Tuesday October 18, 2011

Read: 1 John 5:19

 

The Bible couldn’t draw any clearer demarcation or battle lines. There are only two sides and no fence sitters. There are no people wavering in between. Believers are the children of God and the whole world is under the control of the evil one. That is a radical statement and hard to come to grips with.

 

This means that lovely little old lady down the street who doesn’t believe in Jesus is under the control of the evil one. It means the political parties that stand apart from Christ are under the control of the evil one. It means the non Christian specialist is under the control of the evil one. God says that the WHOLE WORLD is under the control of the evil one. Can you see how radical that one verse really is?

 

There are many many many many many implications from this for believers. Let me list just a few of them.:-

 

1. First and foremost, you and I need to be praying a whole lot more than we are at present. Prayer is our chief weapon. We are called in Ephesians 6 to be praying on all occasions.  Before we evangelise, we should pray. Before we meet for “worship” we should pray. We should heed the injunction to ‘pray continually’. We need to be praying with our eyes wide open, given the current state of the world.

2. We need to start seeing our world (relationships, business dealings, social life, relaxation times, spending habits etc etc) through the lens of Scripture. We need a Biblical world view of our entire world.

3. We should expect the battle to be on our doorstep each and every single day.

4. We need to be making the most of every opportunity to share the love of Christ, the compassion of Christ and the Word of Christ with the people in our world. Each and every single day there are multiple opportunities to share. We need to start seeing them and courageously taking them.

 

Brothers and sisters in Christ, march onwards valiantly and courageously.

 

Prayer Points:

> Pray for Chris & Judy Ayers and family as they minister to the Polish people.

> Pray for their church’s relationship and function with it’s mother church in Wroclaw.