot of rehab and recovery after the fact. So be praying for Harold for that time.

Of course, anybody who is anticipating surgery these days, they tell them to stay away from people, don't go into any crowds, stay home and so forth. So pray for them. And then continue to pray for our shut-ins who are very limited in interaction with other people.

So Jerry Saylors, Jeannie Ludwick, pray for her. Sue Cherry, Dean Kinnaman as well. He's not in a nursing home, but he's also homebound. And Jed Hunsberger, these individuals who just are not able to get out and meet with us.

So let's look to the Lord in prayer, shall we? And so our Father, we do thank you that you are our refuge and help. And we can trust in you. And Lord, your word promises that though the heathen rage, their raging will be short-lived.

You are.

King.

You are God. You are ruler, even over this troubled earth. And Father, I pray that as we even think about the role of our enemy in what's going on in our world today, I pray that we would not be overwhelmed by the enemy's efforts and seeming successes these days.

But we would keep going back to the truth of Scripture that you and you alone are God. Give us that hope. Give us that faith and that confidence. Strengthen us in your word and what your word reveals to us about you and about the limitations of the enemy.

And Father, we also pray today for these folks who are in need. We pray for Bob and ask for your strengthening of his body and his ability to handle and cope with the effects of the chemotherapies you're receiving.

Continue to be with Jerry. Give her strength and and encouragement in these days. We pray for Harold as he looks forward to surgery in another week and a half. I pray that you'd protect him from getting any kind of illness that would put this off again.

And I pray that that surgery would be effective and successful in this this round. And I pray that you'd give him a quick recovery. Continue to pray for Kathy McAllister too and ask for the strengthening of her body, the easing of pain, the increased flexibility and recovery from that knee surgery.

Father, we pray for our shut-ins and Lord we love these folks and miss being able to interact with them. Pray that you would just encourage them. We think of Jeannie and.

Sue,.

Jerry, Dean, Jed. We just pray that each of these would know a sense of your comfort and presence. I pray that they might be able to get into your word and to hear your word in some way and thereby be encouraged and blessed by what they hear.

Our Father, we realize that in our congregation, our congregation here and assembled today and at large that there are many whose hearts are heavy and burdened. We pray that by your grace, you would give hope to the hopeless.

Pray for those who are weary that you would graciously give rest. Some who are hurting, hurting deeply, I pray that you would give healing to the pain and the scars. And the heartbroken, I pray that you would lift them up with joy.

Those struggling with doubts and discouragements, I pray that you would strengthen their faith. And Father, for any who are erring, living in sin, I pray that you would bring conviction and grant repentance.

Father, in that regard, we all confess today that we are a needy people. We are a sinful people. Even in this past week, if we're honest with ourselves and with your Spirit's convicting work, we would have to confess that we have not been all that we should be.

We have not been the Christ-like people in every regard that you've called us to be. We have sinned, sometimes with our thoughts, sometimes with our words, perhaps with our actions, our deeds. I pray that you would grant forgiveness as we confess these things to you.

And we are grateful, Father, that we have, though we have an adversary that would slander us and would defeat us, we also have an advocate. And our Savior, the Lord Jesus, with His blood purges us and cleanses us from all sin.

We thank you for that gracious provision. Now, O Lord, meet with us the remainder of this time, we pray. Speak to us through your word we ask, in Jesus' name. And we'll have one more hymn before our message today.

Jim?

And that is number 592, 592 soldiers of Christ to rise. We are soldiers. We are in the Lord's army, as you know. And yet, He has equipped us with that which defeats the enemy, and that has already been done on the cross, the blood of Christ.

And all we have to do, and it's pleasing to God that He would use us to do it, is to tell others that they might be set free and have that victory as well. So, fellow soldiers, let us arise, if we would stand all together, please, and sing all three verses.

First and last verse, excuse me, first and last verse of 592. Take every virtue, every grace, and fortify the whole.

From strength to strength go on, rest all, and fight in praise. Thank you, may we be seated. Scripture reading this morning, I want to turn again to Ephesians chapter 6. I want to read verses 10 through 13.

Focus of our message is really going to be just verses of verse 11, or last couple words of verse 11 and verse 12. But to get the full, to get the context of this section, verses 10 through 13. Paul is winding down this letter to the church at Ephesus.

First three chapters of the letter have been largely, shall we say, doctrinal, focusing on doctrinal truth. And then the last half of his letter, as Paul typically does in his letter, letters, he he shifts and then turns to practical applications of those doctrinal truths.

So coming to the end of this letter, he says in verse 10, finally my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, you may be able to able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Just a brief prayer. Our Father and our God, I pray that as we consider the nature, the character, the tactics of our enemy, that you would open our eyes to him and to his to his methods. And I pray that you would equip us by this understanding to stand.

We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Well, every study that I've ever seen that has to do with the Vietnam War and particularly our involvement in the as the United States in that war has pointed out one characteristic of that particular war and that is the extreme difficulty that we had as American forces to identify the enemy.

I mean we were fighting against the North Vietnamese on the side of the South Vietnamese and there's not a very clear difference. There is no clear difference just by looking at the Vietnamese whether they're from the north or the south.

You got that dynamic involved. But more importantly the North Vietnamese, the Viet Cong, were incredibly talented when it came to hiding in the jungles and very difficult to find them, to see them, and our soldiers would be heading in a particular direction and then all of a sudden I like out of nowhere they were attacked from from the trees in the jungles and and all underbrush and everywhere else and and not to not only that but they were also so unscrupulous as to use children Vietnamese children to lure American soldiers and bring them into an ambush.

Sometimes even using the children and allowing them to be killed in the process and as a result of that dynamic of an inability to know the enemy and identify the enemy we made as a in our military we made a lot of mistakes some of them very very tragic mistakes, but it brings home that simple point and that simple truth in any battle you must know your enemy.

So here we are at the end of Ephesians and in this chapter chapter 6 Paul is wrapping things up and he's telling us that we need to equip ourselves with this full armor of God but that's only part of it.

It's all it only does so much to be equipped with the armor of God if we don't know who the enemy is. So Paul takes a moment here in verses 11 and 12 to identify for us our enemy and some other things about him that we just simply need to know if we're going to be able to stand and to withstand in the evil day.

It is vitally important that you know your enemy. So to know your enemy you first of all need to identify who he is. So the end of verse 11 Paul says speaks of him as the devil. We have to deal with the wiles of the devil.

Now if you've been a Christian any length of time and have been involved in your Bible in any length of time you know that there are a variety of names or descriptors that are attached to this individual the devil and the devil is indeed just one of many biblical names.

You could almost you could almost think of him as having a multiple personality disorder. He's definitely disordered that is for sure. But these names and descriptors all have some give us some insight into something of his nature.

So he's called the devil and that word means the slanderer or the false accuser. So every time you know, we prayed this morning in in our prayer that you know every one of us has to be honest enough to confess that we have sinned and probably certainly even today in some way or another.

And and yet what the devil does is he takes that knowledge and he wants to slander you and falsely accuse you especially after you have already dealt with that sin. I mean, you know the scripture that we if we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, you know that and the the Holy Spirit convicts you of sin and you go to the Lord and you confess that sin you own up to it you forsake that sin.

It's done. It's forgotten. It's thrown away. And how often do you find the devil coming at you a little while later and say you are such a scoundrel. Look at what you've done. You did this again. Whatever, you know, this is the character of the devil the slanderer.

He's also called Satan and it's a name that simply means an opponent an adversary. Corollary to that is what Paul tell or what Peter tells us in first Peter 5 Be sober be vigilant your adversary. That's not the word Satan, but it's the same idea your adversary the devil the devil is the adversary the one who is a false accuser and a slanderer is also your Opponent he's called the wicked one which has a lot to do with his moral character.

He's called in the book of Revelation Abaddon or Apollyon and that name means the destroyer. Who do you think is behind. The destruction going on in Portland. Who do you think's behind that? You say well Antipha.

Yeah, who's behind Antipha? It's causing this kind of destruction the destroyer. He loves to destroy Abaddon Apollyon. Revelation 12 calls him the dragon the ancient serpent. That of course is taking you all the way back the book of Revelation verse chapter 12.

