10. The Bad

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 The Bad

Life seems to be a world of opposites.

Where we have hot, we have cold, with light we have dark, with high we have low and unfortunately with the Good we have the Bad.

So, the Bible introduces us to Satan.

Originally called Lucifer, he was one of God’s head angels supposedly in charge of worship.

Angels were heavenly beings created by God to worship in heaven, be protectors, act as messengers between God and man, and generally serve God and carry out his will.

Lucifer, however, became full of pride and not content to worship, wanted to be worshipped.

So, in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 14:12) it describes five ‘I will’ statements from him, including I will be like the ‘Most High’ (God) and I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

In the Book of Revelation it says God casts him out of heaven, because of his rebellion and one third of the angels go with him.

No longer residing in heaven and no longer with his heavenly name, Satan starts to take dominion over the earth and have influence over world affairs and people’s hearts.

Where God had given man dominion over the earth, through mankind’s own sin and rebellion, they had allowed Satan to take over that role.

Jesus is described as The Light of the world, The Good Shepherd, Saviour, the Bread of Life, King of Kings, Lord of Lords etc.

Satan is described as a serpent, a dragon, the evil one, accuser, tempter and is associated with darkness, destruction, lying, deception and the desire for power.

So Jesus states in the Bible (John 10:10) that Satan comes to kill, steal and destroy whereas He has come that we may have Life and have it more abundantly.



Bob Dylan wrote a song called ‘Gotta serve somebody’ which had the chorus lines -

'You're gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody'.

 He was expressing the fact that you can’t just sit on the fence. 
If you’re not following Jesus, you are automatically following the Devil.

 

 

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