Like it or not, every one of us is in a spiritual war. God is for us, and the devil is against us. The one we cooperate with is the one who will control us. You can’t be discharged from the service in this war, and ignorance of its extent only aids the enemy. The enemy loves to work covertly, using his only weapon, deception. In this teaching, Andrew exposes this war and the enemy for what he is.
welcome to our Monday’s broadcast of the
gospel truth today I’m going to begin
I’m series and I’m going to start
talking about the authority of the
believer and I had a lot of teaching on
this I have a book on this it’s entitled
the authority of the belief or the
believers Authority what you didn’t
learn in church and also have a study
guide on it I have DVDs and CDs on it
real quickly let me just summarize some
things and then we’re gonna go into
actually teaching on what I have as the
second teaching in this series on the
believers Authority and I’m going to
start talking about who made Satan you
know that’s if you haven’t heard this
teaching I’ve never heard anybody else
teach on this and it’s just maybe the
way I’m phrasing it or put it together
but this has really really helped me and
I think it’s gonna be a big blessing but
let me just go back and quickly
summarize some of the things from
Genesis chapter 1 that God created the
heavens and the earth as well as you and
me by words he spoke everything into
existence Psalms chapter 89 verse 34 the
Lord says my covenant well I not break
nor alter the thing that has gone forth
out of my lips when God says something
it’s a covenant to him men you know they
lie and they will say one thing and do
another or if what they have promised to
deliver on you know becomes inconvenient
they’ll just say well I’ve changed my
mind or whatever but God’s not like that
when he speaks something it becomes a
covenant out of his mouth and there’s a
lot of scriptures another one was
Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3 where it says
that he upholds all things by the word
of his power his word is what holds this
universe together if God was to ever
break his word this universe you and I
would self-destruct and so God’s
integrity is impeccable it says in
Hebrews chapter 6 it’s impossible for
him to live so when God spoke all of us
into existence then he said this over in
Genesis chapter 1 after he had created
man in Genesis chapter 1 and in verse 20
six it says God said let us make man in
our image after our likeness and let
them have dominion over the fish of the
sea over the fowl of the air and over
the cattle and over all the earth and
over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth so God created man in his
own image in the image of God created he
him male and female created he them and
God blessed them and God said unto them
remember that when God says something
it’s binding he does not lie he will not
change he said be fruitful and multiply
and replenish the earth and subdue it
and have dominion over the fish of the
sea over the fowl of the air and over
everything that moveth upon the earth so
when God said you have dominion you rule
and you subdue the earth God by saying
that turn control of this earth over to
mankind now I know again that most
people don’t think this way but God’s
ways are higher than our ways we have to
take what the scripture reveals about
him and just learn these truths when God
said you have dominion the earth is
yours you rule it you said that God gave
mankind authority over this earth let me
read another passage to you out of
Psalms chapter 82 and Jesus even quoted
this in the New Testament when some some
of the Pharisees were criticizing him
but in Psalms chapter 82 and in verse 6
he said I have said Ye are gods and all
of you are children of the Most High and
this was God speaking to mankind about
the creation and God created man to be a
God over this earth not a capital G not
divinity but in the sense of absolute
ruler absolutely in control when God
gave mankind the control of this earth
it would have been unjust on his part to
come down and just say that this is not
what I intended I did not intend for you
to hand this authority over to the devil
so I’m taking it back I intervene I’m
gonna change everything
see that’s the way that we would have
done it but God a pole
his word and when God said you have
Dominion you rule you do what you want
to God never intended for us to turn it
over to the devil but when we did he
upheld our authority to do that
and this is how Satan became the god of
this world and in the previous teaching
that I did on the word became flesh I
was talking about that this is why Jesus
had to come to this earth God had to
become a man because man is the one who
caused the transgression mankind is one
who released Satan into this earth and
God would have been unjust as a spirit
John chapter four verse 24 says God is a
spirit and he would have been unjust as
a spirit to come down here and take back
this authority and power that he had
given us because it would have violated
what he said over there in Genesis
chapter 1 verses 26 through 28 he didn’t
put any stipulations on it he didn’t put
any qualifications on it and say as long
as you do at this earth what I want you
to do then you can rule no he just said
you rule you have dominion it’s under
your control
you do with it what you want to and
there was no fine print and so when we
sinned God would have been unjust he
would have violated his own integrity if
he would have come down here as a spirit
and have intervened in our affairs
because he gave control of this earth to
physical human beings and this is why
Jesus had to become a man Jesus existed
before he came into this physical body
it says in Genesis it says in John
chapter 1 Colossians chapter 1 there’s
other places that all things were
created by him and without him was not
anything made that was made
Jesus was God and he existed before the
creation of anything but his physical
body the body of Jesus was created it
came into this world through Mary and
Jesus God had to become a man because
now he had authority in this earth
because of his physical body you know I
know the things I’m saying
seem kind of technical and a lot of
people think I just don’t think it’s
that way because again if we don’t like
