MY FRIENDS, DO WE UNDERSTAND, WE ARE NO LONGER LOST SHEEP?

Feb. 1, 2016

MY FRIENDS, DO WE UNDERSTAND, WE ARE NO LONGER LOST SHEEP?

“For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For [if we are God’s chosen we must understand] that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers.

Nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:36-39 (NKJV)

It’s personal again my friends, because we must understand that “our adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8 (NKJV) That text implies that You and I are the whom, and on any day or any hour of that day, Satan wants to devour or consume us destructively.

And like Christ told Peter, Satan’s goal is to first sift us like wheat, which “is a fierce process which separated the grain (wheat berry) from the stalk and the chaff, literally tearing the wheat apart by beating it with a flail.”

So Satan must first separate is from Christ. But our Savior always has a way of escape Peter also tells us in 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV) Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

And because He loves and cares for us so much, through our faith we can be assured that no “height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

In addition my friends, I can say with no reservation, the best is yet to come in spite of what we encounter each day in this relentless battle Satan, and His forces are waging in his vicious and maddening pursuit of our soul that allows him a passage into our mind and body.

But, this is not possible if we “put on the whole [not partial] armor of God, that [we] may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” My friends we have to understand “for such a time as this” God has called us “from darkness into light,” and we are no longer lost sheep, but God’s chosen, set apart to finish His work.

Christ Himself tells us “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.” So please my friends pledge with me today that we will be the men and women God created us to be, for we are a chosen generation, God’s faithful who have been given a mandate from above.

In addition, it is more clearer than ever before why Satan is so determine that we fall in some area of our life. Weather it is appetite, marriage, work, gossip, dishonesty, adultery, covertness, other gods, entertainment, and the list goes on.

But we must also understand Satan will never stop or take one prisoner. So I now challenge Satan, knowing I have no power, but my power comes from the same God that can “send out one angel and put to death one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp” 2 Kings 19:35 (NIV)

So I can only imagine if He sends two angels to keep me safe from the forces of evil. So my friends we must lay prostrate before our God today, as we humble ourselves while understanding who God is and what His desire is for our lives, as we say, not my will, but thy will be done.

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.