The Enemy Cons follower of Christ be his accuser.

 

Job 22: 12-20

 

“Is not God high in the heavens?  See the highest stars, how lofty they are!   But you say, ‘What does God know?  Can he judge through the deep darkness?  Thick clouds veil him so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’  Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?  They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.  They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’  Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them, saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.”

 

As I read this it became very clear that the enemy of our souls loves nothing better than to have a follower of Christ be his accuser.  I’ve been in the role of Judge and Jury and I’ve had a brother or sister in Christ confront me, that I need to pray not to condemn.  My Bride will always say, Bob as long as a person has a life they can be redeemed, and never were truer words spoken.  Read Revelation 12: 9-12, and do not be part of the devil's schemes.

 

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.  And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.  And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.  Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath because he knows that his time is short!”

 

As I made the case in defense of Job yesterday, God was the star witness, and it was clear that Job had a very healthy fear of God, and that God is very clear in His statement that Job is one of a kind on this earth.  As a follower of Christ, ask the Lord to fill your life with the fruits of the Spirit, you will find them in Galatians 5:22-23.  “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.”

That is a prayer you can pray for this brother, trying to give up his tuning into Channel One (the deceptive channel).

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice