Luke 11:14-26

We have to choose a side. As humans, we have the responsibility of choice. Are we for God, and believe in His awesome power? Or, are we against Him, having been deceived by the powers of Satan. There is no middle ground.

And then point number two verses 17 to 20.
It’s this, you’ll see we’ll see increasing deception.
But he, Jesus knowing their thoughts said to them, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and a house divided against the house falls.
Jesus is making a reference to the Kingdom of Darkness. The Kingdom of Satan.
Now this is 2000 years old. Evil is advancing. Deception is increasing.
And one of the things that we need to write down and boy is this going to strike a nerve?
Is the deception of unity. What did you say?
That’s why it’s on the screen, write it down. You will see increasing deception and deceptive unity.
What do I mean by that?
Jesus 2000 years ago said every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.
Well, wait a minute, Satan is still very alive and well on planet earth, isn’t he? Every day?
I seem to wake up. There’s a new colt knocking on my door.
The kingdom doesn’t look like it’s being divided, it looks like that evil kingdom is expanding.
Ah That’s exactly what Jesus said would happen before it implodes. Jesus said, Matthew 24.
Mark it down, Matthew 24 verses four through five.
In fact, I’m going to read a bunch of verses Matthew 24 beginning there.
Jesus answered and said to them, take heed that no one deceives you for many will come in my name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many Matthew 24 10 and then many will be offended and will betray one another and will hate one another.
And many false prophets will rise up and deceive many Matthew 24 24.
For false Christ and false prophets will arise, listen and show great signs and wonders to deceive.
If possible, even the elect, we have not seen those days yet.
First John 41 beloved do not believe every spirit but test the spirits whether they are of God.
For many false prophets have gone out into the world. And by this, we know the spirit of God.
Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ that is Jesus is Messiah has come in the flesh, is of God and every spirit that does not confess that he is not coming in, the flesh, is not of God.
And this is the spirit of antichrist. You guys, Matthew 24 24. I read it a moment ago.
Listen to this. He said that false Christ and false prophets will come and do signs and wonders that if it were possible, if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.
If you’ve had first year Greek on this. You have a smile on your face.
You wanna know why you don’t look at and go. Oh, no, I hope I don’t get deceived.
Oh, oh, there will be those coming, performing great signs, signs and wonders that if it were what?
Yeah, even the very elect would be deceived.
The word means it’s impossible for God’s Children to be deceived. Thank you Lord with all.
Yeah, you can thank God for that.
But you guys listen up, I believe based upon the Bible.
And what year is this? If the Lord doesn’t come back for us right now, I would expect to see grotesque, bizarre, amazing signs and wonders on the near horizon done in the name of other gods and other religions.
Are you gonna be led astray?
You will be if you’re not one of God’s kids, Jesus said that days will increase of deception so great that if the spirit of God wasn’t protecting his Children, they would be deceived.
And I would expect soon to turn on my TV and begin to watch people performing radical bizarre signs and wonders in the name of some God or gods.
And I’m wondering how some of you will fare when such temptations come, you need to have your Bible in your heart.
Like never before you will not survive the days of evil that are coming.
Great deception signs and wonders imagine for a moment, if you needed a healing.
But down the road was a man preaching another gospel about some other messiah and healing people.
And yet you needed a healing. Would you cash in your love for God to go get temporal healing?
Imagine, think about it easy to say right now. But what if those days are coming?
Unity, deceiving unity. See, wait a minute. Unity. How can how can anything be wrong with unity? Church?
Very quickly, we live in a culture that has so divorced itself from reason.
About 35 years ago, someone concocted a new definition for the word tolerance and it became very popular.
They left the whole meaning of the word aside.
And now we have Europe and America nearly destroyed in its logic because of an ill defined word of tolerance.
Think about it. Those of you who are educators, think about it almost for tolerance in the meaning of the real word and they’re doing it again.
Unity, unity, unity at all cost unity. Let’s just unite, let’s unite all religions, let’s unite ecumenical union.
Let’s lay down our differences. It doesn’t matter what you believe about Jesus.
Look, I get invited to this stuff all the time.
All these different leaders and cult leaders and all the shenanigans come and pray with us, come and pray with us and this person prays to this thing, this person prays to the other thing.
I am not going to go to that prayer meeting because the Bible condemns that kind.
You say it’s unity, isn’t, it?
Doesn’t the Bible say how precious and blessed it is for the brethren to dwell together in unity. Hello.
Read it how beautiful it is for the who brethren to dwell together in unity.
How do brethren dwell together in unity? Number one, the chief thing, truth.
See, the world has taken the truth no matter what it says and has sacrificed it on the altar of unity.
When you begin to adopt that path, anything, everything, whatever feels good, do it.
As long as you’re sincere, it doesn’t matter what the Bible says, Jesus, whatever you want him to be in the name of unity, this is blasphemy and it’s rampant for some of you.
It’s the way you’re living your life and Jesus has no way.
Every kingdom divided against itself will fall.
The people that knock on your doors and all this religious difference that’s gonna come home to roost in time.
People who knock on your door, they have a completely different gospel from the other one.
Who’s right and who’s wrong. There’s only one way to tell. Go to your Bible. Well, that’s your interpretation.
No. Go to your Bible and read the Bible. Let the Bible talk to you.
It will talk to you. Read the Bible. You don’t need some other book. Read the Bible.
What do you have a book for? You haven’t read the Bible. Read the Bible.
God is well able to speak unity, deceiving it will come also increasing deception in the sense of destruction.
If Satan is also divided against himself and he is, by the way, how will this kingdom stand?
I love what Jesus is saying, it’s not gonna stand.
But you guys listen, if Satan is divided against himself, doesn’t he understand that? Doesn’t he see that?
He doesn’t see it? The Bible says that Satan is the father of what lies when a person lies constantly, you know what they wind up doing part of the judgment upon their conscience is that they begin to believe their own lies.
That’s judgment. Did you know that? Oh, the fish was that big man.
It was that big when you’ve never been fishing in your life, but it was that big.
You begin to see it, you begin to smell it.
You even ate it because your life perpetuates in your mind and you get deceived people around.
You are thinking, saying what an idiot. You didn’t know what he was talking about.
The guy has never even held a fishing rod but you tell a lie, you tell a lie, you tell a lie and then it becomes a reality to you, Satan.
If he’s the father of lies can lie so much, I think he believes his own propaganda.
You and I have read the Bible, we’ve read the end of the book, we know how it ends somehow.
Satan doesn’t see it though. He knows the Bible better than we do.
He’s been deceived by his own lies.
Destruction, deception will lead to destruction and you and your life and my and my life will decide destruction or life.
Also, we’ll see increasing deception. Verse 20 deception will have its day.
But if I, Jesus has cast out demons, listen to this with the finger of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
This is sweet. Jesus is basically saying if I just devastated the Kingdom of Darkness with just the finger of God, then the Kingdom of God is here among you.
They couldn’t deny that. Think at the awesomeness of that you guys, I was speaking as I said earlier uh in Hawaii we had one day, it was about a 24 hour period.
That was pretty amazing. We had two local earthquakes in Hawaii five point something or other and the other one was five something or other.
I don’t know, two earthquakes. Uh We had a hurricane come by um and then they issued a warning, a tsunami warning at two AM in the morning because of the earthquake in Lima Peru.
And if that wasn’t enough coming through last night or when I forget when I got home, it doesn’t matter, coming through, secure, coming through landing at L A X, walking out of the airport almost out, you know where you, where you go through security to come in and, but we’re walking out, we’re and somebody yells.
So somebody just yells, I don’t know what they yelled, but they yelled and the T S A guys, every, they, they stood up and they said, stands down, hundreds of people just froze.
It was a, you could have heard a pin drop. Nobody talked.
It was a pretty eerie actually, everyone stood still and you can hear walkie talkies.
But, uh, and you know what you think right about them and you see people looking around, you’re ready for something to pop, something to blow up.
Aaron was silent. And you think right then and there Lord, are we ok?
You and I are we doing good? Just checking.
You don’t know what’s going on in the world at any moment.
Listen, deception will have its day.
You can build the world around you even in the sense of condemning Jesus and calling them names and, and saying things about him.
But what will you do in the end?
Jesus is saying the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
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Once again, here’s pastor Jack increasing deception of the world point number three. Very quickly.
You’ll find yourself in the fight. Worlds in collision. Kingdoms colliding.
You’ll find yourself in a fight and not every one of us right now are in a fight, believe it or not.
Verses 21 to 23 Jesus gives a powerful illustration. Follow it carefully. Listen, number one, Satan is our enemy.
Do you believe in Satan? Well, brother, does he? Have you duped?
He’s got you in a great spot. You don’t believe in him. It’s kind of like where America is.
We’re not a, no one wants to hurt us.
Keep thinking a happy thought. Satan hates you. God loves you. Satan can’t stand your guts.
You know why Satan hate you so much? He’s not personally so excited about you.
He’s not so excited about me.
You know why he hates you and I so much, there’s one reason because God loves you so much.
The, the amount of His hatred towards you is intense, not equal to, but is intense because of God’s great love for you and he hates you and I, because God loves you and I so much and the only way that He can inflict pain in the heart of God is to hurt you is to get to you.
He’s our enemy. Jesus has no enemy. Think about it.
It’s not Jesus and Satan, Jesus and Satan who’s gonna win. He has no Jesus has no equal.
Now, Michael Gabriel, those are Satan’s equals those angels.
Jesus says this carefully when a strong man that Satan fully armed guards his own palace, his goods are in peace or his goods are kept.
Whoever Satan’s got control of, he doesn’t let go of them.
He hangs on to them, wraps up their tongues, blinds their lives causes it so they can’t believe pursues their own stuff won’t come to God.
Oh, listen, Satan is strong, right? He is our enemy.
But verse 22 says Jesus is the victor but when a stronger than he comes, oh, choose one, the strong or the stronger, the stronger one comes, that’s the reference to the Lord himself comes upon him and overtakes him and takes from him, all his armor in which he’s trusted and divides his spoils.
What’s Jesus saying is awesome.
Satan has bound people up but there’s one stronger and that one who liberates, he’s trying to get these guys that are attacking him to see.
That’s a loving thing. Satan has limited power. He has power. There’s no doubt about it.
Look, Satan is way more powerful than us. That’s why look, you guys don’t ever please. Nowhere in the Bible.
Does it say to rebuke? Satan? Did you know that?
Have you ever seen people say I rebuke you Satan, I rebuke you, I rebuke you that you know in the Bible.
Does it say you can do that? What are you doing? Can you imagine I rebuke you Satan.
You imagine he could just go, he could knock you out. He’s powerful.
The Bible says, say the Lord rebukes you Satan. Big difference big difference. He’s our enemy.
We call upon the Lord and the Lord will say to you don’t be surprised what’s bigger than a boo boo.
Are you scared? Who, what’s bigger than a boo boo?
The kisses of my father, the love of my father? Are you hurt?
Jesus gets on his knees and he opens his arms and you run to him and he kisses you and let me tell you something.
There’s no more powerful place in the universe to be than in that place of hanging on to him.
Because Jesus is the victor. And verse 23 teaches us that we’re in the crossfire of eternity.
Jesus says, verse 23 he who is not with me is against me and he who does not gather with me scatters.
This is it, this verse is one of the most beloved and hated verses of the Bible.
Jesus said, you are either fully devoted to me or you’re not.
But Lord Lord Jesus, I’ve got one ft in and one ft in in there.
And I’m doing the splits between my flesh and the world and, and being a Christian and I’m a Christian on Sunday.
I’m an angel on Sunday. Jesus said, listen, in fact, he says, you know what?
I wish you were hot or cold but because you’re lukewarm, I’m gonna puke you out of my mouth.
I’m gonna vomit you out. Can don’t say it, but can you say this morning?
I am fully committed to God. Yes, that’s a struggle. Yes.
We don’t always do the things that we should be doing.
But what’s your heart like when you don’t do those things that you should be doing? Aren’t you miserable?
Don’t you just get sick with me about how often we goof up.
But you know what, God bless you. You’re alive unto God.
But church listen, don’t think that you can get to heaven with one ft in one kingdom and one ft of the other kingdom.
You’ve deceived yourself. It won’t happen. Satan is our enemy but Jesus is the victor.
Yes, we’re in the crossfire of eternity. You need to choose. You’re in the fight of your life.
What would you choose? Yes.
Uh Last service, a man came up to me and he says, I want Christ. I go. Are you sure?
He says, I want Christ?
I know if he was knocking at the door right now of this building, would you open up or would you look out the window and keep him outside?
He goes, I would open up. I go then let’s pray. What about you right now?
If Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart right now saying, listen, you gotta accept me.
100% say yes to me. Now, he’s not saying clean up yourself and come to me.
Don’t get messed up with that trick. We’ll hear about that in a moment.
Don’t, don’t think like that don’t think that you gotta better yourself to come to the kingdom or you gotta do this or that to get.
No, come now. Isn’t it amazing that you can be 100% devoted right now to Jesus just in your heart and mind?
Say Jesus, save me. I believe you died on the cross for my sins.
I want you now and you come to him.
It takes a second but you’re in the crossfire of eternity.
You and I Satan’s pulling to blind us and Jesus is pulling to hug us.
He said, are you, are you with me?
Are you gathering, is your life involved in the things of the kingdom or wherever you go or you scattering stuff.
Are people confused and hurt and quieted and led astray fourth and final point versus 24 to 26.
I know we have no minutes left but I’ll go fast. You’ll have to make the decision.
My friend versus 24 to 26 is all about decision. Three things. Number one, morality, morality can never save you.
This is the number one killer of the souls of men is morality. Don’t get me wrong.
I appreciate every moral citizen in our community. I’m grateful for you.
I’m glad you don’t write on walls with paint cans and drive 100 miles an hour in a 20 zone.
I’m glad you’re law abiding.
I’m glad you pick up your own trash, but you can’t get to heaven doing that morality cannot save you.
Jesus said when an unclean or demon spirit leaves a man, he goes through dry places, go study that later.
I’ll give you a hint. It has to do with the flood of Noah.
They don’t like to be near water. Isn’t that weird?
They go to desert places, dry places, seeking rest, finding none.
He says to himself, I will return to my house. Excuse me.
He thinks that this person’s body is his.
I’m gonna go back to my house from which I came and when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order, the word is morality.
He comes back to a person that has said things, listen quickly. He has said things like this.
You know what? It’s December 31st, I am. That’s it. I’m not wearing these kind of clothes anymore.
I’m start brushing my teeth. I’m gonna do the speed limit.
I am gonna, I’m gonna start being nice and I’m not gonna eat at this place anymore.
I’m gonna eat the salads and, and I’m going to do all these things great, but don’t expect to go to heaven because of those things.
Number two, spirituality, spirituality can never protect you against demonic activity.
Then he goes and takes with himself, takes to him seven other demons more wicked than himself and they enter and dwell in him.
This is terrifying. Spirituality can never protect you against demonic activity.
Yeah, but I got a cross around my neck.
Oh boy, you guys remember Walter Martin anybody man because he used to have a huge cross around his neck.
But he always made it a point to say this is, you know, this is, this doesn’t save me or protect me.
Cross will not icons cannot protect you. Do you have Jesus Christ dwelling in you spirituality?
You can buy all the crystals you want. It’s not gonna help you.
There’s only one name and that’s the name of Jesus. And finally, we end neutrality.
You have to make a decision, my friend because neutrality can never deliver you.
The last condition of the man is worse than the first neutrality.
I’m just gonna be neutral on this stuff. I’m not gonna make a decision.
Please don’t do that. I’m gonna ask you right now to think about these things.
Isn’t it amazing this morning? In a moment?
You’re gonna be leaving and in the spirit realm where you and I cannot see you’re going to be going and removes as it were your faces from you and they’re blank as we leave.
There are those who are in the kingdom of God and those even maybe ignorantly are in the kingdom of Darkness.
And I wanna ask you, where are you? Let’s pray.
And I want you to decide Heavenly Father.
We come this morning and we ask Lord in the name of Jesus serious stuff.
We can say, well, we got holy water. We can say we’ve got church attendance.
Maybe we can say we have a cross or a statue.
But your Bible tells us clearly that if we know Christ and Christ knows us, if we’ve accepted him, Jesus said, if you’re born again, the Bible makes it very clear that we are the temple of the living God and he dwells in us.
My friend this morning. There have been things that you’ve been dabbling in and you need to get away from it.
The Bible condemns, do you know this? The Bible condemns palm reading.
Oh, you’re spiritual, but you’re going in the wrong direction. The Bible condemns, tarot cards and zodiacs and horoscopes.
The Bible speaks directly to pantheism that is worshiping various gods just to cover your bases.
The Bible condemns it, Jesus said you’re either for me or you’re against me.
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