something we just change it if we were
God we would just say well do-over I’m
gonna change this because I don’t like
the way you’ve done things but that’s
because we don’t have integrity Psalms
chapter 15 says that a godly man a
righteous man will swear to his own hurt
and not change it is a godly trait that
when you say something it becomes a
covenant it’s binding you do not back up
and so we might just sit there and say
well I don’t like the way the world’s
going I’m gonna change it if you were
God that’s probably the way that we
would have done it but God because of
his integrity would not violate the word
that he said the whole universe is held
together by the integrity of his word
again Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3 and if
God would have broken his promise to
mankind that you are ruler you have
dominion you do it what you want if he
would have broken his promise to man and
have come down and have just
straightened out this mess it would have
violated what he said he gave physical
human beings authority people that have
a physical body and God is a spirit so
God had to become a man no man could fix
this problem because they were part of
the problem but God himself became a man
and when Jesus came into this earth as
Christ he existed before the worlds were
even made but Jesus had a beginning his
physical body had a beginning he came in
and in hip inhabited that body and now
Satan was in a world of hurt because God
was a man God now had authority in this
earth and of course Jesus displayed his
superior Authority and power over the
devil he cast out demons he beat Satan
at every hand and finally he took our
sins upon himself died for our sins and
when he rose from the dead he completely
stripped Satan of all of his power and
authority and that is a brief summary of
the first teaching that I have in this
series titled the authority of the
believer and I’ve talked about that all
authority comes from God
but it is delegated by words and when he
gave mankind authority he passed
authority over this earth to mankind so
those are the things we’ve already
talked about that is a very brief
summary if you want more information on
that we’ve got this material on the
believers Authority and it’ll go into a
lot more detail what I want to begin to
talk about now is an application of some
of these things we’ve talked about and
I’m going to talk about who made Satan
and when you first say that and most
people just immediately think well God
of course made Satan
I mean God created everything I’m gonna
say this and it’ll need some explanation
and I’m gonna spend a number of days
explaining this but I believe that God
created Lucifer he created a godly
angelic being and according to
scriptures that I’ll deal with in John
excuse me in Isaiah chapter 14 it’ll
show you that he was the anointed cherub
that he was a godly angel he was like in
control of the praise and worship in
heaven and there’s some things that said
about him God created that beam but in a
real sense man-made Satan we are the
ones who empowered Satan Satan is using
a human authority that God gave us over
this earth and I think that this is
significant because it means that Satan
doesn’t have this superior power and
authority that he is just overcoming
people with Satan totally had to come
against man we are the ones that
empowered him and Satan can only do
something in your life with your consent
and your cooperation
well now that’s a major statement right
there and a lot of people don’t like
that because it strips them of their
excuses a lot of people are like Flip
Wilson and they’re always saying well
the devil made me do this and they use
that as an excuse and say I can’t
control it and stuff but the truth is
Satan is only using the power and the
authority that God gave mankind and he
can’t do anything to you without your
consent and cooperation now that’s a
huge statement and it needs
some explanation and that’s what I want
to do so let me go all the way back to
the Garden of the Eden and first of all
I’m gonna have to dispel some teaching
that is very prevalent in the body of
Christ today there’s multiple ideas
about where Satan got his power from and
how he originated and all of these kind
of things one of the most prevalent is
what’s often called the gap theory or
the long Earth theory and people believe
that in between Genesis chapter 1 where
it says in the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth in between Genesis
1:1 and Genesis 1:2 there is a lapse of
millions and millions even billions of
years and in Genesis 1:2 where it says
and the earth was without form and void
they will say that the earth actually
became without form and void and that
Satan ruled over a pre-adamic
civilization and because of his
rebellion he was he was rejected and he
that’s where he became this demonic
power that is in has flicked at the
world and so anyway people read all of
this into these verses I’m not going to
go into great detail explaining this but
let me just say that if you can get all
of that from what isn’t in the Bible in
between Genesis chapter 1:1 and Genesis
1:2 if you can make the Bible say all of
that stuff that I’ve just alluded to you
can make the Bible say anything you
wanted to that’s not a good method of
biblical interpretation and they will
use this phrase here where he created
Adam and Eve and he said be fruitful and
multiply and replenish the earth and
I’ve heard people make a major point out
of this word replenish that that means
that at one time the earth was full and
it became void and then this is Genesis
account is actually the second creation
and he had to replenish it you know I’m
not trying to be mean spirited with that
but that is just a very poor
understanding of English you know it’s
true that sometimes when you say that
you
return to someplace that you’ve been
there before and you’re returning it is
true that sometimes you know you the
word read as a prefix means to do again
but it doesn’t always mean that for
instance when you receive something that
does that mean that you saved it before
and now you’re receiving it when you
know it doesn’t always mean that and
people are just grasping at straws I
personally believe that to believe this
pre-adamic civilization and this long
