WHO WAS THE VERY FIRST APOSTATE ON RECORD? An apostate is one who departs from God, from the truth.
“I beheld Satan as lightning fall (evicted) from heaven.” ~Jesus Luke 10:18
Why was Lucifer irrevocably expelled from God’s presence and glory in Heaven? Keep reading.
Have you studied this mysterious being who is the literal personification of evil and the arch enemy of the Almighty? Paul wrote that we had better know our enemy lest he gain an advantage of us (2 Corinthians 2:11).
One thing’s for sure and that is that this formidable enemy of all souls is not hiding away somewhere but rather he’s integrally and feverishly involved in the corruption and destruction of mankind.
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8
God is known by His ways and works and so is Satan who was violently ejected from Heaven’s glory, vanquished forever from the favor of God (Ezekiel 28:11-19).
He was in the very Garden of creation when the first man and woman were made. The LORD allowed it because He created man with a free will and love must be volitional. Love must have choice between at least two potential objects of worship.
Beware of the many Floating Philosophies
WHAT’S IN YOUR HEART IS COMING OUT IN YOUR OWN WORDS!!!! Isn’t it interesting that people who spew out Bible-contradicting lies … when rebuked and corrected, will say “You don’t know me!” Nonsense. This is a further attempt to hide their darkness which God is attempting to expose before it’s too late (Ephesians 5:11). Jesus told us exactly how we “KNOW” (discern) people! (Matthew 7:16, 20; 12:34) | Discernment
Beware of the feel-good quotes that float around in human circles. Many times they are all dressed up with feel-good language, playing on the sentiments of unrepentant men. Some of the messages we see circulating around have some truth in them and yet they are many times laced with humanism (worship of self) which is really luciferic (Isaiah 14:12-15). Any message that panders to men instead of exalting the nail-scarred risen Savior and LORD is enthroning man instead of the LORD, committing the damning sin of idolatry. The original Gospel message of the cross is that men must repent, deny self, take up the cross, and follow Jesus Christ. Are you being grounded in the message of the cross?
The Bible never says that God’s will is simply to make US happy. Firstly, it’s not about US but about the Son of God being glorified. He made us to be holy like Himself and not necessarily always happy in this life. I don’t mean to sound prudish but joy only comes when we lay down our lives and then the joy of the LORD becomes our strength (Nehemiah 8:10). The path to true joy in the LORD is through the cross. There is no shortcut.
As long as a person seeks his own good and happiness, ignoring Christ’s command to deny self – to die to self – he will be void of all joy. The Son of God taught:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” John 12:24-25
The goal of ALL psychology and humanistic teaching is man’s happiness which is antichrist. Antichrist means to put someone else in place of Jesus Christ. Yet, “No man can serve two masters” and anyone serving self is openly and brazenly denying Christ instead of self (Matthew 6:24). Hell awaits.
“If I were the Devil … I would substitute psychology for religion.” Paul Harvey, If I Were the Devil
You don’t need an anti-depressant, you need the joy of the LORD and that comes when you truly cry out to Him in repentance, submitting your life to Him without reserve. Pour over Psalms 51. Notice how you will then cease looking inward and begin being used of God to win others (v12-13).
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” Psalms 51:10-13
ANY time you hear terminology like “inner child,” you know you’re dealing with psychobabble! Colossians 2:8-10 Rebuke. Run!
There is no such thing as “Christian psychology” and anyone who doesn’t know that needs to repent and be saved and get into God’s Word. “Be not deceived …” (Galatians 6:7)
DO DEVILS have free reign in the lives of the lost? Yes… capture this truth:
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” Ephesians 2:2
The 5 “I’s” of Lucifer!
Self-exaltation is always against Christ and of Satan. Whenever and where ever you see or hear the word self-esteem being taught, you know irrefutably that such a person is an agent of Satan. ALL psychology and humanism is luciferic. Let’s check into this very insightful passage and note the 5 “I’’s of Lucifer and where he ends up in the last verse:
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.” Isaiah 14:12-15 (KJB)
As we just read, Lucifer, now called Satan, has a self-serving, self-elevating agenda come out of the sinful pride of his heart.
Satan and those who have chosen to be his, have an agenda – to serve self, to do things that benefit self. Therefore they use people for their own evil self-serving agenda.
In your Bible, have you circled the 5 “I“‘s of Lucifer in Isaiah 14:12-15? In this passage is a simple, yet profound revelation of Satan and his evil agenda.
Lucifer who is now Satan and the devil, is all about making self happy and so are those who are his children, even though many of his children vainly think they are Christians. As you can see from the passage above, Satan is all about self. He leads unrepentant humans in this same rebellion against the LORD our Maker.
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” Galatians 6:7-8
Before being banished forever from God’s presence, Lucifer was all about self and so are all those who do not serve the LORD Jesus Christ. This evil doctrine of self-worship has crept into the church through wolf leaders. They have produced a whole generation of counterfeit “Christians.”
“Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3
The counterfeit worships self as he feigns to be saved while the true Heaven-bound disciple is dead to self and lives only to worship Christ (Galatians 2:20).
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:” Colossians 2:8-10
The highest purpose of man as from the mouth of His Creator, is to worship God and in order to do so, by divine decree, the individual must choose to decrease and let the LORD increase.
“He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:30
If you are a true disciple of Jesus, the Word of God is the final authority of your life. You read it, study it, meditate upon it, obey it, and repent at every opportunity where you learn you have violated it. His Word is your life (Proverbs 4:20-24).
“And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” Luke 4:4
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Abiding Under the Shadow of the Almighty [podcast]

“O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: Jeremiah 15:15-16
Dwelling “in the secret place of the most High”
“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.” Psalms 91:1-2
“In the secret place of the Most High – Spoken probably in reference to the Holy of holies. He who enters legitimately there shall be covered with the cloud of God’s glory – the protection of the all-sufficient God. This was the privilege of the high priest only, under the law: but under the new covenant all believers in Christ have boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus; and those who thus enter are safe from every evil.” Adam Clarke
“[Psalms] 91:1, 2 Jesus is the One who in a preeminent way dwelt in the secret place of the Most High, and abode under the shadow of the Almighty. There never was a life like His. He lived in absolute, unbroken fellowship with God, His Father. He never acted in self-will but did only those things that the Father directed. Though He was perfect God, He was also perfect Man, and He lived His life on earth in utter and complete dependence on God. Without equivocation He could look up and say, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in Him I will trust.” Believer’s Bible Commentary
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The Warnings of the Book of Jude [podcast]



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Attend to My Words [podcast]

IF THE WORD isn’t flowing into you daily, you are falling away. Flood and fuel your heart and mind and body with the pure, the holy light of God’s Word daily and you will never famish! All darkness will be vanquished (Psalms 119:130). All who have been saved and yet aren’t in God’s Word and prayer daily – have rejected Christ, with no exception. Re-turn to the LORD prodigal. There’s no good outside of Christ the KING.
“The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” Psalms 119:130
ALL who are not in God’s written Word daily are not hearing from God, do not have God’s wisdom and direction, and are walking in darkness – 100%.
The feeding of Christ’s flock would integrally involve exhorting them to diligently study and walk in God’s Word themselves, daily (John 21:15-17). Isn’t this exactly what the apostle Paul told Timothy to do? Yes. He told his understudy to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)
One of the ways we know who the false ministers are, is that they want people dependent on THEM, not God. So, they don’t constantly exhort the people to get into God’s Word, the Holy Scriptures, for themselves. Run.
“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:8
“He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. … My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:4, 20-23
“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.” Jeremiah 15:16
“Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” Job 23:12
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Colossians 3:16
“Over the last 5-10 years I can see where He has done this for me already, but the problem is …. it’s not enough! I want even more! One hour of study and prayer in the morning is not enough!” Christine
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“Reformed Theology“, is just a fancy way of saying ‘We know better than Paul, the old testament prophets, even David! And the very apostles who walked with Jesus must be unlearned men or liars.’ Nay, I will not say such a thing of my LORD and Saviour, Christ Jesus. Let God be true, and >every< man a liar.” Jonathan Crane
It’s “ungodly men” who mislead the gullible with the eternal security heresy, and the heretical doctrines and system of calvinism. Jude warned us of just that, as did the prophets (Jude 3-4; Jeremiah 23:17, etc.). Then Jude reminds us of God’s judgment upon His own covenant people who were saved out of Egypt (the world) and then “afterward destroyed.” Then Jude reminds us that God judged the angels, a third of them, who rebelled against Him and were terminated from His domain, Heaven (Isaiah 14:12-15; Luke 10:18; Revelation 12:7-12, etc.).
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” Jude 4-6
The Book of Jude
Greeting
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Judgment on False Teachers
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
A Call to Persevere
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Doxology
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.