Calling the devil the wicked one your enemy calling him the dragon though. The the ancient serpent is taking you all the way back to Genesis chapter 3. He's called in Revelation 12 the deceiver of the whole world.

The deceiver of the whole world. He's called your enemy. He's called the evil one. Corresponding to the wicked one Jesus calls him a murderer a liar the father of lies. He's called the god of this age the prince of this world.

The ruler of the kingdom of the air. He's called the tempter. This is your enemy. This is who he is. And as your enemy he has he has just a few basic timeless Objectives objectives that he is not going to let go of.

One of them were told of in the book of Isaiah in chapter 14 verses 13 and 14. Which is referencing Lucifer, which is another name that's again ascribed to him.

But.

He wants to displace God his Objective is to displace God from his throne. You remember that passage Isaiah 14? Verses 13 and 14 he says for the The scripture says thou has said speaking of Lucifer in your heart.

I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.

I will be like the Most High. And it was because of that attempt to usurp the throne of God that he of course was cast out of heaven altogether and This is why he says yet thou shall be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit.

But even though he was cast out He never gave up that objective. He would still love to Displace God from his throne. He also has as his objective one of his object one of his four objectives that I want to highlight the The destruction of Christ he would love to destroy Christ.

Nation chapter 12. I mentioned to it earlier. We read this there appeared a great wonder in heaven a woman clothed with the Sun and the moon Under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars speaking of Israel and she being with child cried Travailing in birth pain to be delivered speaking of the birth of Christ and there appeared another wonder in heaven and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads and His tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth and the dragon stood before the woman Which was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon as It was born and she brought forth a man-child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.

And her child was caught up unto God and to his throne. What is Satan wanting to do at the birth of Christ? Even at Herod's decree right kill all those little infants under age of two and will destroy that child.

This was Satan's objective to to destroy Christ. So this is why and this explains why? In the.

In the.

Plethora of religions and churches. You have churches that are religious places that minimize and say nothing if anything of Christ not much of anything of Christ and Certainly don't say anything of his atoning vicarious work on the cross.

Why?

Because Satan our enemy has been so effective in places of that kind. To destroy the the message of Christ and to take Christ off of the throne in such places He also has as a third objective the damning of souls.

So we read in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verses 3 and 4 if our gospel be hid It is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believed not.

Why?

Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them. The wicked one knows the God of this world who blinds eyes and minds. He knows that if those eyes are opened and if those minds can perceive Then they will receive the gospel.

And he does his work of blinding those eyes and that with a goal the objective of damning those souls with him in that eternal lake of fire and.

Then.

The enemy has as one of his objectives the defeating of Christians. I Mentioned earlier first Peter 5 8. Peter warns us. He says be sober Be vigilant because your adversary the devil is a roaring lion walks about prowls about Seeking whom he may devour and this is exactly what he's doing in your life and mine.

Constantly looking for an opportunity to pounce. All right, so that's who's that's what his names are. We've talked about his names. He has some basic objectives and he has not given up on any of those objectives through the millennia.

But you also we also need to realize that he is a personal Spiritual foe and he's not a physical one. He's a Personal foe in the sense that the devil is a person. Now a person doesn't have to have a body you understand that right?

Personhood is defined by by intellect by volition by will you see the devil is a Personal being. The devil is not like the electric current running through this building. Just a force just a power and when the right switch is turned on then that power is activated.

No, the devil is a personal being. He communicates.

He.

Actively volitionally willfully Does things to try to meet his objectives? But he's a spiritual foe. He's not a physical. This is why Paul says in verse 12 in our text that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood.

It's not a physical foe now, by the way. Let's also understand this. That our enemy Isn't our enemy is not primarily the tools that the devil uses. He uses flesh and blood. Right. I mean again Apollyon the destroyer is Highly involved in the city of Portland, Oregon, and he has a bunch of tools that he is using to facilitate that and to Keep it more keep it going and to aggravate it all the more.

