Why do I say that??? Because it is true!!! It says so in GOD’S WORD!!!
John 16:11 (KJV) …the prince of this world is judged.
John 16:11 (NKJV) …the ruler of this world is judged.
John 16:7-11 (AMP) …the ruler (evil genius, prince) of this world [Satan] is judged and condemned and sentence already is passed upon him.
In verse 11, we see that the devil is called the ruler of this world. And as most of us can tell, he is ruling and reigning in this old world and in a lot of folks’ lives!!!
Of course, as I said in yesterday’s blog, we do have a choice!!! We make choices every day about how we are going to live and where our final destination is going to be!!!
We can choose to follow God and live in abundance or we can choose to follow the devil!!!
John 10:10 (AMP) The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
As we can see in verse 10, there are really ONLY 2 choices. Of course, many folks think that they are doing what they want to do, but if they aren’t living for God and serving HIM, then they are following the path of destruction!!!
For those who have chosen to follow Jesus, the devil no longer rules their world!!! They are not partakers of this old world; the world of sin!!! They are partakers of Jesus Christ!!!
2 Peter 1:1-4 (NKJV)
1 Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
One of the biggest lies ever told was that we could do our own thing and live our lives as we want!!! The unfortunate part is that choosing to do your own thing is choosing to live for the devil and believe his lies!!! When you are doing your own thing and living your own life in your own way-you are actually letting him run you!!!
Every choice that we make in life has consequences!!! And we have to live with those consequences!!!
John 3:16-21 Amplified Bible (AMP)
16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
18 He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation—he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ’s name.]
19 The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil.
20 For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved.
21 But he who practices truth [who does what is right] comes out into the Light; so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are—wrought with God [divinely prompted, done with God’s help, in dependence upon Him].
I just have one question!!! Why would anyone in their right mind want to follow someone who is already condemned???
Quite frankly, I think that is the whole point!!! I don’t think they are in their right minds!!! Folks that follow the devil are deceived!!! And they are listening to and believing the lies of the devil!!!
Surely, no one would want to follow someone if they truly understood that the person was doomed-condemned for ETERNITY!!! And if they truly understood that choosing eternal damnation meant eternal torment for them, they would change their minds very quickly!!!
But you see, the devil has lied and told some folks that there isn’t a HELL!!! While others believe his lie that once we die our bodies are buried and that is the end!!! And of course, the biggest lie is that Jesus was merely a man and is NOT the SAVIOR of the world!!!
If ONLY they would read THE BOOK-GOD’S WORD!!!!
Here is what THE WORD of God tells us is going to happen in the end!!!!
Revelation 20:15 (NKJV) And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
In chapter 21 of Revelations, those who believe, and even those who do NOT, can read of The Ultimate Destination of ALL!!!
Revelation 21:1-27 (NKJV)
1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
5 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
6 And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
12 Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13 three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
14 Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
16 The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.
17 Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
18 The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.
24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.
25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).
26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.
27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