earth theory that you have to have a
desire to believe that and read these
things into scripture scripture doesn’t
say it as a matter of fact scripture
says the exact opposite you know I’m not
going to go back to this but recently I
did a series on Christian philosophy and
we had on dr. Carl Baugh
and dr. Grady McMurtry and those men
from a scientific standpoint showed so
many I mean hundreds and hundreds of
scientific reasons why we have a young
earth not over ten thousand years matter
of fact Grady McMurtry’s showed that at
the mouth of every major river on the
planet there is not over 4,500 years
worth of sediment at the mouth of any of
the major rivers on this earth and that
goes along with the flood if the earth
was billions of years old as people say
there would be a huge accumulation of
all of this which doesn’t exist and
there are just so many other things
here’s a scriptural reason in Romans
chapter 6 verse 23 the scripture says
the wages of sin is death but the gift
of God is eternal life the Bible makes
it very clear that death came as a
result of sin and specifically Adam and
Eve sinned in the garden and there’s
many places that verify that romans
chapter 5 says it about five or six
times in the latter part of that chapter
so death came as a result of Adam and
Eve sinned but yet there are people that
believe that the earth is very old and
that the dinosaurs died out and that all
of these plants and things died million
millions of years ago and that evolution
took place over a prolonged period of
time and one species was replaced by
another people who believe that stuff
are saying that death reigned before
Adam and Eve’s time and that violates
the whole principles of the Bible death
came into this earth through what Adam
and Eve did that one truths right there
disproves this long earth theory and the
fact that there was a pre-adamic
civilization and all of these kind of
things so anyway I’m not gonna go into
great detail on that but I’m just saying
that there’s so many people that have
adopted this you know from my study
Phineas dake is the guy who popularized
this kind of teaching he has extensive
notes on it on the takes Study Bible and
that was around the early around 1900 or
something like that that’s the first
time that this kind of doctrine ever
crept in to the body of Christ and many
people have taken it and embellished it
and done things but the scripture
disproves that so I say all of this to
say that see some people believe Satan
got his power that God created the
heavens and the earth millions and
millions of years ago and put Satan in
charge of it and Satan and one-third of
the people that were under him rebelled
at God and came against God let me show
you a passage of scripture on this out
of the book of Revelation in Chapter 12
and you know I have read the Bible
through hundreds and hundreds of times I
have listened to other people teach I’ve
studied this I’m not sure that I know
every single thing that’s in the Bible
but out of all of my Bible study this is
the only passage of scripture I have
ever heard anybody quote to say that
Satan took one-third of the angels and
rebelled against God and that comes from
here in Revelation chapter 12 and in
verse 3 it says there appeared another
wonder in heaven behold a great red
dragon having seven heads and ten horns
and seven Crown’s upon his head 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
now these passages of Scripture are
symbolic they’re an analogy I can
guarantee you Satan is not a real dragon
a red dragon and when it says he drew
one third of the Angels to the earth I
don’t know exactly what that means it’s
possible that you know maybe this is
symbolism for one-third of the other
angelic beings rebelled with him I guess
it’s possible but let me just make this
point that for you to base a doctrine a
major doctrine on one verse that it is
very clear that these verses are
symbolic they are not to be taken
literally they symbolize something and
I’m not going to get into all of that
but to take symbolic things that are
only shared in one verse in the Bible
and to make a doctrine and to say that
this is where Satan and demons came from
if you interpret the Bible that way then
you can make the Bible say anything you
want to that’s just wrong again I’m not
going to go into what all of this means
but let me just say that it’s wrong to
take this extrapolate something and say
that this is verification that there was
a pre-adamic civilization because the
word replenish means to fill again which
is a total misrepresentation of what
that word means and because one third of
the Angels revolted with him when did it
happen
and then you just say that it happened
sometime before Genesis 1:2 anyway this
has become a popular doctrine and it’s
just wrong and so I don’t believe that
Satan had some pre-adamic civilization
over which he ruled and that he rebelled
at God and he was cast down and then he
was loosed upon Adam and Eve as this
demonic power well I mean this vicious
beast put in there with God’s innocent
children you know and be similar to me
sending my kids out into the backyard
and there’s a bear or a lion or some
terrible beast out there and I send them
out there to play and say have a good
time that would be irresponsible on my
I believe it would be irresponsible on
God’s part to just put Adam and Eve in a
position where they’ve got this demonic
power there the seeking who he can
devour that is not true this is not how
it happened
and I’ve just about used up all of my
time on today’s program but tomorrow
we’re gonna get into this a little bit
further I’ve taught about what didn’t
happen with the devil we’re gonna start
talking about how Satan actually
rebelled at God where he got his
authority from and I’m gonna show you
from Scripture that mankind are the ones
that empowered the devil it’s us that
gave Satan this authority and power that
he has been using against us man those
are some big statements and so I
encourage you to listen in again
tomorrow as I go through this and teach
it in more detail also let me mention
that we have this teaching on the
believers Authority I have it in CD DVD
book and study guide if you’ll listen
our announcer will give you more
information and then join me again
tomorrow as we continue the gospel truth