Apollyon the destroyer. But what we what we need to understand in our I mean, we don't we don't appreciate in the least bit what the tools are doing. But what we need to understand that is that the people who are doing the destroying our tools instruments in the hands of Apollyon I Guess the best way I've tried to try to think about And understand this so that I can better understand what's going on in some of these places not only in Portland but in Chicago and elsewhere it's kind of like If we get if we misunderstand this and we treat people in our thinking we treat the tools as The enemy and Not realize that the tools are instruments in the hands of the enemy.

Then we're making the same mistake in our spiritual understanding and thinking that those who who call for the Complete restriction of guns and the abolishment of guns. They make the same mistake. They say guns kill people.

No, no people kill people. Guns are instruments in the hands of wicked people who commit the murder. So it's not the instrument the gun. That's the problem. It's the people you deal with the people and the people who deal who use guns in a way to murder and maim are people who are also instruments in the hands of the enemy.

So he's a spiritual foe and not not a physical one, but then let's also understand this is.

A.

Defeated foe. He is a defeated foe. He's a defeated foe, but he is still a defeated foe who is fighting intensely hard. It's kind of like I Read one commentator who illustrated it this way. It's kind of like What happened after June 6 1944.

Many of you know right away. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. D-day. D-day invasion of Normandy. Yeah with the success of the Allied invasion of the coast of France on D-day the success of D-day marked the doom of Germany.

Germany was after that success a defeated foe. Now they didn't give up did they. It wasn't until May 25th 1945 that Germany finally surrendered and said uncle. Well all during those intervening months there were battles that were going on.

There were lives that were lost. There was some fierce intense fighting that was happening. But for all practical purposes Germany was a defeated foe. Now that analogy falls down. Of course because Things could have happened in the meantime that maybe might have turned things I you know, but but that's not the way it is with our defeated foe.

The wicked one was defeated by Christ in John chapter 12. When Jesus was in the last few days of his life before the crucifixion in John 12 verse 31 Jesus says this he says now is the judgment of the world.

Speaking of the coming crucifixion. He says now is the judgment of the world now shall the prince of this world be cast out. He's to be defeated.

Where.

Where.

Paul tells us in his letter to the Colossians is one of those companion letters to Ephesians in Colossians 3 15 or a Colossians. Colossians 3. Yeah, Colossians 3 15. He says Nope, that's not the right passage.

Colossians 2 15. He says that Jesus blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us. Contrary to us took it out of the way nailing it to his cross having spoiled Principalities and powers he made a show of him openly.

Triumphing over them in it at the cross Jesus triumphed over our foe. He's a defeated foe. But there's still fighting that's going on. Isn't there? This was typified in ancient Israel remember in Joshua chapter 1.

Joshua chapter 1 children of Israel about to go into the land of promise and The Lord tells them. In verses 2 and 3 it tells Joshua. He says Moses. My servant is dead. Now therefore arise go over this Jordan thou and all this people unto the land which I do give them.

Even to the children of Israel then listen, listen to what he says Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon That have I given to you as I said unto Moses.

So.

The Lord promises to Israel here judicially that Canaan is defeated. He's already given Canaan into the hand of Israel and.

Yet.

Yet a few verses later we read in verse 14 at the end of the verse. He says you shall pass before your brethren armed. Now all the mighty men of valor and help them until the Lord have given your brethren rest as he hath given to you.

And he's this is Joshua speaking to the two-and-a-half tribes that were to stay on the east side of the Jordan. We're gonna have their inheritance there. He says you're good. You're you're gonna cross over this Jordan with us.

You're gonna cross over armed and we're all going to go into battle. Against this foe. That is judicially defeated. All right. This is your enemy. This is your enemy. You need to identify him. You need to know who he is.

He is a defeated foe. But he is still fighting relentlessly and. Not only do you need to identify who he is. You also need to identify his tactics. So back in our text in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 11 Paul tells us we need to stand against the wiles of the devil.

The the Greek word there is actually one you would pick up. It's method a methods the methods now in that context and the word itself has the connotation of schemes and craft and deception this is this is the tactic of our enemy.

It was his very first tactic the very first approach that he took in Genesis chapter 3 he didn't come out to Eve in Genesis 3 in the form of a wicked vile wretch did he came as a. This is a harmless serpent.

