The Cosmic Crash; The Eternal Burn-Part B

What did sin begin. If you say organogenesis chapter 3 I would say that's a wrong answer. That's the fall of man. That's for Adam's sin began, those of the repercussions will feel the summer sin began. Sin began in the heart of Lucifer began his thought processes when he said these as it was a famous but infamous high wills. I will I will my will but I will I will above God's will. Sin began when the creature set itself against the creator and the essence of that sin. The root of it all is pride. The Bible tells us. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let the rich man glory in his riches today on connect with skip-Skip examines the destiny and downfall of Satan revealing the consequences of pridefulness and how you can cultivate humility in your life. But before we begin as a resource that will nourish you spiritually holidays and special days of celebration wake us up from the daily grind and provide a backdrop for creating memories beyond traditions time off and intentional family time, holidays can illuminate spiritual tricks as we hear from Skip I think you may not know that Valentine's Day has Christian roots, but time and secular culture have transformed what was a great celebration of those who would stay true to the Christian faith. It is turned into simply a celebration of romantic love. You can find spiritual significance, happiness, holiness, and holidays of four DVD collection of celebration messages from pastors And our thanks when you get $25 or more to help keep this ministry on the air here Skip with a strong thought on another holiday on our calendar because God is our father.

We never because God is our father. I don't have to look selfish, myopic life as he is our father in heaven no limit to his power from heaven. For those of us were on the incredible raise our father in heaven. Call now to request a copy of happiness, holiness, and holidays are. Thanks for your generous gift 800-922-1888, or get online securely connectwithskip.com/offer Isaiah chapter 14 as we get into the teaching with Skip one third of all the angelic hosts of heaven went with Satan in that great rebellion, and they become known in the Bible is demons and this bothers some people. This bothers Christians who think like a lot of demons against the whole third of all the angels are now demons man I got so many enemies what you fail to realize is the meaning of the passage. One third fell 2/3 are left there outnumbered 2 to 1 there outnumbered to the one you've got God the Holy Spirit living in you and you have at your disposal dispatched for your protection and God's purposes and will two thirds of the holy angels regarding his people. The Bible says you are guarded by the so Satan is fallen from heaven's domain is the earth, but interestingly he still seems to have some sort of access to heaven. Even to this day in job chapter 1, we are told that there came a day when the sons of God. That's an Old Testament rendering for angels, the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan was among them. And God said to Satan, from where do you come in. He said, from going to and fro on the earth, so his domain is there scares me is kicked out of heaven, but he has some sort of access to heaven's. There's this accountability are being presented before the Lord. So what is he doing there was a new New Brunswick skull, the god of this age of the God of this world. When I say he runs the world.

I don't mean that he runs the world in the sense that God runs the world course. He is sovereign God is sovereign over all the earth is the Lords. However, he runs the world system.

The Bible talks about the world by putting quotes around it, meaning the evil system that includes all the unregenerate people he works through them to enact his will on the earth. He has an effect the entire world in his lab. Did you know that first John chapter 5 says we are of God, little children, and the whole world lies under this sway, or in the lap of the wicked one or does he do exactly what he has for principal targets and I'm only gonna mention them because of time just for principal targets and you're not number one or two. Don't flatter yourself, his principal target has always been and still is the Lord Jesus Christ number two holy angels is always the battle in the heavenly realms.

We get insights into it in books like Daniel etc. Zechariah the holy angels that do more. Revelation chapter 12 against Satan and his minions to Jesus Christ holy angels number three the nation of Israel. God's covenant land that he will enact his plan through throughout history, and number four believers. You and I are a part of that realm and what does he do us well. We could do several studies on that but one of the things he does besides tempt you.

Besides use the world and your flesh is. He accuses you before God is called the accuser of the brethren. Revelation chapter 12, who accuses them before God day and night you saying Satan accuses me before God. What is he challenges the truth is, got the dirt on you. He knows what you think what you do he and he knows you.

He studied and the thing is, all the accusations he brings. I think are accurate when he fails to understand, however, is the power of the blood of Jesus Christ which cleanses a man or woman from all sin. All those accusations may be right, but he fails to see the judicial sentence that has been passed in your behalf, but he accuses you before God day and night and I I daresay you've heard some of those accusations in your own little head.

You call yourself a Christian, you should be at church. What you doing here answer I'm here with all the other sinners. We all need God, but he tries to accuse you and make you feel so bad and so guilty and so unworthy and of course the answer is I am guilty I am unworthy.

Thank you Lord for saving me. Thank you for the blood of Jesus Christ next move was dwelling is in heaven's domain is the earth now. I did mention this and I'm in a have you turn if you're daring enough to Ezekiel chapter 28 is the corollary to what we just read in Isaiah 14 is in Ezekiel 28 and is returning there, let me say to you that Ezekiel does exactly the same thing.

Isaiah.Ezekiel begins with an earthly ruler of his day. In this case, the Prince of Tyre tires on the seacoast of Lebanon, ancient Phoenicia about time and he addresses this earthly ruler and assess straightforward polemic verbal attack against the Prince of Tyre. We know that was was a guy named Ito ball all the second who was puffed up with pride and judgment is pronounced against him. But then again there's a shift in the text in Ezekiel chapter 28 verse 11 it says. Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying Son of Man take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre. Now I want to talk about somebody even more powerful than the earthly ruler of the Phoenician empire, the king of Tyre, and say to him, thus says the Lord God, you were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Now who is he addressing what doesn't sort of sound like it's the Prince of Tyre sound like it Ito ball all the second with this language to the next verse you were in Eden, the garden of God.

Okay, so is a doctor who was in Eden Amendola. The population was pretty limited right was Adam and Eve and assigning one. The serpent, Lucifer, Satan was only three you were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering the sardius topaz the diamond.

The girl the Onyx, Jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.

The ancient way of describing color. The workmanship of your temples and pipes. Those are musical instruments was prepared for you on the day you were created, you were the anointed cherub. That's an angelic being chair you been a cherub who covers I established you.

You were on the holy mountain of God. He walked back and forth in the midst of the fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, until iniquity was found in you speaking to an angelic being a cherub. You were the anointed cherub who covers he was covering her standing guard, presumably in God's throne.

Then something happened. Verse 15 until iniquity was found in iniquity was found. That's the fall. The very next verse, verse 16 says and you send in. In verse 17 tells us how your heart was lifted up instead of covering the throne of God. Now he's coveting the throne of God. This being was numero Uno, minus the you know it was that minus the Uno that bothered him greatly enough to think he could actually stage a coup against God.

As we saw in Isaiah. I will be like the most time here something interesting that you know in the Bible there are only three angels given names only three Gabriel is associated with the nation of Israel and messianic prophecy shows up in the new and Old Testament.

Michael is a warrior angel and Lucifer was the only three given names but the one in charge of the mall was this one, the anointed cherub who covers perfect in beauty. You're at the peak you're at the very top, so his dwelling was in heaven's domain is on the earth.

Now let's follow his biography into the future. Where is can end up back to Isaiah 14 in verse 15 says, yet you shall be brought down to says what she old that's a Hebrew word translated in the New Testament, Hades or hell. It's the abode of the dead. It's the grave often translated hell you be brought down to help. There's a shocker that shocks most people did you know that Satan is not a hell, wait a minute. All those cartoons that is all the stories people tell me said he is he is he is not a hell second shocker. He's never been in hell that shocks most people know that's not to say he won't because he will be in hell. That's his destiny.

That's his destination he will you know and when he gets there.

He's knocking to be like all the cartoons in all the stories portray him as the chief tormentor of hell no he's the chief target in hell. He's the chief victim, not the victimizer. He's the chief victim that Jesus said that hell was made for the devil and his angels. So what's can happen from Revelation chapter 20 are rated to you, not the whole chapter couple verses then I saw an angel coming down don't know which Angel but what a great job. I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold of the Dragon that serpent of old who is the devil and Satan, and bound him. That's when Satan is bound goes on to say the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever yeah amen to that hand, I'm looking forward to the day I mean he's found he's incarcerated.

He's there forever and ever tormented day and night forever and ever. My mind goes to that great theological work Wizard of Oz in the line which says ding dong the witch is dead right is a happy day when that happened we don't know which Angel this was maybe Michael that warrior angel. What a great job to be that dude to handcuff the devil and incarcerate him love it back to our passage in Isaiah 14. Did you notice the 16th verse, it says those who see you will gaze at you and consider you saying is this the one translated here. The man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities did not open the house of the prisoners. The reader here gets the impression that there will be a day when we are allowed to have some kind of viewing of the devil. Some access to Satan.

And when we do will be amazed at how limited he really is, even how beautiful he really is. Member what is said in Ezekiel 28 you are you are perfect in beauty. We have a misconception that because Satan is evil, he must therefore be ugly, but if that were true, we wouldn't be tempted. If evil were ugly, we would never be tempted. We are tempted because evil looks so alluring and so beautiful. That's the draw and write work and look ago. That's the duty that will cause all of the heart ache him.

I mentioned Wizard of Oz. Remember the scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and Toto and the again show up at the palace of the great wasn't that big moving head on the wall speaks to the group. All in a big fireball comes out. They cower back and just and Toto the dog goes over and pulls back the curtain is the little man hunched back with a microphone and he notices that Mrs. base pay no attention to that man behind the curtain see what we discover is the great and powerful Oz is just a dude from Omaha I think, is to be like that if indeed there is a viewing and we see this Lucifer. This Satan. This god of this world as he is called is just a fallen angel who is been very, very powerful in his work is dwelling was in heaven's domain is on the earth. His destiny will be in hell Val, let's consider as we close, why what was the problem was the essence. Since this is a crash and burn series and we don't want to repeat anybody's mistakes if they are the wrong choices. Let's look at why verse 13 for or because how are you fallen from heaven, a Lucifer been cast out of there for or because you have said in your heart now are hearing the innermost thoughts of Lucifer is what made him Satan said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high, yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the pit. This brings up a question worded sin begin. If you say all began in Genesis chapter 3 I would say that's a wrong answer. That's the fall of man.

That's for Adam's sin began, those of the repercussions will feel the summer sin began.

Sin began in the heart of Lucifer.

It began this thought processes when he said these as it is a famous but infamous I wills I will I will my will. My will, my well above God's will. Sin began when the creature set itself against the creator and the essence of that's in the root of it all is pride. Pride. No wonder the Bible says God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Pride is the oldest sin in the universe, and it shows no signs of weakening with age still a problem like that cowboy from Texas who was visiting Niagara Falls and his host's buddy in New York knew that you know everything's bigger and better in Texas but they don't have anything like this. We sedate cowboy give a faucet that big in Texas Was no we got plumbers who can fix it yeah whatever pride has always been a problem and because of the pride of Lucifer. He goes from the shining one. The angel of light to the Prince of darkness because of pride.

His desire was to be on the throne, his destiny is to be in the pit's ambition is to go up to the heights is destination will be in the depths know what a difference. What a contrast.

This is to our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ who said I'm in a go down, humble myself. Philippians is who, being in the same likeness the form of God being God himself. He emptied himself, he poured himself out. He took upon himself the form of a servant, and came like a man, and this is wherefore God is highly exalted him and given them a name which is above every name that is the name of Jesus Christ every knee should bow and every tongue should confess, see the difference. Satan says I'm going doctors know you're going down. Jesus said father I will go down and the father said. Therefore, I will exalt you. So the way down is up. The way up is down, get down to lower yourself.

Humble yourself. The Bible says underneath the mighty hand of God and he will exalt you in due time.

Go low. Don't do this, you know, I am go low visit of God hates pride in a pride is a barrier to God's blessing.

There was the antidote be humble, be humble, humble your self under the mighty hand of God close by giving you for exercises you can do every day. If you wish, that will cultivate humility in you and be the antidote to pride we all face will face.

So, are there things I can do that will help cultivate humility. We suggest for number one. Prayer. Prayer when you pray you're depending on God. Your voice and your dependents are that you know why people don't pray as they don't think they need to. I got this got her need to pray about this is so small.

This is so-and-so I can handle this. Why is it that we have the attitude that says there's nothing to do except try. When you start the day with that, pray about everything.

People don't pray because they're proud prayer voices your dependence on God. The second exercise praise worship when we worship our focus is not on us. It's on God to self less exercise, even when using a sign she should be think I don't like this song of songs to allow thought about you using the Psalm to talk to him given in your appraiser focusing on him. Prayer, praise, or worship is 1/3 exercise it'll work encouragement find somebody and encourage them give someone else's words of encouragement and lift them up and push them along. Again, the focus now is not a new but it's on others.

So, prayer, worship, encouragement, and 1/4 are acts of service, acts of service perform a task that is not assigned to you without my job started my job description it's below my pay grade. Well do it anyway and watch what happens is you not focus on you, but you focus on serving somebody else watch what that does to you and does for you as well as for others, prayer, worship, encouragement, acts of service, DL Moody, I think summed it up quite nicely.

Be humble or you'll stumble and then wrap it all up beautiful distorted ties a bow on the whole thing is what it takes this whole message and boils it down to one sentence you say skip, you could just began and ended with that. Be humble. You'll stumble that concludes Skip six message series crash and burn. Right now your script to tell you about how you can keep encouraging messages like this coming your way as you help connect others to God's truth. We want to connect more listeners like you to God, never changing truth in these ever-changing times so we would love for you to consider partnering in this work today so that many others can continue to know God's truth and be transformed by his love her so you can take God's word to more listeners like you around the world should connectwithskip.com/donate to give your gift today that's connectwithskip.com/donate or call 800-922-1880 809 two 215 coming up tomorrow Skip explains what happened when Satan took his scheme from heaven to earth is how you can defend yourself against his strategy is to get you to think what God said is that he, Satan will tell you the whole truth. God can't be trusted. His word can't be trusted. Word can't trusted then you might as well replace the Bible with whatever you feel is right for you. At that time make it up as Skip presentation of connection communications changing truth ever-changing time