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2022, Ephesians, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Mark, KWT Paraphrasing, Questions

What Evidence Do We Have?

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Ephesians 6 what a powerful chapter! 

How much difficulty do you have believing there are two spiritual realms? 
GOD and His angelic host. And
Satan and his hordes of unholy beings.

If you have read Chapters of the Gospels you have read JESUS and His disciples expelled demons from people.

Do you have difficulty believing people today are demon-possessed?

Consider this with me? 
Obviously, the demonic world was alive and active when JESUS was here in His flesh and bone body – He said so. 
They spoke to Him and He spoke back.  Mark 5:1-20,Luke 8:26-39

We also have JESUS telling us this: 10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.   in John 10:10. Did He lie? That’s a ludicrous question, isn’t it?

So since they were then, what evidence do we have that they are not now? 

And if there are no evil forces to contend with, why did GOD move Paul to pen what He did in Ephesians 6?

Why did he instruct us to put on the full armor of GOD? 
For what do we need armor if there is no enemy?

Why does verse 12 tell us our enemies are not flesh and blood (meaning each other) but . . . principalities, . . . powers, . . . the rulers of the darkness of this world, . . . spiritual wickedness in high places.

Why are we told in verse 13 to take up every piece of war equipment GOD provides, if there is no enemy? 

What will it take to convince you there are real, live demonic beings on mission to steal, kill and destroy you? 

What will it take to get you to put on the ARMOR of GOD?

Verses 14 through 18 describe this Armor.

Let me give you a KWT paraphrase — you can get your own copy of the Bible and read or use one of the links on this page.

To our very CORE (gut) we must know the TRUTH – GOD’s Truth and to know His Truth we must know His Scripture. 
Breastplate – you know what a breastplate is, right?
That black heart we were born with must be replaced with RIGHTEOUSNESS.
The RIGHTEOUSNESS of JESUS. He must by His Holy Spirit be living, ruling on the inside of us. 
Feet. Our walking around life – our daily lives must be marked (buckled up, tied, velcroed) with the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST, the PRINCE of PEACE.
A shield. Not just any shield but the SHIELD of FAITH.
For what? To quench fiery darts!
Who is firing those darts? Demons.
Some translations say, the devil. Either way, they are evil and out to get us. 
Helmet of Salvation. How much explanation does this need? We have to know that we know that we know we have been saved (delivered) by The LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
And then there is our ONE defensive weapon The Sword – THE WORD of GOD.
Again we have to be well familiar with that SWORD to wield it well, defeating the demons with it and NOT our brothers and sisters. 

GOT IT? Good! 

A final thought: This is a real war with real enemies. How do I know when I encounter an enemy with no skin on his face? They are all the opposite of God. So as people who are trained to recognize counterfeit bills study the real thing, so we must study GOD if we want to recognize the enemy.

2022, Gospel of Luke

DeepWater

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Luke 5

Crowds. Everywhere. 
Sickness.
Disease. 
Needy people everywhere.

16. However, He made a practice of withdrawing to remote places in order to pray.   source

Have you noticed what I have noticed? 
When a man or woman’s ministry takes off – they often spend less and less time in prayer?
Why? Because there is so much to do. 
JESUS didn’t do it that way.
And who of us has more to do than JESUS did?!!

Peter.
At the beginning of the chapter, he and others had been fishing — all night. 
And they had not caught a single fish! When YESHUA walked up they were cleaning their nets. 

And what does JESUS say to them? 

Put out into deep water, and let down your nets for a catch.”  Verse 4. 

Deepwater.
More rowing for tired men.

But hear Peter: “We’ve worked hard all night long, Rabbi, and haven’t caught a thing! 
But if you say, so, I’ll let down the nets.”

And he did. 
And they filled up TWO boats to almost sinking.

Obedience!
Even when we are tired. Even when it seems not so smart – cause we have already done that. 
Obedience. 
Obedience to JESUS always brings results! Good results. 

This happening actually frightened the men.  BUT
They left EVERYTHING and followed JESUS.

Good move, Guys! 

2022, Daniel, Gospel of Luke, Revelation

Ownership?

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Question.
Have you read Luke 4 lately?
Did you read it yesterday?

Luke 4 

5 The Adversary took him up, showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world,
6 and said to him, “I will give you all this power and glory. It has been handed over to me, and I can give it to whomever I choose.
7 So if you will worship me, it will all be yours.”
8 Yeshua answered him, “The Tanakh says, ‘Worship Adonai your God and serve him only.’”  source 

Did you notice, YESHUA did not dispute Satan’s ownership? 

When Satan makes this offer to the antichrist, he will not answer the way YESHUA did.
He will drop to his knees and worship that evil being. 
The antichrist with full knowledge and undeceived will worship satan for power and stuff he will only get to keep for a very few short years. 
And thereafter — well, let’s see his fate. 

(KJV) Revelation 20:10  “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”  

And this one:

Revelation 19: 20 And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, which burns with brimstone.  source 

Did you catch that? 
THROWN ALIVE into the lake of fire. 

They will not have company in that fire like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had when they were thrown into the king’s fiery furnace for their refusal to bow to any god but THE GOD.
Check out Daniel 3, particularly verses 25 and 26. 

Loving JESUS here is costly but eternity is forever.