I know some of you saying a harmless serpent. Are you kidding me? There is no such thing a garter snake isn't a harmless serpent. You you hate them so greatly. I get that but no, I mean this obviously was of no concern to Eve and The devil knew it and what did he do?

How did he approach her? Did he tell her? Hey, listen, I'll tell you what if you eat this fruit, it's gonna happen just as God said. It's it's great stuff to look at isn't it? But you know what? It's gonna kill you.

So why don't you go ahead and eat it? No, you you know the story the devil's tactics are tactics of Imitation he imitates something else that seems to be so harmless. He distorts and twists the truth.

Another thing he does just like as he did in the garden. He distracts away from God's good gifts and the blessings that he Abundantly gives to you so that you focus instead on their limitations on what you can't have and what is off-limits and then of course He induces all kinds of questioning of God himself of his revelation.

These are the wiles you need to identify who your enemy is you need to identify his tactics? Then let's also take a moment and identify his kingdom his realm that is. You know in any war you you need to know.

What nation is it that we're fighting against? You know in the Vietnam War we weren't fighting against South Vietnam. We were fighting against North Vietnam. All right, you need to identify the realm that is involved in this enemy's under this enemy's control.

I would have you note. First of all, it's a spiritual realm. So the end of verse 12 he says we we wrestle against spiritual wickedness in high places. That word high places is interesting because you see it in other spots here in in the book of Ephesians.

Back in chapter 1 it's translated in the heavenly places in the heavenlies this is a General reference to the spiritual realm. There's a spiritual realm over which Over which God is in complete control and where Christ is and where our inheritance lies and where we sit with Christ in the heavenlies the spiritual realm also is the realm in which Satan has his area of Domain if you will.

But his kingdom encompasses some things that we need to be aware of. His kingdom encompasses first of all the mass of unregenerate people. Who is in his kingdom? Back in chapter 2 verse 2 Paul says you hath he quickened who were dead and trespasses and sins.

Then listen to what he says. Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world now listen. According to the prince of the power of the air that now works in the now works in the children of disobedience so the Kingdom of the wicked one is this spiritual realm that encompasses the mass of unregenerate people the children of Disobedience, but his realm also Encompasses certain aspects of human government.

Remember in the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness Luke tells us it's recorded for us in Matthew 4 and in Luke 4 and in Luke's account chapter 4. Verses 5 and 6 we read this that the devil takes Jesus up into a high mountain showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time and the devil said unto him all.

This power authority will I give thee and the glory of them for that is delivered unto me Unto whomsoever I will give it. There's a great deal of that that we don't understand that we can't quite comprehend and One thing by the way as an aside that we always must keep in mind.

That the devil never gets one over on God. Martin Luther made the made the point that the devil is God's devil. He never is able to do His thing without the without the permission granted by the sovereign one Our God and that's very clear in the book of Job.

But here the devil is pointing out all these kingdoms of the earth. He's showing them to to Jesus and he's telling Jesus. I'll give you these kingdoms. So there is some sense in.

Which.

Certain aspects of human government are encompassed in the realm of our enemy and.

Then.

His kingdom also encompasses religion and certain religious meeting places. Wednesday night we we read the letter to the church at.

At.

In Revelation 2 at Smyrna and in verse 9 Listen to what Jesus says to this church. He says I know thy works and tribulation and poverty. But thou art rich and I know listen I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not but are of the synagogue of Satan so there is a there is again there is a.

In in Satan our enemy's kingdom his kingdom encompasses certain religion certain elements of religion certain religious groups and entities and even their places of worship. He has the synagogue of Satan and.

That religion of our enemy include incorporates a false gospel. Remember Paul said in Galatians chapter 1 when he was so astounded that the Galatians were so easily removed to another gospel. Which wasn't the true gospel?

But it was another gospel and anybody he says who would bring that other gospel is to be damned. It's a damnable stuff. As it comes from the wicked one in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11. 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 The enemy in his kingdom has his ministers of religion verses 11 verse chapter 11 verses 14 and 15 he says verse 13 such are false apostles deceitful workers Transforming themselves.